The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry: Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th CenturyThis study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction. |
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... stanzas alone . His strategy changes in the third stanza : instead of advancing new arguments , he represents his love as a fact that will not be changed by the opinion of his conversation partner : ' Call us what you will , we are made ...
... stanza ( ' I ' [ ... ] / [ ... ] me ' , ll . 13-14 ; ' woman ' , 1. 16 ) . Sentence type and structure change consistently and continually as the stanzas progress . The first stanza consists of a single long constative sen- tence , the ...
... stanza pattern , that of the ballad . Each of the four stanzas consists of two ballad stanzas with a series of four- and three - stress lines in which only the even lines rhyme : 4x 3a 4x 3a 4x 3b 4x 3b . The ballad stanza ( known as ...
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The Theory and Methodology of the Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry Peter Hühn and Jörg Schönert | 1 |
They flee from me Jens Kiefer | 15 |
Sonnet 107 Peter Hühn | 23 |
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