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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... status of the author who receives it— remain active on the level of isotopies ( passive , receptive ) in the sequence described here . The narrator may be an author , but he hardly ever func- tions as the ( grammatical ) subject of the ...
... status of the female figures that appear at each stage in them . The allegorical figure of Melancholy at the end of the poem has the status of an independent force , but the female characters in the first story ( Proser- pine and Psyche ) ...
... status , thereby implying that he cannot be held respon- sible for what he is accused of . The legitimacy of attributing statements to an author is systematically problematized in ' Fiction ' , for all the authors and possibly the ...
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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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