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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... thematic ( rather than situational ) aspect of frames is of pri- mary importance here , for it concerns the overall way in which happen- ings are interpreted and semantically processed . If prototypical narration is characterized ...
... thematic analysis , resulting from the classification of the- matic ( or situational ) frames and the assignment of scripts accordingly , permits further conclusions to be drawn concerning the form , function , and development of ...
... Thematic Self - Reference The second group of ways in which identity can be shaped by identifying a story as one's own is characterized by the lack of external reference , sometimes even by the emphatic rejection of it . Instead , we ...
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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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