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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... turn the Tax for publick Roads " Commodious to their own Abodes . " PERHAPS I may allow , the Dean 460 " Had too ... Turns of Whigs and Tories : " Was chearful to his dying Day , " And Friends would let him have his Way . " HE gave the ...
... turn back the clock in his imagi- nation in order to experience again in the present the past he experienced as happy before the time when his life took a turn for the worse . The func- tion of narration consists of this attempt to win ...
... TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer ; Things fall apart ; the centre cannot ... turn from the current political situa- tion at a particular point in time to the structure of long - term historical ...
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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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