Rethinking Lyric Communities
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 307 pages
978-3-96558-077-0 (ISBN)
Description
In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre. Yet a closer look at its history reveals that lyric has always been intertwined with the politics of community formation, from the imagining of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in episodes of collective action, protest, and social resistance. Poetic forms have circulated between languages and traditions from around the world and across time. But how does lyric poetry address or even create communities - and of what kinds? This volume takes a global perspective to investigate poetic communities in dialogue with recent developments in lyric theory and concepts of community. In doing so, it explores both the political potentialities and the perils of lyric poetry.
Reviews / Votes
Rethinking Lyric Communities is an exciting contribution to work on lyric poetry. Exploring modern and contemporary literatures in various languages, it recasts the lyric not as the overheard inner thoughts of an isolated individual but a calling into being of potential collectivities. And community is reconceptualized not as a pregiven, closed, organic unit but the shifting, open-ended social worlds that lyric identifications and iterations, anthems and apostrophes, performances and gestures, creoles and translations help us imagine. Rich with insight and provocation, this is a volume to be reckoned with for years to come. - Jahan Ramazani, author of Poetry in a Global Age.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
b&w images
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
518 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-96558-077-0 (9783965580770)
DOI
10.37050/ci-30
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Editor
Irene Fantappiè is Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) of Comparative Literature at the University of Cassino. After completing her PhD at the University of Bologna, she was Humboldt Fellow and researcher at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and later directed a three-year DFG research project at Freie Universität Berlin.
Francesco Giusti is Career Development Fellow and Tutor in Italian at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Previously he held fellowships at the University of York, the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, and the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has published two books devoted respectively to the ethics of mourning and to creative desire in lyric poetry.
Laura Scuriatti is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Bard College Berlin. Her research focuses on modernist literature, with special interest in life-writing, aesthetics and gender.
Content
- Rethinking Lyric Communities: Introduction / Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, Laura Scuriatti
- Lyric Address and the Problem of Community / Jonathan Culler
- Millay Repairs Baudelaire / Sabine I. Gölz
- Gestural Communities: Lyric and the Suspension of Action / Francesco Giusti
- Rabindranath Tagore's ????/Samaj/Communities of Song / Peter D. McDonald
- The Transnational Lyric Community of Soviet Unofficial Music under Late Socialism / Philip Ross Bullock
- Mina Loy's Interrupted Communities / Laura Scuriatti
- Lyric Poetry and Community Good: Kaaps and the Cape Flats / Derek Attridge
- Casting Dispersions: Revising Lyric Privacy in Simone White's Of Being Dispersed / Wendy Lotterman
- 'So Clear That One Can See the Breaks': Colonialism, Materiality, and the Lyric in Jen Bervin's The Desert / Toby Altman
- Lyric, Detachment, and Collectivity: On Carl Phillips's 'Hymn' / Hal Coase
- Being a Perpetual Guest: Lyric, Community, Translation / Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, Laura Scuriatti, Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo
- Lyric Address and the Problem of Community / Jonathan Culler
- Millay Repairs Baudelaire / Sabine I. Gölz
- Gestural Communities: Lyric and the Suspension of Action / Francesco Giusti
- Rabindranath Tagore's ????/Samaj/Communities of Song / Peter D. McDonald
- The Transnational Lyric Community of Soviet Unofficial Music under Late Socialism / Philip Ross Bullock
- Mina Loy's Interrupted Communities / Laura Scuriatti
- Lyric Poetry and Community Good: Kaaps and the Cape Flats / Derek Attridge
- Casting Dispersions: Revising Lyric Privacy in Simone White's Of Being Dispersed / Wendy Lotterman
- 'So Clear That One Can See the Breaks': Colonialism, Materiality, and the Lyric in Jen Bervin's The Desert / Toby Altman
- Lyric, Detachment, and Collectivity: On Carl Phillips's 'Hymn' / Hal Coase
- Being a Perpetual Guest: Lyric, Community, Translation / Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, Laura Scuriatti, Vahni Anthony Ezekiel Capildeo