Theory into Poetry
New Approaches to the Lyric
Published on 1. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
375 pages
978-90-420-1906-5 (ISBN)
Description
At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning.
The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors 'theorise' the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion.
The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.
The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors 'theorise' the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion.
The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 170 mm
Weight
785 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1906-5 (9789042019065)
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Content
Eva MUELLER-ZETTELMANN and Margarete RUBIK: Introduction
Defining the Lyric
Werner WOLF: The Lyric: Problems of Definition and a Proposal for Reconceptualisation
Sabine COELSCH-FOISNER: The Mental Context of Poetry: From Philosophical Concepts of Self to a Model of Poetic Consciousness (Ethos - Mode - Voice)
Angelica MICHELIS: Eat My Words: Poetry as Transgression
Narratology and Beyond
Monika FLUDERNIK: Allegory, Metaphor, Scene and Expression. The Example of English Medieval and Early Modern Lyric Poetry
Eva MUELLER-ZETTELMANN: "A Frenzied Oscillation": Auto-Reflexivity in the Lyric Peter Huehn Plotting the Lyric: Forms of Narration in Poetry
Wolfgang G. MUELLER: The Lyric Insertion in Fiction and Drama: Theory and Practice
Margarete RUBIK: In Deep Waters. Or: What's the Difference between Drowning in Poetry and in Prose?
Manfred PFISTER: "As an unperfect actor on the stage": Notes Towards a Definition of Performance and Performativity in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Max NAENNY: Diagrammatic Iconicity in Poetry
Mapping (Post) Modern Poetry
Peter V. ZIMA: Inhuman Aesthetics. From Poe, Mallarme and Valery to Adorno and Lyotard
Pilar ABAD-GARCIA: Generic Description and the Postmodern Lyric Discourse/Mode: Carol Ann Duffy's "Anne Hathaway"
Brian MCHALE: Poetry under Erasure
Norbert BACHLEITNER: The Virtual Muse. Forms and Theory of Digital Poetry
Constructing Group Identity
Michael METZELTIN: Courtship Rituals as Paradigmatic Forms of Poetry. A textual and anthropological perspective
Eva MUELLER-ZETTELMANN: Poetry, Cultural Memory and the English Lyric Tradition
Notes on Contributors
Defining the Lyric
Werner WOLF: The Lyric: Problems of Definition and a Proposal for Reconceptualisation
Sabine COELSCH-FOISNER: The Mental Context of Poetry: From Philosophical Concepts of Self to a Model of Poetic Consciousness (Ethos - Mode - Voice)
Angelica MICHELIS: Eat My Words: Poetry as Transgression
Narratology and Beyond
Monika FLUDERNIK: Allegory, Metaphor, Scene and Expression. The Example of English Medieval and Early Modern Lyric Poetry
Eva MUELLER-ZETTELMANN: "A Frenzied Oscillation": Auto-Reflexivity in the Lyric Peter Huehn Plotting the Lyric: Forms of Narration in Poetry
Wolfgang G. MUELLER: The Lyric Insertion in Fiction and Drama: Theory and Practice
Margarete RUBIK: In Deep Waters. Or: What's the Difference between Drowning in Poetry and in Prose?
Manfred PFISTER: "As an unperfect actor on the stage": Notes Towards a Definition of Performance and Performativity in Shakespeare's Sonnets
Max NAENNY: Diagrammatic Iconicity in Poetry
Mapping (Post) Modern Poetry
Peter V. ZIMA: Inhuman Aesthetics. From Poe, Mallarme and Valery to Adorno and Lyotard
Pilar ABAD-GARCIA: Generic Description and the Postmodern Lyric Discourse/Mode: Carol Ann Duffy's "Anne Hathaway"
Brian MCHALE: Poetry under Erasure
Norbert BACHLEITNER: The Virtual Muse. Forms and Theory of Digital Poetry
Constructing Group Identity
Michael METZELTIN: Courtship Rituals as Paradigmatic Forms of Poetry. A textual and anthropological perspective
Eva MUELLER-ZETTELMANN: Poetry, Cultural Memory and the English Lyric Tradition
Notes on Contributors