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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... lovers as separate entities sharing a par- ticular characteristic , and sometimes they depict them as a single unit made up of opposites . The lovers first appear as two flies ( or moths ) , whose minute size underlines once more how ...
... lovers , signifies their repeated performance of the act of love ) . The riddle of the phoenix ( its recurrent death and rebirth ) is no longer a mystery to the speaker : self- creation and the return of things past are explained as the ...
... lovers . In it , the lovers have absorbed the soul ( i.e. essence ) of the world . The lovers ' ability to see the whole world ( not just part of it ) in each other means that , in the eyes of the speaker , their world is no longer 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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