Theory into poetry [[electronic resource] ] : new approaches to the lyric / / edited by Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451536603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2005
• ISBN: 94-012-0251-6; 1-4237-9119-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Collana: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 89
• Altri autori (Persone): Müller-ZettelmannEva; RubikMargarete <1950->
• Disciplina: 821.08
• Soggetti: Lyric poetry - History and criticism; Poetry, Modern - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Introduction; DEFINING THE LYRIC; The Lyric: Problems of Definition and a Proposal for Reconceptualisation; The Mental Context of Poetry: From Philosophical Concepts of Self to a Model of Poetic Consciousness (Ethos - Mode - Voice); Eat My Words: Poetry as Transgression; NARRATOLOGY AND BEYOND; Allegory, Metaphor, Scene and Expression. The Example of English Medieval and Early Modern Lyric Poetry; "A Frenzied Oscillation": Auto-Reflexivity in the Lyric; Plotting the Lyric: Forms of Narration in Poetry; The Lyric Insertion in Fiction and Drama: Theory and Practice; In Deep Waters. Or: What's the Difference between Drowning in Poetry and in Prose?"As an unperfect actor on the stage": Notes Towards a Definition of Performance and Performativity in Shakespeare's Sonnets; Diagrammatic Iconicity in Poetry; MAPPING (POST) MODERN POETRY; Inhuman Aesthetics. From Poe, Mallarmé and Valéry to Adorno and Lyotard; Generic Description and the Postmodern Lyric Discourse/Mode: Carol Ann Duffy's "Anne Hathaway"; Poetry under Erasure; The Virtual Muse. Forms and Theory of Digital Poetry; CONSTRUCTING GROUP IDENTITY; Courtship Rituals as Paradigmatic Forms of Poetry: A textual and anthropological perspectivePoetry, Cultural Memory and the English Lyric Tradition; Notes on Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 esta