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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820303903321

Autore

Blasing Mutlu Konuk <1944->

Titolo

Lyric poetry [[electronic resource] ] : the pain and the pleasure of words / / Mutlu Konuk Blasing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-15902-X

9786612159022

1-4008-2741-8

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (227 p.)

Disciplina

809.1/04

Soggetti

Lyric poetry - History and criticism

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 (p. [205]-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. "Making Choice of a Human Self" -- Part One. Lyric Theory -- Chapter 1. The Lyric Subject -- Chapter 2. The Historical "I" -- Chapter 3. The Scripted "I" -- Chapter 4. The Body of Words -- Part Two. Lyric Practice -- Chapter 5. Four Quartets: Rhetoric Redeemed -- Chapter 6. Wallace Stevens and "The Less Legible Meanings of Sounds" -- Chapter 7. Pound'S Soundtrack: "Reading Cantos for What Is on the Page" -- Chapter 8. Anne Sexton, "The Typo" -- Coda. The Haunted House of "Anna" -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work



of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.