The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry
Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century
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The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry
Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century
About this book
This 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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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: The Theory and Methodology of the Narcological Analysis of Lyric Poetry
- 2 Sir Thomas Wyatt: "They flee from me"
- 3 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 107
- 4 John Donne: "The Canonization"
- 5 Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
- 6 Jonathan Swift: "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"
- 7 Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
- 8 Samuel T. Coleridge: "Kubla Khan"
- 9 John Keats: "Ode on Melancholy"
- 10 Robert Browning: "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church"
- 11 Christina Rossetti: "Promises like Pie-Crust"
- 12 Thomas Hardy: "The Voice"
- 13 T. S. Eliot: "Portrait of a Lady"
- 14 W. B. Yeats: "The Second Coming"
- 15 D. H. Lawrence: "Man and Bat"
- 16 Philip Larkin and Thomas Hood: "I Remember, I Remember"
- 17 Eavan Boland: "Ode to Suburbia"
- 18 Peter Reading: "Fiction"
- 19 Conclusion: The Results of the Analyses and Their Implications for Narratology and the Theory and Analysis of Poetry