Lyric poetry : the pain and the pleasure of words / Mutlu Konuk Blasing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.

ISBN:

9786612159022

9781282159020

128215902X

9781400827411

1400827418

OCLC:

439837943