The narratological analysis of lyric poetry : studies in English poetry from the 16th to the 20th century / Peter Huhn, Jens Kiefer ; translated by Alastair Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hühn, Peter, 1939-

Contributor:

Kiefer, Jens, 1971-

Series:

Narratologia ; 7.

Narratologia, 1612-8427 ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Lyric poetry.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

viii, 259 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Preface

1. Introduction: The Theory and Methodology of the Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry / Hühn, Peter / Schönert, Jörg

2. Sir Thomas Wyatt: "They flee from me that sometime did me seek" / Kiefer, Jens

3. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 107 / Hühn, Peter

4. John Donne: "The Canonization" / Kiefer, Jens

5. Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" / Hühn, Peter

6. Jonathan Swift: "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault" / Kiefer, Jens

7. Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" / Hühn, Peter

8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan: Or, Α Vision in a Dream. Α Fragment" / Hühn, Peter

9 John Keats: "Ode on Melancholy" / Hühn, Peter

10. Robert Browning: "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" / Hühn, Peter

11. Christina Rossetti: "Promises like Pie-Crust" / Kiefer, Jens

12. Thomas Hardy: "The Voice" / Hühn, Peter

13. Τ. S. Eliot: "Portrait of a Lady" / Hühn, Peter

14. W. B. Yeats: "The Second Coming" / Hühn, Peter

15. D. H. Lawrence: "Man and Bat" / Hühn, Peter

16. Philip Larkin: "I Remember, I Remember" and Thomas Hood: "I Remember, I Remember" / Hühn, Peter

17. Eavan Boland: "Ode to Suburbia" / Hühn, Peter

18. Peter Reading: "Fiction" / Kiefer, Jens

19. Conclusion: The Results of the Analyses and Their Implications for Narratology and the Theory and Analysis of Poetry / Hühn, Peter

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110897623

3110897628

OCLC:

840441340