Lyric temporalities / edited by Kimberly Johnson and Ryan Netzley

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Kimberly, 1971- editor.

Netzley, Ryan, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

English poetry--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2026]

Summary:

"The essays in Lyric Temporalities explore poetry's depictions and conceptions of time. Whether claiming to immortalize its addressees, worrying over time's passage and the misspent youth of lovers, or testifying to the fleeting nature of the sounds it nonetheless seeks to preserve, the lyric has for millennia adopted temporality as a central subject and theme, as well as a self-conscious examination of its own form. The contributors to this volume show how these pivotal generic and historical elements operate across periods: in allusion and translation, in memories of what constitutes a legible selfhood, and even in speculation about what non-human timescales (large or small) might look like. This collection also reveals that lyric neither simply opposes itself to the temporal unfolding of narrative nor stands in for presentness or heightened emotional sensation. Rather, it makes possible a reimagining of how we exist complexly in time by performing a surprisingly dynamic range of temporal operations. Lyric Temporalities challenges critical presuppositions about the durational processes of poetic encounter and the linearity of empirical experience."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Minute/minute : On time and scale in Renaissance lyric / Wendy Beth Hyman

“That One Is Accurate” : Games of temporality in the medieval prosimetrum and contemporary lyric / Ricardo Matthews

Procrustean modernity : The sonnet and the labours of self-possession / Kathryn Crim

The sound of lyric in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene (1596), or, I have been so preoccupied with this poem / Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld

Dear friend : Remaining oneself in the presence of another / Oren Izenberg

On the way to lyric / Emily Vasiliauskas

Donne the time traveller / Stephanie Burt

(No) future for lyric? : On sonnets and speculation / Joseph Campana

Afterword : Time a-changin’ / Heather Dubrow

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 21, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Lyric temporalities.

ISBN:

9781487560393

1487560397

9781487560386

1487560389

OCLC:

1537642610

Publisher Number:

CIPO000296630

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license