The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry: Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century

Peter Hühn; Jens Kiefer

Published by De Gruyter 2005

The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century

Peter Hühn and Jens Kiefer
Translated by: Alastair Matthews

Volume 7 in the series Narratologia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897623

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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.

Author / Editor information

Peter Hühn is Professor of English Literature at Hamburg University and member of the Research Group Narratology, Hamburg, Germany.

Jens Kiefer is associate member of the Research Group Narratology, Hamburg, Germany.

Reviews

"Der Band von Hühn und Kiefer ist zum einen jedem wärmstens zu empfehlen, der an Lyriktheorie und an narratologischen Ansätzen interessiert ist. Zum anderen lässt die starke Ausrichtung auf die Analyse von Beispieltexten den Band aber auch als Arbeitsbuch für einführende Lyrikseminare geeignet erscheinen."
Marion Gymnich in: KULT_online 11/2006

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
1. Introduction: The Theory and Methodology of the Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry Peter Hühn and Jörg Schönert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Sir Thomas Wyatt: "They flee from me that sometime did me seek" Jens Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 107 Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
4. John Donne: "The Canonization" Jens Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
5. Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
6. Jonathan Swift: "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault" Jens Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
7. Thomas Gray: "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan: Or, Α Vision in a Dream. Α Fragment" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
9 John Keats: "Ode on Melancholy" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
10. Robert Browning: "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
11. Christina Rossetti: "Promises like Pie-Crust" Jens Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
12. Thomas Hardy: "The Voice" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
13. Τ. S. Eliot: "Portrait of a Lady" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
14. W. B. Yeats: "The Second Coming" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
15. D. H. Lawrence: "Man and Bat" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
16. Philip Larkin: "I Remember, I Remember" and Thomas Hood: "I Remember, I Remember" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
17. Eavan Boland: "Ode to Suburbia" Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
18. Peter Reading: "Fiction" Jens Kiefer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
19. Conclusion: The Results of the Analyses and Their Implications for Narratology and the Theory and Analysis of Poetry Peter Hühn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Literary Scholars, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 259
Keywords: Englischsprachige Literatur; Lyrik; Interpretation

eBook

Published: August 11, 2011
ISBN: 9783110897623

Hardcover

Published: June 16, 2005
ISBN: 9783110184075