Limit this search to....

Theory of the Lyric
Contributor(s): Culler, Jonathan (Author)
ISBN: 0674979702     ISBN-13: 9780674979703
Publisher: Harvard University Press
OUR PRICE:   $28.71  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2017
Qty:
Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
Dewey: 809.14
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.32 lbs) 416 pages
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric--the older Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry--both of which neglect what is most striking and compelling in the lyric and falsify the long and rich tradition of the lyric in the West. Jonathan Culler explores alternative conceptions offered by this tradition, such as public discourse made authoritative by its rhythmical structures, and he constructs a more capacious model of the lyric that will help readers appreciate its range of possibilities.

"Theory of the Lyric brings Culler's own earlier, more scattered interventions together with an eclectic selection from others' work in service to what he identifies as a dominant need of the critical and pedagogical present: turning readers' attention to lyric poems as verbal events, not fictions of impersonated speech. His fine, nuanced readings of particular poems and kinds of poems are crucial to his arguments. His observations on the workings of aspects of lyric across multiple different structures are the real strength of the book. It is a work of practical criticism that opens speculative vistas for poetics but always returns to poems."
--Elizabeth Helsinger, Critical Theory


Contributor Bio(s): Culler, Jonathan: - Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University.

Warning: Unknown: write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp) in Unknown on line 0