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879602
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Culler, Jonathan D.
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Theory of the lyric /\ Jonathan Culler.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :: Harvard University Press,, 2015.
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, ©2015
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1 online resource (x, 391 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0674425782
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0674744268
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9780674744264
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9780674979703
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-384) and index.
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| Contents
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An inductive approach. Nine poems -- Four parameters -- Lyric as genre. Notions of genre -- Lyric history -- Lyric genre -- Theories of the lyric. Hegel -- Imitation speech acts or epideixis? -- Performative and performance -- Rhythm and repetition. Meter -- Rhythm -- Sound and repetition -- Lyric address. Address to listeners or readers -- Addressing other people -- Apostrophe -- Lyric structures. Mapping the lyric -- Lyric hyperbole -- Dramatic monologue -- Framing past events -- The lyric present -- Lyric and society. Engagement and disengagement -- Three examples -- Adorno's dialectic -- Tangling with ideology.
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Examining ancient as well as modern poems in many European languages, Culler underscores lyric's surprising continuities across centuries of change--its rhythmical resources, its strange modes of address, its use of the present tense, and the intriguing tension between its ritualistic and fictional dimensions.
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Lyric poetry-- History and criticism.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Das Lyrische
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
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Lyric poetry.
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Lyrik
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Lyriktheorie
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| Dewey Classification
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809.1/4
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| LC Classification
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PN1356.C845 2015eb
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