Twentieth Century Metapoetry And The Lyric Tradition

Author : Daniella Jancsó
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110629859

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Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition by Daniella Jancsó Pdf

Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry. By placing these texts into a hitherto barely investigated literary-historical perspective, it demonstrates that modern metapoetry is steeped in the lyric tradition to a much greater extent than previously acknowledged. Since these literary continuities that cut across epochal boundaries can be traced across all major poetic movements, they challenge established accounts of the history of twentieth-century poetry that postulate a radical break with the (immediate) past. Moreover, the finding that metapoems perpetuate traditional forms and topoi distinguishes metapoetry historically and systematically from metafiction and metadrama. After highlighting the most important differences as regards to the function of metareference in poetry on the one side, and in fiction and drama on the other, the book concludes with a discussion of how to account for these generic differences theoretically. With its "extraordinarily subtle and perceptive" (Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford) interpretive readings of over one hundred metapoems by canonical anglophone authors, it offers the first representative selection of twentieth-century poems about poetry in English.

Author : Daniella Jancsó
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110631722

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Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition by Daniella Jancsó Pdf

Twentieth-Century Metapoetry and the Lyric Tradition reveals the unique value of metapoems for exploring twentieth-century poetry. By placing these texts into a hitherto barely investigated literary-historical perspective, it demonstrates that modern metapoetry is steeped in the lyric tradition to a much greater extent than previously acknowledged. Since these literary continuities that cut across epochal boundaries can be traced across all major poetic movements, they challenge established accounts of the history of twentieth-century poetry that postulate a radical break with the (immediate) past. Moreover, the finding that metapoems perpetuate traditional forms and topoi distinguishes metapoetry historically and systematically from metafiction and metadrama. After highlighting the most important differences as regards to the function of metareference in poetry on the one side, and in fiction and drama on the other, the book concludes with a discussion of how to account for these generic differences theoretically. With its "extraordinarily subtle and perceptive" (Ronald Bush, St. John's College, Oxford) interpretive readings of over one hundred metapoems by canonical anglophone authors, it offers the first representative selection of twentieth-century poems about poetry in English.

Author : Peter Hühn,Jens Kiefer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110897623

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The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry by Peter Hühn,Jens Kiefer Pdf

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 : Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0719007143

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Poetic Artifice by Veronica Forrest-Thomson Pdf

Author : Katie Owens-Murphy
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810136564

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Lyrical Strategies by Katie Owens-Murphy Pdf

Lyrical Strategies advances the highly original idea that not all literary fiction should be read as a novel. Instead, Katie Owens-Murphy identifies a prominent type of American novel well suited to the reading methods of lyric poetry and exhibiting lyric frameworks of structural repetition, rhythm, figurative meaning, dramatic personae, and exclusive address. Owens-Murphy surveys a broad array of writers: poets from the lyrical transatlantic tradition, as well as American novelists including Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, and Cormac McCarthy. Through a masterful reexamination of canonical works of twentieth-century American fiction through the lens of lyric poetry, she reveals how many elements in these novels can be better understood as poetic and rhetorical figures (metaphysical conceit, polysyndeton, dramatic monologue, apostrophe, and so on) than as narrative ones. Making fresh contributions to literary theory and American fiction, Lyrical Strategies will fascinate readers and scholars of the American novel, fiction, poetry, and poetics alike.

Author : Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 083875256X

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The Poetics of Self-consciousness by Jonathan Mayhew Pdf

"Twentieth-century poetry engages in a highly self-conscious meditation on the nature of poetic language. Spanish poetry, however, has sometimes been considered an exception to this tendency. This book, with its focus on linguistic self-reflexivity, refutes the notion that major Spanish poets such as Jorge Guillen and Vicente Aleixandre are theoretically naive creators. In a series of nuanced readings, Jonathan Mayhew demonstrates the extent to which modern Spanish poets are conscious of their linguistic medium." "Previous books on Spanish poetry published in English have been more limited in scope, usually including poets of a single "generation." The Poetics of Self-Consciousness is the first to study well-known writers of the earlier part of the century along with more recent poets such as Jose Angel Valente, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Jose Maria Alvarez, and Juan Lamillar. Interpreting poetic texts written from the 1920s through the 1980s, Mayhew is able to trace the evolving function of literary self-consciousness in Spanish poetry while remaining attentive to the differences among writers of the same historical moment. The modernist poets of the earlier part of the century are preoccupied by the problem of literary mimesis: the representation of reality through language. In the postwar years, poets turned their attention to the social and ethical dimensions of poetic language. The postmodernists of more recent decades, finally, are increasingly concerned with their own belatedness with respect to cultural traditions of the past." "Critics hailed Jonathan Mayhew's first book, Claudio Rodriguez and the Language of Poetic vision, as an "enlightening and timely book on perhaps Spain's greatest living poet," and "a signal first effort from a critic with high scholarly standards and a penetrating insight into contemporary poetry." With The Poetics of Self-Consciousness: Twentieth-Century Spanish Poetry, readers will discover another probing study of other modern and postmodern Spanish poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202510

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Theory into Poetry by Anonim Pdf

At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning. The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors ‘theorise’ the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion. The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.

Author : Samuli Hägg,Erkki Sevänen,Risto Turunen
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789522228048

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Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature by Samuli Hägg,Erkki Sevänen,Risto Turunen Pdf

In international research, metafictionality and other metaliterary features have typically been regarded as phenomena related to postmodernist fiction, in particular – Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature, however, discusses the metalayers of Finnish literature from the early 20th century to the present. By analyzing different genres of Finnish literature in varying historical contexts Metaliterary Layers in Finnish Literature provides an abundance of new information on Finnish literature and its metaliterary phenomena for everyone interested. In the articles of this book, the metalayers of literature are discussed in experimental prose and poetry as well as in popular fiction and children’s literature.

Author : Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135455309

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Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies by Gaetana Marrone,Paolo Puppa Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies is a two-volume reference book containing some 600 entries on all aspects of Italian literary culture. It includes analytical essays on authors and works, from the most important figures of Italian literature to little known authors and works that are influential to the field. The Encyclopedia is distinguished by substantial articles on critics, themes, genres, schools, historical surveys, and other topics related to the overall subject of Italian literary studies. The Encyclopedia also includes writers and subjects of contemporary interest, such as those relating to journalism, film, media, children's literature, food and vernacular literatures. Entries consist of an essay on the topic and a bibliographic portion listing works for further reading, and, in the case of entries on individuals, a brief biographical paragraph and list of works by the person. It will be useful to people without specialized knowledge of Italian literature as well as to scholars.

Author : Matthew J. Marr
Publisher : La Sirena
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Postmodernism (Literature)
ISBN : 1901704106

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Postmodern Metapoetry and the Replenishment of the Spanish Lyrical Genre, 1980-2000 by Matthew J. Marr Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015013113173

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Twentieth-century American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literature, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015068881732

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Twentieth-century Literary Criticism by Gale Research Company Pdf

Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Author : Andrew Debicki
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780813189932

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Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century by Andrew Debicki Pdf

Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product. By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism. This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers inter-ested in comparative literature.

Author : S. J. Harrison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191615900

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Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace by S. J. Harrison Pdf

S. J. Harrison sets out to sketch one answer to a key question in Latin literary history: why did the period c.39-19 BC in Rome produce such a rich range of complex poetical texts, above all in the work of the famous poets Vergil and Horace? Harrison argues that one central aspect of this literary flourishing was the way in which different poetic genres or kinds (pastoral, epic, tragedy, etc.) interacted with each other and that that interaction itself was a prominent literary subject. He explores this issue closely through detailed analysis of passages of the two poets' works between these dates. Harrison opens with an outline of generic theory ancient and modern as a basis for his argument, suggesting how different poetic genres and their partial presence in each other can be detected in the Latin poetry of the first century BC.

Author : Jonathan Mayhew
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624229

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The Twilight of the Avant-Garde by Jonathan Mayhew Pdf

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Twilight of the Avant-Garde: Spanish Poetry 1980-2000 addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambitiousness of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Jonathan Mayhew first offers a critical analysis of the called 'poetry of experience' of Luis García Montero, a tendency that is based on the supposed obsolescence of the modernist poetics of the first half of the century. While the 'poetry of experience' presents itself as a progressive attempt to 'normalise' poetry, to make it accessible to the common reader, Mayhew views it as a reactionary move that ultimately reduces poetry to the status of a minor genre. The author then turns his attention to the poetry of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, whose poetry embodies the continuation of modernism, and to the work of younger women poets of the last two decades of the twentieth century. Throughout this controversial and provocative book, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the larger culture and society. It turns out that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics is still highly relevant even in an age in which more cynical views of literature seem prevalent. Ultimately, Mayhew writes as an advocate for the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age.