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Theory of the lyric /Jonathan Culler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (x, 391 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674425781
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1356 .T446 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographies and index.

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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