Theory of the lyric /Jonathan Culler.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (x, 391 pages) : illustrations
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.