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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Lyric theory"”.
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Cark
… of reading poetry in light of such concerns. Lyric theory and the legacy of Language poetry with regards to the lyric are loci in a discussion of contemporary poetics. It analyzes the work of poets Tomaz Salamun and Lyn Hejinian, in relation to theorists Theodor Adorno and Maurice …
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Sound in Conflict: Lyric Poetry and the American Civil War
… investigates the acoustic resources of lyric poems written during and about the American Civil War, and asks how closely related these acoustics were to their historical environment. I thus attempt to redress the dominant visual and material responses to Civil War aesthetics, in favour …
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Communication with the Other World in Romantic Poetry
… to concepts from linguistics and communication theory (in particular, the multifaceted notion of phatic speech) and set them in dialogue with poetic and lyric theory. By doing so, and by simultaneously paying close attention to the formal aspects of the texts, I not only aim to outline new ways …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
… on which I focus, the first chapter surveys the theory and practice of commonplacing, as they were articulated by humanist scholars, and applied in the early modern schoolroom. Those theories can be followed into Shakespeare’s 'Venus and Adonis', which—no less than the anthologies in which it …
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The Spirit of Exemplarity: The Role of Example in Lyric Studies
Recent work in lyric studies has been dominated by two opposing camps: the historicism of the ‘New Lyric Studies’ and the attempt to defend a trans-historical category of lyric, most notably by Jonathan Culler. This thesis begins by claiming that these two camps have something in common: their …