Theory of the Lyric

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
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Author: Jonathan Culler ISBN: 9780674425804
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: June 8, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Jonathan Culler
ISBN: 9780674425804
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: June 8, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these two models—the Romantic and the modern—and challenges the assumption that poems exist to be interpreted.

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What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these two models—the Romantic and the modern—and challenges the assumption that poems exist to be interpreted.

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