Nov 6, 2017 · Theory of the Lyric, by Culler, is an excellent source for understanding the academics and history of the lyric poem… It will be most ...

An excellent account of major features of lyric poetry in the West, from Sappho to Ashbery, examining the strengths and weaknesses of various models of the ...

An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan ...

May 27, 2017 · The lyric often presents itself as the discourse of a minority uttered against the dominant ideology and values (traditionally, love and beauty ...

Current models falsify the long tradition of lyric and encourage students to think about lyrics in that neglect some of the central features of lyric poetry, ...

Jun 27, 2022 · Culler's central effort in Theory of the Lyric is to demonstrate how poets create a ritualistic present in their poems; as he notes, “Fiction is ...

Apr 26, 2016 · This is at once a modest proposal and an ambitious one. It is theory in what Culler describes as the desiring or optative mode of lyric itself ( ...

Oct 13, 2017 · Theory of the Lyric focuses on the lyric tradition in Western poetry from ancient Greece to the twentieth century. In less than an hour Culler ...

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Posted: Aug 22, 2018