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Form and Content, Again. Four Remarks on Lyric Theory
Journal of Literary Theory, 2017
The following statement suggests reconsidering recent debates on a theory of lyric in terms of form and content. Four aspects and issues of the ongoing debate are discussed. In a first step, it is necessary to establish the relation between authorial poetics and lyric theory, since it is often characterised by fuzzy boundaries. Secondly, in order to specify the problem of form in lyric theory, it is suggested to have a closer look at the performative in lyric practice. Another important aspect of form is the semantics of lyrical genres. Lyrical genres mark an area in which form and content are intertwined and in which aspects of the form itself become semantic. Finally, the author argues that we should discuss – if possible assisted by a didactics sensitive to literary texts – whether and how theoretical proposals could be transformed into a practice of teaching poetry.
Towards a Historical Typology of the Subject in Lyric Poetry
Journal of Literary Theory, 2017
Recent theory of lyric shows no interest in the subject, because it is no longer considered a basic generic parameter of lyric poetry. Nevertheless, the subject has resurfaced in contemporary practice in a wide range of new and complex forms specific to the lyric mode. This article suggests a multilevel model for both the formal and historical analysis of the subject in contemporary lyric poetry.
Key Lecture: "Lyric poetry as seen from an interdisciplinary perspective
أوراق کلاسیکیة, 2020
Worms / Germany A literary bouquet dedicated to Wolfgang Biesterfeld scholar, musician and philosopherex laetitia sit In a chapter titled "Genre and Real Life in Latin Poetry" Jasper Griffin states in 1986: "As long as poetry has existed, men have wondered and argued about its relationship to reality. The Muses, meeting Hesiod beneath Mount Helicon, told him that they knew how to tell many lies that sounded like truth; Solon and Pindar echo the chastening refrain, and Plato and Aristotle are concerned to find new answers to the hoary problem." 1 As an ancient historian I mostly work in my field of research with records and texts that represent the relics of hard life conditions in the past, reports that show the devotions to law, administration and ruleeven the practical side of life. When I attended the gymnasium mid of the 70ties of the last century, now forty years ago, ancient Greek language was taught from perspective of philosophy, poetry and high moral standards, and Latin language was treated from the perspective of practical life management. In the same morning at school we sat one hour next to Plato or we met Sappho on her isle, and an hour later we were sent on command between Caesar's fully equipped legionary troops on their muddy way to fight the Northern
2017
The general theory of lyric is a developing field of study. Approaches to lyric are, however, reputedly stuck in »the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre« (Müller-Zettelmann/Rubik 2005, 8). Such claims may be paired with a call for raising the theory of lyric to higher levels (cf. Culler 2015, 2sq.; Zymner 2009, 8sq.; Gibson 2015, 1sq.), including the proposal of formulating, in analogy to the well-established field of narratology, a formal ›lyricology‹ (»lyricologie« or »Lyrikologie«, as it is called in French and German respectively; cf. Zymner 2009, 7-9; Rodriguez 2009; von Ammon 2015). More particularly, it has been suggested that parts of lyric theory should be reconceptualized with the help of narrative theories (cf. Müller-Zettelmann 2000, Müller-Zettelmann/Rubik 2005).
¬The lyric theory reader : a critical anthology
2014
The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the collection as a whole documents the diversity and energy of ongoing critical conversations about lyric poetry. Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins frame these conversations with a general introduction, bibliographies for further reading, and introductions to each of the anthology's ten sections: genre theory, historical models of lyric, New Criticism, structuralist and post-structuralist reading, Frankfurt School approaches, phenomenologies of lyric reading, avant-garde anti-lyricism, lyric and sexual difference, and comparative lyric. Designed for students, teachers, scholars, poets, and readers with a general interest in poetics, this book presents an intellectual history of the theory of lyric reading that has circulated both...