What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of
subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona?
Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two
conceptions of the lyric-the older Romantic model and the modern
conception that has come to dominate the study of poetry-both of
which neglect what is most striking and compelling in the lyric and
falsify the long and rich tradition of the lyric in the West.
Jonathan Culler explores alternative conceptions offered by this
tradition, such as public discourse made authoritative by its
rhythmical structures, and he constructs a more capacious model of
the lyric that will help readers appreciate its range of
possibilities. "Theory of the Lyric brings Culler's own earlier,
more scattered interventions together with an eclectic selection
from others' work in service to what he identifies as a dominant
need of the critical and pedagogical present: turning readers'
attention to lyric poems as verbal events, not fictions of
impersonated speech. His fine, nuanced readings of particular poems
and kinds of poems are crucial to his arguments. His observations
on the workings of aspects of lyric across multiple different
structures are the real strength of the book. It is a work of
practical criticism that opens speculative vistas for poetics but
always returns to poems." -Elizabeth Helsinger, Critical Theory
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