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Lyric Poetry - The Pain and the Pleasure of Words (Hardcover): Mutlu Konuk Blasing

Lyric Poetry - The Pain and the Pleasure of Words (Hardcover)

Mutlu Konuk Blasing

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Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In "Lyric Poetry," Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself.

In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. She looks to poetic, linguistic, and psychoanalytic theory to help unravel the intricate historical processes that generate speaking subjects, and concludes that lyric forms convey both personal and communal emotional histories in language. Focusing on the work of such diverse twentieth-century American poets as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Anne Sexton, Blasing demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language.

General

Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2006
First published: December 2006
Authors: Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Dimensions: 235 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12682-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN: 0-691-12682-8
Barcode: 9780691126821

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