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Facing Loss and Death - Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry (Hardcover)
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Facing Loss and Death - Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Narratologia
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Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of
narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the
poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the
advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of
lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric
approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical
fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and
some American) poems from the early modern period to the present.
The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on
the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the
dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns,
which largely constitute the raison d'etre of the poem. To
facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special
thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the
death of a beloved person, the imminence of one's own death, the
death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental
stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as
facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing
various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic
impetus.
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