The three genres and the interpretation of lyric

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William Elford Rogers proposes a genre-theory that will clarify what we mean when we speak of literary works as dramatic, epic, or lyric. Focusing on lyric poetry, this book maintains that the broad genre-concepts need not be discarded but can be preserved by a new interpretive model that gives us c...

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Main Author: Rogers, William Elford (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1983]
Series:Princeton legacy library
Subjects:
English poetry > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
American poetry > History and criticism.
Literary form.
American poetry.
English poetry.
Literary Studies.
Literature in Diverse Languages.
Lyric poetry.
Poetics.
Englische Literatur.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American poetry
English poetry
Literary form
Lyric poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER L. Lyric, Epic, Dramatic: Genres as Interpretive Models
  • CHAPTER II. The Anomalous Voice and the Impersonal Lyric
  • CHAPTER III. Standards of Interpretation and Evaluation
  • CHAPTER IV. Gestures Toward a Literary History of Lyric
  • Index.

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