Description
Book SynopsisDesigned 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 within and beyond the classroom, wherever poetry is taught, read, discussed, and debated today.
Trade ReviewThe thesis of The Lyric Theory Reader-that the very existence of the genre is more a critical extrapolation than anything solid and real-may seem to be itself a kind of critical conceit, but only because the argument serves the Reader exceptionally well as a cogent frame for taking stock of a diversity of approaches. Accordingly, the Reader would seem especially useful as a primer for up and coming scholars... Overall, the Reader should be considered essential in the formation of a thoughtful scholar of poetry and its criticism. -- Peter Fields Rocky Mountain Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
General Introduction
Part I. How Does Lyric Become a Genre?
Section 1. Genre Theory
Section 2. Models of Lyric
Part I. Twentieth-Century Lyric Readers
Section 3. Anglo- American New Criticism
Section 4. Structuralist Reading
Section 5. Post- Structuralist Reading
Section 6. Frankfurt School and After
Section 7. Phenomenologies of Lyric Reading
Part III. Lyric Departures
Section 8. Avant- garde Anti-lyricism
Section 9. Lyric and Sexual Difference
Section 10. Comparative Lyric
Contributors
Source Acknowledgments
Index of Authors and Works
