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The three genres and the interpretation of lyric /

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 Authors: Rogers, William Elford
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J. :
Publication Dates: [1983]
©1983
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
American poetry > History and criticism.
English poetry > History and criticism.
Literary form.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
American poetry.
English poetry.
Literary Studies.
Literature in Diverse Languages.
Lyric poetry.
Poetics.
Englische Literatur.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781400856671
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Summary: 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 conceptual knowledge not about works but about interpretation.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
ISBN: 9781400856671
Index Number: PR509
CLC: I561.072
Contents: Frontmatter --
Acknowledgments --
Table of Contents --
Introduction --
CHAPTER . 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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