The Lyric Theory Reader
A Critical Anthology
Johns Hopkins University Press · Print & ebook · February 1, 2014
Reading lyric poetry over the past century.
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- Who it’s for
- Essays trace modern ideas of lyric across Anglo-American criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Genres
- Poetry Criticism, Literary Theory, 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Published
- Johns Hopkins University Press, February 1, 2014
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Reading lyric poetry over the past century. The Lyric Theory Reader collects major essays on the modern idea of lyric, made available here for the first time in one place. Representing a wide range of perspectives in Anglo-American literary criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the collection as a whole documents the diversity and energy of ongoing critical conversations about lyric poetry.
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Virginia Jackson and Yopie Prins frame these conversations with a general introduction, bibliographies for further reading, and introductions to each of the anthology’s ten sections: genre theory, historical models of lyric, New Criticism, structuralist and post-structuralist reading, Frankfurt School approaches, phenomenologies of lyric reading, avant-garde anti-lyricism, lyric and sexual difference, and comparative lyric. Designed 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.
Theories of Lyric
Essays trace modern ideas of lyric across Anglo-American criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Come here for
- Essays on genre theory and historical models of lyric
- Introductions to ten sections and bibliographies for further reading
Expect
- Perspectives spanning New Criticism, structuralism, and post-structuralism
- Sections on anti-lyricism, sexual difference, and comparative lyric
Where it sits
| Poetry Criticism | 91% |
|---|---|
| Literary Theory | 44% |
| 20th-Century Literary Criticism | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Theory
- Poetry Criticism
- 20th-Century Literary Criticism
- Authors
- Virginia Jackson, Yopie Prins, Virginia Walker Jackson
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Published
- February 1, 2014
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Theory