Theory of the Lyric
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780674744264
Subjects: Poetry, history and criticism
Description: Examining ancient as well as modern poems in many European languages, Culler underscores lyric's surprising continuities across centuries of change--its rhythmical resources, its strange modes of address, its use of the present tense, and the intriguing tension between its ritualistic and fictional dimensions.