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Facing Loss and Death Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hühn, Peter (Autor, Verfasser)
Otros Autores: Goerke, Britta (Contribuidor, Mitwirkender), Plooy, Heilna du (Contribuidor, Mitwirkender), Schenk-Haupt, Stefan (Contribuidor, Mitwirkender)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2016
Colección:Narratologia 55
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Mourning the Death of a Beloved Person
  • 2.0. Introduction
  • 2.1. Ben Jonson: "On My First Daughter" (1593) and "On My First Son" (1603)
  • 2.2. John Donne: "Since She Whom I Loved" (1617) and John Milton: "Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint" (1658)
  • 2.3. Lord Byron: "Away, Away, Ye Notes of Woe" (1811) and "And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair" (1812)
  • 2.4. Edgar Allan Poe: "Lenore" (1844-1849)
  • 2.5. Seamus Heaney: "Mid-Term Break" (1966)
  • 2.6. Eavan Boland: "The Blossom" (1998) and "The Pomegranate" (1994)
  • 2.7. Summary
  • 3. Coping with Loss in Love
  • 3.0. Introduction
  • 3.1. William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609)
  • 3.2. John Donne: "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1633)
  • 3.3. William Wordsworth: "Lucy Poems" (1800, 1801/1807)
  • 3.4. Emily Dickinson: "After Great Pain" (ca. 1862)
  • 3.5. Thomas Hardy: "The Voice" (1912/14)
  • 3.6. Sylvia Plath: "The Other" (1962)
  • 3.7. Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters (1998)
  • 3.8. Summary
  • 4. Confronting One's Own Death
  • 4.0. Introduction
  • 4.1. Sir Walter Raleigh: "Verses Made the Night before He Died" (1618) and Chidiock Tichborne: "Elegy" (1586)
  • 4.2. John Donne: "What if this Present were the World's Last Night" (1609/1611)
  • 4.3. William Cowper: "The Castaway" (1799/1800)
  • 4.4. John Keats: "When I have Fears that I May Cease to be" (1818) and Lord Byron: "On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year" (1824)
  • 4.5. Emily Dickinson: "Because I Could not Stop for Death" (ca. 1863)
  • 4.6. Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier" (1914) and Wilfred Owen: "Strange Meeting" (1918)
  • 4.7. D.H. Lawrence: "Bavarian Gentians" (1932)
  • 4.8. Summary
  • 5. Lamenting the Death of Poets
  • 5.0. Introduction
  • 5.1. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: "An Excellent Epitaph of Sir Thomas Wyatt" (1542)
  • 5.2. Thomas Carew: "An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of Paul's, Dr John Donne" (1633)
  • 5.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" (1821)
  • 5.4. W.H. Auden: "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (1939)
  • 5.5. Seamus Heaney: "Audenesque: in memory of Joseph Brodsky" (1996)
  • 5.6. Summary
  • 6. Thematizing the Loss of an Old Order
  • 6.0. Introduction
  • 6.1. John Donne: An Anatomy of the World (1611) and William Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1609)
  • 6.2. William Wordsworth: "The World is too Much with Us" (1807) and W.B. Yeats: "High Talk" (1939)
  • 6.3. Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Lift not the Painted Veil" (1818/1824) and "The Cloud" (1819/1820)
  • 6.4. Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach" (1851) and Gerard Manley Hopkins: "No Worst, there is None" (ca. 1885)
  • 6.5. T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922) and "Journey of the Magi" (1930)
  • 6.6. W.B. Yeats: "Lapis Lazuli" (1938)
  • 6.7. Tony Harrison: "A Kumquat for John Keats" (1981)
  • 6.8. Summary
  • 7. Conclusion: Summary and Results
  • Index (authors and titles)