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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[1983]
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| Series: | Princeton legacy library
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zttcz |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER L. 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.