Author: John Michael
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823279731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.
Secular Lyric
Author: John Michael
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823279731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823279731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.
The Secular Lyric in Middle English
Author: Arthur Keister Moore
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The scholar of this work has attempted to frame a comprehensive view of medieval secular lyrics, an attempt which includes discussion of songs of satire and protest and the art lyric.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The scholar of this work has attempted to frame a comprehensive view of medieval secular lyrics, an attempt which includes discussion of songs of satire and protest and the art lyric.
The Secular Lyric in Middle English
Author: Arthur Keister Moore
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries
Author: Rossell Hope Robbins
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Secular Lyric in Middle English
Author: Arthur K. Moore
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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Religious Elements in the Secular Lyrics of the Troubadours
Author: Raymond Gay-Crosier
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Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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The Blues Lyric Formula
Author: Michael Taft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135485992
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135485992
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
English Lyric Poetry, 1500-1700
Author: Frederic Ives Carpenter
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Middle English Penitential Lyric
Author: Frank Allen Patterson
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Roman Catholic Ideas in the Religious Lyric of the Elizabethan Age
Author: Geneva Katharine Davis
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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