..., modeled his critical practice in this respect on that of the New Critics. What's more, Levy claims, Clark associates close reading with the reading of poetry in particular. Poetry features only rarely in the history of modernism as retold by art historians, but as Clark writes, “Lyric cannot be expunged...

...Fiona Green This essay considers the aubade as a special case of that threshold condition to which all lyric utterance is subject. Drawing on recent work by Mutlu Konuk Blasing, it argues that the dawn songs in Jorie Graham's The Errancy (1997) instantiate and figure the interference of linguistic...

...Robert Bird COPYRIGHT © 2003 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2003 LYRIC RITUAL AND NARRATIVE MYTH IN RUSSIAN MODERNISM: THE CASE OF VIACHESLAV IVANOV ROBERT BIRD, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO At the height of the revolutionary fervor of 1905, a leading Russian symbol- ist issued...

...Michael Nicholson A critically neglected short poem that focuses on the ancient custom of stone giant building in Cumbria, William Wordsworth's “Rural Architecture” avoids the monumental permanence and transcendent universality so often associated with Lyrical Ballads . An expressly opaque “local...

...Casie Legette This essay examines how the long poems of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley were excerpted in mid-nineteenth-century anthologies to consider the relation between the long history of lyric ascendancy and particular moments when long, complex poems were quite literally reduced to lyric...

...Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Genre, Vol. 52, No. 3 December 2019 DOI 10.1215/00166928-7965818 © 2019 by University of Oklahoma Book Review nathan suhr- sytsma Seth Perlow, The Poem Electric: Technology and the American Lyric, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 288 pp. $27.00 paperback. Affect...

... , 2002 . ---. “ The True Hollywood Left .” 2007 . Lacan.com . May 2008 . < http://www.lacan.com/zizhollywood.htm > . CONSPIRACY, THEORY, GENRE: COLLECTING, THE PARALYSIS OF INTERPRETATION, AND LYRICAL TRUTH IN JOHN SAYLES'S SILVER CITY WESLEY BEAL, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA...

... have taught us about reading poems or to a poet or group of poets who involve us in their own reading. Given a common focus on poetry, these essays revisit the idea of lyric and its various attributes: individuality, originality, subjectivity, and feeling (especially in relation to tradition...

... with the present. Focusing on her last collection of poetry, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (2011), I reconsider how Rich's late lyrics articulate the desire for and aesthetic difficulty of what the anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli calls the “possibility of being otherwise” under late liberalism. Rich's late...

... imbue each number with personal resonance, countering the depersonalization and “massification” of much late 1960s art and politics. Unearthing an essential, dialectical relation between the singular I and the community through their use of serial forms, Creeley and Indiana reimagine a lyric...

... number for its force, coloring it and alerting us to its relationship with other numbers as with previous and future selves. This now should be distinguished both from what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the novel’s foundation in “maximal contact with the present” and from Jonathan Culler’s lyric “now.” Instead...

... of “novelism” (adjacent to notions like lyricism and essayism) as a flexible and mobile mode of associative world-building across the arts. We can see novelism at play in the intermedial history of how novelistic forms and concerns informed the cinematic genre of the essay film. By recovering that history...

... refers to the reconstruction of specific reception histories and literary-institutional histories, rather than to political or economic history as an interpretive horizon for poetry. The new lyric studies, inaugurated by Yopie Prins's Victorian Sappho (1999) and Virginia Jackson's Dickinson's Misery...

... in a Convex Mirror . New York : Penguin , 1976 ---. Shadow Train . New York : Viking , 1981 Benjamin Walter . Charles Baudelaire: Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism . London : Verso , 1983 Blasing Mutlu Konuk . Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop...

... University, teaching in a cosmopolitan writing program. Inevitably her work has gone through changes. One of these is the gradual adoption of a practice of disjunction: there are hints of this in String Light (1991), a bolder experiment in the book- length Just Whistle (1993), and then, after the lyric...

..., as Stewart explains in readings of Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Edward Young, and Mark Akenside. Poets are lined up on one side or the other of this tension between mortalist and spiritualist, but taken over time, the two are bound into a dynamic of lyric history. Their alternation or “rhythm” also dictates...

... of metaphor in two of Donne's secular lyrics (“The Relic” and “A Valediction of My Name in the Window”) and one of his sermons, which takes up the topic of biblical metaphor. Engaging with theorists of metaphor such as Donald Davidson and with recent critical studies of metaphor and post-Reformation...

... of what's classed as “poetry.” [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by University of Oklahoma 2023 genre history novel lyric theory Ezra Pound Claudia Rankine It might sound familiar, the way Ezra Pound declined to debate the distinction between poetry and prose in “The Serious...

... in the Greater Romantic Lyric .'' From Sensibility to Romanticism . Eds. Hilles Frederick W. Bloom Harold . New York : Oxford UP , 1965 . 527 - 560 . Addison Joseph . `` An Essay on Virgil's Georgics .'' Eighteenth-Century Critical Essays . Ed. Elledge Scott . Vol. 1 . Ithaca...

... duluth As scholars, teachers, and consumers of literature, we rely regularly — if unre- flectively — on genre and the critical apparatus it provides. Each year critics con- tinue to generate hundreds of articles that relate individual texts to genres and subgenres, from lyric and novel to elegy...