...Isobel Palmer A review of Culler Jonathan , Theory of the Lyric ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 ). Cited in the text as tl . Copyright © 2016 Qui Parle 2016 The Lyric and Its Discontents isobel palmer A review of Jonathan Culler, Theory of the Lyric...

... and therapy- resistant energies of disability studies, of Jonathan Culler’s remarks on philology: “There is in philology, then, a tension between the reconstructive project . . . and the valu- able attention to what undermines the aesthetic and ideological assumptions about the meanings of texts...

... of world and history, life and death. As an ancient technology and media form, the poem has long transformed—and continues to transform—how human beings experience time and space. 33 Yet neither of the two major current positions on the nature of lyric as staked out by Jonathan Culler and Virginia...

...), httpvsa.matrix.msu.edu/. 3. I expand on this defi nition in Arden Reed, Slow Art, forthcoming from the University of California Press. 4. Dore Ashton, “Prologue and Log,” Arts and Architecture 77 (May 1960): 5. 5. Flaubert quoted in Jonathan Culler, Flaubert: The Uses of Uncer- tainty (Ithaca...