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The Lyric in Victorian Memory
eBook - Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman, Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9783319513072
Umbreit-Nr.: 4219954
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 3.17 MB
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Erschienen am 11.11.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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- Zusatztext
- <div>This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for,&nbsp;fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and&nbsp;historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between&nbsp;memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits such as brevity, stanzaic structure,&nbsp;and sonic repetition that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets.&nbsp;It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.</div><div><br></div>
- Kurztext
- This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for,&nbsp;fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and&nbsp;historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between&nbsp;memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits - such as brevity, stanzaic structure,&nbsp;and sonic repetition - that appear in the lyrics examined. This book considers the interwoven nature of remembering and forgetting in the work of four Victorian poets. &nbsp;It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on the connections between gender and genre, and on the way in which Victorians represented and commemorated the past.
- Autorenportrait
- Veronica Alfano is Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, and Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University, Australia. She is the co-editor (with Andrew Stauffer) of<i>Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies</i>.<br>