{"product_id":"theory-of-the-lyric","title":"Theory of the Lyric","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective  experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? \u003ci\u003eTheory of the Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e  reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric-the older  Romantic model and the modern conception that has come to dominate the  study of poetry-both of which neglect what is most striking and  compelling in the lyric and falsify the long and rich tradition of the  lyric in the West. Jonathan Culler explores alternative conceptions  offered by this tradition, such as public discourse made authoritative  by its rhythmical structures, and he constructs a more capacious model  of the lyric that will help readers appreciate its range of  possibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTheory of the Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e brings Culler's own  earlier, more scattered interventions together with an eclectic  selection from others' work in service to what he identifies as a  dominant need of the critical and pedagogical present: turning readers'  attention to lyric poems as verbal events, not fictions of impersonated  speech. His fine, nuanced readings of particular poems and kinds of  poems are crucial to his arguments. His observations on the workings of  aspects of lyric across multiple different structures are the real  strength of the book. It is a work of practical criticism that opens  speculative vistas for poetics but always returns to poems.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Elizabeth Helsinger, \u003ci\u003eCritical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42850620604477,"sku":"9780674979703","price":46.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780674979703.jpg?v=1766614753","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/theory-of-the-lyric","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}