Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-384) and index.
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An inductive approach. Nine poems -- Four parameters -- Lyric as genre. Notions of genre -- Lyric history -- Lyric genre -- Theories of the lyric. Hegel -- Imitation speech acts or epideixis? -- Performative and performance -- Rhythm and repetition. Meter -- Rhythm -- Sound and repetition -- Lyric address. Address to listeners or readers -- Addressing other people -- Apostrophe -- Lyric structures. Mapping the lyric -- Lyric hyperbole -- Dramatic monologue -- Framing past events -- The lyric present -- Lyric and society. Engagement and disengagement -- Three examples -- Adorno's dialectic -- Tangling with ideology.
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Examining ancient as well as modern poems in many European languages, Culler underscores lyric's surprising continuities across centuries of change--its rhythmical resources, its strange modes of address, its use of the present tense, and the intriguing tension between its ritualistic and fictional dimensions.