| Author: | Jonathan Culler | ISBN: | 9780674425804 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press | Publication: | June 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jonathan Culler |
| ISBN: | 9780674425804 |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication: | June 8, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Language: | English |
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these two models—the Romantic and the modern—and challenges the assumption that poems exist to be interpreted.
What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Examining ancient and modern poems from Sappho to Ashbery, Jonathan Culler reveals the limitations of these two models—the Romantic and the modern—and challenges the assumption that poems exist to be interpreted.
