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The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
Veronica Alfano
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Description for The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Poetic Remembering and Forgetting from Tennyson to Housman
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits - such as brevity, stanzaic structure, 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. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on ... Read more
This book is a study of nineteenth-century poems that remember, yearn for, fixate on, and forget the past. Reflecting the current critical drive to reconcile formalist and historicist approaches to literature, it uses close readings to trace the complex interactions between memory as a theme and the (often-memorable) formal traits - such as brevity, stanzaic structure, 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. It uses this theme to shed new light on the relationship between lyric and narrative, on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319513065
SKU
V9783319513065
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About Veronica Alfano
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 Virtual Victorians: Networks, Connections, Technologies.
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