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The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Heather Dubrow
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Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition, calling into doubt the very possibility of self-expression in language. Whereas much recent scholarship on lyric has centered on the Romantic era, Heather Dubrow turns instead to the poetry of early modern England. The Challenges of Orpheus confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, ... Read more
As a literary mode "lyric" is difficult to define precisely. While the term has conventionally been applied to brief, songlike poems expressing the speaker's interior thoughts critics have questioned many of the assumptions underlying this definition, calling into doubt the very possibility of self-expression in language. Whereas much recent scholarship on lyric has centered on the Romantic era, Heather Dubrow turns instead to the poetry of early modern England. The Challenges of Orpheus confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421400426
SKU
V9781421400426
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About Heather Dubrow
Heather Dubrow is the John D. Boyd, S.J., Chair in the Poetic Imagination at Fordham University.
Reviews for The Challenges of Orpheus: Lyric Poetry and Early Modern England
Thorough, penetrating, and on the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship. Essential. Choice 2008 A useful and detailed study. Dubrow is especially good at analysing the relationship between gender and genre. Times Literary Supplement 2008 Her refinement of generic oppositions... leads to some striking juxtapositions as well as-to my thinking at least-an exceptionally interesting discussion of the status and function of ... Read more