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Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words
Mutlu Blasing
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Description for Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words
Hardback. Argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. This work proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse rooted in the mother tongue. It demonstrates the ways that the lyric "I" speaks, from first to last, as a creation of poetic language. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. ... Read more
Lyric poetry has long been regarded as the intensely private, emotional expression of individuals, powerful precisely because it draws readers into personal worlds. But who, exactly, is the "I" in a lyric poem, and how is it created? In Lyric Poetry, Mutlu Blasing argues that the individual in a lyric is only a virtual entity and that lyric poetry takes its power from the public, emotional power of language itself. In the first major new theory of the lyric to be put forward in decades, Blasing proposes that lyric poetry is a public discourse deeply rooted in the mother tongue. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691126821
SKU
V9780691126821
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About Mutlu Blasing
Mutlu Konuk Blasing is Professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of "The Art of Life, American Poetry", and "Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry".
Reviews for Lyric Poetry: The Pain and the Pleasure of Words
"In her discussions of infant language acquisition, but more broadly in her portrayal of frames by which we separate poems from non-poems, Blasing has written a smart book that other critics will use, even critics with different attitudes toward individual poets and their poems."
Stephen Burt, Modern Philology
Stephen Burt, Modern Philology