The Lyric Poem and Aestheticism: Forms of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9781474431576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str.

Marion Thain

Opis

This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Lyric, Aestheticism, and the Later Nineteenth century; Part I. Time; 2. Metre and Temporality: Between Hegel and Benjamin; 3. Painting, Music, Touch: D. G. Rossetti’s Ekphrasis and Competing Temporalities; 4. Parnassus and Commodity Time; Part II. Space; 5. Form and Transaction: Lyric Touch; 6. Arthur Symons and Decadent Lyric Phenomenology; 7. ‘Space, the Bound of a Solid’; Alice Meynell and Thomas Hardy; Part III. Subjectivity; 8. Desire Lines: Subjectivity and Collectivity; 9. A. C. Swinburne in the Round: Drama, Personae, and Lyric Subjectivity; 10. Ezra Pound’s Troubadour Subject: Community, Form, and ‘Lyric’ in Early Modernism; Afterword; Bibliography.