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| Autor/in | Wolf, Werner |
|---|---|
| Titel | The lyric - an elusive genre. Problems of definition and a proposal for reconceptualization. |
| Quelle | In: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 28 (2003) 1, S. 59-91 |
| Beigaben | Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0171-5410 |
| Schlagwörter | Empirische Forschung; Gattung (Lit); Literaturwissenschaft; Lyrik; Englisch; Definition |
| Abstract | The lyric is a highly problematic category: although it features as a widely used and accepted generic term both in literary research and teaching, it has remained elusive and is perhaps the most ill-defined literary genre - in spite of repeated attempts to grasp its essence. Apart from textuality and fictionality there is in fact not a single criterion which fits all texts that can be called 'lyric'. In the paper this precarious nature of most of the alleged qualities of the lyric is used as the starting point of a modest proposal for a reconceptualization of this genre: this reconceptualization departs from former attempts to define the lyric through fixed and essential qualities within a 'digital', binary framework of inclusion or exclusion and instead adopts a cognitive and prototypical approach. It is argued that this framework is particularly suited to the flexibility of the lyric, as it permits a conception of its typical traits (nine of which are discussed here as especially relevant), not as necessary qualities, but rather as tendencies. In individual cases these tendencies can be absent, so that even less obviously lyric texts such as Seamus Heaney's prose poem "Incertus" can still be subsumed under the generic term 'lyric' - provided they possess a 'family resemblance' to the prototype. The proposal made here, including the prototypical components on the lyric, have been tested in a small empirical survey carried out among students of English at the University of Graz. (Verlag, adapt.). |
| Erfasst von | Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg |
| Update | 2023/1 |
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