Flexible Lyric
by Project Muse, Voigt, Ellen Bryant
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
The author contends that the traditional form of writing "lyric" has been deprecated as a genre, in favor of modern narrative and drama. She presents her views that lyrics are as powerful and poignant an artform as they have ever been by examining structure and meaning in the ve…
The author contends that the traditional form of writing "lyric" has been deprecated as a genre, in favor of modern narrative and drama. She presents her views that lyrics are as powerful and poignant an artform as they have ever been by examining structure and meaning in the ve…
"Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Gerald L. Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied …
"Poetry's sense and meaning can hide in the spaces in which it is written and read, says Gerald L. Bruns, and so he urges us to become anthropologists, to go afield in poetry's social, historical, and cultural settings. From that perspective, Bruns draws on works by such varied …