Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the ...

This book includes a series of analyses of canonical British novels and tales that demonstrates in how this concept can be put into practice for a specific contextual interpretation of the eventfulness of these texts.

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text.

Lyrik wird in der Regel als eigenständige Gattung betrachtet – in Abgrenzung zu erzählenden und szenisch vermittelnden Texten.

The book invites readers to look closely at what the poetic text, both in form and content, reveals about the context in which it was written, and to make individual poems and their larger historical contexts reflect upon each other.