Journal of Literary Theory (JLT)

Lampart, Fabian

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Fabian Lampart 
Form and Content, Again. Four Remarks on Lyric Theory 
(Abstract) 
• Full-length article in: JLT 11/1 (2017), 74–82. 
The following statement suggests reconsidering recent debates on a theory of lyric in terms of 
form and content. Four aspects and issues of the ongoing debate are discussed. In a first step, it 
is necessary to establish the relation between authorial poetics and lyric theory, since it is often 
characterised by fuzzy boundaries. Secondly, in order to specify the problem of form in lyric 
theory, it is suggested to have a closer look at the performative in lyric practice. Another 
important aspect of form is the semantics of lyrical genres. Lyrical genres mark an area in which 
form and content are intertwined and in which aspects of the form itself become semantic. 
Finally, the author argues that we should discuss – if possible assisted by a didactics sensitive 
to literary texts – whether and how theoretical proposals could be transformed into a practice 
of teaching poetry. 
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English

Form and Content, Again. Four Remarks on Lyric Theory [Abstract]

Dalski, Loreen; Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Fachbereich 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Deutsches Institut
Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte

Potenziale der Kognitiven Literaturwissenschaft – Einblicke in Arbeitsfelder einer jungen Disziplin [Roman Mikuláš/Sophia Wege (Hg.), Schlüsselkonzepte und Anwendungen der Kognitiven Literaturwissenschaft, 2016]

Lehnen, Christine

Exploring Narratives’ Powers of Emotional Persuasion through Character Involvement: A Working Heuristic [Abstract]

Zettelmann, Eva

Discordia Concors. Immersion and Artifice in the Lyric [Abstract]

Gittel, Benjamin

German

Lässt sich literarischer Wandel erklären? Struktur, Gültigkeitsbedingungen und Reichweite verschiedener Erklärungstypen in der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung [Abstract]

Contents, Table of; Universität Würzburg

Rabaté, Dominique

A World of Gestures [Abstract]

Burdorf, Dieter

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Dieter Burdorf 
The I and the Others. Articulations of Personality and 
Communication Structures in the Lyric 
(Abstract) 
• Full-length article in: JLT 11/1 (2017), 22–31. 
The paper discusses articulations of personality and communication structures in the lyric: who 
is speaking in a poem? What is the status of the person who speaks, or the one who is spoken 
about? Is it the author himself who is speaking, or is it someone else – an autonomous being, 
completely different and detached from the subject developed in the text? Who is addressed in 
and by a poem? It is made clear that conventional concepts of Stimmung (mood), Erlebnis 
(experience), and lyrisches Ich (the ›lyric I‹) should be set aside and the nature of lyric 
communication should be redetermined. For this purpose, a precise examination of the specific 
use of personal pronouns in poems is necessary, especially of the pronouns ›I‹, ›you‹ and ›we‹. 
The indistinct ›lyric I‹ should be substituted by the term ›articulated I‹. The poetic text as a 
whole is being structured by a superordinate entity, the Textsubjekt (›textual subject‹). Every 
speaking entity in a poem has a counterpart being addressed by it. Analyzing communication 
structures in poetry thus means first of all looking for an addressee who is constituted by the 
text. Only in a second step should we figure out if the address refers to the intended reader. 
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2017-03-16 
JLTonline ISSN 1862-8990 
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This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author 
and JLTonline. 
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How to cite this item: 
Abstract of: Dieter Burdorf, The I and the Others. Articulations of Personality and Communication Structures in 
the Lyric. 
In: JLTonline (16.03.2017)   
Persistent Identifier: urn:nbn:de:0222-003469 
Link: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0222-003469 


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Ist die Darstellung fremden Bewusstseins ein Alleinstellungsmerk-mal fiktionaler Texte? Ein diachron narratologischer Beitrag [Frederike Lagoni, Fiktionales versus faktuales Erzählen fremden Bewusstseins, 2016]

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