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In 1995, Routledge introduced the series 'The New Critical Idiom.' The series mission was and still is to provide book-length overviews of key genres and concepts in literary criticism and theory. Such titles in the series include Intertextuality (2001), Ideology (2003), Subjectivity (2004), and The Sublime (2005). Overall, there have been nearly fifty titles published in The New Critical Idiom. Scott Brewster's Lyric is one of the most recent. Brewster offers up not just an history of the genre itself, but, perhaps even more importantly, he takes on the history of the critical conception of the genre-from the ancient to the modern.After an introduction that stresses the 'time-bound' reality of what lyric poetry has been to any given age, in Chapter Two Brewster begins appropriately enough, tracing the 'origins and definitions' of lyric poetry, with oral Greek poetry. He then moves into the transition of lyric poetry from its oral roots to its manifestation in print culture. With the nature of lyric's definition in mind and citing critics such as Northrop Frye, David Lindley, W.R. Johnson, Theodor Adorno, and others, Brewster discusses the perception of an internal lyric 'I', the e

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Author

J. Blevins

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0034-6551)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)