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The Three Genres and the Interpretation of Lyric
By (Author) William Elford Rogers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.1
Paperback
290
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
482g
William Elford Rogers proposes a genre-theory that will clarify what we mean when we speak of literary works as dramatic, epic, or lyric. Focusing on lyric poetry, this book maintains that the broad genre-concepts need not be discarded but can be preserved by a new interpretive model that gives us conceptual knowledge not about works but about inte