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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Note on Translation
Introduction: Sundials: Literary Genres and the Time of History
Literature and the Longue Durée
Models for a History of Culture
A Theory of Genres
The Topography of Genres
Symbolic Forms
What Is Modern Poetry?
Chapter One: A History of Concepts
Lyric and Poetry in Modern Genre Theory
Lyric and Poetry in Ancient Poetics
Alexandrian, Latin, and Medieval Categories
The Renaissance Breakthrough
Classicist Resistance and National Differences
The New Romantic Theory
The Modern Idea of Lyric Poetry
The Concept of Modern Poetry
Chapter Two: A New Paradigm
An Exemplary Text
Interpretations
Seriousness and Contingency
Three Models of Lyric Poetry
Public and Private
Transcendental Autobiographism
Differential Autobiographism
Three Historical Thresholds
Chapter Three: A History of Forms
Theories of Style
Poetry and Prose
Expressivism
Lexicon
Syntax
Meter
Tropes
Chapter Four: The Literary Space of Modern Poetry
Poetry as Estrangement
Lyrical Romanticism
Expressionism and Irony
Modern Lyric Classicism and Subjective Poetry
Beyond the Lyric: Long Poems and Theatricality
Beyond the Lyric: Pure Poetry
The Egocentric Genre
Invisible Choirs
Conclusion: Modern Poetry as a Symbolic Form
The Self and Fragments of Time
Modern Poetic Anthropology
The Dialectic of Expressivism
The Marginality of Poetry
Poetry and Song
Monads and Systems
Acknowledgments
Index
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