TY - BOOK AU - Rogers,William Elford TI - The Three Genres and the Interpretation of Lyric T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691613741 AV - PR509.L8 R63 1983 U1 - 821/.04/09 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - American poetry KW - History and criticism KW - English poetry KW - Literary form KW - Lyric poetry KW - POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; CHAPTER Ι. Lyric, Epic, Dramatic: Genres as Interpretive Models --; CHAPTER II. The Anomalous Voice and the Impersonal Lyric --; CHAPTER III. Standards of Interpretation and Evaluation --; CHAPTER IV. Gestures Toward a Literary History of Lyric --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 interpretation.Originally published in 1983.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856671 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400856671 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400856671.jpg ER -