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Why Lyric?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Jonathan Culler
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Poetry is alive in our culture, but in its own world: Never have there been so many poets and poetry readings, books, journals, and online sites. Poetry has certainly seemed threatened, though, in schools and universities, where literary studies focus on prose fiction—narrative has become the norm of literature—or else on other sorts of cultural texts, which can be read symptomatically

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 1 , January 2008 , pp. 201 - 206
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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