Poetics deal with the structure, formation, and history especially of literary texts. This volume concentrates on the poetics of lyrical texts: poetological lyric poetry from 1780-1930 and its contribution to the textual theory in Germany (programmatically, academic, and scholarly), as well as its reception in England and France.

Autorentext

Sandra Pott ist Stipendiatin im Emmy-Noether-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und Lehrbeauftragte an der Universität Hamburg.

Inhalt

Introduction: 'Behind' Orwell's Back; Toppling the Myth of Saint Orwell; Despising Jews and Loving Suburbs, Or, Why Stevie Smith is Not a Modernist; Not Waiving or Drowning: Stevie Smith's Off-Shore Survival; Refusing to Accept Mulk Raj Anand's Apology for Heroism; The Case of Inez Holden: Glamour Girl to Socialist; Epilogue: Unlocking 'a Kind of Cage of Silence'.