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The essays in Lyric Temporalities explore poetry's depictions and conceptions of time. Whether claiming to immortalize its addressees, worrying over time's passage and the misspent youth of lovers, or testifying to the fleeting nature of the sounds it nonetheless seeks to preserve, the lyric has for millennia adopted temporality as a central subject and theme, as well as a self-conscious examination of its own form. The contributors to this volume show how these pivotal generic and historical elements operate across periods: in allusion and translation, in memories of what constitutes a legible selfhood, and even in speculation about what non-human timescales (large or small) might look like. This collection also reveals that lyric neither simply opposes itself to the temporal unfolding of narrative nor stands in for presentness or heightened emotional sensation. Rather, it makes possible a reimagining of how we exist complexly in time by performing a surprisingly dynamic range of temporal operations. Lyric Temporalities challenges critical presuppositions about the durational processes of poetic encounter and the linearity of empirical experience.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction: The Story of Now
Kimberly Johnson and Ryan Netzley
1. Minute/Minute: On Time and Scale in Renaissance Lyric
Wendy Beth Hyman
2. "That One is Accurate": Games of Temporality in the Medieval Prosimetrum and Modern Lyric
Ricardo Matthews
3. Procrustean Modernity: The Sonnet and Processes of Self-Possession
Kathryn Crim
4. The Sound of Lyric in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596); or, I Have Been So Preoccupied with this Poem
Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld
5. DEAR FRIEND: Remaining Oneself in the Presence of Another
Oren Izenberg
6. On the Way to Lyric
Emily Vasiliauskas
7. Anticipation in "The Franklin's Tale"
Stephanie Burt
8. (No) Future for Lyric?: On Sonnets and Speculation
Joseph Campana
Afterword: Time a'changin'
Heather Dubrow
