Virginia Jackson is the UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric in the Department of English at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading. Yopie Prins is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan and author of Victorian Sappho.
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Acknowledgments General Introduction Part I. How Does Lyric Become a Genre? Section 1. Genre Theory Section 2. Models of Lyric Part I. Twentieth-Century Lyric Readers Section 3. Anglo- American New Criticism Section 4. Structuralist Reading Section 5. Post- Structuralist Reading Section 6. Frankfurt School and After Section 7. Phenomenologies of Lyric Reading Part III. Lyric Departures Section 8. Avant- garde Anti-lyricism Section 9. Lyric and Sexual Difference Section 10. Comparative Lyric Contributors Source Acknowledgments Index of Authors and Works
The thesis of The Lyric Theory Reader-that the very existence of the genre is more a critical extrapolation than anything solid and real-may seem to be itself a kind of critical conceit, but only because the argument serves the Reader exceptionally well as a cogent frame for taking stock of a diversity of approaches. Accordingly, the Reader would seem especially useful as a primer for up and coming scholars... Overall, the Reader should be considered essential in the formation of a thoughtful scholar of poetry and its criticism. -- Peter Fields Rocky Mountain Review