CFP: Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning (10/15/04; collection)
Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: =20
Voices of a Genre=20
Only recently has the complex construction of lyric poetry and subjectivity=
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been recognized. Lyric poetry as a genre seems to focus more on the=20
speaker, more on the construction of a speaker=E2=80=99s fragmented self, t=
han on the=20
exposition of ideological =E2=80=9Cwholeness,=E2=80=9D and this emphasis on=
=E2=80=9Csubjectivity=E2=80=9D has=20
been an important trend in recent criticism. One quality that is inherent i=
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the manifestation of lyric subjectivity is the presence of multiple voices,=
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multiple discourses. In Bakhtinian terms the lyric collection can be viewed=
as a=20