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Lyric Address in Dutch Literature, 1250-1800

2018

Overview

Lyric Address in Dutch Literature, 1250-1800 provides accessible and comprehensive readings of ten Dutch lyrical poems. The poems' lyrical character becomes manifest by the presence of a lyrical I who - by means of address - relates the text to its social context. The tension between proximity and distance to that social domain is one of the major concerns of the book, as well as the ways in which poetry as an individual form of expression hints at particular tensions in society. The authors draw attention to the rhetorical and literary techniques and figures of speech (like the apostrophe) that enabled poets to address an audience or a world outside the poem. These characteristics are discussed in relation to the poem's historical context, including issues of political or ideological framing, religion and selfrepresentational interests of the poet.

• Publisher: Routledge
• ISBN: 9781041182252, 9789462982284, 1041182252, 9462982287