Uma das principais peculiaridades que distinguem o conto de outras formas pertencentes ao gênero épico é o compartilhamento de certas características e procedimentos típicos da Lírica. Reflexões acerca desse hibridismo de gênero podem ser encontradas já na obra crítica de um dos mais ilustres iniciadores do conto moderno, o norte-americano Edgar Allan Poe, cuja priorização do efeito incutido pela narrativa e a preocupação em obter um tom e/ou um acontecimento singular que o transmitam ao leitor de forma contundente submetem o conto a diversas exigências internas que são mais comumente encontradas na Lírica, entre elas: a brevidade e intensidade da narrativa, a condensação tanto linguística quanto temática e uma perspectiva que se atém exclusivamente às próprias imediações. O lirismo na obra de Katherine Mansfield se manifesta principalmente através de meticulosos recortes temáticos que demonstram seu olhar atento aos detalhes mais ínfimos, do emprego de imagens e símbolos significativos e da posição cambiante de um narrador que frequentemente procura fundir sua perspectiva e seu próprio discurso ao das personagens principais. Para tanto, a autora recorre largamente à técnica do discurso indireto livre, que permite ao narrador se apropriar da voz de diversas personagens sem se limitar à perspectiva unitária da narrativa em primeira pessoa, o que confere à sua obra um grau ainda maior de subjetividade e, ao mesmo tempo, uma multiplicidade caleidoscópica dentro dos limites estritos do conto. / One of the main singularities that distinguish the short story from other forms that belong to the Epic genre is the sharing of certain characteristics and procedures with Lyric poetry. Considerations on this genre hybridism can already be found in the critical work of one of the most renowned founders of the modern short story, Edgar Allen Poe, whose priorization of the effect created by the narrative, as well as the aim to obtain a tone and/or a singular episode capable of conveying said effect to the reader, subject the short story to various internal requirements which are more commonly found in Lyric poetry, such as: the brevity and the intensity of the narrative, its linguistic and thematic condensation, and a point of view that focuses exclusively on its own immediacies. The lyrism found in the work of Katherine Mansfield is achieved mostly through a careful selection of theme that reveals her attention to detail, the use of meaningful images and symbols, and the shifting point of view of the narrator, who often attempts to combine his perspective and his speech to those of the main characters. In order to do that, the author frequently employs indirect free speech, which allows the voices of different characters to be incorporated without being limited by the one-sided perspective of a first-person narrator. Her stories are thus enriched by an even higher degree of subjectivity and, at the same time, by a kaleidoscopic diversity within the strict limits of the short story.

A questão do intimismo tem ocupado um grande espaço de discussão nos estudos literários com abordagens críticas que ou veem na obra de arte um reflexo da vida do autor, ou tendem a negar qualquer valor subjetivo do texto literário (falando-se, até, na morte do autor). Cada um dos enfoques atribui uma importância diferente para o texto literário. A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo investigar as representações do eu na poesia de Pessanha sem, no entanto, fazer de sua poesia motivo para levantamentos biográficos do poeta. Buscou-se, a princípio, comparar as possíveis relações existentes entre intimismo e modernidade e, estendendo tal relação, comparou-se o intimismo de Pessanha com dois outros poetas significativos da lírica portuguesa do século XIX. Depois, investigou-se, partindo-se de leituras em close reading de poemas do autor, as relações que o eu e o outro estabelecem na poesia de Pessanha. Para tanto, utilizou-se a noção de vulnerabilidade e de estranheza do ser do filósofo Emanuel Lévinas. Por último, foram investigadas as representações diretas do eu e as representações do eu em terceira pessoa. / The issue of intimism has occupied a large area of discussion in literary studies with critical approaches that, or see in a work of art a reflecting the life of the author, or tend to deny any subjective value the literary texts (talking, until, in \" author\'s death\"). Each of the approaches attaches a different importance to the literary text. This research aimed to investigate the representations of \"self\" in the poetry of Pessanha without, however, make of his poetry reason to the poet\'s biographical surveys. At first, we sought to compare the possibles relationships existents between intimism and modernity and, extending this relationship, we compare the intimism of Pessanha with two other significant poets of the nineteenth-century Portuguese poetry. Subsequently, we investigate starting from the reading in close reading of poems by the author, the relationship between the self\" and the \"other\" in the poetry of Pessanha. For both, the notion of vulnerability and strangeness of the being of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was utilized. Finally, we investigate the direct representations of the \"self and representations of the \"self\" in third person.

O trabalho analisa um conjunto de fragmentos de Safo e Alceu em busca de resquícios da poesia praticada pelos povos indo-europeus. A análise parte da comparação entre aspectos da poesia de ambos autores dentro do contexto mais amplo da poesia de culturas de origem indo-europeia, centrando-se em aspectos de dicção, fórmulas, métrica e uma mitologia comum. Com isso, descobrem-se amplos laços de contato entre a poesia dos autores lésbios com diversas tradições poéticas, tais como a indiana, a iraniana, a irlandesa, a germânica, dentre outras. Além disso, o trabalho toca um pouco em um aspecto correlato, que são as relações entre a poesia lésbia e outras tradições poéticas gregas, especialmente a épica, representada por Homero. Por fim, conclui-se que a poesia lésbia se centra dentro de uma firme tradição indoeuropeia comum a toda a poesia grega, recebida diferentemente por cada um dos dois poetas: de maneira mais conservadora para Alceu, e Safo, em diversos momentos, ressignificando essa tradição, sem contudo se afastar dela. / This work investigates a group of fragments by the Lesbian poets Sappho and Alcaeus in search of relics from the poetry of the ancient Indo-European people. The investigation starts from the comparison between aspects of the poetry of both poets in the wider context of poetry of Indo-European origin, focusing on aspects of diction, formulae, metrics and a common inherited mythology. Numerous links are discussed between the Lesbian poets and several poetic traditions such as Indian, Iranian, Irish, Germanic, among others. Besides, this work touches a correlate point by screening the relations between Lesbian and other Greek poetic traditions, specially epic, as represented by Homer. At last, the conclusion is that Lesbian poetry represents a firm Indo-European poetic tradition, one that is common to all Greek poetry and received differently by each of both poets: more conservatively by Alcaeus, and Sappho, in several moments reshaping this tradition without distancing itself from it.

This study places the poetry of Ingrid de Kok in a critical context that is strongly influenced by the political climate. Unlike political rhetoric, the nature of the lyrical poem is personal and complex, arguably rendering it defunct in a democracy that seeks to serve majority interests. De Kok’s challenge is to be a lyrical poet in the public sphere, to contain and represent the public interest within the personal form. I will examine how she rises to the historical occasion and extends her medium to incorporate the public event. At the same time, if she is to retain her voice as a lyrical poet, she must guard the privacy of its expression and the intimate spaces it seeks to delineate. In this way she asserts the validity of every-day concerns and of spaces traditionally designated as female. By interrogating the categories of personal and public I hope to project a complex vision of the possibilities of the lyric within contemporary South Africa. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2010.

Borges entiende la poesía como el diálogo de un yo con el mundo, pero a la vez, y en particular desde los años veinte, como una nueva forma épica que hemos denominado "nueva épica-lírica-preformativa-de instantáneas", donde lo íntimo y lo general, el sentimiento y lo racional, lo sensorial y lo cognitivo se conjugan transcendiendo en su espíritu cualquier tipo de definición genérica.

This thesis presents a new approach to the alterity of medieval texts in a psycho-literary analysis of the modes of consciousness informing one group of those texts, the Middle English religious lyrics. In a bilateral analysis, Part I establishes criteria for evaluating modes of ego and relates these criteria to what is known about medieval culture and mentality with examples from the lyrics; Part II examines textual evidence from these poems for indications of notions of the self and the way the self is experienced. The thesis argues that a major source of medieval alterity lies in the ready access in the Middle Ages to modes of consciousness comparable to that identified by the archetypal psychologist James Hillman as an imaginal ego. The imaging of various aspects of the self is surveyed: body-consciousness, modes of perception, and major self-awareness-enhancing experiences of life-suffering, woundedness, sickness, old age, and death. Hypnotic aspects of the lyrics are found to be particularly significant in maintaining this consciousness. (For complete abstract open document)

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 1998. / Adviser: Deborah Digges. Submitted to the Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 275-289). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (Doctoral)--Université de Bordeaux III-Michel de Montaigne, U.F.R. des lettres-littérature comparée, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Thesis (Doctoral)--Université de Bordeaux III-Michel de Montaigne, U.F.R. des lettres-littérature comparée, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Northeastern University, 2009. / Title from title page (viewed June 3, 2009). Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English. Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-265).