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Jonathan Culler
Lyric Address and the Problem of Community
Investigation of the contribution of address to a wide variety of lyric communities begins with songs sung at sporting events, before moving to lyric poems from Petrarch to Ashbery. Direct address to readers is one possibility, but the ambiguous you in many poems may be more effective. We, by contrast, seems either presumptuous or merely wishful. Finally, the assumption that the formation of lyric communities is necessarily a good thing is challenged.
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Lyric Address and the Problem of Community
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Jonathan Culler
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Investigation of the contribution of address to a wide variety of lyric communities begins with songs sung at sporting events, before moving to lyric poems from Petrarch to Ashbery. Direct address to readers is one possibility, but the ambiguous you in many poems may be more effective. We, by contrast, seems either presumptuous or merely wishful. Finally, the assumption that the formation of lyric communities is necessarily a good thing is challenged.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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28 October 2024
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you
we
song
Ashbery
Baudelaire
Petrarch
Whitman
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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15
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29
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Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti, Cultural Inquiry, 30 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 15–29
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