Copy to Clipboard. Add italics as necessaryCite as: Rethinking Lyric Communities, ed. by Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Giusti, and Laura Scuriatti, Cultural Inquiry, 30 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024) <https:/​/​doi.org/​10.37050/​ci-30>

Rethinking Lyric Communities

Edited by
Irene Fantappiè
Francesco GiustiORCID
Laura ScuriattiORCID

Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024
Cover design: Studio Bens. Based on a paper collage by Claudia Peppel, Sudden Flash of Memory, 2019, 21 x 29.7 cm.
Cover design: Studio Bens. Based on a paper collage by Claudia Peppel, Sudden Flash of Memory, 2019, 21 x 29.7 cm.

In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre. Yet a closer look at its history reveals that lyric has always been intertwined with the politics of community formation, from the imagining of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in episodes of collective action, protest, and social resistance. Poetic forms have circulated between languages and traditions from around the world and across time. But how does lyric poetry address or even create communities — and of what kinds? This volume takes a global perspective to investigate poetic communities in dialogue with recent developments in lyric theory and concepts of community. In doing so, it explores both the political potentialities and the perils of lyric poetry.

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Cultural Inquiry, 30
ISSN (Print): 2627-728X
ISSN (Online): 2627-731X

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-30