In the Waiting Room: Narrative in the Autobiographical Lyric Poem, Or Beginning to Think about Lyric Poetry with Narratology

Kjerkegaard, Stefan

doi:10.1353/nar.2014.0008

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“…Autobiographical lyric poetry may be defined as either lyric poetry in which the author's name and that of the speaker converge, or as lyric poetry that, given its paratext, must be defined as autobiographical (cf. Kjerkegaard 2014). This first way of defining the autobiographical poem is the simplest and could also be considered 'autofictional', as Serge Doubrovsky (1993), and later Gérard Genette (1993, 77) understood the term, although their versions restricted the definition to prose.…”

Section: Poetry and The Autobiographicalmentioning

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A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

Kjerkegaard

2021

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This article focuses on contemporary autobiographical Danish poetry following the publication of Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard’s novel Min kamp [My Struggle], originally published between 2009 and 2011 [My Struggle (2012–2018)]. Focusing on the 2013 poetry collection Yahya Hassan by the Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan, this article argues that the lyrical autobiographical voice escapes its narrative construction in fiction, illustrating a lyrical ‘I’ in contemporary autobiographical poetry that is ‘beyond fiction’. Paradoxically, this is due in part to Knausgaard’s novel, where moving beyond fiction is about discovering an artistic and authentic way to re-establish a proximity to the world. Through the examination of Hassan’s poetry collection and the immediate literary context, this article explores the underlying moral, aesthetic, and mediatized aspects of lyrical self-presentation in contemporary Danish poetry, and more generally. Self-disclosure and the use of private material are therefore not strategies for doing away with the subject but, rather, ways of reclaiming it.

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Section: Poetry and The Autobiographicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

Kjerkegaard

2021

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You Too: The Narratology of Apostrophe and Second-Person Narrative in Virgil’s Georgics

Cowan¹

2018

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A fada dos olhos grandes: proporção inversa nos “Fragmentos” de Almada Negreiros

Reis¹

2021

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Este estudo propõe uma primeira leitura do conjunto dos sete “Fragmentos” narrativos de Almada Negreiros, publicado apenas em 2002 na colecção das suas Ficções. Descentrando a atenção oferecida aos textos mais proeminentes e debatidos da obra do autor, adopta-se uma abordagem mista que combina, por um lado, uma revisão dos filões principais da crítica do fragmento e das formas breves, e, por outro lado, uma leitura próxima dos textos aqui considerados. Analisando a criação de seres e objectos textuais ao longo destas ficções fragmentárias, conclui-se que a proporção inversa — mais do que a lacuna ou a elipse habitualmente invocadas — é o conceito primordial na ideia de fragmento para Almada. Este conceito é alegorizado naqueles seres e objectos metaliterários enquanto figura e performance, isto é, demonstração em acto, da sua própria teoria e, por extensão, da teoria da ficção do autor.

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In the Waiting Room: Narrative in the Autobiographical Lyric Poem, Or Beginning to Think about Lyric Poetry with Narratology

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

A Lyrical ‘I’ Beyond Fiction. Yahya Hassan and Autobiographical Poetry in Denmark After Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.

You Too: The Narratology of Apostrophe and Second-Person Narrative in Virgil’s Georgics

A fada dos olhos grandes: proporção inversa nos “Fragmentos” de Almada Negreiros

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