Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism / Steve Newman.

Compelling and insightful, Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon makes an important contribution to our understanding of the ballad and its long-ranging impact on the institution of literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Steve, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Ballads, English > Great Britain > History and criticism.
Ballads, Scots > Scotland > History and criticism.
Ballads in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
English literature > History and criticism.
Criticism > Great Britain > History.
Criticism > United States > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Ballads, English
Ballads in literature
Ballads, Scots
Criticism
English literature
Popular culture in literature
Great Britain
Scotland
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture
  • Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns
  • Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector
  • Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth
  • Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.

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