On Modern Poetry

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Note on Translation
Introduction: Sundials: Literary Genres and the Time of History
	Literature and the Longue Durée
	Models for a History of Culture
	A Theory of Genres
	The Topography of Genres
	Symbolic Forms
	What Is Modern Poetry?
Chapter One: A History of Concepts
	Lyric and Poetry in Modern Genre Theory
	Lyric and Poetry in Ancient Poetics
	Alexandrian, Latin, and Medieval Categories
	The Renaissance Breakthrough
	Classicist Resistance and National Differences
	The New Romantic Theory
	The Modern Idea of Lyric Poetry
	The Concept of Modern Poetry
Chapter Two: A New Paradigm
	An Exemplary Text
	Interpretations
	Seriousness and Contingency
	Three Models of Lyric Poetry
	Public and Private
	Transcendental Autobiographism
	Differential Autobiographism
	Three Historical Thresholds
Chapter Three: A History of Forms
	Theories of Style
	Poetry and Prose
	Expressivism
	Lexicon
	Syntax
	Meter
	Tropes
Chapter Four: The Literary Space of Modern Poetry
	Poetry as Estrangement
	Lyrical Romanticism
	Expressionism and Irony
	Modern Lyric Classicism and Subjective Poetry
	Beyond the Lyric: Long Poems and Theatricality
	Beyond the Lyric: Pure Poetry
	The Egocentric Genre
	Invisible Choirs
Conclusion: Modern Poetry as a Symbolic Form
	The Self and Fragments of Time
	Modern Poetic Anthropology
	The Dialectic of Expressivism
	The Marginality of Poetry
	Poetry and Song
	Monads and Systems
Acknowledgments
Index