Von der Narratologie zur Lyrikologie

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AbstractTitle: From Narratology to Lyric Theory. Structuralism in literary theory, which developed in the 1960s–1970s, was primarily interested and mainly devoted to problems of narratology: the structure of the plot and the role of the narrator in literary prose. Later only attention was paid to similar problems in lyric poetry, particularly the structure of lyric communication and the role and definition of the speaker in the poem (lyric „I“ or lyric subject). The article describes this change from narratology to the more recent lyricology. It argues that a careful description of the character and function of the speaker and the addressee is an important starting-point for the interpretation of the poem. Equally important for the interpretation, but hardly studied until now, is the structure of the lyric plot, which generally does not develop in (fictional) time and space as a series of chronologically connected actions, but as a number of mental, verbal and perceptive „actions“ of the speaker of the poem.SchlüsselwörterStrukturalismusNarratologieLyrikologieSprecherLyrisches „Ich’Lyrische SubjektLyrische Handlung / StructuralismNarratologyLyric theoryLyric „I“Lyric subjectLyric plot