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  • Introduction

  • Ullrich Langer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Book:
    Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
    Published online:
    11 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 February 2023, pp 1-13

  • Summary

    Intro: The introduction surveys the definition of “lyric” and the aspects of lyric poetry and lyric episodes in prose that run throughout the book, such as slowness, suspension, detail, and person, along with irony and reasoning. It also sketches out the human abilities elicited by the examined texts.

Lyric Humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
  • Ullrich Langer
  • Published online:
    11 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 February 2023
  • From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose activates our capacities for empathy, equity, irony and reasoning, while educating us in pleasure and helping us comprehend death. Each chapter constitutes a fresh encounter with some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, demonstrating how the lyrical works, and what it elicits in us. Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic ends.