The last issue of Diacritics revolves around Jonathan Culler’s Theory of the Lyric (Harvard University Press, 2015, released in paperback in 2017), a book that has been demanding my attention for a while. Culler’s new ideas in his contribution to the special issue remind me that I desperately need some free time to finally read the book.
For those interested in Culler’s concept, you can read his own recent synthesis published in Nordisk Poesi, this interview with the author in Los Angeles Review of Books, or watch this recording of a discussion about the book at Cornell:
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