Modern Lyric Poems: From Poetic Genre to Cognitive Category

Literary genres are important concepts for literary scholars and students of literature alike. Yet differences in opinion common when defining which genre a given text fits best. However, my study here takes step back from that spot to see how critics other academics can conceptualize the first place. My case is modern lyric poem, well-known poetics. The results, never before published, include replies an informal survey carried out at international cognitive poetics conference Osnabrück University Germany. I begin by discussing handbook definitions examples named. Then compare them results obtained participants academic conference. Results sometimes overlap, aligning with criteria published handbooks, although there variations. consider various reasons why might have selected certain genre, ending some suggestions topics future research on cognition