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This study offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between mnemonic form and memory-related themes in lyric poetry. I argue that the remembrance depicted in lyrics is frequently inflected with amnesia; brevity and iteration, which lend themselves to attempted preservation of past experiences, also render those experiences vague and indefinite by disjointing and curtailing plot- and character-formation.
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Alfano, V. (2017). Coda. In: The Lyric in Victorian Memory. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51307-2_6
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