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Martine Broda, « Lyrisme et célébration : l'épiphanie de la Chose », Littérature, ID : 10.3406/litt.1996.2423
Lyricism and Celebration : Epiphany of das Ding Modern genre theory condemns lyricism as narcissistic. An older tradition, as Nietzsche, Hôlderlin, Rilke knew, saw it as celebration made possible by the song of pure desire and loss of self. « High lyricism » includes love poetry, when a subject uses the object of love to celebrate the world.