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Formal approaches to poetry : recent developments in metrics /
This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry. The last influential volume on the subject, Rhythm and Meter, edited by Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, appeared fifteen years ago. Since th.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Phonology and phonetics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Table of contents; Introduction; 1. Music and meter; A modular metrics for folk verse; 2. Metricality; What is "metricality"? English iambic pentameter; 3. English meter; Generated metrical form and implied metrical form; Anapests and anti-resolution; Shakespeare's lyric and dramatic metrical styles; Longfellow's long line; 4. Old Norse; The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters; 5. Mora counting meters; The function of pauses in metrical studies: acoustic evidence from Japanese verse; Iambic meter in Somali
- 6. Modelling statistical preferencesConstraints, complexity, and the grammar of poetry; Modelling the linguistics-poetics interface; 7. Russian meter; Generative metrics and the comparative approach: Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective; Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza; 8. Classical and Roman metrics; The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced harmony; Author index; Subject and language index; List of contributors