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The rise and fall of meter : poetry and English national culture, 1860--1930 /
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontradit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Failure of Meter; Modern Instability; Metrical Communities; Meter as Culture; A Note on Historical Prosody; Chapter 1 The History of Meter; A Metrical History of England; A Grammatical History of England; Grammatical Instability; Metrical Instability; Chapter 2 The Stigma of Meter; Metrical Irrelevance; The British Empire of Letters; Marking Instress; Acute Stress in "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; Mistrusting the Ear; Chapter 3 The Institution of Meter; Metrical Mastery; Inventing the Britannic; Dynamic Reading.