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Rhythm in Modern Poetry - Professor Emerita Eva Lilja

Rhythm in Modern Poetry

An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies
Buch | Hardcover
192 Seiten
2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0096-7 (ISBN)
CHF 157,10 inkl. MwSt
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A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.

Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on the modernist free verse. Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter investigates the rhythms of one modern poem, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath and others, and engages each element in the broader interpretation of the poem in question.

In her examination of modernist poetry in English and other Germanic languages, Eva Lilja expands her analysis to discuss both the Ancient Greek and Norse origins of rhythm in free verse and the intermedia intersection, comparing poetic rhythm with rhythm in pictures, sculptures and dance. Rhythm in Modern Poetry thus expands the field of cognitive versification studies while also engaging readers writ large interested in how rhythm works in the aesthetic field.

Eva Lilja is Professor Emerita of Literature in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Specializing in modernist poetry, she pioneered the study of free versification and was the founder and chair of the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies.

List of Plates
List of Figures
Preface
Foreword by Margaret H. Freeman
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Poetic Gestalt
Introduction: Mousike
1. Verse Systems and Principles of Rhythm
2. The Rhythmic Gestalt
3. Rhythm and Significance
4. Temporal and Spatial Rhythms: The Intermedia Perspective
5. Cognitive Versification Theory: Some Aspects
6. Levels and Times

Part II: Reading Free Verse Rhythms
Introduction: How to Read Free Verse
7. Cognitive Economy
8. The Poem in the Body
9. Patterns of Culture
10. Direction
11. Balance in Versification
12. Rhythm in Modern Poetry

Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts
Mitarbeit Herausgeber (Serie): Professor or Dr. Alexander Bergs, Professor Margaret H. Freeman, Professor Peter Schneck
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 232 mm
Gewicht 429 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13 979-8-7651-0096-7 / 9798765100967
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