Rhyme's Challenge

Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture

David Caplan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-533712-9 (ISBN)

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Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme as old-fashioned and bookish, hip-hop artists deftly deploy it as a way to capture the contemporary moment. Rhyme accommodates and colorfully chronicles the most conspicuous conditions and symbols of contemporary society: its products, technologies, and personalities. Ranging from Shakespeare and Wordsworth, to Eminem and Jay-Z, David Caplan's study demonstrates the continuing relevance of rhyme to poetry--and everyday life.

David Caplan is Charles M. Weis Chair in English and Associate Director of Creative Writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. His previous books include Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form and the poetry collection In the World He Created According to His Will.

Introduction: Because It Rhymes ; Chapter 1 ; Reduced to Rhyme: Contemporary Doggerel ; Chapter 2 ; The Art of Rhymed Insult ; Chapter 3 ; Making Love in Mirrors: Hip-Hop Seduction Verse ; Chapter 4 ; The Inheritors of Hip Hop: Reclaiming Rhyme ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.4.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	218 x 145 mm
Gewicht	374 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-533712-3 / 0195337123
ISBN-13	978-0-19-533712-9 / 9780195337129
Zustand	Neuware