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Reading the rhythm : the poetics of French free verse, 1910-1930 / Clive Scott.
LIBRA PQ471.F74 S33 1993
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Clive, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- French poetry.
- French language--20th century--Versification.
- French language.
- Free verse--History and criticism.
- Free verse.
- Versification.
- Physical Description:
- 290 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Pr. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- Summary:
- We are still a long way from knowing how to read the rhythms of free verse, a poetry which has been largely neglected by metrical theory. Clive Scott's readable and scholarly study indicates the strategies of reading needed in order to do justice to free verse's rhythmic versatility. The core of the book is an analysis of key twentieth-century poets and poems, including Perse's Éloges; Cendrars's Prose du Transsibérien, Dix-neuf poemes élastiques, and Documentaires; Apollinaire's Calligrammes; Supervielle's Gravitations; and Reverdy's Sources du vent. He also looks at contemporary trends in the visual arts--Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, photography--to illuminate free verse's perceptual models and discusses the theme of travel and movement.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198158823
- OCLC:
- 27105697
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