Towards a typology of poetic forms : from language to metrics and beyond / edited by Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aroui, Jean-Louis.

Arleo, A. (Andy)

Series:

Language faculty and beyond ; 2.

Language faculty and beyond ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetics.

Versification.

Typology (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

xiv, 428 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA ; Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Company, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of "versification". Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation over time and in space, that concerns forms of a great variety and with different statuses (meters, rhymes, stanzas, prescribed forms, syllabification rules, nursery rhymes, slogans, musical textsetting, ablaut reduplication etc.), and that as a cultural manifestation is performed in a variety of ways (sung, chanted, spoken, read) that can have direct consequences on how it is structured. This profusion of forms is thought to correspond, at the level of perception, to a limited number of cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and to represent regularly iterating forms. This volume proposes a relatively coherent overall vision by distinguishing four main families of metrical forms, each clearly independent of the others and amenable to separate typologies.

Contents:

Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology / Jean-Louis Aroui

Part I: Isochronous metrics. Textsetting as constraint conflict / Bruce Hayes

Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs / François Dell & John Halle

Bavarian Zwiefache: investigating the interface between rhythm, metrics and song / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna & Robert Vetterle

Natural versification in French and German counting-out rhymes / Andreas Dufter & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna

Minimal chronometric forms: on the durational metrics of 2-2-stroke groups / Benoît de Cornulier

Symmetry and children's poetry in sign languages / Marion Blondel & Christopher Miller

Part II: Prosodic metrics. Pairs and triplets: a theory of metrical verse / Nigel Fabb & Morris Halle

Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics / Bruno Paoli

On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse / Donka Minkova

The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky / Nila Friedberg

Towards a universal definition of the caesura / Marc Dominicy & Mihai Nasta

Metrical alignment / Kristin Hanson

Rephrasing line-end restrictions / Carlos Piera

Part III: Para-metrical phenomena. Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children's counting-out rhymes / Andy Arleo

The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification / Oreste Floquet

Part IV: Macrostructural metrics. Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière / Dominique Billy

The metrics of Sephardic song / José Domínguez Caparrós

A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry / Iván Horváth

Metrical structure of the European sonnet / Jean-Louis Aroui.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612312328

9781282312326

1282312324

9789027289049

9027289042

OCLC:

505429163