Formal approaches to poetry : recent developments in metrics / edited by B. Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dresher, Bezalel E. (Bezalel Elan), 1950-

Friedberg, Nila, 1972-

Series:

Phonology and phonetics ; 11.

Phonology and phonetics ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Versification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book will create greater public awareness of some recent exciting findings in the formal study of poetry. The last influential volume on the subject, Rhythm and Meter , edited by Paul Kiparsky and Gilbert Youmans, appeared fifteen years ago. Since that time, a number of important theoretical developments have taken place, which have led to new approaches to the analysis of meter. This volume represents some of the most exciting current thinking on the theory of meter. In terms of empirical coverage, the papers focus on a wide variety of languages, including English, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, Somali, Old Norse, Latin, and Greek. Thus, the collection is truly international in its scope. The volume also contains diverse theoretical approaches that are brought together for the first time, including Optimality Theory (Kiparsky, Hammond), other constraint-based approaches (Friedberg, Hall, Scherr), the Quantitative approach to verse (Tarlinskaja, Friedberg, Hall, Scherr, Youmans) associated with the Russian school of metrics, a mora-based approach (Cole and Miyashita, Fitzgerald), a semantic-pragmatic approach (Fabb), and an alternative generative approach developed in Estonia (M. Lotman and M. K. Lotman). The book will be of interest to both linguists interested in stress and speech rhythm, constraint systems, phrasing, and phonology-syntax interaction and poetry, as well as to students of poetry interested in the connection between language and literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

Introduction

1. Music and meter

A modular metrics for folk verse

2. Metricality

What is "metricality"? English iambic pentameter

3. English meter

Generated metrical form and implied metrical form

Anapests and anti-resolution

Shakespeare's lyric and dramatic metrical styles

Longfellow's long line

4. Old Norse

The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters

5. Mora counting meters

The function of pauses in metrical studies: acoustic evidence from Japanese verse

Iambic meter in Somali

6. Modelling statistical preferences

Constraints, complexity, and the grammar of poetry

Modelling the linguistics-poetics interface

7. Russian meter

Generative metrics and the comparative approach: Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective

Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza

8. Classical and Romance metrics

The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced harmony

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612193996

9781282193994

1282193996

9783110197624

3110197626

OCLC:

476123646