Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form / Jonathan Culler, Benjamin Glaser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Culler, Jonathan D., editor.

Glaser, Benjamin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm's role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism's most important, most vested, and perhaps least well-defined or definable terms. Rhythm in these essays is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. It is a key term through which Romantic, Modern, and contemporary literary theory define form, either in conversation with or opposition to meter. It has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice if not identity as such.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102905

ISBN:

9780823282043

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access