Metrical Phonology and English Verse
Author | : David Andrew McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : David Andrew McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard M. Hogg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1987-03-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521316514 |
Introduces the theory of metrical phonology, one of the most exciting recent developments in linguistic theory.
Author | : Paul Kiparsky |
Publisher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1483218538 |
Phonetics and Phonology: Volume 1, Rhythm and Meter compiles original articles by 12 linguists and literary critics who have made important contributions to current theories of phonology, verse meter, and music. This book mainly focuses on English poetry—on the meters of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Longfellow, Hopkins, Auden, and other Renaissance dramatists. Poetry in other languages that include Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and German are also examined. This publication emphasizes metrical theory, formulating and illustrating metrical principles within the tradition of generative metrics and competing traditions. The relationships between rhythm in language and music are likewise analyzed. This volume is useful to linguists, literary critics, and specialists conducting work on rhythm and meter.
Author | : Eric Weiskott |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812297474 |
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers. In Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of these three meters as markers of literary time, "medieval" or "modern," though all three were in concurrent use both before and after 1500. In each section of the book, he considers two of the traditions through the prism of a third element: alliterative meter and tetrameter in poems of political prophecy; alliterative meter and pentameter in William Langland's Piers Plowman and early blank verse; and tetrameter and pentameter in Chaucer, his predecessors, and his followers. Reversing the historical perspective in which scholars conventionally view these authors, Weiskott reveals Langland to be metrically precocious and Chaucer metrically nostalgic. More than a history of prosody, Weiskott's book challenges the divide between medieval and modern literature. Rejecting the premise that modernity occurred as a specifiable event, he uses metrical history to renegotiate the trajectories of English literary history and advances a narrative of sociocultural change that runs parallel to metrical change, exploring the relationship between literary practice, social placement, and historical time.
Author | : B. Elan Dresher |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-08-22 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110197626 |
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.
Author | : Derek Attridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317869516 |
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.
Author | : Nigel Fabb |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008-08-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1139474677 |
Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which is illustrated with detailed analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, classical Greek and Latin, Sanskrit, classical Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Latvian. This outstanding contribution to the study of meter is aimed both at students and scholars of literature and languages, as well as anyone interested in knowing how metrical verse is made.
Author | : G. S. Fraser |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2017-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351631055 |
First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse patterns, and the primary importance of the phenomenon of stress. It also discusses the suitability of various kinds of metrical pattern for various kinds of poetic effect. This book will be of interest to those studying poetry and English literature.
Author | : David Andrew McKay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : George R. Stewart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
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