Towards A Typology Of Poetic Forms

Author : Jean-Louis Aroui,Andy Arleo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 444 pages
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Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027208194

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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."

Author : Jean-Louis Aroui,Andy Arleo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027289049

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Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms by Jean-Louis Aroui,Andy Arleo Pdf

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.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199681242

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Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge Pdf

This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualities, its deployment of syntax - to write verse that continues to move and delight.

Author : Nigel Fabb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107001855

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What is Poetry? by Nigel Fabb Pdf

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry's unique psychological qualities.

Author : Enrique Jiménez
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004336261

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The Babylonian Disputation Poems by Enrique Jiménez Pdf

The Babylonian Disputation Poems studies a group of ancient Babylonian poems featuring discussions between animals and trees. It contains editions of several new texts as well as an assessment of the genre and its impact on later traditions of literary disputations.

Author : Joseph M. Conte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501703232

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Unending Design by Joseph M. Conte Pdf

Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.

Author : Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443609

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The Shapes of Early English Poetry by Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu Pdf

This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

Author : Carole Birkan-Berz,Oriane Monthéard,Erin Cunningham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501380471

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Migration and Mutation by Carole Birkan-Berz,Oriane Monthéard,Erin Cunningham Pdf

Spanning four centuries from the Renaissance to today's avant-garde, Migration and Mutation explores how the sonnet has evolved in and out of translation. Contributors examine little-studied translation trajectories in the early modern period, such as the pivotal role of France between Italy and England or the first German sonnets and their Italian, French, Dutch and Scottish origins. Essays then shed new light on major European sonneteers In the 19th and 20th centuries, including Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Rilke and Pessoa, alongside lesser-known contemporaries and with novel approaches. And finally, contributors explore how translation and adaptation create metaphorical space in the 21st century. Migration and Mutation also pays attention to the political or subversive dimension of the sonnet, with essays on women, gay or postcolonial reclaimings of the sonnet and recent experiments such as post-Soviet Sonnets on shirts by Genrikh Sagpir. It takes the sonnet out of the confines of enclosed national traditions bringing it into renewed contact with mostly European, but also other, cultures.

Author : Nigel Fabb,Morris Halle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781139474672

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Meter in Poetry by Nigel Fabb,Morris Halle Pdf

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 : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108429122

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Poetry and Language by Michael Ferber Pdf

An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.

Author : Charles Cairns,Eric Raimy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004187405

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Handbook of the Syllable by Charles Cairns,Eric Raimy Pdf

The Handbook of the Syllable presents a broad range of empirical studies, offering a comprehensive survey of the syllable in phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. It is a seminal reference book for researchers exploring any empirical area where the notion of “the syllable” is invoked.

Author : Mathias Scharinger,Richard Wiese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110770186

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How Language Speaks to Music by Mathias Scharinger,Richard Wiese Pdf

Prosody as a system of suprasegmental linguistic information such as rhythm and intonation is a prime candidate for looking at the relation between language and music in a principled way. This claim is based on several aspects: First, prosody is concerned with acoustic correlates of language and music that are directly comparable with each other by their physical properties such as duration and pitch. Second, prosodic accounts suggest a hierarchical organization of prosodic units that not only resembles a syntactic hierarchy, but is viewed as (part of) an interface to syntax. Third, prosody provides a very promising ground for evolutionary accounts of language and music. Fourth, bilateral transfer effects between language and music are best illustrated on the level of prosody. Highlighting the first two aspects, this book shows that it is a fruitful endeavor to use prosody for a principled comparison of language and music. In its broader sense, prosody as sound structure of communicative systems may be considered a »meta«-language that formalizes the way of "how music speaks to language and vice versa". Prosody is firmly established within linguistic theory, but is also applied in the musical domain. Therefore, prosody is not just a field of inquiry that shares elements or features between music and language, but can additionally provide a common conceptual ground.

Author : Anna Bugaeva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501502873

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Handbook of the Ainu Language by Anna Bugaeva Pdf

The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Kurils, which is now on the verge of extinction. Ainu was not a written language, but it possesses a huge documented stock of oral literature, yet is significantly under-described in terms of grammar. It is the only non-Japonic language of Japan and is typologically different not only from Japanese but also from other Northeast Asian languages. Revolving around but not confined to its head-marking and polysynthetic character, Ainu manifests many typologically interesting phenomena, related in particular to the combinability of various voice markers and noun incorporation. Other interesting features of Ainu include vowel co-occurrence restrictions, a mixed system of expressing grammatical relations, which includes the elements of a rare tripartite alignment, nominal classification distinguishing common and locative nouns, elaborate possessive classes, verbal number, a rich four-term evidential system, and undergrammaticalized aspect, which are all explained in the volume. This handbook, the result of unprecedented cooperation of the leading experts of Ainu, will definitely help to increase the clarity of our understanding of Ainu and in a long-term perspective may provide answers to problems of human prehistory as well as open the field of Ainu studies to the world and attract many new students. Table of Contents Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Introduction to the Handbook of Japanese Language and Linguistics Contributors Anna Bugaeva Introduction I Overview of Ainu studies Anna Bugaeva 1. Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim Juha Janhunen 2. Ainu ethnic origins Tomomi Satō 3. Major old documents of Ainu and some problems in the historical study of Ainu Alfred F. Majewicz 4. Ainu language Western records José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente 5. The Ainu language through time Alexander Vovin 6. Ainu elements in early Japonic Hidetoshi Shiraishi and Itsuji Tangiku 7. Language contact in the north Hiroshi Nakagawa and Mika Fukazawa 8. Hokkaido Ainu dialects: Towards a classification of Ainu dialects Itsuji Tangiku 9. Differences between Karafuto and Hokkaido Ainu dialects Shiho Endō 10. Ainu oral literature Osami Okuda 11. Meter in Ainu oral literature Tetsuhito Ōno 12. The history and current status of the Ainu language revival movement II Typologically interesting characteristics of the Ainu language Hidetoshi Shiraishi 13. Phonetics and phonology Hiroshi Nakagawa 14. Parts of Speech – with a focus on the classification of nouns Anna Bugaeva and Miki Kobayashi 15. Verbal valency Tomomi Satō 16. Noun incorporation Hiroshi Nakagawa 17. Verbal number Yasushige Takahashi 18. Aspect and evidentiality Yoshimi Yoshikawa 19. Existential aspectual forms in the Saru and Chitose dialects of Ainu III Appendices: Sample texts Anna Bugaeva 20. An uwepeker “Retar Katak, Kunne Katak” and kamuy yukar “Amamecikappo” narrated in the Chitose Hokkaido Ainu dialect by Ito Oda Elia dal Corso 21. “Meko Oyasi”, a Sakhalin Ainu ucaskuma narrated by Haru Fujiyama Subject index

Author : Yoad Winter,Laura McPherson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889747160

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Surrogate Languages and the Grammar of Language-Based Music by Yoad Winter,Laura McPherson Pdf

Author : Felicity Meakins,Jennifer Green,Myfany Turpin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351330107

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Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork by Felicity Meakins,Jennifer Green,Myfany Turpin Pdf

Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ethical and responsible manner, the key features include: A focus on fieldwork in countries and continents that have undergone colonial expansion, including Australia, the United States of America, Canada, South America and Africa; A description of specialist methods used to conduct research on phonological, grammatical and lexical description, but also including methods for research on gesture and sign, language acquisition, language contact and the verbal arts; Examples of resources that have resulted from collaborations with language communities and which both advance linguistic understanding and support language revitalisation work; Annotated guidance on sources for further reading. This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.