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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Verbal arts: studies in poetics | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • 9780823282067
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Contents:
Why rhythm? / Jonathan Culler -- What is called rhythm? / David Nowell Smith -- Sordello's pristine pulpiness / Simon Jarvis -- The cadence of consent: Francis Barton Gummere, lyric rhythm, and white poetics / Virginia Jackson -- Contagious rhythm: verse as a technique of the body / Haun Saussy -- Constructing Walt Whitman: literary history and histories of rhythm / Erin Kappeler -- The rhythms of the English Dolnik / Derek Attridge -- How to find rhythm on a piece of paper / Thomas Cable -- Picturing rhythm / Meredith Martin -- Beyond meaning: differing fates of some modernist poets' investments of belief in sounds / Natalie Gerber -- Sapphic stanzas: how can we read the rhythm? / Yopie Prins -- Rhythm and affect in "Christabel" / Ewan Jones.
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.
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Why rhythm? / Jonathan Culler -- What is called rhythm? / David Nowell Smith -- Sordello's pristine pulpiness / Simon Jarvis -- The cadence of consent: Francis Barton Gummere, lyric rhythm, and white poetics / Virginia Jackson -- Contagious rhythm: verse as a technique of the body / Haun Saussy -- Constructing Walt Whitman: literary history and histories of rhythm / Erin Kappeler -- The rhythms of the English Dolnik / Derek Attridge -- How to find rhythm on a piece of paper / Thomas Cable -- Picturing rhythm / Meredith Martin -- Beyond meaning: differing fates of some modernist poets' investments of belief in sounds / Natalie Gerber -- Sapphic stanzas: how can we read the rhythm? / Yopie Prins -- Rhythm and affect in "Christabel" / Ewan Jones.

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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.

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