Formal Approaches to Poetry : : Recent Developments in Metrics / / ed. by B. Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Cole, Deborah,; Dresher, B. Elan,; Fabb, Nigel,; Fitzgerald, Colleen M.,; Friedberg, Nila,; Hall, Daniel Currie,; Hammond, Michael,; Hanson, Kristin,; Kiparsky, Paul,; Lotman, Maria-Kristiina,; Lotman, Mihhail,; Miyashita, Mizuki,; Scherr, Barry,; Tarlinskaja, Marina,; Youmans, Gilbert,; Árnason, Kristján,
• HerausgeberIn: Dresher, B. Elan,; Friedberg, Nila,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Phonology and Phonetics [PP] , 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

"[.] un ouvrage qui devrait devenir un classique des études métriques."Jean-Louis Aroui in: Canadian Journal of Linguistics 3/2007

Table of 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