Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form / / Ben Glaser and Jonathan Culler, editors.
This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2019. ©2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Verbal arts. Studies in poetics.
Fordham scholarship online. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| Notes: | This edition also issued in print: 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Why Rhythm?
- What Is Called Rhythm?
- Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness
- Th e Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics
- Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body
- Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm
- Th e Rhythms of the English Dolnik
- How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper
- Picturing Rhythm
- Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds
- Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?
- Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel”
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics