Formal Approaches to Poetry

Recent Developments in Metrics

By: B. Elan Dresher (Editor), Nila Friedberg (Editor)

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Hardcover | 21 February 2006

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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.

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"Formal approaches to poetry is a book that, [...], can be expected to become a classic in its field."Jean-Louis Aroui in: Journal of Linguistics 43/2007

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets Language & Linguistics Linguistics Phonetics Grammar, Syntax & Morphology Reference, Dictionaries & Guides

Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Music and meter
A modular metrics for folk verse	p. 7
Metricality
What is "metricality"? English iambic pentameter	p. 53
English meter
Generated metrical form and implied metrical form	p. 77
Anapests and anti-resolution	p. 93
Shakespeare's lyric and dramatic metrical styles	p. 111
Longfellow's long line	p. 135
Old Norse
The rise of the quatrain in Germanic: musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters	p. 151
Mora counting meters
The function of pauses in metrical studies: acoustic evidence from Japanese verse	p. 173
Iambic meter in Somali	p. 193
Modelling statistical preferences
Constraints, complexity, and the grammar of poetry	p. 211
Modelling the linguistics-poetics interface	p. 233
Russian meter
Generative metrics and the comparative approach: Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective	p. 253
Structural dynamics in the Onegin Stanza	p. 267
Classical and Romance metrics
The ancient iambic trimeter: a disbalanced harmony	p. 287
Author index	p. 309
Subject and language index	p. 311
List of contributors	p. 313
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