Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form

Informationen zum Autor Ben Glaser (Edited By) Ben Glaser is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. Jonathan Culler (Edited By) Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the author of numerous books on literary theory, including Structuralist Poetics , On Deconstruction , and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction . His most recent book is Theory of the Lyric (Harvard, 2015). Klappentext Ben Glaser (Edited By) Ben Glaser is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University. Jonathan Culler (Edited By) Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the author of numerous books on literary theory, including Structuralist Poetics , On Deconstruction , and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction . His most recent book is Theory of the Lyric (Harvard, 2015). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Ben Glaser, 1 Rhythm's Critiques Why Rhythm? Jonathan Culler, 21 What Is Called Rhythm? David Nowell Smith, 40 Sordello's Pristine Pulpiness Simon Jarvis, 60 Body, Throng, Race The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics Virginia Jackson, 87 Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body Haun Saussy, 106 Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm Erin Kappeler, 128 Beat and Count The Rhythms of the English Dolnik Derek Attridge, 153 How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper Thomas Cable, 174 Picturing Rhythm Meredith Martin, 197 Fictions of Rhythm Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets' Investments of Belief in Sounds Natalie Gerber, 223 Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm? Yopie Prins 247 Rhythm and Affect in "Christabel" Ewan Jones, 274 Acknowledgments 297 List of Contributors 299 Index 303 ...

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Ben Glaser (Edited By)
Ben Glaser is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.
Jonathan Culler (Edited By)
Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the author of numerous books on literary theory, including Structuralist Poetics, On Deconstruction, and Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction. His most recent book is Theory of the Lyric (Harvard, 2015).

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt

Introduction
Ben Glaser, 1
Rhythm s Critiques
Why Rhythm?
Jonathan Culler, 21
What Is Called Rhythm?
David Nowell Smith, 40
Sordellös Pristine Pulpiness
Simon Jarvis, 60
Body, Throng, Race
The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics
Virginia Jackson, 87
Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body
Haun Saussy, 106
Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm
Erin Kappeler, 128
Beat and Count
The Rhythms of the English Dolnik
Derek Attridge, 153
How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper
Thomas Cable, 174
Picturing Rhythm
Meredith Martin, 197
Fictions of Rhythm
Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets Investments of Belief in Sounds
Natalie Gerber, 223
Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?
Yopie Prins 247
Rhythm and Affect in Christabel
Ewan Jones, 274
Acknowledgments 297
List of Contributors 299
Index 303