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Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics SeriesPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (321 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823282067
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Critical RhythmDDC classification:
  • 808.1
LOC classification:
  • PN1059.R53 .C758 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- CRITICAL RHYTHM -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Rhythm's Critiques -- Why Rhythm? -- What Is Called Rhythm? -- Sordello's Pristine Pulpiness -- Body, Throng, Race -- The 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 -- Beat and Count -- The Rhythms of the English Dolnik -- How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper -- Picturing Rhythm -- Fictions of 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.
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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Cover -- CRITICAL RHYTHM -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Rhythm's Critiques -- Why Rhythm? -- What Is Called Rhythm? -- Sordello's Pristine Pulpiness -- Body, Throng, Race -- The 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 -- Beat and Count -- The Rhythms of the English Dolnik -- How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper -- Picturing Rhythm -- Fictions of 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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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