| Formal Approaches to Poetry Contributor(s): Dresher, B. Elan (Editor), Friedberg, Nila (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3110185229 ISBN-13: 9783110185225 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Approaches to the study of sound suitable for this series may be theoretical or experimental, and if they have practical applications, so much the better. The perspectives afforded by language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, historical linguistics, and typology and universals are particularly valued. Themes are as varied as the phonology and phonetics of features, tone and intonation, sound and grammar, metrics and verse, sound change, or speech recognition by man and machine. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 808.1 |
| LCCN: 2005036815 |
| Series: Phonology and Phonetics |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
