Formal Approaches to Poetry: Recent Developments in MetricsBezalel Elan Dresher, Nila Friedberg 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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Music and meter | 5 |
A modular metrics for folk verse | 7 |
2 Metricality | 51 |
What is metricality? English iambic pentameter | 53 |
3 English meter | 74 |
Generated metrical form and implied metrical form | 77 |
Anapests and antiresolution | 93 |
Iambic meter in Somali | 193 |
6 Modelling statistical preferences | 209 |
Constraints complexity and the grammar of poetry | 211 |
Modelling the linguisticspoetics interface | 233 |
7 Russian meter | 251 |
Russian iambic tetrameter in a comparative perspective | 253 |
Structural dynamics in the Onegin stanza | 267 |
8 Classical and Roman metrics | 284 |
Shakespeares lyric and dramatic metrical styles | 111 |
Longfellows long line | 135 |
4 Old Norse | 149 |
musicality and word based rhythm in eddic meters | 151 |
5 Mora counting meters | 171 |
acoustic evidence from Japanese verse | 173 |
a disbalanced harmony | 287 |
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List of contributors | 313 |
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