Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form /

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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Other Authors: Glaser, Ben (Editor), Culler, Jonathan D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why rhythm? / Jonathan Culler
  • What is called rhythm? / David Nowell Smith
  • Sordello's pristine pulpiness / Simon Jarvis
  • The cadence of consent: Francis Barton Gummere, lyric rhythm, and white poetics / Virginia Jackson
  • Contagious rhythm: verse as a technique of the body / Haun Saussy
  • Constructing Walt Whitman: literary history and histories of rhythm / Erin Kappeler
  • The rhythms of the English Dolnik / Derek Attridge
  • How to find rhythm on a piece of paper / Thomas Cable
  • Picturing rhythm / Meredith Martin
  • Beyond meaning: differing fates of some modernist poets' investments of belief in sounds / Natalie Gerber
  • Sapphic stanzas: how can we read the rhythm? / Yopie Prins
  • Rhythm and affect in "Christabel" / Ewan Jones.