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oapen-20.500.12657-259082023-02-01T09:01:24Z Critical Rhythm Glaser, Ben Culler, Jonathan Literature Lyric History of Criticism Romantic Poetry Scansion Meter Prosody Victorian Poetry Modernism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets 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. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism’s most important, most vested, and perhaps least well-defined or definable terms. Rhythm in these essays is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. It is a key term through which Romantic, Modern, and contemporary literary theory define form, either in conversation with or opposition to meter. It has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice if not identity as such. 2019-05-28 03:00:40 2020-04-01T10:54:23Z 2020-04-01T10:54:23Z 2019-01-08 book 1004175 OCN: 1100491432 9780823282043 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25908 eng application/pdf n/a 1004175.pdf Fordham University Press 10.2307/j.ctv8jp01t 102905 10.2307/j.ctv8jp01t f501c751-7a51-484b-b90a-ed0912c4e53f b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780823282043 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 102905 KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism’s most important, most vested, and perhaps least well-defined or definable terms. Rhythm in these essays is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. It is a key term through which Romantic, Modern, and contemporary literary theory define form, either in conversation with or opposition to meter. It has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice if not identity as such.
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