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READING THE RHYTHM C

By Scott

READING THE RHYTHM C

By Scott

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We are still a long way from knowing how to read the rhythms of free verse, a poetry which has been largely neglected by metrical theory. Clive Scott's readable and scholarly study indicates the strategies of reading needed if justice is to be done to free verse's rhythmic versatility.
The core of Reading the Rhythm is an analysis of key French twentieth-century poets and poems, including Perse's Éloges, Cendrars's Prose du Transsibérien, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques, and Documentaires; Apollinaire's Calligrammes; Supervielle's Gravitations; and Reverdy's Sources de vent. Contemporary trends in the visual arts - Cubism, Futurism, Orphism, photography - are called upon as perceptualmodels to illuminate free verse and a further perspective is added by the theme of travel and movement.
This is an accomplished examination of the rhythms of free verse, and of its implications for our reading of regular verse. It is also a significant study of modernist poetics.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
1993-09-01
Publication Date:
2008-02-04
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198158823
ISBN13:
9780198158820
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
588 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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