Rhythm in Modern Poetry : An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies (Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts)

Lilja, Eva/ Bergs, Alexander (EDT)/ Freeman, Margaret H. (EDT)

Bloomsbury Academic（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798765100974
• DDC分類 808.1

Full Description

A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.

Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on the modernist free verse. Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter investigates the rhythms of one modern poem, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath and others, and engages each element in the broader interpretation of the poem in question.

In her examination of modernist poetry in English and other Germanic languages, Eva Lilja expands her analysis to discuss both the Ancient Greek and Norse origins of rhythm in free verse and the intermedia intersection, comparing poetic rhythm with rhythm in pictures, sculptures and dance. Rhythm in Modern Poetry thus expands the field of cognitive versification studies while also engaging readers writ large interested in how rhythm works in the aesthetic field.

Contents

List of Plates
List of Figures
Preface
Foreword by Margaret H. Freeman
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: The Poetic Gestalt
Introduction: Mousike
1. Verse Systems and Principles of Rhythm
2. The Rhythmic Gestalt
3. Rhythm and Significance
4. Temporal and Spatial Rhythms: The Intermedia Perspective
5. Cognitive Versification Theory: Some Aspects
6. Levels and Times

Part II: Reading Free Verse Rhythms
Introduction: How to Read Free Verse
7. Cognitive Economy
8. The Poem in the Body
9. Patterns of Culture
10. Direction
11. Balance in Versification
12. Rhythm in Modern Poetry

Works Cited
Index