Towards a typology of poetic forms : from language to metrics and beyond / edited by Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo.
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of "versification". Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays v...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
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| Series: | Language faculty and beyond ;
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| Summary: | Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of "versification". Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation over time and in space, that concerns forms of a great variety and with different statuses (meters, rhymes, stanzas, prescribed forms, syllabification rules, nursery rhymes, slogans, musical textsetting, ablaut reduplication etc.), and that as a cultural manifestation is performed in a variety of way. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 428 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027289049 9027289042 9789027208194 9027208190 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |