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Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form (Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics) by Ben Glaser Assistant Professor of English; Jonathan D. Culler; Derek Attridge; Simon Jarvis; David Nowell Smith; Haun Saussy; Tom Cable; Natalie Gerber; Virginia Jackson; Ewan Jones; Meredith Martin; Yopie Prins is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Through their exploration of rhythm’s genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form sorted out through scansion, description, and taxonomy and roped back into interpretation. Pressing beyond the poetry handbook’s isolated descriptions of technique as well as inductive declarations of what rhythm “is,” each essay builds toward methodological inquiry about what it means to think rhythm. With

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Author

Ben Glaser Assistant Professor of English; Jonathan D. Culler; Derek Attridge; Simon Jarvis; David Nowell Smith; Haun Saussy; Tom Cable; Natalie Gerber; Virginia Jackson; Ewan Jones; Meredith Martin; Yopie Prins

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823282050

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Language Learning, Poetry, History