Meter and Meaning

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Carper is the author of three volumes of metrical poetry including Distant Blue , recipient of the 2003 Richard Wilbur Award, Fiddle Lane and From Nature . He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Southern Maine. Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York, UK. He is the author of the highly influential texts on beat prosody, The Rhythms of English Poetry and Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction and has also published books on literary theory, sixteenth-century poetry and twentieth-century fiction. Klappentext This text communicates a user-friendly way to explore the rhythms of poetry in English. Side-stepping the jargon that often runs through discussions of meter! the authors begin with the basic idea of poetry as a performance and suggest a fresh approach to reading poetic texts. Zusammenfassung This is the only guide to meter you will ever need and a must-read for anyone who wants to study, write or better appreciate poetic texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Basic Rhythms. Further Practice. 2. Beats: B , b, [B]. Further Practice. 3. Offbeats: o , O , -o- , [o] , ô. Further Practice. 4. Scan-ning Poems. Further Practice. 5. Rhythmic Figures. 6. Names and Labels. 7. Meter and Meaning. 8. Identifying Meters and Stanza-forms. Where to Go from Here. Scansion Symbols. Afterword. Index

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• Authors: Derek Attridge, Derek (University of York Attridge, Attridge Derek, Thomas Carper, Thomas (University of Southern Maine Carper, Carper Thomas
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2003
• EAN: 9780415311748
• ISBN: 978-0-415-31174-8
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 205 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets