Modernism''s Metronome - Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the breakingof meter and rise of free verse.

About the author

Ben Glaser is an assistant professor of English at Yale University. He is the coeditor of Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form.

Summary

In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breakingof meter and rise of free verse.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Glaser, Ben (Assistant Professor of English Glaser
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781421439518
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3951-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000