Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience - Klopstock, Nietzsche, Grunbein

Shows that analyzing meter as it is discussed and deployed in different historical moments offers crucial insights about language and how human beings use it, and explores how meter illuminates the interplay of culture, cognition, emotion, and embodiment.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Meter, Language, History, and the "Whole Human"


• 2: Klopstock's Meters as Embodied Meaning


• 3: Disciplining Meter


• 4: Nietzsche's Meters as Cultural Critique


• 5: From Meter to Media and Materiality


• 6: Shaping Time, Forming Subjectivity: Grünbein's Meters


• Epilogue: Metrical Experience


• Appendix: Poems and Translations


• Works Cited

About the author

Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge is Associate Professor of German in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She works on German literature from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, especially lyric poetry, philosophy, and prosody. Her first book, Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community appeared with Cornell University Press in 2015 and a co-edited volume (with Luke Fischer), Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Critical and Philosophical Perspectives, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. She has published articles on Hölderlin, Rilke, Cavell, Wittgenstein, Klopstock, Nietzsche, and Grünbein.

Summary

Shows that analyzing meter as it is discussed and deployed in different historical moments offers crucial insights about language and how human beings use it, and explores how meter illuminates the interplay of culture, cognition, emotion, and embodiment.

Additional text

Eldridge succeeds in demonstrating how poetry works and why it matters today, and she is convincing in arguing that a widely interdisciplinary approach, including psychological and neurological studies, is indicated.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah V. Eldridge, Hannah V. (Associate Professor of German Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift (Associate Professor o Eldridge
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2022
• EAN: 9780192859211
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285921-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form