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Unparalleled Poetry disentangles biblical poetry from parallelism and meter and provides an account of the free-rhythm versification system of biblical poetry. This cognitive approach is oriented toward how poetic structure can be heard and perceived, and it illuminates both the structures of biblical poetry and the artistry of potential effects.
List of contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction by Margaret H. Freeman
- Abbreviations and Symbols
- PART I: INTRODUCTORY MATTERS
- Chapter 1: Unparalleling Biblical Poetry
- Chapter 2: A Preliminary Description of Biblical Verse
- Chapter 3: The Nature of the Biblical Hebrew Poetic Line
- PART II: GESTALT PRINCIPLES: EMERGENCE OF BIBLICAL POETIC STRUCTURE
- Chapter 4: Perceptual Organization and the Law of Simplicity, Proximity and Similarity
- Chapter 5: Symmetry, Balance and Imbalance
- Chapter 6: Good Continuation, Closure, Requiredness, and Principled Lineations
- PART III: REMAINING ISSUES
- Chapter 7: Integration and Unintegrated Lines, Rhythm in Lamentations, and Line Length Constraints
- Chapter 8: Biblical Poetry and Prose
- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Unparalleled Poetry
- References
- Index
About the author
Emmylou J. Grosser, PhD, is a Research Fellow for the Department of Hebrew, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Her research interests include the language and literature of the Hebrew Bible and interdisciplinary approaches to biblical poetry.
Summary
Unparalleled Poetry disentangles biblical poetry from parallelism and meter and provides an account of the free-rhythm versification system of biblical poetry. This cognitive approach is oriented toward how poetic structure can be heard and perceived, and it illuminates both the structures of biblical poetry and the artistry of potential effects.
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Grosser's model remedies the previous ill-treatment of reducing poetic lines to any given structure or restricted linguistic aspect. An unparalleled approach indeed.
