Translating Jazz into Poetry
Subtitle: From Mimesis to Metaphor
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783110339017
Subjects: Poetics
Description: The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Challenging the mimetic approach to intermediality, this book promotes a cognitive metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate "melody," "tempo," and other musical elements into figurative expressions.