Towards a typology of poetic forms
Subtitle: from language to metrics and beyond
By: edited by Jean-Louis Aroui, Andy Arleo.
Contributors: Aroui, Jean-Louis.; Arleo, A.
Series: Language faculty and beyond -- v. 2; Language faculty and beyond -- v. 2.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Company; Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9789027208194
Subjects: Poetics; Versification; Typology (Linguistics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology / Jean-Louis Aroui; title: Part I: Isochronous metrics. Textsetting as constraint conflict / Bruce Hayes; title: Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs / François Dell & John Halle; title: Bavarian Zwiefache: investigating the interface between rhythm, metrics and song / Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna & Robert Vetterle; title: Natural versification in French and German counting-out rhymes / Andreas Dufter & Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna; title: Minimal chronometric forms: on the durational metrics of 2-2-stroke groups / Benoît de Cornulier; title: Symmetry and children's poetry in sign languages / Marion Blondel & Christopher Miller; title: Part II: Prosodic metrics. Pairs and triplets: a theory of metrical verse / Nigel Fabb & Morris Halle; title: Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics / Bruno Paoli; title: On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse / Donka Minkova; title: The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky / Nila Friedberg; title: Towards a universal definition of the caesura / Marc Dominicy & Mihai Nasta; title: Metrical alignment / Kristin Hanson; title: Rephrasing line-end restrictions / Carlos Piera; title: Part III: Para-metrical phenomena. Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children's counting-out rhymes / Andy Arleo; title: The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification / Oreste Floquet; title: Part IV: Macrostructural metrics. Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière / Dominique Billy; title: The metrics of Sephardic song / José Domínguez Caparrós; title: A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry / Iván Horváth; title: Metrical structure of the European sonnet / Jean-Louis Aroui.