Title: Translating Jazz into Poetry
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.
Subjects: Poetics, American poetry, History and criticism, African American authors, Jazz, Music and literature, Jazz in literature, English language, Rhythm, Poetry, English poetry