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Title: Critical Rhythm
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Author: Derek Attridge
Contributor: Derek Attridge (Contributions by), Tom Cable (Contributions by), Simon Jarvis (Contributions by), Yopie Prins (Contributions by), Ewan Jones (Contributions by), Jonathan Culler (Contributions by), Ben Glaser (Edited by), David Nowell Smith (Contributions by), Natalie Gerber (Contributions by), Erin Kappeler (Contributions by), Ben Glaser (Contributions by), Jonathan Culler (Edited by), Meredith Martin (Contributions by), Virginia Jackson (Contributions by), Haun Saussy (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 082328204X
EAN: 9780823282043
ISBN: 9780823282043
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Language & Reference
Release Date: 01/08/2019
Description:

This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.
Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity. Through exploration of rhythm’s genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form offering ready-made resources for interpretation. Pressing beyond poetry handbooks’ isolated descriptions of technique or inductive declarations of what rhythm “is,” the essays ask what it means to think rhythm.
Rhythm, the contributors show, happens relative to the body, on the one hand, and to language, on the other—two categories that are distinct from the literary, the mode through which poetics has tended to be analyzed. Beyond articulating what rhythm does to poetry, the contributors undertake a genealogical and theoretical analysis of how rhythm as a human experience has come to be articulated through poetry and poetics. The resulting work helps us better understand poetry both on its own terms and in its continuities with other experiences and other arts.
Contributors: Derek Attridge, Tom Cable, Jonathan Culler, Natalie Gerber, Ben Glaser, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis, Ewan Jones, Erin Kappeler, Meredith Martin, David Nowell Smith, Yopie Prins, Haun Saussy

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