Towards a typology of poetic forms : from language to metrics and beyond /

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