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Poetic Rhythm - Structure and Performance -- An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics (Hardcover, Revised & expanded ed)
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Poetic Rhythm - Structure and Performance -- An Empirical Study in Cognitive Poetics (Hardcover, Revised & expanded ed)
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This research is an instrumental investigation of a theory of
rhythmical performance of poetry, originally propounded
speculatively in the author's Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre
(1977). "Iambic pentameter" means that there is a verse unit
consisting of an unstressed and a stressed syllable (in this
order), and that the verse line consists of five such units. In the
first 165 verse lines of Paradise Lost there are two such lines.
The theory takes up one of the central issues in metrical studies:
all criteria for metricality hitherto proposed have been violated
by the greatest masters of musicality in English poetry. The
question arises, how do we recognise two verse lines that are very
different in their structures as instances of the same abstract
pattern of, eg: iambic pentameter; and how do we distinguish a
metrical from an unmetrical line. One great difference between this
theory of metre and others concerns the status of deviation. Most
theoreticians deploy a battery of tools to make deviant stress
patterns conform with metric pattern. Only when all attempts fail
do they speak of "tension". When they succeed, they blur the
distinction between, for example, Milton's and Pope's metrical
styles. Or else, they have formulated different rules of
metricality for Shakespeare and Milton. This theory assumes that
when the versification patterns and linguistic patterns conflict,
they can be accommodated in a pattern of "Rhythmical Performance"
-- namely one in which the conflicting patterns are simultaneously
perceptible. There are scales of mounting difficulties of
mismatches, on which each poet (and each theorist) draws at
different points the boundary of what is acceptable. Reuven Tsur's
revised and expanded edition (original publication, Peter Lang,
1986) is essential reading for all scholars and students involved
in versification and Cognitive Poetics.
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