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Surprised by Sound - Rhyme's Inner Workings (Hardcover)
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Surprised by Sound - Rhyme's Inner Workings (Hardcover)
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In Surprised by Sound, Roi Tartakovsky shows that the power of
rhyme endures well into the twenty-first century even though its
exemplary usages may differ from traditional or expected forms. His
work uncovers the mechanics of rhyme, revealing how and why it
remains a vital part of poetry with connections to large questions
about poetic freedom, cognitive and psychoanalytic theories, and
the accidental aspects of language. As a contribution to studies of
sound in poetry, Surprised by Sound takes on two central questions:
First, what is it about the structure of rhyme that makes it such a
potent and ongoing source of poetic production and extrapoetic
fascination? Second, how has rhyme changed and survived in the era
of free verse, whose prototypical poetry is as hostile to poetic
meter as it is to the artificial sound of rhyme, including the
sound of rhythmic thumping at the end of every line? In response,
Tartakovsky theorizes a new category of rhyme that he terms
""sporadic."" Since it is not systematized or expected, sporadic
rhyme can be a single, strongly resounding rhyme used suddenly in a
free verse poem. It can also be an internal rhyme in a villanelle
or a few scattered rhymes unevenly distributed throughout a longer
poem that nevertheless create a meaningful cluster of words.
Examining usages across varied poetic traditions, Tartakovsky
locates sporadic rhyme in sources ranging from a sixteenth-century
sonnet to a nonsensical, practically unperformable piece by
Gertrude Stein and a 2007 MoveOn.org ad in the New York Times. With
careful attention to the soundscapes of poems, Surprised by Sound
demonstrates that rhyme's enduring value lies in its paradoxical
and unstable nature as well as its capacity for creating poetic,
cognitive, and psychic effects.
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