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The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
Marjorie Perloff
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Description for The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound
Paperback. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, and the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose. Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Dworkin, Craig. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound - connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, "The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound" explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, the ... Read more
Sound - one of the central elements of poetry - finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin break that critical silence to readdress some of the fundamental connections between poetry and sound - connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, "The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound" explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
544g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226657431
SKU
V9780226657431
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About Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff is professor emerita of English at Stanford University and the author of many books, including Wittgenstein's Ladder and The Futurist Moment, both published by the University of Chicago Press. Craig Dworkin is associate professor of English at the University of Utah and the author, most recently, of Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci. ... Read more
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