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Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyondEdited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
[Language Faculty and Beyond 2] 2009
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Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
[Language Faculty and Beyond 2] 2009
► pp. v–vi
Table of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology
Part I. Isochronous metrics
Textsetting as constraint conflict
Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs
Bavarian Zwiefache: Investigating the interface between rhythm, metrics and song
Natural Versification in French and German counting-out rhymes
Minimal chronometric forms: On the durational metrics of 2-2-stroke groups
Symmetry and children’s poetry in sign languages
Part II. Prosodic metrics
Pairs and triplets: A theory of metrical verse
Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics
On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse
The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: Meaning and form in a translation by Brodsky
Towards a universal definition of the caesura
Metrical alignment
Rephrasing line-end restrictions
Part III. Para-metrical phenomena
Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children’s counting-out rhymes
The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification
Part IV. Macrostructural metrics
Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière
The metrics of Sephardic song
A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry
Metrical structure of the European sonnet
Persons index
Languages index
Subjects index
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