Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.
Jean-Louis Aroui
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Louis Aroui plays a role.
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Subjects Phonetics | Phonology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2009 Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo (eds.), pp. 1–40 | Article
The introduction explains how and why the book is based on a fourfold distinction between isochronous metrics, prosodic metrics, parametrical phenomena, and macrostructural metrics. It surveys some recent problems of metrical theory, such as the nature of isochronous meters, musical textsetting,… read more
2009 Metrical structure of the European sonnet Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond, Aroui, Jean-Louis and Andy Arleo (eds.), pp. 385–402 | Article
In the Italian sonnet, the rhyme schemes (abba, abba, cde, cde) and (abba, abba, cdc, dcd) can be analysed as the concatenation of an octave and a sestet. Without this bipartite structure, the Italian sonnet would be too complex to be perceptible. The French sonnet, with its usual forms (abba,… read more