J.-L. Aroui, A. Arleo (dir.), Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms. From Language to Metrics and Beyond

Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms. From language to metrics and beyond

Sous la dierction de Jean-Louis Aroui ( Université Paris 8) et Andy Arleo (Université de Nantes)

Amsterdam: John Benjamins, coll. "Language Faculty and Beyond" n° 2, 2009. xiv-428 p.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation over time and in space, that concerns forms of a great variety and with different statuses (meters, rhymes, stanzas, prescribed forms, syllabification rules, nursery rhymes, slogans, musical textsetting, ablaut reduplication etc.), and that as a cultural manifestation is performed in a variety of ways (sung, chanted, spoken, read) that can have direct consequences on how it is structured. This profusion of forms is thought to correspond, at the level of perception, to a limited number of cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and to represent regularly iterating forms. This volume proposes a relatively coherent overall vision by distinguishing four main families of metrical forms, each clearly independent of the others and amenable to separate typologies.

“There are very few books of high quality in the field of metrical study, and  even fewer which bring together leading experts focusing on specific problems of verse- form; this wide-ranging volume is therefore to be warmly welcomed.”
 Derek Attridge, University of York

Sommaire (avec résumés des articles sur le site de l'éditeur):

Table of contents
 Contributors
 Acknowledgments

 Introduction: Proposals for metrical typology
    Jean-Louis Aroui

Part I. Isochronous metrics

 Textsetting as constraint conflict
    Bruce Hayes

Comparing musical textsetting in French and in English songs
    Francois Dell and John Halle

 Bavarian Zwiefache: Investigating the interface between rhythm, metrics and
song
    Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna and Robert Vetterle

 Natural Versification in French and German counting-out rhymes
    Andreas Dufter and Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna

 Minimal chronometric forms: On the durational metrics of 2-2-stroke groups
    Benoît de Cornulier

 Symmetry and children's poetry in sign languages
    Marion Blondel and Christopher Miller

Part II. Prosodic metrics

 Pairs and triplets: A theory of metrical verse
    Nigel Fabb and Morris Halle

Generative linguistics and Arabic metrics
    Bruno Paoli

 On the meter of Middle English alliterative verse
    Donka Minkova

 The Russian Auden and the Russianness of Auden: Meaning and form in a
translation by Brodsky
    Nila Friedberg

 Towards a universal definition of the caesura
    Marc Dominicy and Mihai Nasta

 Metrical alignment
    Kristin Hanson

 Rephrasing line-end restrictions
    Carlos Piera

Part III. Para-metrical phenomena

Pif paf poof: Ablaut reduplication in children's counting-out rhymes
    Andy Arleo

 The phonology of elision and metrical figures in Italian versification
    Oreste Floquet

Part IV. Macrostructural metrics

Convention and parody in the rhyming of Tristan Corbière
    Dominique Billy

 The metrics of Sephardic song
    José Domínguez Caparrós

 A rule of metrical uniformity in old Hungarian poetry
    Iván Horváth

 Metrical structure of the European sonnet
    Jean-Louis Aroui

 Persons index
 Languages index
 Subjects index