Rhythm in Modern Poetry An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies
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Eva Lilja is Professor Emerita of Literature in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Specializing in modernist poetry, she pioneered the study of free versification and was the founder and chair of the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies.This is a landmark book. It sets out with clarity and commitment how an approach based in poetic cognition can illuminate poetry, metrics, rhythm and reading. <i>Rhythm in Modern Poetry</i> takes the reader on an intellectual and poetic journey in its compelling ideas and its artful expression.
Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK
Eva Lilja’s new book is not only for the scholars and students of cognitive versification, but for anyone who is keen to gain deeper insight into the poetics of free verse. Through a meticulous analysis of historical context and diverse art forms, the book unveils the underlying cognitive processes that shape modern poetry and shows the reader new ways to uncover the rich and subtle meanings of poetic rhythm.
Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Associate Professor in Classical Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia
A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.
Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on the modernist free verse. Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter investigates the rhythms of one modern poem, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath and others, and engages each element in the broader interpretation of the poem in question.
In her examination of modernist poetry in English and other Germanic languages, Eva Lilja expands her analysis to discuss both the Ancient Greek and Norse origins of rhythm in free verse and the intermedia intersection, comparing poetic rhythm with rhythm in pictures, sculptures and dance. Rhythm in Modern Poetry thus expands the field of cognitive versification studies while also engaging readers writ large interested in how rhythm works in the aesthetic field.
List of Plates
List of Figures
Preface
Foreword by Margaret H. Freeman
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The Poetic Gestalt
Introduction: Mousike
1. Verse Systems and Principles of Rhythm
2. The Rhythmic Gestalt
3. Rhythm and Significance
4. Temporal and Spatial Rhythms: The Intermedia Perspective
5. Cognitive Versification Theory: Some Aspects
6. Levels and Times
Part II: Reading Free Verse Rhythms
Introduction: How to Read Free Verse
7. Cognitive Economy
8. The Poem in the Body
9. Patterns of Culture
10. Direction
11. Balance in Versification
12. Rhythm in Modern Poetry
Works Cited
Index
Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts fosters high-quality interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the cognitive sciences and the arts. Its focus both acknowledges and reacts to the increasing correlation of interdisciplinary research in cognitive science and the humanities, especially in regard to the particular relation and interdependence between creative art and cognitive competence.
The series focuses on four related major objectives:
- to expand the development of theories and methodologies that integrate research in relevant cognitive science and humanities disciplines to further our understanding of the production and reception of the arts as one of the most central and complex operations of the human mind;
- to encourage exemplary applications of these theories and methods to both established traditions and emerging practices in artistic creation and expression and the various modes of cognitive engagement they entail;
- to investigate the various ways models of the mind and models of artistic creation and reception have been developed and revised in relation to each other throughout history and in different cultures and contexts;
- to develop theoretical and methodological understanding of how the arts illuminate and contribute to the cognitive sciences.
In acknowledging that the field has a strong international dynamic, the series addresses and invites global communities and audiences of scholars.
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