The rise and fall of meter: poetry and English national culture, 1860--1930
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1. Verfasser: Martin, Meredith 1976- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton Princeton University Press 2012
Ausgabe:1st ed
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Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee? How is our understanding of English meter influenced by the history of England's sense of itself in the nineteenth century? Not an old-fashioned approach to poetry, but a dynamic, contested, and inherently nontraditional field, "English meter" concerned issues of personal and national identity, class, education, patriotism, militarism, and the development of English literature as a discipline
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Failure of Meter; Modern Instability; Metrical Communities; Meter as Culture; A Note on Historical Prosody; Chapter 1 The History of Meter; A Metrical History of England; A Grammatical History of England; Grammatical Instability; Metrical Instability; Chapter 2 The Stigma of Meter; Metrical Irrelevance; The British Empire of Letters; Marking Instress; Acute Stress in "The Wreck of the Deutschland"; Mistrusting the Ear; Chapter 3 The Institution of Meter; Metrical Mastery; Inventing the Britannic; Dynamic Reading
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
ISBN:1283457067
1400842190
9781283457064
9781400842193

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