{"product_id":"critical-rhythm-the-poetics-of-a-literary-life-form-hardback-9780823282043","title":"Critical Rhythm; The Poetics of a Literary Life Form (Hardback) 9780823282043","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritical Rhythm\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Poetics of a Literary Life Form\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBen Glaser (Edited by), Jonathan Culler (Edited by), Derek Attridge (Contributions by), Jonathan Culler (Contributions by), Ben Glaser (Contributions by), Simon Jarvis (Contributions by), David Nowell Smith (Contributions by), Haun Saussy (Contributions by), Tom Cable (Contributions by), Natalie Gerber (Contributions by), Virginia Jackson (Contributions by), Ewan Jones (Contributions by), Erin Kappeler (Contributions by), Meredith Martin (Contributions by), Yopie Prins (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823282043\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 9\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.79 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it's often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.\u003cbr\u003e Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity. Through exploration of rhythm's genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form offering ready-made resources for interpretation. Pressing beyond poetry handbooks' isolated descriptions of technique or inductive declarations of what rhythm \"is,\" the essays ask what it means to think rhythm.\u003cbr\u003e Rhythm, the contributors show, happens relative to the body, on the one hand, and to language, on the other—two categories that are distinct from the literary, the mode through which poetics has tended to be analyzed. Beyond articulating what rhythm does to poetry, the contributors undertake a genealogical and theoretical analysis of how rhythm as a human experience has come to be articulated through poetry and poetics. The resulting work helps us better understand poetry both on its own terms and in its continuities with other experiences and other arts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Attridge, Tom Cable, Jonathan Culler, Natalie Gerber, Ben Glaser, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis, Ewan Jones, Erin Kappeler, Meredith Martin, David Nowell Smith, Yopie Prins, Haun Saussy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ben Glaser, 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRhythm's Critiques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why Rhythm?\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Culler, 21\u003cbr\u003e What Is Called Rhythm?\u003cbr\u003e David Nowell Smith, 40\u003cbr\u003e Sordello's Pristine Pulpiness\u003cbr\u003e Simon Jarvis, 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBody, Throng, Race\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics\u003cbr\u003e Virginia Jackson, 87\u003cbr\u003e Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body\u003cbr\u003e Haun Saussy, 106\u003cbr\u003e Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e Erin Kappeler, 128\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeat and Count\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Rhythms of the English Dolnik\u003cbr\u003e Derek Attridge, 153\u003cbr\u003e How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper\u003cbr\u003e Thomas Cable, 174\u003cbr\u003e Picturing Rhythm\u003cbr\u003e Meredith Martin, 197\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFictions of Rhythm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets' Investments of Belief in Sounds\u003cbr\u003e Natalie Gerber, 223\u003cbr\u003e Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?\u003cbr\u003e Yopie Prins 247\u003cbr\u003e Rhythm and Affect in \"Christabel\"\u003cbr\u003e Ewan Jones, 274\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/b\u003e297\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eList of Contributors \u003c\/b\u003e299\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIndex \u003c\/b\u003e303\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580330701080,"sku":"9780823282043","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critical-rhythm-the-poetics-of-a-literary-life-form-hardback-9780823282043","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}