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[AROUI Jean-Louis]

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Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms. From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui ( Université Paris 8) and Andy Arleo (Université de
Nantes)
John Benjamins [Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp.
HB 978 90 272 0819 4 EUR 105.00

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

 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
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Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
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