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[AROUI Jean-Louis]

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Linguistics 
<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)

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. 
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 2] 2009. xiv, 428 pp. 
HB 978 90 272 0819 4 EUR 105.00 

“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 

-- 
Jean-Louis AROUI
Université Paris 8
UFR des Sciences du Langage
2, rue de la liberté
93200 Saint-Denis
FRANCE
http://www.umr7023.cnrs.fr/spip.php?rubrique77
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