Details
Nineteenth-Century Verse and Technology
Machines of MeterPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
|
96,29 € |
|
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | |
| Veröffentl.: | 13.09.2017 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9783319535029 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
Dieses eBook enthält ein Wasserzeichen.
Beschreibungen
<p>This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of <i>meter</i>—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and forall.</p>
<p>Introduction: Machines of Meter.- 1. Measurement, Temporality, Abstraction.- 2. Meter Manufactories.- 3. Automaton Versifiers.- 4. The Automatic Flow of Verse.- 5. Instrumental Prosody.- Select Bibliography.- Index.</p>
<p>Jason David Hall is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK. His books include <i>Seamus Heaney: Poet, Critic, Translator</i> (2007), <i>Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract</i> (2009), <i>Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century </i>(2011), and <i>Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle</i> (2013). His edition of Wilkie Collins’s <i>Jezebel’s Daughter</i> was published in 2016.</p>
This book repositions thinking about rhythm, meter and versification during the “Mechanical Age.” Cutting across disciplinary boundaries, the book examines the rhythmical workings of poems alongside not only Victorian theories of prosody and poetics but also contemporary thinking about labor practices, pedagogical procedures, scientific experiments, and technological innovations. By offering an exploded definition of <i>meter</i>—one that extends beyond conventional foot-based scansion—this book explicates the conceptual and, at times, material exchanges between poetic meter and machine culture. The machines of meter include mid-century theories of abstraction and technologies of smoothness and even spacing; a deeply influential, though rarely credited, system of metrical manufacture; verse produced by a Victorian automaton; the mechanics of the human body and mind and the meters that issued from them; and the promise of scientific machines to resolve metrical dilemmas once and for all.
Repositions thinking about nineteenth-century meter and a variety of texts and practices associated with it Examines how both writing in meter and about it participates in the nineteenth century’s “culture of machines” Takes a more inclusive view of meter’s engagement with the nineteenth century’s systems of mechanization and attendant technologies Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:
The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in Literature
von: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
309,23 €
