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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing
An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Taschenbuch von Timothy Steele
Sprache: Englisch

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Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.
Über den Autor
Timothy Steele's books include Toward the Winter Solstice, a collection of poems published by Ohio University Press. Among Steele's honors are a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University; a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught literature and writing for twenty-five years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition xiii

Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
Part One: Iambic Verse
1
Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation
2
Scansion and Metrical Variation
. Principles of Scansion
. The Principal Iambic Meters
. The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution
in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending
. Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees
. Loose Iambic—Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions
. Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines,
and Feminine Caesuras
3
Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment,
Caesural Pause, and Word Length
4
The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign,
and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe
. The Practice and Conventions of Elision
. Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count
. How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It?
5
Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar
Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters
6
Rhyme
. The Background and History of Rhyme
. The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English—
Full and Partial—and Some of Their Varieties

. The Use of Rhyme

Seven
Stanzas
8
Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters
9
Alternative Modes of Versification in English
. Accentual Verse
. Syllabic Verse
. Free Verse
. Imitation-Classical Verse
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Permissions and Copyrights
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780821425725
ISBN-10: 0821425722
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steele, Timothy
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 150 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy Steele
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
Artikel-ID: 129244166
Über den Autor
Timothy Steele's books include Toward the Winter Solstice, a collection of poems published by Ohio University Press. Among Steele's honors are a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University; a Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets; and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he taught literature and writing for twenty-five years.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition xiii

Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction
Part One: Iambic Verse
1
Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation
2
Scansion and Metrical Variation
. Principles of Scansion
. The Principal Iambic Meters
. The Three Common Metrical Variations in Iambic Verse: The Trochaic Substitution
in the First Foot, the Mid-line Trochaic Substitution, and the Feminine Ending
. Less Common Trochaic Substitutions and Trochees That Maybe Are Not Trochees
. Loose Iambic—Iambic Verse with Anapestic Substitutions
. Other Variants: Divided Lines, Clipped Lines, Broken-Backed Lines,
and Feminine Caesuras
3
Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment,
Caesural Pause, and Word Length
4
The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign,
and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe
. The Practice and Conventions of Elision
. Elision and Changing Views about Syllable Count
. How Real Is Elision? And What Are We, Finally, to Think of It?
5
Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store:Meter and Grammar
Part Two: Other Matters, Other Meters
6
Rhyme
. The Background and History of Rhyme
. The Two Common Types of Rhyme in English—
Full and Partial—and Some of Their Varieties

. The Use of Rhyme

Seven
Stanzas
8
Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters
9
Alternative Modes of Versification in English
. Accentual Verse
. Syllabic Verse
. Free Verse
. Imitation-Classical Verse
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Permissions and Copyrights
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Gattungen & Methoden, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780821425725
ISBN-10: 0821425722
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Steele, Timothy
Auflage: 2nd edition
Hersteller: Univ of Chicago on Behalf of Ohio Univ Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 226 x 150 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Timothy Steele
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.09.2024
Gewicht: 0,532 kg
Artikel-ID: 129244166
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