Free Verse and Prose Rhythm

IF 0.8 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

POETICS TODAY Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1215/03335372-10578457

J. H. Crone

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Abstract

Abstract Free verse and prose rhythms, by definition, do not have metrical organizing schemes, but does this mean that rhythm in free verse or prose poems is like speech or prose rhythm? Taking up these questions debated since the advent of modernist free verse more than one hundred years ago, this essay draws on recent critical literary and linguistic findings to formulate a new method for scanning and comparing rhythm in English-language free verse and prose genres. The comparison of six texts suggests that in poetic free verse or prose texts rhythm constructs information-rich, multilevel, context-specific semantic systems in a way that does not occur in the nonpoetic texts. These results contest persisting prosodic theories that free verse and prose poetry are largely written in prose, and suggest that rhythm is a more important generic marker of the poetic function than lineation is.

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自由诗和散文节奏

根据定义，自由诗和散文诗的节奏没有格律组织，但这是否意味着自由诗或散文诗的节奏就像演讲或散文的节奏?自一百多年前现代主义自由诗出现以来，这些问题一直在争论，本文借鉴了最近批评性文学和语言学的发现，制定了一种新的方法来扫描和比较英语自由诗和散文体裁的节奏。对六个文本的比较表明，在诗性自由诗或散文文本中，节奏构建了信息丰富、多层次、上下文特定的语义系统，而这在非诗性文本中是不存在的。这些结果反驳了一直坚持的韵律理论，即自由诗和散文诗主要以散文形式写成，并表明节奏是比行线更重要的诗歌功能的一般标志。

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POETICS TODAY LITERATURE-

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1.00

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期刊介绍： International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication Poetics Today brings together scholars from throughout the world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature (e.g., semiotics and narratology) and with applying such approaches to the interpretation of literary works. Poetics Today presents a remarkable diversity of methodologies and examines a wide range of literary and critical topics. Several thematic review sections or special issues are published in each volume, and each issue contains a book review section, with article-length review essays.