Modernism's Metronome

Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

von Ben Glaser

304 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and critics. In Modernism's Metronome, Ben Glaser revisits early twentieth-century poetics to uncover a wide range of metrical practice and theory, upending our inherited story about the "breaking" of meter and rise of free verse.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1900 bis 2000
• ISBN: 9781421439518
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.11.2020
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press