Poetic Rhythm: Structure and Performance - Tsur, Reuven
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This book attempts to solve the yet unsolved mystery: what are the intuitive rules of versification followed by poets and readers in writing and reading poetry? It performs a small Copernican Revolution, shifting the constraints from verse structure to the reader's "Rhythmic Competence". It confers a psychological meaning upon the phrase "rhythmical performance", that allows us to make predictions concerning the rhythmical performance of a metrically complex line. The theoretical discussions are supported by empirical research, in which readings by leading British actors and colleagues from the academy are submitted to an instrumental investigation.…mehr

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This book attempts to solve the yet unsolved mystery: what are the intuitive rules of versification followed by poets and readers in writing and reading poetry? It performs a small Copernican Revolution, shifting the constraints from verse structure to the reader's "Rhythmic Competence". It confers a psychological meaning upon the phrase "rhythmical performance", that allows us to make predictions concerning the rhythmical performance of a metrically complex line. The theoretical discussions are supported by empirical research, in which readings by leading British actors and colleagues from the academy are submitted to an instrumental investigation.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Professor Reuven Tsur teaches Cognitive Poetics and Hebrew Literature at Tel Aviv University. He is Middle East Vice President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics. He has published fourteen books and over forty articles on literary theory. His books in English include Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992), What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive - The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (1992), On Metaphoring (1987), The Road to Kubla Khan - A Cognitive Approach (1987), and A Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre (1977).