Rhythm and Race in Modernist Poetry and Science: Pound, Yeats, Williams, and Modern Sciences of RhythmColumbia University Press, 2008 - 272 pages In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. In this book, Michael Golston recovers much of the work done in this area and situates it in the society, politics, and culture of the Modernist period. He then filters selected Modernist poems through this archive to demonstrate that innovations in prosody, form, and subject matter are based on a largely forgotten ideology of rhythm and that beneath Modernist prosody is a science and an accompanying technology. |
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... From Stress to Stress ; Boland in Baker , Meter in English ; Fus- sell , Poetic Meter and Poetic Form , chap , 4 ; Hartman , Free Verse ; Taylor , Hardy's Me- tres , 7-48 ; and Aviram , Telling Rhythm . 4. A good study of such " models ...
... From Stress to Stress : An Autobiography of English Prosody . Hamden , Conn .: Archon Books , 1992 . Rainey , Lawrence S. , ed . A Poem Containing History : Textual Studies in The Cantos . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1996 ...
Contents
Phonoscopic Modernism | 1 |
ILLUSTRATIONS | 2 |
Ezra Pounds Absolutist Rhythms | 59 |
Copyright | |
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