Description
Book SynopsisExplores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm’s role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Ben Glaser, 1
Rhythm’s Critiques
Why Rhythm?
Jonathan Culler, 21
What Is Called Rhythm?
David Nowell Smith, 40
Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness
Simon Jarvis, 60
Body, Throng, Race
The Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics
Virginia Jackson, 87
Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body
Haun Saussy, 106
Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm
Erin Kappeler, 128
Beat and Count
The Rhythms of the English Dolnik
Derek Attridge, 153
How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper
Thomas Cable, 174
Picturing Rhythm
Meredith Martin, 197
Fictions of Rhythm
Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds
Natalie Gerber, 223
Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm?
Yopie Prins 247
Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel”
Ewan Jones, 274
Acknowledgments 297
List of Contributors 299
Index 303
