Critical Rhythm by Ben Glaser, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridg... - 9780823282036

Critical RhythmThe Poetics of a Literary Life Form\nAuthor(s): Ben Glaser, Jonathan Culler, Derek Attridge, Jonathan Culler, Ben Glaser, Simon Jarvis, David Nowell Smith, Haun Saussy, Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823282036, 978-0823282036\nSynopsis\nThis book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it's often assimilatedscansion, prosody, meterrhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.\n Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But y