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ISBN: 1108966438 1108967442 1108832946 1108967248 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,
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What is style, and why does it matter? This book answers these questions by recovering the concept of 'stylistic virtue,' once foundational to rhetoric and aesthetics but largely forgotten today. Stylistic virtues like 'ease' and 'grace' are distinguishing properties that help realize a text's essential character. First described by Aristotle, they were integral to the development of formalist methods and modern literary criticism. The first half of the book excavates the theory of stylistic virtue during its period of greatest ascendance, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when belletristic rhetoric shaped how the art of literary style and 'the aesthetic' were understood. The second half offers new readings of Thackeray, Trollope, and Meredith to show how stylistic virtue changes our understanding of style in the novel and challenges conventional approaches to interpreting the ethics of art.
English fiction --- English language --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric. --- Style. --- England --- Intellectual life --- English literature --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Style --- Rhetoric --- History and criticism --- Germanic languages
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ISBN: 9780812252644 0812252640 Year: 2021 Publisher: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press
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What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers. In Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of these three meters as markers of literary time, "medieval" or "modern," though all three were in concurrent use both before and after 1500. In each section of the book, he considers two of the traditions through the prism of a third element: alliterative meter and tetrameter in poems of political prophecy; alliterative meter and pentameter in William Langland's Piers Plowman and early blank verse; and tetrameter and pentameter in Chaucer, his predecessors, and his followers. Reversing the historical perspective in which scholars conventionally view these authors, Weiskott reveals Langland to be metrically precocious and Chaucer metrically nostalgic. More than a history of prosody, Weiskott's book challenges the divide between medieval and modern literature. Rejecting the premise that modernity occurred as a specifiable event, he uses metrical history to renegotiate the trajectories of English literary history and advances a narrative of sociocultural change that runs parallel to metrical change, exploring the relationship between literary practice, social placement, and historical time.
Phonetics --- Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- English language --- English poetry --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Poetics --- Poetics. --- Versification. --- Periodization. --- Early modern. --- History and criticism --- Middle English. --- History. --- 1100-1700. --- Versification --- History --- Periodization --- Metrics and rhythmics --- Prosody --- Germanic languages
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ISBN: 9811538093 9811538085 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,
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Chinese language --- Metrics and rhythmics. --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Tone. --- Tone (Phonetics) --- Sino-Tibetan languages --- Xinès --- Mètrica i ritme --- To (Fonètica) --- Ensenyament de llengües estrangeres --- Ensenyament d'idiomes estrangers --- Ensenyament de segones llengües --- Ensenyament de llengües per a ús professional --- Mètode audiolingual (Ensenyament de llengües) --- Mètode de gramàtica-traducció (Ensenyament de llengües) --- Transferència (Ensenyament de llengües) --- Didàctica de la llengua --- Ensenyament bilingüe --- Ensenyament de la llengua --- Llengua d'ensenyament --- Llengües modernes --- Llibres de lectura per a l'aprenentatge d'idiomes --- Llengües tonals --- Tonemes --- Fonètica --- Entonació (Fonètica) --- Versificació --- Dialectes mandarins --- Llengua xinesa --- Mandarí (Llengua) --- Mandarí estàndard --- Pǔtōnghuà --- Xinès estàndard --- Xinès mandarí --- Xinès mitjà --- Xinès modern --- Llengües sinotibetanes --- Hakka (Llengua) --- Min (Llengua) --- Xiang (Llengua) --- Escriptura xinesa --- Literatura xinesa
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