商品簡介
This volume is a representative selection of current methods of metrical-rhythmical analysis. Leading experts in the field present the latest state of the art in metrical theory, including Generative Metrics, the Russian quantitative-statistical approach, Optimality Theory, and Cognitive Metrics. Besides this focus on theory, the book also features topics such as metrical typology, automated metrical analysis, comparative and historical metrics, performance and text-setting, and analyses of a wide selection of verse forms and verse systems from a variety of languages such as English, German, Russian, Latin, Slovenian, Estonian, Dutch, Norwegian, and Siamese, with a particular emphasis on English and German. This book will be of interest to both linguists and literary critics.
作者簡介
Christoph Kuper is a retired Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vechta (Germany). He received a PhD in English from the University of Marburg and a postdoctoral degree in German Linguistics from the Technical University of Berlin. As a guest professor, he taught at the universities of Marburg, Berlin, and Gottingen. He has published various books and numerous articles on metrics, poetics, textlinguistics, semiotics, and syntax.
