The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and ReadingUniversity of Michigan Press, 1996 - 184 sivua The Scissors of Meter concerns itself with the ways we read poetry. In it, Donald Wesling elaborates his influential theory of grammetrics, which argues that syntax and meter, like a pair of scissors, work together to separate lines of poetry into distinct units of meaning. The first part of the book provides a critique of modern theories of meter and poetic form, which the author believes are limited by errors of logical typing, false analogy with other languages or other arts like music, and ethical assumptions, as well as an inability to be interpretive. Subsequent chapters present the theory of grammetrics and demonstrate its usefulness by applying it to fourteen diverse poems. Wesling demonstrates that the reintroduction of metrics into the humanities allows for grammetrical readings of a variety of poetic styles, such as traditional verse, free verse, and prose poems, from diverse historical eras. "The Scissors of Meter is a seminal study that deserves the close attention of all concerned with poetry. It has all the merits of an outstanding contribution to knowledge: precision, intelligence, confidence, humility, and grace." --Richard D. Cureton, University of Michigan "Donald Wesling's concept of grammetrics is a valuable and sensible concept that should be permanently added to literary studies." --T. V. F. Brogan, Indiana University, Donald Wesling is Professor of English, University of California, San Diego. |
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The Existing Scholarship | 3 |
The Reigning System | 9 |
Deficiencies of Traditional Metrical Theory | 32 |
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aesthetic analysis array beginning Berryman break caesura Chapter Charles Olson Chatman Cid Corman clause cognitive Criticism Cureton dash definition devices Dickinson Dilligan Edward Dorn Emily Dickinson emphasis English Prosody enjambed essay example foot formal free verse George Oppen grammetrics Halle and Keyser Halle-Keyser historical iambic pentameter interference interpretation Jakobson language line end linguistic metrics literary logical Lowell lust meaning metaphor meter metrical theory metrists midline modern nonmetrical norm notation nouns pattern Paul Fussell phrase poem's poet poetry position possible prose poem prosody punctuation quatrain reader reading relation rhetoric rhyme rhythm rhythmic Robert Robert Lowell Roman Jakobson rules Saintsbury scansion scissoring segments semantic sense sentence and line sequence Shakespeare sonnet sound speaker speech stanza stress maximum structure syllable syntactic syntax Tennyson tion Tomlinson traditional metrics units University Press verb verse period versification W. K. Wimsatt whole poem Williams words Wordsworth writing