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"Vincent Barletta traces an alternate history of rhythm theory, one linked not to repetition and temporality, as most of us understand the term, but rather to form, ethics, and the conditions of (human) being. Beginning with Archilochus, the Greek seventh-century BCE poet who wanted to know the "rhythm that holds us all," Barletta explores what we mean when we talk about "rhythm," how and to what extent we can know it, and what Archilochus's idea that rhythm "holds us all" might mean for us today. Barletta identifies three key "moments" in the long and varied history of rhythm to uncover their deeper implications for poetry, art, and philosophy. Beginning with the earliest, most explicit formulation of the meaning of rhythm in the dramatic, philosophical, and poetic works of the pre-Socratic Greeks, Barletta then links this early understanding of rhythm to the emergence of vernacular poetry, especially in the Iberian Peninsula, in the sixteenth century during the European quest for overseas empires. He brings his study into the twentieth century, where echoes of Archilochus's notion of rhythm have shaped much African, European, and Anglo-American thought, especially John Dewey and Emmanuel Levinas on aesthetics and ethics, Émile Benveniste on philology and rhythm, and Léopold Sédar Senghor on rhythm in the context of West African thought and the "Négritude" movement. Ultimately, the common thread that runs through these three historical moments, Barletta shows, is an approach to rhythm that transcends poetry, aesthetics, and even temporality. For Barletta, rhythm is a powerful force that holds us in place and shapes the very foundations upon which we and our contemporary world ultimately rest. "Rhythm speaks," he says, "to the very conditions of our being in the world." This study participates in the recent return to formalism in literary studies, and will find readers in a number of other areas, comparative literature, reception of classical poetry, and philosophy and literature, among them"--

LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Rhythm in literature. --- Rhythm. --- Rhythm --- 82.080 --- Rhythm in literature --- Aesthetics --- Movement, Psychology of --- Poetics --- Cycles --- Movement, Aesthetics of --- 82.080 Stilistiek --- Stilistiek

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Mimesis in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- Rhythm in literature --- Short story --- History and criticism

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Jazz in the Time of the Novel argues that a culture's understanding of the concept of time plays a central role in its economic, social, and aesthetic affairs and that a culture arrives at its conception of time through its artistic practices. Bruce Barnhart, in Jazz in the Time of the Novel, shows that American culture of the first three decades of the twentieth century was shaped by the kindred rhythms and movements of two particular art forms: jazz and fiction. At the beginning of the twentieth century, widespread changes in America's social, demogr

Time in literature. --- Rhythm in literature. --- Music in literature. --- Jazz in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism.

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In jüngeren geisteswissenschaftlichen Debatten hat der Rhythmusbegriff eine neue Aufmerksamkeit erfahren; dabei wurden und werden oft historische Konzeptionen der Rede von Rhythmen herangezogen, um zu einem für heutige Fragen anschlie�baren Rhythmusbegriff zu gelangen. Ob sich auf diese Weise ein tragfähiges Konzept der Rede von Rhythmen, gerade für die Analyse von Zeit und Darstellung in Text- und Bildkünsten, gewinnen lässt, dürfte aber nicht gesichert sein. Denn in den historischen Verwendungen des Rhythmus-Begriffs vor allem um 1900 wurden zwar immer wieder grundsätzliche Muster der zeitlichen, räumlichen oder körperlichen Wahrnehmung verhandelt, zugleich aber sperren sich diese Konzeptionen auf bemerkenswerte Weise dagegen, in einen systematischen Begriff zu münden. Von dieser Spannung ausgehend, unternimmt es der Band, das bislang eher unhinterfragte Verhältnis zwischen historischem und systematischem Interesse am Rhythmusbegriff zu beleuchten und zu problematisieren. Anstatt nach einer Auflösung des historischen und systematischen Blickwinkels zu streben, macht der Band die Spannung beider Perspektiven offen sichtbar und erprobt auf diese Weise einen eigenen Zugang zur Rede von Rhythmen.

Begriff. --- Künste. --- Rhythmus. --- Zeitlichkeit. --- Ästhetik. --- Proportions (art) --- Rythme --- Proportion (Art). --- Rhythm in literature. --- Dans la littérature.

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This 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 assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity. Through exploration of rhythm’s genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form offering ready-made resources for interpretation. Pressing beyond poetry handbooks’ isolated descriptions of technique or inductive declarations of what rhythm “is,” the essays ask what it means to think rhythm.Rhythm, the contributors show, happens relative to the body, on the one hand, and to language, on the other—two categories that are distinct from the literary, the mode through which poetics has tended to be analyzed. Beyond articulating what rhythm does to poetry, the contributors undertake a genealogical and theoretical analysis of how rhythm as a human experience has come to be articulated through poetry and poetics. The resulting work helps us better understand poetry both on its own terms and in its continuities with other experiences and other arts.Contributors: Derek Attridge, Tom Cable, Jonathan Culler, Natalie Gerber, Ben Glaser, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis, Ewan Jones, Erin Kappeler, Meredith Martin, David Nowell Smith, Yopie Prins, Haun Saussy

Rhythm in literature. --- Poetics --- History --- Rhythm. --- Aesthetics --- Movement, Psychology of --- Cycles --- Movement, Aesthetics of --- History of Criticism. --- Lyric. --- Meter. --- Modernism. --- Poetics. --- Prosody. --- Romantic Poetry. --- Scansion. --- Victorian Poetry.