{"product_id":"critical-rhythm-ben-glaser-9780823282036","title":"Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life Form","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRhythm 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRhythm, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ben Glaser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823282031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823282036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Ben Glaser","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980628656383,"sku":"9780823282036","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a6b1da4-83e2-4850-9f3c-3b79249abfd0.jpg?v=1683251001","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/critical-rhythm-ben-glaser-9780823282036","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}