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all the fun's in how you say a thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification »
Authors: Timothy Steele
ISBN-13: 9780821412602, ISBN-10: 0821412604
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: April 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Timothy Steele
Timothy Steele is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. He is the author of Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt against Meter. His collections of poetry include The Color Wheel and Sapphics and Uncertainties: Poems 1970-1986.
Book Synopsis
Perfect for the general reader of poetry, students and teachers of literature, and aspiring poets, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing is a lively and comprehensive study of versification by one of our best contemporary practitioners of traditional poetic forms.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Metrical Norm and Rhythmical Modulation | 27 |
| Ch. 2 | Scansion and Metrical Variation | 52 |
| Ch. 3 | Additional Sources of Rhythmical Modulation, Including Enjambment, Caesural Pause, and Word Length | 94 |
| Ch. 4 | The Story of Elision, Including the Famous Rise, Troublesome Reign, and Tragical Fall of the Metrical Apostrophe | 116 |
| Ch. 5 | Boundless Wealth from a Finite Store: Meter and Grammar | 151 |
| Ch. 6 | Rhyme | 175 |
| Ch. 7 | Stanzas | 200 |
| Ch. 8 | Trochaic and Trisyllabic Meters | 221 |
| Ch. 9 | Alternative Modes of Versification in English | 246 |
| Notes | 281 | |
| Glossary | 307 | |
| Bibliography | 339 | |
| Permissions and Copyrights | 349 | |
| Index | 351 |
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Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism English Literature
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Literary Criticism Poetry - Literary CriticismNonfiction
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