Description Rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.
He has also edited the collections, The Call of the Phoneme: Puns and the Foundation of Letters , Just Being Difficult: Academic Writing in the Public Arena (with Kevin Lamb), Grounds of Comparison: Around the Work of Benedict Anderson (with Pheng Cheah), Structuralism: Critical Concepts , and Deconstruction: Critical Concepts ..
His books include Flaubert: The Uses of Uncertainty , Structuralist Poetics , On Deconstruction , The Pursuit of Signs , Ferdinand de Saussure , Roland Barthes , Framing the Sign , The Literary in Theory , Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction , and Theory of the Lyric .
Jonathan Culler (Edited By) Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Philosophical Society.
About the author Ben Glaser (Edited By) Ben Glaser is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University.
Pressing beyond poetry handbooks\' isolated descriptions of technique, the book asks what it means to think rhythm.
But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity.
Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics.
Description Rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory
