Rhythm in Modern Poetry: An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies (Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts) - Softcover

Lilja, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798765100974

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

A pioneering work in cognitive versification studies, scrutinizing the rhythmical means of free verse.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Eva Lilja is Professor Emerita of Literature, specializing in Modernist poetry, in the Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She pioneered the study of free versification since her doctoral thesis in 1981 and was the founder and chair for the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies (1995-2009). Lilja was also a Swedish Academy Researcher for writing the official Swedish handbook in metrics (1998-2006).

Alexander Bergs joined the Institute for English and American Studies of the University of Osnabrück, Germany, in 2006 when he became Full Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics. His research interests include, among others, language variation and change, constructional approaches to language, the role of context in language, the syntax/pragmatics interface and cognitive poetics. Alexander Bergs has taught at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Bonn, Santiago de Compostela, Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Catania, Vigo and Thessaloniki and has organized numerous international workshops and conferences. Apart from several terms as Director of the Institute of English and American Studies, as Dean of the Faculty of Linguistics and Literatures, and as member of the University Senate, he is one of the founders and directors of the Research Cluster for Cognition and Poetics at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.

Margaret H. Freeman is Co-Director of the Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, MA, USA. Professor Freeman's past publications include The Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition (2020).

Peter Schneck is Professor (Chair) for American Literature and Culture at Osnabrück University, Germany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798765100974
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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