Friedberg English Rhythms in Russian Verse: On the Experiment of Joseph Brodsky

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-023809-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 232, 221 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

Readers of poetry make aesthetic judgements about verse. It is quite common to hear intuitive statements about poets' rhythms. It is said, for example, that Joseph Brodsky, the Russian poet and 1987 Nobel Prize laureate, "sounds English" when he writes in Russian. Yet, it is far from clear what this statement means from a linguistic point of view. What is English about Brodsky's Russian poetry? And in what way are his "English" rhythms different from the verse of his Russian predecessors?The book provides an analysis of Brodsky's experiment bringing evidence from an unusually wide variety of disciplines and theories rarely combined in a single study, including the generative approach to meter; the Russian quantitative approach, analysis of readers' intuitions about poetic rhythm, analysis of the poet's source readings, as well as acoustic phonetics, statistics, and archival research. The distinct analytic approaches applied in this book to the same phenomenon complement one another each providing insight alternate approaches do not, and showing that only a combination of theories and methods allows us to fully appreciate what Brodsky's "English accent" really was, and what any poetic innovation means.

Zielgruppe

Linguists (metrical prosody, resolution, phonetics/ phonology int

Autoren/Hrsg.

Friedberg, Nila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Ostslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;A note on copyright and transliteration;9
3;Introduction;13
4;1. Brodsky’s predecessors: Rules, violations, semantics;22
4.1;1.1. Introduction;22
4.2;1.2. The Monosyllable Rule;24
4.3;1.3. The Stress Maximum Principle;30
4.4;1.4. The Monosyllable Rule: Brodsky’s English sources;32
4.5;1.5. The Monosyllable Rule: Brodsky’s Russian sources;35
4.6;1.6. Unstressed syllables in W positions: Regressive Dissimilation (RD);39
4.7;1.7. Counting methods;46
4.8;1.8. Anti-RD rhythm: Brodsky’s English predecessors;48
4.9;1.9. Anti-RD rhythm: Brodsky’s Russian sources;52
4.10;1.10. Elision and redundant syllables: Brodsky’s English sources;54
4.11;1.11. Elision and redundant syllables: Brodsky’s Russian predecessors;59
4.12;1.12. Conclusion;63
5;2. Redundant syllables: Elision in Brodsky’s verse;65
5.1;2.1. Introduction;65
5.2;2.2. Brodsky’s redundant syllables: A description;66
5.3;2.3. English elision;70
5.4;2.4. Phonological regularities in Brodsky;73
5.5;2.5. Brodsky’s rule and recitation;80
5.6;2.6. Brodsky and Slutsky;86
5.7;2.7. Semantic associations of disrupted meter and elision;91
5.8;2.8. Conclusion;94
6;3. Brodsky’s anti-RD rhythm: semantics and sources;97
6.1;3.1. Introduction;97
6.2;3.2. The “English” uses of Brodsky’s anti-RD;99
6.3;3.3. The rhythm of exile;102
6.4;3.4. The form of Brodsky’s anti-RD: English or Russian?;111
6.5;3.5. Brodsky’s Russian predecessors: Bely, Khodasevich, Tsvetaeva;115
6.6;3.6. Conclusion;131
7;Conclusion;134
8;Appendices;138
8.1;I. Changes from Brodsky’s drafts to final versions;138
8.2;II. 100 randomly-selected words with the shape -Xxx- in the prose of Brodsky, Slutsky, and Donne;140
8.3;III. Words with the shape -Xxx- in elision positions in the verse of Donne, Brodsky, and Slutsky;152
8.4;IV. Statistical tests of words with the shape -Xxx- in poetry and prose;157
8.5;V. Anti-RD rhythm in Brodsky’s iambic poems;162
8.6;VI. Anti-RD rhythm in Tsvetaeva’s iambic poems;183
8.7;VII. Anti-RD rhythm in Brodsky, Tsvetaeva, and Donne;188
9;References;195
10;Author index;218
11;Subject index;221

Über Autor(innen)

Nila Friedberg, Portland State University, Oregon, USA.