| Description |
x, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Questions for a Theory of Poetry. 2. Telling Rhythm: A Poetic Paradox. 3. Becoming the Postmodern Reader of Poetry. 4. What Is Poetry? 5. Russian Formalism. 6. After Formalism: The Impasse of Rhetoric. 7. Roman Jakobson's Structuralist Model -- Pt. 2. The Nietzschean Tradition. 8. Meaning, Form, and the Nietzschean Sublime. 9. Psychoanalytic Revisions of Nietzsche: Freud and Lacan. 10. Nicolas Abraham; With an Excursus on Rap. 11. Julia Kristeva: Body and Symbol. 12. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: The Subject as Rhythm -- Pt. 3. Telling Rhythm: Allegories of Its Sublime Power. 13. Telling Rhythm: Solutions to Postmodern Problems. 14. Cases for Interpretation: Ballads Old and New, High and Low |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index |
| Subject |
Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Rhythm.
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| LC no. |
94002920 |
| ISBN |
0472105132 (alk. paper) |
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