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On the Character of Georgian Verse Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Tamar Lomidze
Research on the character of Georgian verse started in 1731. Since that time, some researchers have described Georgian verse as syllabic, while others have said that it is syllabotonic. The dispute about the character of Georgian verse became particularly acute in the 20th century. The main text the participants in the dispute analysed was a prominent piece of Georgian poetry of the 12th century –
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The Semiotics of New Era Poetry: Estonian Instagram and Rap Poetry Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Rebekka Lotman
Mikhail Gasparov concludes his monograph “A History of European Versification” with the recognition that in the development of particular verse forms in each tradition of poetry, there is a permanent interaction between two types of poetry: those of oral popular and bookish culture. The forms engendered by popular culture are assimilated by bookish culture, while those engendered by literary culture
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Alliteration as a Rhythmic Device in Latin Literature: General Clarifications and Proposal for a New Vertical Variant, Alliteration Before or After the Caesura Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Marina Salvador-Gimeno
In this article, two types of alliteration in Latin are analyzed: the one that occurs horizontally in the verse (Saepe Solet Scintilla Suos Se Spargere…, Lucr. 4.606) and the one that develops vertically in successive verses (Aurea … || Asper… || Arboris…, Lucr. 5.32–34 or … Annis || … hAbendo, || … ARatri || … ARuis, Lucr. 1.311–314). We propose a vertical variant that has not been studied to date
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Russian Binary Meters. Part Two. Chapters 5–6 Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kiril Taranovsky,Lawrence E. Feinberg
Part I of Russian Binary Meters, the English translation of Kiril Taranovsky’s classic study Ruski dvodelni ritmovi (Taranovsky 1953), appeared in volume 7.2 (2020) of Studia Metrica et Poetica (pp. 110–176). Part I bears the title (inadvertently omitted from our translation) “Theoretical Bases for the Study of Russian Binary Meters”, and consists of the first four of the book’s nineteen sections.
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Shelley’s The Cenci: Versification Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Marina Tarlinskaja
The article describes the development of English iambic pentameter during 260 years, 1561–1821. The evolution of the versification went in waves: strict (Renaissance) – loose (Baroque) – strict (Classicism) – loose (Romanticism); the periods developed “over the head” of adjacent periods. The similarity of the Renaissance and Classicism vs. Baroque and Romanticism was probably rhythmical homonymy rather
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Bashkir Verse from the Turkic Perspective Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Boris Orekhov
The article discusses the statistically identified properties of Bashkir versification in comparison with the existing descriptions of other Turkic versification systems. The focus is on imparisyllabic forms, predominant meters, and peculiarities of rhyme. The study allows concluding that Bashkir Uzun-Kyuy (a regular alteration of 10- and 9-syllable lines) is unique and its equivalents are not found
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“The Trout Breaks the Ice” by Mikhail Kuzmin: Verse and Grammar Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Marina Akimova
The author explores various compositional levels of the Russian modernist author Mikhail Kuzmin’s long poem “The Trout Breaks the Ice”. The levels are: (1) the grammatical tenses vs. the astronomical time (non-finite verb forms (imperative) are also assumed to indicate time); (2) the meters of this polymetric poem; (3) realistic vs. symbolic and (4) static vs. dynamic narrative modes. The analysis
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Meter in Traditional Kakataibo Chants Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Alejandro Augusto Prieto Mendoza
This paper studies the principal aspects of meter of three traditional Kakataibo chants (a Panoan group of Peruvian Amazonia). Regarding meter, Kakataibo chants exhibit patterns relevant for the cross-linguistic study of line and meter typology. I describe the Kakataibo system of versification as a quantitative meter that counts an exact number of moras and regulates the distribution of these by imposing
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Acoustics and Resonance in Poetry: The Psychological Reality of Rhyme in Baudelaire’s “Les Chats” Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Reuven Tsur
This article uses the term “psychological reality” in this sense: the extent to which the constructs of linguistic theory can be taken to have a basis in the human mind, i.e., to somehow be reflected in human cognitive structures. This article explores the human cognitive structures in which the constructs of phonetic theory may be reflected. The last section is a critique of the psychological reality
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The Metrics of Seto Choral Laments in the Context of Runosong Metrics Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Janika Oras,Žanna Pärtlas,Mari Sarv,Andreas Kalkun
The aim of this paper is to get an overview of the lament metrics in Seto oral song tradition, which belongs to the southern border area of the Finnic song tradition, and the placement and historical development of lament metrics in the framework of the whole Seto oral song tradition. In the paper the metrical structures of two main genres of Seto choral laments – choral bridal laments and death laments
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Russian Verse Studies after Gasparov Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2021-10-14 Vera Polilova
This article discusses the most important results and materials presented at the Verse Studies section of Gasparov Lectures 2007–2019, an annual conference held in Moscow every April since 2007 in memory of the prominent Russian scholar Mikhail L. Gasparov (1935–2005). It aims to present the current state of affairs in Russian verse studies, to sum up some of their recent achievements, to identify
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Russian Iambic Tetrameter: The Evolution of Its Rhythmic Structure Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Sergei Liapin
To characterize the rhythm of stresses in a line of Russian iambic tetrameter, a frequency profile is often used, i. e., a diagram of the occurrence of real stresses on all feet (ictuses) of the verse line. This article discusses in detail one of the mechanisms that enables the speech factor to influence the formation of the stress profile. It is shown that in Russian iambic tetrameter of the nineteenth
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Kiril Taranovsky and his Greatest Work Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Mihhail Lotman,Igor Pilshchikov
Kiril Taranovsky and his Greatest Work
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Annika Mikkel, Rütmilised lauselõpud 14. sajandi ladinakeelsetes ning itaalia rahvakeelsetes proosateostes Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Satu Grünthal
Annika Mikkel, Rütmilised lauselõpud 14. sajandi ladinakeelsetes ning itaalia rahvakeelsetes proosateostes (Rhythmic clausulae in the 14th-century Latin and Italian vernacular prose texts)
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John Fletcher’s Collaborator on The Noble Gentleman Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Darren Freebury-Jones
Although John Fletcher is recognized as one of the most influential dramatists of the early modern period, many of the theories concerning the divisions of authorship in his collaborative plays continue to present insoluble difficulties. For instance, according to the soundly based chronology developed by Martin Wiggins, many plays attributed in part to Francis Beaumont appear to have been written
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Radishchev’s “Bova” and Its Place in the History of Russian Folkloric Stylization Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Michael Wachtel
Aleksandr Radishchev (1749–1802) has long been recognized for the boldness and originality of his writings. The present essay examines a substantial but largely forgotten poetic work (“Bova”), focusing on its experimental metrics. The author considers Radishchev’s possible motivations in creating this unprecedented form and suggests a new means of categorizing it.
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Movement and Balance. A comment on Derek Attridge’s Moving Words Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Eva Lilja
This paper discusses some central problems that occur within cognitive versification studies. Derek Attridge’s Moving Words (2013) comments on Richard Cureton’s concept of temporalities. Attridge understands poetic rhythm as movement. He draws the conclusion that movement and repetition are, in principle, contradictory because, in a way, repetition looks backwards and stops the movement. This turns
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Verse Forms and Metres in Livonian Humanist Poetry: David Hilchen and his Ancient Models Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Maria-Kristiina Lotman,Kristi Viiding
The aim of this paper is to give an account of verse forms in David Hilchen’s poetry. In the paper the metrical structures and rhythmic regularities in poems gathered from different periods of his creation are studied and the results are compared with the data from ancient Latin authors. Some aspects of the prosodic features in Hilchen’s verse are discussed as well. The paper will demonstrate the prosodic
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Quantitative Approaches to Versification: Conference report (June 24–26, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic) Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Igor Pilshchikov,Vera Polilova
Quantitative Approaches to Versification: Conference report (June 24–26, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic)
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Juan de Mena’s arte mayor verse in Laberinto de fortuna: Identifying and describing a Spanish dolnik Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Jesús M. Saavedra Carballido
The metre used by the Spanish writer Juan de Mena in his long allegorical work Laberinto de fortuna has been puzzling metrists for over five centuries. Usually identified as a variety of the verse called arte mayor, this metre has been analysed, among other things, as a divided line – one systematically allowing internal extrametricality – and as an amphibrachic line. Here it will be argued that the
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A Note on some of Hölderlin’s Epigrams in English Translation Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Alfred Behrmann
The paper examines the epigrams included in Michael Hamburger’s translations of Hölderlin’s work, focusing on the observance of metrical rules and offering alternatives where they have not been complied with, taking care to change as little as possible.
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The Metrical Structure of the Sapphic Hendecasyllable and Sappho’s Aiolikon in Lesbian Poetry Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Anni Arukask
The works of Sappho and Alcaeus, 7th–6th century BC lyric poets from the island of Lesbos, represent the Aeolic tradition of ancient Greek poetry. In this paper, two metrical structures of this tradition, that both have two quantity-free positions (anceps, brevis in longo), are analysed and compared with regard to the quantitative tendencies of these positions. The first metrical structure, the Sapphic
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Rhythmical Ambiguity: Verbal Forms and Verse Forms Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Igor Pilshchikov
In undertaking the statistical analysis of the rhythm of Russian syllabic-accentual verse, one confronts a problem: how to accentuate words whose natural-language stress is weaker than that of fully-stressed words. Zhirmunsky called such words “ambiguous” and formulated a rule: they should be considered stressed in “strong” (ictic) positions and unstressed in “weak” (non-ictic) positions. Gasparov
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Plotting Poetry 3. Conference report Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-03-10 David J. Birnbaum, Anne-Sophie Bories, Thomas N. Haider, Mari Sarv
Plotting Poetry (and Poetics) 3 / Machiner la poésie (et la poétique) 3, the third convocation of an international group of scholars who share an interest in the machine-assisted exploration of poetry and poetics, met on 26–27 September 2019 in Nancy at the ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) Laboratory, part of the Université de Lorraine and of the CNRS (Centre National
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The semiotics of verse rhythm and comparative rhythmics: Vladimir Nabokov’s and Jurgis Baltrušaitis’s binary tetrameters from a typological perspective Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Mihhail Lotman
The article discusses the problems of poetic rhythm in two aspects. The first concerns the possibility of awareness and conscious modelling of various aspects of poetic rhythm; the second is related to the manifestation of similar or even identical tendencies in the rhythmic structures of various authors who belong to different eras and literary trends and even writing in different languages. Works
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Poetic metre as a function of language: linguistic grounds for metrical variation in Estonian runosongs Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-03-10 Mari Sarv
The article focuses on the relationship of language and metre in case of oral poetry, more exactly, to what extent and through which processes the changes in language have induced the changes in metre in case of Estonian runosong, a branch of common Finnic poetic-musical tradition. The Estonian language has gone through a series of notable phonological changes during approximately last 500 to 700 years
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Performing Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2020-02-27 Reuven Tsur
This is an instrumental exploration of theoretical issues related to the vocal performance of Mediaeval Hebrew pegs-and-cords meter, of which we have neither authentic recordings, nor verbal descriptions of actual performances of the time. Consequently, I am exploring only possibilities implied by poetic structures as embodied in later performances, not in actual authentic performances. But, in my
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form? Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-08-29 Frog
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.). It argues that this verse form emerged as a creolization of the North Germanic alliterative verse form during a period of intensive language contacts, and that the Finnic ethnopoetic ecology made it isosyllabic. Previous theories have focused on
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Graphic Translation of Experimental Verse as a Strategy of Poetic Text’s Transcreation Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-08-29 Vladimir Feshchenko
The article examines the problem of translating experimental poetic texts into other languages. The focus is on the transfer of verse’s spatial design between the source and the target languages. We analyze some cases of unconventional poetry translation with particular attention to verbal/visual properties of avant-garde poems. Stéphane Mallarmé’s, Guillaume Apollinaire’s, Augusto de Campos’ and Dmitry
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Evolution of Verse Form, Plots and Characters in English Plays (mid-16th to mid-19th centuries) Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-08-29 Marina Tarlinskaja
The aim of this essay is to demonstrate how the rhythmical evolution of English dramatic iambic pentameter parallelled the changes of aesthetic tastes and social values of English society from the mid-sixteenth to mid-nineteenth century. During 250 years the evolution of such features as the abundance or absence of enjambments, the use of constrained or loose iambs, and some others corresponds to the
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On the Poetic of the Double Point and Circle in Dante’s Paradiso 30 and in Desmond Hogan’s Short Story “The Last Time” Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-08-29 Ülar Ploom
This essay discusses the interaction of the divine point of light and Beatrice as the unattainable point of revelation for Dante in Paradiso 30. The two points with their respective circles of understanding and expression form a powerful figure which calls for conceptualisation both in the context of Canto 30 but also the whole of the Divina Commedia. Despite the different epochs, ideologies and contexts
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Metrics and versification in poetry and song: the 14th Nordic conference on metrics, 13–15 September, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Sissel Furuseth
Metrics and versification in poetry and song: the 14th Nordic conference on metrics, 13–15 September, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
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Versification and authorship attribution. A pilot study on Czech, German, Spanish, and English poetry Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Petr Plecháč, Klemens Bobenhausen, Benjamin Hammerich
This article describes pilot experiments performed as one part of a longterm project examining the possibilities for using versification analysis to determine the authorships of poetic texts. Since we are addressing this article to both stylometry experts and experts in the study of verse, we first introduce in detail the common classifiers used in contemporary stylometry (Burrows’ Delta, Argamon’s
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Testing the robustness of final strictness in verse lines Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Varuṇ DeCastro-Arrazola
In the field of metrics, it has long been observed that verse lines tend to be more regular or restricted towards the end (Arnold 1905). This has led to the Strict End Hypothesis [SEH], which proposes a general versification principle of universal scope (Hayes 1983). This paper argues that two main challenges hinder the substantiation of the SEH in a broad typological sample of unrelated verse corpora
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Spanish Romancero in Russian and the semantization of verse form Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-01-28 Vera Polilova
In this paper, I analyze Russian translations and close imitations of Spanish Romancero poetry composed between 1789 and the 1930s, as well as Russian original poems of the same period marked by “Spanish” motifs. I discuss the Spanish romance as an international European genre, and show how this verse form’s distinctive features were transferred into Russian poetry and how the Russian version – or
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Enjambment – Irony, Wit, Emotion. A Case Study Suggesting Wider Principles Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2019-01-17 Reuven Tsur,Chen Gafni
This study submits to empirical investigation an old idea of Tsur’s regarding the effect of enjambment on the perceived subtleness of irony in a poetic passage. We submitted two versions of a Milton passage to over 50 participants with “background in literary studies”, ranging from undergraduates to tenured professors, asking them to rate the perceived subtleness of irony and forthrightness of expression
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Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (1929–2017) and his Studies in Prosody and Poetics Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-08-05 Igor Pilshchikov, Ronald Vroon
Vyacheslav V. Ivanov was an outstanding scholar who excelled in almost all disciplines related to linguistic and literary studies. This article analyses his accomplishments in the fields of prosody and poetics.
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Rapikwenty: ‘A loner in the ashes’ and other songs for sleeping Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-08-05 Myfany Turpin, Jennifer Green
Rapikwenty is a traditional Australian Indigenous set of stories-and-songs from the Utopia region of Central Australia performed by Anmatyerr speaking adults to lull children to sleep. The main protagonist is a boy who is left to play alone in the ashes. Like many lullabies, Rapikwenty is characterised by scary themes, soft dynamics, a limited pitch range and repetition. The story-and-song form is
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Optimality Theory, Language Typology, and Universalist Metrics Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-08-05 Geoffrey Russom
In Russom (2011), I defended a universalist hypothesis that the constituents of poetic form are abstracted from natural linguistic constituents: metrical positions from phonological constituents, usually syllables; metrical feet from morphological constituents, usually words; and metrical lines from syntactic constituents, usually sentences. An important corollary to this hypothesis is that norms for
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Verse texts in the Latin inscriptions of Estonian ecclesiastical space: meter, rhythm and prosody Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-08-05 Anni Arukask, Kaidi Kriisa, Maria-Kristiina Lotman, Tuuli Triin Truusalu, Martin Uudevald, Kristi Viiding
In 2014, the project CEILE (Corpus Electronicum Inscriptionum Latinarum Estoniae, EKKM 14-364) was launched within the framework of the program “Estonian language and cultural memory”, in order to systematically map and study the Latin inscriptions created before 1918 and stored in Estonian Lutheran and Catholic churches. As of 2018, the database contains more than 300 inscriptions. Although the proportion
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Attributing John Marston’s Marginal Plays Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-08-05 Darren Freebury-Jones, Marina Tarlinskaja, Marcus Dahl
John Marston (c. 1576–1634) was a dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, known for his satirical wit and literary feuds with Ben Jonson. His dramatic corpus consists of nine plays of uncontested authorship. This article investigates four additional plays of uncertain authorship which have been associated with Marston: Lust’s Dominion; Histriomastix; The Family of Love; and The Insatiate
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Towards the concept of semantic halo Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Mikhail Trunin
This paper is focused on the “semantic halo of meter” («семантический ореол метра»), one of the most recognizable, popular, and widely used concepts in Russian verse studies. After the publication of Kiril Taranovsky’s article “On the Relationships between Verse Rhythm and Theme” (1963), in which the author addresses the issue by looking at the Russian trochaic pentameter and deals with one particular
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Daniel Call’s Schocker: German Knittelvers in the late twentieth century Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 David Chisholm
The word “Knittelvers” has been used since the eighteenth century to describe four-stress rhyming couplets which seem to be rather simply and awkwardly constructed, and whose content is frequently comical, course, vulgar or obscene. Today German Knittelvers is perhaps best known from the works of Goethe and Schiller, as well as other late eighteenth and early nineteenth century writers. Well-known
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Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III, 29–30 September 2017, Tallinn, Estonia Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Kadri Novikov, Anni Arukask
On 29–30 September 2017, a conference titled Frontiers in Comparative Metrics III was held at Tallinn University. The first conference in this series was held in 2008 in memory of Mikhail Gasparov, and the second in 2013 in memory of Lucylla Pszczołowska. This year’s conference was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the eminent Estonian scholar, Jaak Põldmäe, who was the founder of scientific Estonian
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The patterns of the Estonian sonnet: periodization, incidence, meter and rhyme Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Rebekka Lotman
The first sonnets in Estonian language were published almost 650 years after this verse form was invented by Federico da Lentini in Sicily, in the late of 19th century. Sonnet form became instantly very popular in Estonia and has since remained the most important fixed form in Estonian poetry. Despite its widespread presence over time the last comprehensive research on Estonian sonnet was written in
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NorLyr: A Scandinavian network in poetry research Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Eva Lilja
During its early years this network was called ‘NorMod’, short for Nordic Modernism. Nowadays our home page is named ‘NorLyr’1. ‘Lyr’ is short for ‘lyrik’, which in Swedish means all kinds of poems. This change is due to that focus little by little has moved to the examination of the very latest literary achievements, poetry after the millennium shift, more than only modernism. The network was founded
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Plotting Poetry: On mechanically enhanced reading, 5–7 October 2017, Basel, Switzerland Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 Clara Martínez Cantón, Petr Plecháč, Pablo Ruiz Fabo, Levente Seláf
The international conference Plotting Poetry: On Mechanically Enhanced Reading was organised by Anne-Sophie Bories, Hugues Marchal (both University of Basel), and Gérald Purnelle (Liège University) held in Basel, Switzerland from 5 to 7 October 2017. This conference comprised 26 presentations in English and French, delivered by scholars from eleven different countries and devoted to a wide range of
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Fin-de-Siècle Yeats: Artistry and affect in “The Cap and Bells” Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2018-01-04 MacDonald P. Jackson
There have been various interpretations of W. B. Yeats’s “The Cap and Bells”, but little attention has been paid to those elements of its organization which make it effective as poetry. This article is concerned less with what the poem means than with how it means, through the choice and placement of words, phrases, and images in a sequence that not only tells a story but shapes it so as to engage
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Early English meter as a way of thinking Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Eric Weiskott
The second half of the fourteenth century saw a large uptick in the production of literature in English. This essay frames metrical variety and literary experimentation in the late fourteenth century as an opportunity for intellectual history. Beginning from the assumption that verse form is never incidental to the thinking it performs, the essay seeks to test Simon Jarvis’s concept of “prosody as
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The shortest species: how the length of Russian poetry changed (1750–1921) Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Artjom Shelya, Oleg Sobchuk
The paper studies long-term changes in the length of Russian poetry (1750–1921) to reveal the relation of poem length (counted in lines) to a poetic form and its evolution. The research has shown a dramatic decrease in the mean and median poetry lengths during the 19th century. This decrease was followed by the decline in length diversity, which resulted in short poems (8–20 lines) overpopulating the
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Prototypes and structures in eddic poetry Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Kristján Árnason
Seiichi Suzuki, The Meters of Old Norse Eddic Poetry: Common Germanic Inheritance and North Germanic Innovation (Erganzungsbande zum Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, Band 86). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2014. XLV+1096 pp.
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In Memoriam: Arvo Krikmann (1939–2017) Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Mari Sarv
Arvo Krikmann was, among many other things, an Estonian academician, folklorist, linguist, paremiologist, and humour researcher. Working in folklore departments at the Estonian Literary Museum, Institute of Estonian Language and Literature, and University of Tartu, his main resources for study throughout his career had been voluminous archival collections of Estonian folklore, as well as the early
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Conference on Finnic runo-song tradition Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Janika Oras, Mari Sarv
The series of biannual conferences devoted to Finnic runo-song tradition in Tartu, Estonia had its ninth event “Seven skins of runo-song: various views on Finnic song tradition” on November 30 and December 1, 2016 at the Estonian Literary Museum. The aim of the conference series that started in 2000 is to offer a regular forum to all the researchers studying Finnic oral song tradition in broadest sense
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Approaches to verse theory in the works of Jaak Põldmäe Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Mikhail Gasparov, Mihhail Lotman, Pyotr Rudnev, Marina Tarlinskaja
It is hard to imagine more versatile a scholar of poetry than Jaak Põldmäe (1942–1979). In the course of his short life (particularly short for a humanist scholar) he made a significant contribution to the development of various areas of verse theory and the dissemination of knowledge of poetics. Põldmäe paid equal attention to both the development of verse theory (see his works on the typology of
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Metre, rhythm and emotion in poetry. A cognitive approach Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Reuven Tsur
This essay integrates what I have written on the contribution of meter and rhythm to emotional qualities in poetry, opposing them to emotional contents . I distinguish between “meaning-oriented” approaches and “perceived effects” approaches, adopting the latter; and adopt a qualitative (rather than quantitative) method of research. Providing a simplified list of structural elements of emotion, I explore
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The versification of the Romansh poet Andri Peer: the heptasyllable and hendecasyllable in his early free forms Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-08-07 Renzo Caduff
This paper examines the versification style of the Romansh poet Andri Peer, who can be considered as the first “modern” poet of the Romansh literature. It focuses on Andri Peer’s most frequently used verse lines in his early free forms: the heptasyllabic and hendecasyllabic verse. A rhythmical analysis of the single verse instances revealed that the internal organisation of the line is not very elaborate
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Versification: Metrics in practice, 25th–27th May 2016, Helsinki, Finland Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-01-17 Satu Grünthal,Erika Laamanen
Versification: Metrics in practice, 25th–27th May 2016, Helsinki, Finland
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The Russian iambic tetrameter: The problem of description (Prolegomena to a new paradigm) Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-01-17 Sergei Liapin
From the very beginning of systematic investigation of the Russian iambic tetrameter (1910s–1940s), the proportion of stresses on the first and second ictus of the line was chosen as its main rhythmic characteristic. Meanwhile, attributing an aesthetic value to this characteristic is wrong: it is largely dependent on the changing speech norm in the late 18th an early 19th century. The general trend
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Verse diversification: Frequencies and variations of verse types in Vana kannel and Kalevipoeg Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-01-17 Peter Grzybek
The present study concentrates on specific linguistic aspects in traditional Estonian poetic texts. Focusing on the verse structure of the traditional folk song of Vana kannel and the individually edited and authored epic poem Kalevipoeg , different aspects of the length of verse lines, of the words included in these verses, and of the relation between verse and word length shall be analyzed, aiming
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To separate or not to separate: Stanza boundaries and poetic structure Studia Metrica et Poetica Pub Date : 2017-01-17 Barry P. P. Scherr
This article examines two related matters that have heretofore received little attention in the scholarly literature. The first is whether the division into stanzas shown on the page always reflects the thematic and formal structure of the poem. For instance, may 8-line stanzas with a repeated rhyme scheme (such as ababcdcd) in fact represent pairs of quatrains arbitrarily joined together? Conversely