Telling Rhythm

Telling Rhythm
By:Amittai F. Aviram
Published on 1994 by University of Michigan Press

|In an era when poetry as a cultural force in the West appears to be waning, Telling Rhythm presents a hopeful and invigorating new approach to reading and interpreting poetry. At the same time, the book reviews a tradition of theorizing about poetry and suggests some innovations in literary theory itself that point to new ways of thinking about poetic texts.| |Telling Rhythm takes rhythm, rather than meaning, as its starting point in reading poetry. Rhythm has traditionally been conceived as poetry's secondary property, as a device to strengthen the expression of meaning. Aviram suggests instead that the meaning of poetry, its thematic, content and images, express rhythm - that is, poetry can be read as an allegory of the sublime power of rhythm to manifest the physical world to us. It is thus a way of infusing words with a power that is not itself in words, a way of saying the ineffable. At the same time, the paradox of representing |the unrepresentably physical| challenges the socially meaningful terms in which a poem operates, thus demanding new ways of thinking.| |This original theory is presented in the context of a theoretical tradition that starts with Nietzsche. The paradox of representing an unrepresentably physical energy is explored as a common thread in the thinking of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Nicolas Abraham, Julia Kristeva, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Telling Rhythm connects psychoanalysis to poetry in new and complex ways, as well as tracing a previously unexplored kinship between structural linguists and the Nietzchean tradition with regard to poetry. Emphasizing interpretation as a way of discerning the relation between the represented and the unknowable, Telling Rhythm also suggests a new attitude toward knowledge itself, one that includes both the culturally specific and the ahistorical, the knowable and the unknowable.| |The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of literary theory, poetry, comparative literature, philosophy, and popular culture, as well as to poets interested in theory.|--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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