Unparalleled Poetry : A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible Hardback
by Emmylou J. (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Department of Hebrew, University of the Free Grosser
Part of the COGNITION AND POETICS SERIES series
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For more than 250 years, biblical Hebrew poetry scholarship has been dominated by metrical assumptions and the idea of parallelism.
While a consensus is emerging that biblical poetry is not metrical, no consensus has arisen regarding what parallelism is, or what makes biblical poetry "verse" or "poetry" in the absence of meter, graphical lineation, and end-marking of lines. Unparalleled Poetry claims that a new paradigm for biblical poetry is needed, a paradigm that is disentangled from parallelism as well as meter.
Drawing from the Cognitive Poetics work of Reuven Tsur, Emmylou Grosser reorients the discussion of biblical poetic structure to how poetic structure can be heard and perceived.
She argues that the line-units of biblical poetry emerge in the cognitive experience of the listener/reader and provides an account of the free-rhythm versification system of biblical poetry. Grosser's cognitive approach to biblical poetry accounts for the wide diversity of lines and poems in the Bible and illuminates both the structures of biblical poetry and the artistry of potential effects.
Unparalleled Poetry presents a rewarding new paradigm for readers of the Bible, while modeling new possibilities for the study of nonmetrical poetries and phenomena called "parallelism" throughout the world.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 3 b/w photographs; 20 line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:20/12/2023
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- ISBN:9780190902360
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 3 b/w photographs; 20 line drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:20/12/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780190902360
