Jean-Louis Aroui
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jean-Louis Aroui is
involved.
Title
Towards a Typology of Poetic Forms: From language to metrics and beyond
Edited by Jean-Louis Aroui and Andy Arleo
Metrics is often defined as a discipline that concerns itself with the study of meters. In this volume the term is used in a broader sense that more or less coincides with the traditional notion of “versification”. Understood this way, metrics is an eminently complex object that displays variation… read moreArticles
The introduction explains how and why the book is based on a fourfold distinction between isochronous metrics, prosodic metrics, parametrical phenomena, and macrostructural metrics. It surveys some recent problems of metrical theory, such as the nature of isochronous meters, musical textsetting,… read more In the Italian sonnet, the rhyme schemes (abba, abba, cde, cde) and (abba, abba, cdc, dcd) can be analysed as the concatenation of an octave and a sestet. Without this bipartite structure, the Italian sonnet would be too complex to be perceptible. The French sonnet, with its usual forms (abba,… read more 