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- Title
Re-Conceiving Voice in Modern Verse.
- Authors
SCOTT, CLIVE
- Abstract
This investigation into the speaking of modern verse (i.e. free verse and after) has, as its broadest founding assumptions that, as verse readers, we have lost sight of the history and anthropology of linguistic utterance and human listening, and that we continue to believe that the aim of metrico-rhythmic analysis is to get it right, once and for all, rather than to get it maximally appropriate, relativistically. I go back in time to a treatise on versification of the early nineteenth century, say, and think ‘Poor old soul, how linguistically unsophisticated, how misguided’, rather than thinking ‘So this is how poets and readers of this period actually perceived verse, how they heard it, how they composed it’, and then asking ‘How should I register, in verse-scansion, what wehear, what we are capable of hearing, today?’. If the train and camera, for example, have changed the dynamics and variety of optical perception, how has oral and aural production been affected by the development of voice-styles and voice-engineering?
- Subjects
POETRY (Literary form); VERBS; PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies; LITERATURE; VERSE drama
- Publication
Comparative Critical Studies, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1744-1854
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/E1744185408000244