Unparalleled Poetry

A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible

Emmylou J. Grosser (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-090236-0 (ISBN)

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Unparalleled Poetry disentangles biblical poetry from parallelism and meter and provides an account of the free-rhythm versification system of biblical poetry. This cognitive approach is oriented toward how poetic structure can be heard and perceived, and it illuminates both the structures of biblical poetry and the artistry of potential effects.

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.

Emmylou J. Grosser, PhD, is a Research Fellow for the Department of Hebrew, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein. Her research interests include the language and literature of the Hebrew Bible and interdisciplinary approaches to biblical poetry.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Margaret H. Freeman
Abbreviations and Symbols

PART I: INTRODUCTORY MATTERS
Chapter 1: Unparalleling Biblical Poetry
Chapter 2: A Preliminary Description of Biblical Verse
Chapter 3: The Nature of the Biblical Hebrew Poetic Line

PART II: GESTALT PRINCIPLES: EMERGENCE OF BIBLICAL POETIC STRUCTURE
Chapter 4: Perceptual Organization and the Law of Simplicity, Proximity and Similarity
Chapter 5: Symmetry, Balance and Imbalance
Chapter 6: Good Continuation, Closure, Requiredness, and Principled Lineations

PART III: REMAINING ISSUES
Chapter 7: Integration and Unintegrated Lines, Rhythm in Lamentations, and Line Length Constraints
Chapter 8: Biblical Poetry and Prose
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Unparalleled Poetry

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	COGNITION AND POETICS SERIES
Zusatzinfo	3 b/w photographs; 20 line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 157 mm
Gewicht	680 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	0-19-090236-1 / 0190902361
ISBN-13	978-0-19-090236-0 / 9780190902360
Zustand	Neuware