Current Trends in Metrical Analysis

Contents: Christoph Küper: Prolegomena to a Theory of Meter - David Chisholm: The Metrical Relations XO and OX in English and German Verse - Kristin Hanson: Generative Metrics: The State of the Art - Marina Tarlinskaja: «Russian School» and Verse Attribution: Henry VIII - Marina A. Krasnoperova : Meter, Rhythm, and Performance in the Reconstructive Simulation of Versification - Sebastian Donat: Metrical Typology: A New Proposal Based on Some Pertinent Models (Lotz, Wagenknecht, Buchstab) - Klemens Bobenhausen: The Metricalizer - Automated Metrical Markup of German Poetry - Igor Pilshchikov/Anatoli Starostin: Automated Analysis of Poetic Texts and the Problem of Verse Meter - Peter L. Groves: Shakespeare's Secret Influence: Metrical Gaps and the Jacobean Dramatists - Sergey Andreev: Correlation of Rhythmic and Syntactic Characteristics in the Sonnets by John Keats - Volker Schulz: Gerard Manley Hopkins' Theory of «Sprung Rhythm» and the Scansion of «The Windhover» - Wolfgang G. Müller: Meter and Meaning in British Balladry - Rosalía Rodríguez-Vázquez: Constraint Ranking in English Broadside Ballads - Aleksander Bjelcevic: Meter and Stanza in Rock Music: A Historical Perspective - Emily Klenin: Modular Constraints in Translation Analysis: The Translation of J. W. Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea by the Russian Poet Afanasij Fet (1820-92) - Evgeny Kazartsev: Zur Rhythmik der frühen niederländischen und deutschen Jamben - Maria-Kristiina Lotman: Sapphic Hendecasyllable in Estonian Poetry - Jacqueline Pattison Ekgren: Norwegian Stev: The Dipod and Pure Accentual Poetry - Teresa Proto: Against an Isochronous Interpretation of the Nibelungen Meter - Mihhail Lotman: Verse Structure and its Cognitive Model (Hexameter and Septenary) - Mari Sarv: Metrical Universals in Oral Poetry - Emilie Testard-Blanc: Konlabot and Konla Akson - The Quintessence of Poetic Constraint in Siamese Poetry - Beth Bjorklund: Rhetorical Rhythm and Oratorical Style: Barak Obama's Art of Language.

Christoph Küper is a retired Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vechta (Germany). He received a PhD in English from the University of Marburg and a postdoctoral degree in German Linguistics from the Technical University of Berlin. As a guest professor, he taught at the universities of Marburg, Berlin, and Göttingen. He has published various books and numerous articles on metrics, poetics, textlinguistics, semiotics, and syntax.