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Subject(s)

• Poetics [Browse]
• Rhythm in literature [Browse]
• Walking in literature [Browse]
• English language—Versification [Browse]

Series

• Verbal arts--studies in poetics [More in this series]
• Verbal arts: studies in poetics

Summary note

• "This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk. The author first introduces the philosophical, neurological, anthropological, and aesthetic aspects of the subject in historical perspective, then focuses on rhetoric and introduces a tension between the small and large issues of rhythm. He thereupon turns his attention to the roles of breathing in poetry--as a life-and-death matter, with attention to beats and walking poems. This opens onto technical concepts from the classical traditions of rhetoric and philology. Turning to the relationship between prosody and motion, he considers both animals and human beings as both ostensibly able-bodied creatures and presumptively disabled ones. Finally, he looks at dancing and writing as aspects of walking and talking, with special attention to motion in Arabic and Chinese calligraphy. The final chapters of the book provide a series of interrelated representative case studies"-- Provided by publisher.
• "This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Starting out: Prologue & Preamble
• 2. Walking Voices
• 3. Trips of the Tongue in Hamlet (1600)
• 4. Talking Cures
• 5. Walkie Talkies
• 6. Marching and Heiling in The Great Dictator (1940)
• 7. Knock-kneed and Tongue-Tied in The King's Speech (2010)
• 8. Sign Language
• 9. Postamble and Epilogue.

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Other title(s)

Talking the walk and walking the talk

ISBN

• 9780823256822 (hardcover)
• 0823256820 (hardcover)
• 9780823256839 (paperback74)
• 0823256839 (paperback)

LCCN

2015013308

OCLC

910664414

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