Translating Jazz Into Poetry: From Mimesis to Metaphor

The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music...

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Main Author: Redling, Erik (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ;Boston De Gruyter Mouton [2017]
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series 42
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339017
Summary:The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music) still dominates the field of criticism. This book challenges that interpretive approach. It demonstrates that a mimetic view of jazz poetry hinders readers from perceiving the metaphoric ways poets rendered music in writing. Drawing on and extending recent cognitive metaphor theories (Lakoff, Johnson, Turner, Fauconnier), it promotes a conceptual metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate "melody," "dynamics," "tempo," "mood," and other musical elements into literal and figurative expressions that invite readers to imagine the music in their mind’s eye (i.e., their mind’s ear)
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
Physical Description:1 online resource (318pages)
ISBN:9783110339017
9783110344592
9783110395280
9783110326543
DOI:10.1515/9783110339017