Nila Friedberg It is often said that the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky "sounds English" when he writes in Russian, yet, it is far from clear what this statement really means. Using evidence from an unusually wide variety of disciplines and approaches,...
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Nila Friedberg It is often said that the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky "sounds English" when he writes in Russian, yet, it is far from clear what this statement really means. Using evidence from an unusually wide variety of disciplines and approaches, the book investigates the form and semantic aura of Brodsky's experimental rhythm and proposes a new approach to analyzing poetic innovation
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Acknowledgements; A note on copyright and transliteration; Introduction; 1. Brodsky's predecessors: Rules, violations, semantics; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. The Monosyllable Rule; 1.3. The Stress Maximum Principle; 1.4. The Monosyllable Rule: Brodsky's English sources; 1.5. The Monosyllable Rule: Brodsky's Russian sources; 1.6. Unstressed syllables in W positions: Regressive Dissimilation (RD); 1.7. Counting methods; 1.8. Anti-RD rhythm: Brodsky's English predecessors; 1.9. Anti-RD rhythm: Brodsky's Russian sources; 1.10. Elision and redundant syllables: Brodsky's English sources
1.11. Elision and redundant syllables: Brodsky's Russian predecessors1.12. Conclusion; 2. Redundant syllables: Elision in Brodsky's verse; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Brodsky's redundant syllables: A description; 2.3. English elision; 2.4. Phonological regularities in Brodsky; 2.5. Brodsky's rule and recitation; 2.6. Brodsky and Slutsky; 2.7. Semantic associations of disrupted meter and elision; 2.8. Conclusion; 3. Brodsky's anti-RD rhythm: semantics and sources; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The "English" uses of Brodsky's anti-RD; 3.3. The rhythm of exile
3.4. The form of Brodsky's anti-RD: English or Russian?3.5. Brodsky's Russian predecessors: Bely, Khodasevich, Tsvetaeva; 3.6. Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendices; I. Changes from Brodsky's drafts to final versions; II. 100 randomly-selected words with the shape -Xxx- in the prose of Brodsky, Slutsky, and Donne; III. Words with the shape -Xxx- in elision positions in the verse of Donne, Brodsky, and Slutsky; IV. Statistical tests of words with the shape -Xxx- in poetry and prose; V. Anti-RD rhythm in Brodsky's iambic poems; VI. Anti-RD rhythm in Tsvetaeva's iambic poems
VII. Anti-RD rhythm in Brodsky, Tsvetaeva, and DonneReferences; Author index; Subject index;
