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Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac

Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac Reuve n Tsur Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac Aiming to highlight the difference between the author's approach to "Cognitive Poetics" and that informing analyses based on cog- nitive linguistics, this paper offers an analysis of versification style in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in the contrastive light of reflecting upon Eve Sweetser's investigation of rhyme and metre in the same play. Proceeding from a gestalt-oriented perspective, the analysis focuses, first, on the perceptual implications of intrusions upon the verse line (such as caesura and syntactic boundaries), noting in particular their crucial significance for the perception of line integrity, as seen in the context of Rostand's tense, a-classical, style of alexandrine composition. Secondly, the semantic structure of rhyme words is analyzed, -with an emphasis on such perceptual effects as "vigorous" and "tame". Revitalizing a central tenet of New Critical theory, the paper concludes by arguing for a theo- retical framework of Cognitive Poetics doing away with the tradi- tional, still widely observed form-content dichotomy.1 Preliminary Since the first publication of my book Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992), many scholars adopted the term "Cognitive Poetics", and it is now widely used — in quite different senses. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cognitive Semiotics de Gruyter

Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac

Tsur, Reuven
Cognitive Semiotics , Volume 2 (s1): 23 – Mar 1, 2008
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Reuve n Tsur Comparing Approaches to Versification Style in Cyrano de Bergerac Aiming to highlight the difference between the author's approach to "Cognitive Poetics" and that informing analyses based on cog- nitive linguistics, this paper offers an analysis of versification style in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in the contrastive light of reflecting upon Eve Sweetser's investigation of rhyme and metre in the same play. Proceeding from a gestalt-oriented perspective, the analysis focuses, first, on the perceptual implications of intrusions upon the verse line (such as caesura and syntactic boundaries), noting in particular their crucial significance for the perception of line integrity, as seen in the context of Rostand's tense, a-classical, style of alexandrine composition. Secondly, the semantic structure of rhyme words is analyzed, -with an emphasis on such perceptual effects as "vigorous" and "tame". Revitalizing a central tenet of New Critical theory, the paper concludes by arguing for a theo- retical framework of Cognitive Poetics doing away with the tradi- tional, still widely observed form-content dichotomy.1 Preliminary Since the first publication of my book Toward a Theory of Cognitive Poetics (1992), many scholars adopted the term "Cognitive Poetics", and it is now widely used — in quite different senses.

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Published: Mar 1, 2008

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