This volume is a representative selection of current methods of metrical-rhythmical analysis.
Leading experts in the field present the latest state of the art in metrical theory including
Generative Metrics the Russian quantitative-statistical approach Optimality Theory and
Cognitive Metrics. Besides this focus on theory the book also features topics such as metrical
typology automated metrical analysis comparative and historical metrics performance and
text-setting and analyses of a wide selection of verse forms and verse systems from a variety
of languages such as English German Russian Latin Slovenian Estonian Dutch Norwegian
and Siamese with a particular emphasis on English and German. This book will be of interest to
both linguists and literary critics.
