Talking the walk & walking the talk : a rhetoric of rhythm /

Main Author: Shell, Marc, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Series:Verbal arts: studies in poetics
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=11083125
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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: -- CHAPTER ONE: STARTING OUT -- 1. Prologue & Preamble -- 2. Talking & Walking -- 3. Rhythm & Meter -- 4. Scansion & Breathing (Cæsura, Beat, Walking Poems) -- 5. Kinesiology & Prosody (Canine Walkies, Galloping Verse, Lame Metrics) -- 6. Writing & Dancing -- 7. Letting the Ducks Out -- CHAPTER TWO: WALKING VOICES -- 1. "And God went, 'Where are you'?" in the Bible's In The Beginning -- 2. The Walking Bass in Monteverdi's My Foot Slips Again [1624] -- 3. "I can Scarcely Move or Draw my Breath" in Purcell's King Arthur [1691] -- CHAPTER THREE: TRIPS OF THE TONGUE IN HAMLET [1600] -- 1. Crawl -- 2. Pause -- 3. Mobility -- 4. Claudication -- 5. Will he Nill he -- 6. Triplex -- CHAPTER FOUR: TALKING CURES -- 1. "Walking and Talking at the Same Time": Wordsworth's Dilation (Pedestrianism, Bumming, Hopping & Ambling) -- 2. "Slips of the Tongue": Freud's Hinking (Hysterical Narratives, Limping Iambics) -- CHAPTER FIVE: WALKIE TALKIES -- 1. Tin Man's "Can Can Can" in The Wizard of Oz [1939] -- 2. Foghorn Leghorn's "Walkie Talkie" in Walky Talky Hawky [1946] -- 3. Lina Lamont's "Pipes and Stems" in Singin' in the Rain [1952] -- 4. L.B. Jeffries' "Totter" in Rear Window [1954] -- CHAPTER SIX: MARCHING & HEILING IN THE GREAT DICTATOR [1940] -- 1. Powerful Crowds -- 2. Goose Steps -- 3. Macaronic Speeches -- 4. Anatine Quacks -- 5. Mind the Music -- CHAPTER SEVEN: SIGN LANGUAGES -- 1. Ma Bell's "Let your Fingers do the Walking" in The Yellow Pages [1962] -- 2. Dorothy Miles' Body-Sign Language in Gestures [1976] -- CHAPTER EIGHT: POSTAMBLE & EPILOGUE -- 1. Reduplication -- 2. Talking the Walk & Walking the Talk -- 3. The Finish Line -- 4. A Walking Solution -- BACK MATTER -- 1. Illustrations (List) -- 2. Abbreviations. 
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