Open AccessFRENCH VERSE ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Clive Scott
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
french studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1468-2931
pISSN - 0016-1128
DOI - 10.1093/fs/knl034
Subject(s) - history , art , literature
What follows is not a comprehensive état présent of studies in French versification; that would require an account of a completely different order of magnitude. Instead, I wish to use a briefer and selective survey of writing on French metrico-rhythmics, predominantly since 1990, to highlight some of the issues which seem most pressingly to deserve further reflection. However much analysts would wish it otherwise, metrics, or metricorhythmics, is not an exact science, but an unstable critical discipline, subject to ideological conflict and cultural fluctuations.
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