Practical navigation: or, An introduction to the whole art [[electronic resource] ] : Containing the doctrine of plain and spherical triangles. Plain, mercator, great-circle sailing; and astronomical problems. The use of divers instruments; as also of the plain-chart, mercator's chart, and both globes. Sundry useful tables in navigation: and a table of 10000 logarithms, and of the logarithm-sines, tangents, and secants. John Seller, hydrographer to the king

• Record Nr.: UNISA996394238003316
• Autore: Seller John <fl. 1658-1698.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : printed by J. D. for the author at the Hermitage in Wapping and Richard Mount at the Postern on Tower-Hill, 1694
• Edizione: [The seventh edition, carefully corrected.]
• Descrizione fisica: [8], 324, 329, p. 334., 341-348, 353-355, [148] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., tables
• Soggetti: Navigation; Nautical instruments; Nautical almanacs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Text is continuous despite pagination.; Title page is mutilated affecting transcription.; Reproduction of original in the John Carter Brown Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0114

Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form / / Ben Glaser and Jonathan Culler, editors

• Record Nr.: UNISA996478970503316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2019; ©2019
• ISBN: 0-8232-8598-7; 0-8232-8205-8; 0-8232-8206-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Collana: Verbal arts: studies in poetics
• Disciplina: 808.1
• Soggetti: Poetics - History - 20th century; Poetics - History - 19th century; Rhythm in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition also issued in print: 2019.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Why Rhythm? -- What Is Called Rhythm? -- Sordello’s Pristine Pulpiness -- Th e Cadence of Consent: Francis Barton Gummere, Lyric Rhythm, and White Poetics -- Contagious Rhythm: Verse as a Technique of the Body -- Constructing Walt Whitman: Literary History and Histories of Rhythm -- Th e Rhythms of the English Dolnik -- How to Find Rhythm on a Piece of Paper -- Picturing Rhythm -- Beyond Meaning: Differing Fates of Some Modernist Poets’ Investments of Belief in Sounds -- Sapphic Stanzas: How Can We Read the Rhythm? -- Rhythm and Affect in “Christabel” -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
• Sommario/riassunto: This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us that ; cannot be parsed through the traditional resources of poetic theory.Rhythm has rich but also problematic roots in still-lingering nineteenth-century notions of primitive, oral, communal, and sometimes racialized poetics. But there are reasons to understand and even embrace its seductions, including its resistance to lyrical voice and even identity. Through exploration of rhythm’s genealogies and present critical debates, the essays consistently warn against taking rhythm to be a given form offering ready-made resources for interpretation. Pressing beyond poetry handbooks’ isolated descriptions of technique or inductive declarations of what rhythm “is,” the essays ask what it means to think rhythm.Rhythm, the contributors show, happens relative to the body, on the one hand, and to language, on the other—two categories that are distinct from the literary, the mode through which poetics has tended to be analyzed. Beyond articulating what rhythm does to poetry, the contributors undertake a genealogical and theoretical analysis of how rhythm as a human experience has come to be articulated through poetry and poetics. The resulting work helps us better understand poetry both on its own terms and in its continuities with other experiences and other arts.Contributors: Derek Attridge, Tom Cable, Jonathan Culler, Natalie Gerber, Ben Glaser, Virginia Jackson, Simon Jarvis, Ewan Jones, Erin Kappeler, Meredith Martin, David Nowell Smith, Yopie Prins, Haun Saussy