Translating Jazz Into Poetry From Mimesis to Metaphor

• Main Author: Redling, Erik (Author)
• Other Authors: Lucia Kornexl (Editor), Ursula Lenker (Editor), Martin Middeke (Editor), Gabriele Rippl (Editor), Hubert Zapf (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin Walter de Gruyter 2017
• Subjects: Jazz poetry; American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism; American poetry > African American authors > History and criticism; Poetry; English language > Rhythm
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The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments ; Contents ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Mimesis: Intermediality and Reductive Interpretations of Jazz Poems ; 2.1 Mimesis and Intermediality: Werner Wolf's Typology of Intermedial Forms ; 2.2 Mimesis and Jazz Poetry: Three Contemporary Studies on Jazz Poetry. 2.2.1 Sascha Feinstein's and T.J. Anderson's Restricted Interpretations of "Jazz-Informed" Poetry 2.2.2 David Yaffe's Worship of Jazz and Dismissal of Jazz Poetry ; 3. Metaphor: Intermedial Translation as a Metaphorical Process ; 3.1 The Domain conceptual metaphor theory: The Basic Tenets. 3.2 text is theory: Understanding Paul Blackburn's Jazz Poem in Terms of Conceptual Metaphor Theory 3.3 theory is text: Understanding the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in Terms of Paul Blackburn's Jazz Poem ; 3.4 The Translation Metaphor: A Communication Model of Conceptual Metaphor.