Enjambment and versification (a side note to works by Giorgio Agamben and Adam Kulawik)
Enjambment and versification (a side note to works by Giorgio Agamben and Adam Kulawik)

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses two twentieth-century theoretical-literary concepts regarding broadly understood versology, pioneering expressions of new way of thinking of versification based on enjambment (i.e., the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza) rather than on meter. By investigating the role of enjambment according to Giorgio Agamben and Adam Kulawik, the paper refers to transformations that have taken place in perceiving this prosodic phenomenon over the past decades, i.e., how verse has changed by transitioning to non-numerical (so-called free) composition from meter and equivalence.

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