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Notes On Prosody
The book ''Notes on Prosody'' by author Vladimir Nabokov compares differences in Iamb (foot), iambic verse in the English language, English and Russian languages, and highlights the effect of relative word length in the two languages on rhythm. Nabokov also proposes an approach for scanning patterns of accent which interact with syllabic stress in iambic verse. Originally Appendix 2 to his Commentary accompanying his translation of Aleksandr Pushkin's ''Eugene Onegin'', ''Notes on Prosody'' was released separately in book form.Pantheon Books, Number LXXIIa (1964) in the Bollingen Series, Library of Congress catalogue card: 64-23672. ''Notes on Prosody'' and Nabokov's translation of ''Eugene Onegin'' sparked considerable academic debate. Bely's influence Nabokov in large part follows the system described by Andrei Bely in his paper "Description of the Russian iambic tetrameter" ("Опыт характеристики русского четырехстопного ямба") publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollingen Series
Bollingen is a village () within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of St. Gallen. Geography The village is located along the northern shore of the Obersee (Zürichsee), upper Lake Zürich (''Obersee'') between Jona, Switzerland, Jona and Schmerikon. Bollingen was part of the former municipality of Jona: On 1 January 2007 the former municipalities of Rapperswil and Jona merged to form the new political entity Rapperswil-Jona. History Bollinger Sandstein, Sandstone from Bollingen may have been used even in the Switzerland in the Roman era, Roman Empire era, but presumably is extracted and processed since 1000 AD. Among others it was used for the Grossmünster and Fraumünster churches in Zürich, as well as for the Einsiedeln Abbey, Einsiedeln and St. Gallen Abbey, St. Gallen abbeys, or the Zunfthaus zur Meisen that was built in 1757 at the Münsterhof plaza in Zürich. In the European Middle Ages, the two settlements named and are mention ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
