For more than 250 years, biblical Hebrew poetry scholarship has been dominated by metrical assumptions and the idea of parallelism. While a consensus is emerging that biblical poetry is not metrical, no consensus has arisen regarding what parallelism is, or what makes biblical poetry "verse" or "poetry" in the absence of meter, graphical lineation, and end-marking of lines. Unparalleled Poetry claims that a new paradigm for biblical poetry is needed, a paradigm that is disentangled from parallelism as well as meter. Drawing from the Cognitive Poetics work of Reuven Tsur, Emmylou Grosser reorients the discussion of biblical poetic structure to how poetic structure can be heard and perceived. She argues that the line-units of biblical poetry emerge in the cognitive experience of the listener/reader and provides an account of the free-rhythm versification system of biblical poetry. Grosser's cognitive approach to biblical poetry accounts for the wide diversity of lines and poems in the Bible and illuminates both the structures of biblical poetry and the artistry of potential effects. Unparalleled Poetry presents a rewarding new paradigm for readers of the Bible, while modeling new possibilities for the study of nonmetrical poetries and phenomena called "parallelism" throughout the world.

"Chapter 1 begins with a well-known biblical poem, Psalm 23, in order to illustrate two problems facing biblical poetry readers: what are "lines" in (traditionally unlineated) biblical poetry, and why does it even matter? The chapter sets these overarching problems in the context of modern biblical poetry scholarship: the frameworks of parallelism and meter, and the confusion over whether "biblical poetry" is best defined by style or structure. While parallelism and meter are rejected, Robert Lowth's early observation of "conformation" is affirmed: biblical poetry does relate to structure, and it is built from lines that fit to each other, not lines that fit to a meter. This raises the question of how the free-rhythm (unlineated) lines of biblical poetry can be perceived or mentally organized as structural-rhythmic units by the listener or reader. A cognitive approach informed by the theory and method of Reuven Tsur is introduced as the solution"--

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Essays discuss realism, futurism, Dada, the grammar of poetry, Baudelaire, Shakespeare, Yeats, Turgenev, Pasternak, Blake, and semiotic theory.

English is spoken by more people than any of the other 4,000-5,000 languages in the world combined. Only Chinese, which consists of six mostly mutually incomprehensible languages, has more native speakers worldwide. However, there are native English speakers in every continent (300 million), and another 250 million people who speak a language other than English but use English for everyday purposes. Finally, if you include the places where life-and-death choices are made and proclaimed in English, you've got one-sixth of the world's population covered. In a region with 845 native languages and dialects, English's administrative use was undeniable, even though no one would advocate teaching a language to create a cadre of honorary Englishmen today. Language education draws on a wide range of pedagogical tenets and practices. Getting to know the student is a crucial first step for every educator. Participation in class, demonstration, recitation, memory, and even mixtures of these are all common pedagogical tools. What's being taught and why both play significant roles in determining the best approach to instruction. The pupils' abilities and motivation also play a role. English language instruction must cover essential ground, including but not limited to: phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, semantic equivalence, and morphology. The English language has risen to prominence in India due to the country's multilingual environment. Learning it is now considered a badge of honor in India, where it is no longer considered a foreign language.