ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENJAMBMENT
From French, literally: a straddling, from enjamber to straddle, from en-1 + jambe leg.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENJAMBMENT»
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enjambment in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
enjambment and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Winged Word: A Study in the Technique of Ancient Greek ...
This relationship has been described in terms of three degrees of enjambment.
These degrees relate to but do not coincide with Parry's three categories of
enjambment, which serve as one of the principal tests for oral style.58 Although
the ...
2
Out of Line: Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter
For the purposes of the following discussion, I will use Higbie's modification of
Parry's basic distinction between unperiodic and necessary enjambment.35
Higbie's scheme has four types, with two types subdivided: (1a) adding-internal
and ...
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Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Professor ...
Sadahiro Kumamoto The Poetic Technique of Enjambment in Chaucer's Poems:
The Case of Five Sentence Elements (S, Aux, V, O, C) Abstract This paper
discusses the poetic technique of 'enjambment,' significant along with 'rhyme' in ...
Masahiro Hori, Tomoji Tabata, Sadahiro Kumamoto, 2009
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Homer and the Oral Tradition
Sense-enjambment entails a departure, in the direction of greater complexity,
from that simple style: either deliberately (so as to produce a particular effect, or
to encompass a thought which could not easily be reduced to a short sentence or
a ...
Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, 1976
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A Commentary on Quintus of Smyrna Posthomerica V
Comparison in this matter is best focused upon what is termed necessary
enjambment, where sense is genuinely incomplete at the line end. Statistics for
the occurrence of such enjambment in early Greek and in Hellenistic epic are
provided ...
Alan (Alan W.) James, Kevin Hargreaves Lee, 2000
The iconicity given with enjambment is here intensified by metaphor. In the next
example an enjambment separates subject and predicate with the effect being
heightened by metrical inversion: [...] Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand
in ...
C. J. Conradie, Ronèl Johl, Marthinus Beukes, 2010
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The Cambridge Companion to Dante
Enjambment occurs much less frequently in Inferno where each line tends to be a
unit even when it is intimately connected to another. The primary effect of
enjambment in Inferno is to force the reader to rethink a previous notion, or to
take in ...
Even more than her rhyme, Dickinson's characteristic enjambment is probably
the one formal element that makes her quatrains sound so distinctive. Hymn
quatrains are always end-stopped. The hymns of Watts, though they employ
inexact ...
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Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry
We call any single instance of this "enjambment": Marvell's fifth line enjambs or
runs on into the sixth. We speak of strong and weak enjambments, or light and
heavy ones: "and there / Deaf" is strong; we know something else is coming, and
we ...
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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition
A. T. Cole ENJAMBMENT (Fr., enjamber, “to straddle or en- croach”). The
continuation of a syntactic unit from one line to the next without a major juncture
or pause; the opposite of an *end-stopped line. While enjambment can refer to
any ...
Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, 2012
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENJAMBMENT»
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enjambment is used in the context of the following news items.
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Then / someone turns it off.'' A reader is left in the sudden quiet — more sudden for the skilful enjambment — and death is foreshadowed. «The Australian, Jul 15»
Winners of annual poetry contest announced
Judge Carolyn Patten called the winning entry “quite sophisticated, specifically her use of enjambment [which] eagerly pulls the reader through ... «Greenwich Sentinel, Jun 15»
Leaving Cert Flashback: How well do you remember your English?
You've spent the morning reciting all those Shakespeare quotes and you're trying to remember what the hell enjambment is again. As you sit in ... «BreakingNews.ie, Jun 15»
Amber Dawn connects luxury and logic between body and soul
Certainly, many of the poetic lines, preceded or followed by enjambment after enjambment, feel fresh. Still, Rich's "fresh eyes" don't cut it like a ... «rabble.ca, Jun 15»
In 'Selfish,' Wichita poet Albert Goldbarth explores the ways the self …
Enjambment sends thoughts skittering across the page, then out into the celestial void. Caught in this subatomic whirlwind, the “I” travels ... «Wichita Eagle, May 15»
Eminem: The Voice of America
... found themselves raving about Eminem's nasty stories, his rough reputation and even – when they really got carried away – his enjambment. «RollingStone.com, May 15»
Small Matters of Life-Enhancing Poetry: Arshi, Fletcher, and König
This precise enjambment, reminiscent of Louise Glück, recurs throughout these poems, tilting the mundane sideways in small moments deeply ... «Huffington Post, May 15»
Karen Solie's The Road In is Not the Same as the Road Out …
Most of the lines in its best poems are visually messy, lineated by breath pulses and the odd enjambment, they exist more to blueprint the ... «National Post, Apr 15»
Poetic Sickness: Ed Bok Lee's 'Whorled' illuminates earlier innocence
Lee is deft in speeding and halting a poem's flow through canny use of enjambment and spondaic meter, creating a subconscious tap with ... «The International Examiner, Apr 15»
On 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' Kendrick Lamar stomps out the 'sophomore …
Laced with internal rhyme and enjambment, the song sees Kendrick taking on yet another inflection, sounding like a humbled teen. «Campus Times, Mar 15»
