Thermodynamic Rhythm
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Peer-reviewed
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Authors
Jones, Ewan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3747-2357
Abstract
jats:pThis essay argues that the cultural reception of thermodynamics in the late nineteenth century reformulated the concept of rhythm in an attempt to manage, mitigate, or acknowledge the problem of waste. Having demonstrated an overlooked historical dialectic between the thermal sciences and prosody, I conclude by reading A. C. Swinburne’s Tristram of Lyonesse to demonstrate how rhythmical excess represents a positive expressive resource.</jats:p>
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Keywords
47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Journal Title
Representations
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Journal ISSN
0734-6018
1533-855X
1533-855X
Volume Title
144
Publisher
University of California Press