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A '''prosimetrum,''' plural '''prosimetra,''' is a literary composition wherein a part is expressed in [[Verse_(poetry)|verse]] and a part in [[prose]].<ref name="dronke2" /> It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature.<ref name="pepp1">Brogan, T.V.F. "Prosimetrum". In Green et al., pp. 1115–1116.</ref> While narrative prosimetrum may encompass at one extreme a prose story with occasional verse interspersed, and at the other, verse with occasional prose explanations, in true prosimetrum the two forms are represented in more equal measure.<ref name="hr11">Harris & Reichl, p. 11.</ref> A distinction is sometimes drawn<ref name="hr36">Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. "The Nature of Verse and Its Consequences for the Mixed Form". In Harris & Reichl, p. 36.</ref> between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms ''prosimetrum'' and ''versiprose'' are applied respectively.
A '''prosimetrum,''' plural '''prosimetra,''' is a literary composition that is made up of alternating passages of [[prose]] and [[verse (poetry)|verse]].<ref name="pepp1">Brogan, T.V.F. "Prosimetrum". In Green et al., pp. 1115–1116.</ref> It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature.<ref name="pepp1"> While narrative prosimetrum may encompass at one extreme a prose story with occasional verse interspersed, and at the other, verse with occasional prose explanations, in true prosimetrum the two forms are represented in more equal measure.<ref name="hr11">Harris & Reichl, p. 11.</ref> A distinction is sometimes drawn<ref name="hr36">Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. "The Nature of Verse and Its Consequences for the Mixed Form". In Harris & Reichl, p. 36.</ref> between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms ''prosimetrum'' and ''versiprose'' are applied respectively.


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*''[[Eyrbyggja saga]]''<ref>O’Donoghue, Heather. ''Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 101. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3</ref>
*''[[Eyrbyggja saga]]''<ref>O’Donoghue, Heather. ''Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 101. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3</ref>
*''[[Grettis saga]]''<ref>O’Donoghue, Heather. ''Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 181-182. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3</ref>
*''[[Grettis saga]]''<ref>O’Donoghue, Heather. ''Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 181-182. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3</ref>
*''The [[Kojiki]]''<ref name="pepp1" />
*''The [[Kojiki]]''<ref name="pepp1" />{{dubious}}
*''[[Izumi Shikibu Nikki]]''<ref>Keene, Donald. ''Travelers of a Hundred Ages''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 36. ISBN 0-231-11437-0</ref>
*''[[Izumi Shikibu Nikki]]''<ref>Keene, Donald. ''Travelers of a Hundred Ages''. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 36. ISBN 0-231-11437-0</ref>
*''[[Oku no Hosomichi]]'' by [[Matsuo Bashō]]<ref>Green et al., p. 1510.</ref>
*''[[Oku no Hosomichi]]'' by [[Matsuo Bashō]]<ref>Green et al., p. 1510.</ref>

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A prosimetrum, plural prosimetra, is a literary composition that is made up of alternating passages of prose and verse.[1] It is widely found in Western and Eastern literature.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). A distinction is sometimes drawn[2] between texts in which verse is the dominant form and those in which prose dominates; there the terms prosimetrum and versiprose are applied respectively.

History

The term prosimetrum is first attested in the Rationes dictandi of Hugh of Bologna, in the early 12th century. Sources differ on the date, one suggesting around 1119,[3] another about 1130.[4] Hugh divided metrical composition into three kinds: quantitative verse (carmina), verse based on syllable count and assonance (rithmi), and "the mixed form ... when a part is expressed in verse and a part in prose" (prosimetrum).[3]

Examples

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Brogan, T.V.F. "Prosimetrum". In Green et al., pp. 1115–1116.
  2. ^ Hanson, Kristin, and Paul Kiparsky. "The Nature of Verse and Its Consequences for the Mixed Form". In Harris & Reichl, p. 36.
  3. ^ a b Dronke, p. 2.
  4. ^ Ricklin, Thomas. "Femmes-philosophie et hommes-animaux: essai d'une lecture satirique de la Consolatio philosophiae de Boèce" in Boèce ou la chaîne des savoirs: actes du Colloque international de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris, 8-12 juin 1999 p131
  5. ^ O’Donoghue, Heather. Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 101. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3
  6. ^ O’Donoghue, Heather. Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 181-182. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3
  7. ^ Keene, Donald. Travelers of a Hundred Ages. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999, p. 36. ISBN 0-231-11437-0
  8. ^ Green et al., p. 1510.
  9. ^ Heinrichs, Wolfhart. "Prosimetrical Genres in Classical Arabic Literature". In Harris & Reichl, p. 249.
  10. ^ Jones, Jones, and Knight, p. 87.
  11. ^ Alexis, André. Beauty and Sadness. Toronto: House of Anansi, 2010. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-88784-750-9

References

  • Dronke, Peter. Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-674-93475-X
  • Green, Roland, et al., ed. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-691-15491-6
  • Harris, Joseph, and Karl Reich, ed. Prosimetrum: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse. Cambridge, Eng.: D. S. Brewer, 1997. ISBN 0-85991-475-5
  • Jones, Samuel, Aled Jones, and Jennifer Dukes Knight, ed. Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 24/25, 2004 and 2005. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-674-03528-7
  • O’Donoghue, Heather. Skaldic Verse and the Poetics of Saga Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-926732-3


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