Nonconscious Lyric: Ferdinand de Saussure and Poetry's Computational Origin.
This essay revisits Ferdinand de Saussure's conjecture that lyric poetry originates from a technique of phonemic patterning that he termed "hypograms." Examining lyric practice through the hypogram, Saussure proceeded from saturnian verse to a study of Homer, Virgil, and Lucretius, discovering a com...
| Published in: | Modern Philology Vol. 122; no. 1; pp. 108 - 125 |
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University of Chicago Press
Aug2024
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