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The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale

Lussier, Mark
Sha, Richard C.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN13: 9798765125281
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Rhythm is everywhere. Its ability to focus and unify interdisciplinary conversation begs the questions: What is rhythm and can different disciplines agree on its definition?

Rhythm studies have emerged as a key background form traversing cultural, natural, and social forms like cognition, communication, and even cosmology. An added boon: this background can seem unifying. Those who explore such entangled phenomena study the throbbing presence of rhythmic, oscillatory, and vibratory potentials: Neuroscientists turn to rhythm for novel explanations of why our cognitive capacities are so limited; physicists use it to cross time and space; scholars in various fields turn to it to rethink materialism and affect theory.

This lively collection considers why rhythm currently functions as a form of mediation between disciplines, across widely different scales and dimensions. The Rise of Rhythm Studies tests what rhythm can do through theoretical examinations and in case studies ranging from European literature to topology and media studies to Chinese visual art. Established scholars, such as Nina Kraus, Anna Gibbs, and Caroline Levine, alongside rising scholars in the field, marshal transdisciplinary perspectives in order to understand rhythm as a boundary condition for living in and working through and with the world.

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