Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

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Israel in the Year 2000 is a Hebrew novel, published in Israel in 1951 by S. Goldflus. This is the first dystopian Hebrew ...

CUIMC’s Dr. Maureen McKiernan, with an assist from Dr. Andrew Goldstone, performs surgery on the “ragged edge of what’s ...

Columbia Athletics unveiled its annual all-31 sports teams photo featuring student-athletes from every Columbia varsity team against the Unisphere, an iconic symbol of the 1964 New York World’s Fair ...

Columbia University Provost Mary C. Boyce today shared the news that Julie Kornfeld, vice provost for academic programs, will become the next president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. “While we ...

Poets, literary critics, and lovers of poetry often speak of the “music of poetry.” The Sounds of Poetry Viewed as Music gives substance to the metaphor by building on recent research in linguistics ...

Jews, women, and animals have been notoriously considered in Western thought as antithetical to the “civilized,” and therefore parallel. The trope of the womanized Jewish man has been widely ...

When Judy Garland went over the rainbow as Dorothy Gale in the classic 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz, she almost left without singing what was to become her signature number. For an advance screening, ...

A new paper argues that materials like wood, bacteria, and fungi belong to a newly identified class of matter, "hydration solids." For decades, the fields of physics and chemistry have maintained that ...

Humans have been wondering whether we are alone in the universe since antiquity. We know from the geological record that life started relatively quickly, as soon our planet's environment was stable ...