Polyrhythmicity in Language, Music and Society

Richard Andrews worked in Hong Kong in the 1980s as Head of English, Drama and English-as-a-Second Language in an international school. Since then he has travelled extensively in mainland China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan. He is author of several books for Routledge, including Argumentation in Higher Education (2009), Re-framing Literacy (2010), A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric (2014), A Prosody of Free Verse (2016) and Multimodality, Poetry and Poetics (2018). He was winner of the Edwin Hopkins award (National Council for Teachers of English) for an article on democracy and argument in Chicago in 1996, and his 2016 and 2018 books for Routledge have been given the highest rating by external assessors in the field of English Language & Literature and the Social Sciences in the build-up to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (2021). He is co-series editor for Cambridge University Press of its Cambridge School Shakespeare series, currently being published in a new edition in China. He is currently Professor in Education and an member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Nature of Multiple- and Poly-rhythms.- 3. Polyrhythmicity in Time: an International Perspective.- 4. Polyrhythmicity in Music.- 5. Polyrhythmicity in Conversation and Speech Prosodies.- 6. Polyrhythmicity in Poetry.- 7. Polyrhythmicity in the Novel.- 8. Polyrhythmicity in Social Situations.- 9. Polyrhythmicity in Contemporary Hybrid Culture.- 10. Polyrhythmicity in the Asia Pacific Region.- 11. Researching Polyrhythmicity.- 12. Polyrhythmicity in Rhetoric, Learning and Education.