Monovocalism
A monovocalism (from Gr. Mónos 'alone' and Latin vocalis 'letter', 'vowel'), also univocalism , is a text in which only one vowel is used , in contrast to a leipogram , in which a certain letter never occurs becomes.
Of course, the linguistic options are much more limited than with the Leipogramm, but there are some interesting and widespread examples. The best-known example in the German-speaking world is certainly the poem ottos mops by Ernst Jandl , which is limited to the “o” as the only vowel.
One of the cleverly constructed English monovocalisms is the following couplet from a 16-line work by CC Bombaugh :
No cool monsoons blow soft on Oxford dons,
Orthodox, jog-trot, bookworm Solomons!
A well-known French example is the novel Les Revenentes by Georges Perec , which is in contrast to his Leipogramm-novel La Disparition .
The song Three Chinese with the Double Bass is sung with mono-vocal stanzas, with a different vowel used in each stanza.
literature
- David Crystal : The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language . Campus, Frankfurt, New York. Study edition at Zweiausendein 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias Eilers: Robert Gernhardt as theoretician and poet - successful comic literature in its social and media context . 2010, p. 178 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6-07449550692 (Dissertation at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster).
- ↑ a b Danielle Reif: The aesthetics of the void. Raymond Federman's novel "La Fourrure de ma tante Rachel" . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005, ISBN 3-8260-3074-5 , p. 169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).