Reconstructing Alliterative Verse

Author : Ian Cornelius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107154103
Total Pages : 235 pages
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Download or read book Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.

Author : Ian Cornelius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108211089
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some of the most admired works of medieval English literature, and also among the most enigmatic. The formal practice of alliterative poets exceeded the conceptual grasp of medieval literary theory; theorists are still playing catch-up today. This book explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history. The startling formal variety of Piers Plowman and other Middle English alliterative poems comes into sharper focus when viewed in diachronic perspective: the meter was in transition; to understand it, we need to know where it came from and where it was headed at the moment it died out.

Author : Eric Weiskott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169658
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Alliterative Verse written by Eric Weiskott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Author : Ad Putter
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN 13 : 0907570186
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter and published by Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For editors of alliterative verse, this book is essential reading'. Susanna Fein, Speculum, lxxxv (2010), pp. 457 - 458. 'A model of meticulousness and sensible argument'. Thomas Bredehoft, Review of English Studies, lx (2009), pp. 802 - 804. The volume provides a comprehensive study of the metre of the unrhymed poems of the Alliterative Revival. It includes detailed analysis and discussion of line endings, alliterative patterning, historical grammar, the relationship between linguistic stress and beat, and presents new discoveries regarding the metrical rules of the a-verse. Readers interested in the metre and textual criticism of alliterative poems, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Siege of Jerusalem and the Alexander fragments, will find this monograph 'an outstanding, scholarly, assured and important work' (Ruth Kennedy, Royal Holloway, University of London).

Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780874719550
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alliterative Revival written by Thorlac Turville-Petre and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Russom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107148332
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry written by Geoffrey Russom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

Author : Ad Putter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthias Friedrich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110701731
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating the ‘Germanic’ written by Matthias Friedrich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any reader of scholarship on the ancient and early medieval world will be familiar with the term 'Germanic', which is frequently used as a linguistic category, ethnonym, or descriptive identifier for a range of forms of cultural and literary material. But is the term meaningful, useful, or legitimate? The term, frequently applied to peoples, languages, and material culture found in non-Roman north-western and central Europe in classical antiquity, and to these phenomena in the western Roman Empire’s successor states, is often treated as a legitimate, all-encompassing name for the culture of these regions. Its usage is sometimes intended to suggest a shared social identity or ethnic affinity among those who produce these phenomena. Yet, despite decades of critical commentary that have highlighted substantial problems, its dominance of scholarship appears not to have been challenged. This edited volume, which offers contributions ranging from literary and linguistic studies to archaeology, and which span from the first to the sixteenth centuries AD, examines why the term remains so pervasive despite its problems, offering a range of alternative interpretative perspectives on the late and post-Roman worlds.

Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844389
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Old English Philology written by Leonard Neidorf and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.

Author : Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827162
Total Pages : 31 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Horace written by Stephen Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horace is a central author in Latin literature. His work spans a wide range of genres, from iambus to satire, and odes to literary epistle, and he is just as much at home writing about love and wine as he is about philosophy and literary criticism. He also became a key literary figure in the regime of the Emperor Augustus. In this 2007 volume a superb international cast of contributors present a stimulating and accessible assessment of the poet, his work, its themes and its reception. This provides the orientation and coverage needed by non-specialists and students, but also suggests provoking perspectives from which specialists may benefit. Since the last general book on Horace was published half a century ago, there has been a sea-change in perceptions of his work and in the literary analysis of classical literature in general, and this territory is fully charted in this Companion.