Author: Ian Cornelius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
Author: Ian Cornelius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107154103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
Author: Ian Cornelius
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108211089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108211089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse
Author: Ad Putter
Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570186
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
'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).
Publisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570186
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
'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).
English Alliterative Verse
Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169658
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry
Author: Geoffrey Russom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148332
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107148332
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
The Alliterative Revival
Author: Thorlac Turville-Petre
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780874719550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780874719550
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse
Author: Ad Putter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alliteration
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Interrogating the ‘Germanic’
Author: Matthias Friedrich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110701731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110701731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Old English Philology
Author: Leonard Neidorf
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844389
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844389
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.