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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, cartea 99

Autor Ian Cornelius
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 iul 2017
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107154100
ISBN-10: 1107154103
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 158 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: what was alliterative poetry?; 1. An unwritten medieval treatise; 2. The accentual paradigm in early English metrics; 3. The origins of the alliterative revival; 4. The fourteenth-century meter; 5. The end of alliterative verse; Epilogue: Edmund Spenser's poetry lesson.

Recenzii

'Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter advances our understanding ... as well as advanced students will find his discussion helpful. Academic libraries supporting English and Germanic studies programs should obtain a copy.' William F. Hodapp, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (SMART)

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This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.