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Author : Ian Cornelius
Release : 2017-07-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Alliterative Verse by : Ian Cornelius
Download or read book Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius. This book was released on 2017-07-20. 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
Release : 2017-07-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Alliterative Verse by : Ian Cornelius
Download or read book Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius. This book was released on 2017-07-20. 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
Release : 2016-10-27
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis English Alliterative Verse by : Eric Weiskott
Download or read book English Alliterative Verse written by Eric Weiskott. This book was released on 2016-10-27. 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
Release : 2007-12-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 186/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse by : Ad Putter
Download or read book Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter. This book was released on 2007-12-30. 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 : Ad Putter
Release : 2009
Genre : Alliteration
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Book Synopsis Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse by : Ad Putter
Download or read book Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
