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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
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Author : Ian Cornelius
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Alliteration categories.
This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
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Author : Ian Cornelius
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse written by Ian Cornelius and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic.
Meter And Modernity In English Verse 1350 1650
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Author : Eric Weiskott
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-01-15
Meter And Modernity In English Verse 1350 1650 written by Eric Weiskott and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers. In Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of these three meters as markers of literary time, "medieval" or "modern," though all three were in concurrent use both before and after 1500. In each section of the book, he considers two of the traditions through the prism of a third element: alliterative meter and tetrameter in poems of political prophecy; alliterative meter and pentameter in William Langland's Piers Plowman and early blank verse; and tetrameter and pentameter in Chaucer, his predecessors, and his followers. Reversing the historical perspective in which scholars conventionally view these authors, Weiskott reveals Langland to be metrically precocious and Chaucer metrically nostalgic. More than a history of prosody, Weiskott's book challenges the divide between medieval and modern literature. Rejecting the premise that modernity occurred as a specifiable event, he uses metrical history to renegotiate the trajectories of English literary history and advances a narrative of sociocultural change that runs parallel to metrical change, exploring the relationship between literary practice, social placement, and historical time.
The Oxford History Of Poetry In English
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Author : Julia Boffey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-04-12
The Oxford History Of Poetry In English written by Julia Boffey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.
Approaches To The Metres Of Alliterative Verse
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Author : Ad Putter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Approaches To The Metres Of Alliterative Verse written by Ad Putter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Alliteration categories.
Archaeologia Aeliana Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating To Antiquity
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Archaeologia Aeliana Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating To Antiquity written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Archaeology categories.
"A classified catalogue of papers from Archaeologia aeliana, 1813-1913", is included in the Centenary volume, ser. 3, v. 10, p. 334-376.
The Encyclop Dia Britannica
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Encyclop Dia Britannica written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Author : Thomas Spencer Baynes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Thomas Spencer Baynes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
Translations And Reprints From The Original Sources Of European History
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Author : University of Pennsylvania. Department of History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
Translations And Reprints From The Original Sources Of European History written by University of Pennsylvania. Department of History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Europe categories.
Constructing Nations Reconstructing Myth
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Author : Andrew Wawn
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Constructing Nations Reconstructing Myth written by Andrew Wawn and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Making the Middle Ages is a series of monographs, and occasionally of collections, which aims to open up the rapidly growing and relatively newly recognised field of 'medievalism' - the post-medieval construction of the Middle Ages in scholarship and the arts - to a readership of academics, graduate students and, in the case of some volumes, undergraduates or the general reader. The series is devoted to scholarship in the cultural influence of the Middle Ages on England, mainland Europe, and North America from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on two perspectives of medievalism: (i) Mediavistik, the origins and history of medieval studies, both inside and outside the academy; and (ii) Mediavismus, the creation and recreation of the Middle Ages in post-medieval art, history, literature and popular culture. This collection of essays examines the 'Grimmian Revolution', the paradigm shift in the humanities that came with the publication of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik. In doing so, it honours T. A. Shippey, who has been a leading figure in reconsidering the contributions of the Old Philology and its impact on the humanities, particularly the rediscovery of the ancient languages and literatures of Northern Europe; the role this has played in the creation of national and regional identities; the attempts to extend the methods of cmoparative philology to comparative mythology; and the collection of folktales, folk-ballads, and the development of folkloristics. The sixteen essays in this collection focus on the impact made by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philology in the fields of medieval studies and language studies, and in the construction of Northern European national identities, mythologies, and folklore. Book jacket.