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Old English Metre
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Author : Jun Terasawa
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Old English Metre written by Jun Terasawa and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Old English Metre offers an essential framework for the critical analysis of metrical structures and interpretations in Old English literature. Jun Terasawa's comprehensive introductory text covers the basics of Old English metre and reviews the current research in the field, emphasizing the interaction between Old English metre and components such as word-formation, word-choice, and grammar. He also covers the metre-related problems of dating, authorship, and the distinction between prose and verse. Each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for further reading. Appendices provide possible answers to the exercises, tips for scanning half-lines, and brief definitions of metrical terms used. Examples in Old English are provided with literal modern English translations, with glosses added in the first three chapters to help beginners. The result is a comprehensive guide that makes important text-critical skills much more readily available to Old English specialists and beginners alike.
An Introduction To Old English Metre
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Author : Alan Bliss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
An Introduction To Old English Metre written by Alan Bliss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with English language categories.
A New Theory Of Old English Meter
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Author : David L. Hoover
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 1985
A New Theory Of Old English Meter written by David L. Hoover and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Beowulf categories.
A New Theory of Old English Meter sets out a simple new theory of Old English meter that is based on a bare minimum of initial assumptions and metrical principles, and supported by rigorous arguments and by evidence from a computer-assisted analysis of Beowulf and The Battle of Maldon. The new theory is revolutionary in concluding that alliteration rather than stress is the most important feature of the meter, and in rejecting the traditional assumptions of two lifts and four metrical positions per verse. It provides improved solutions for many of the perennial problems of Old English meter, makes possible an elegant logical explanation for the kinds of verses that occur and those which do not occur, and prepares the way for the most radical conclusion of the book: that Old English meter is not based on rhythm.
Early English Metre
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Author : Thomas A. Bredehoft
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Early English Metre written by Thomas A. Bredehoft and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Thomas A. Bredehoft's Early English Metre is a reassessment of the metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf to Layamon. Bredehoft offers a new account of many of the most puzzling features of Old English poetry - anacrusis, alliteration patterns, rhyme, and hypermetric verses - and further offers a clear account of late Old English verse as it descended from the classical verse as observed in Beowulf. He makes the surprising and controversial discovery that Ælfric's alliterative works are formally indistinguishable from late verse. Discussing the early Middle English verse-forms of Layamon's Brut, Bredehoft not only demonstrates that they can be understood as developing from late Old English, but that Layamon seems to have known, and quoted from, the poems of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Early English Metre presents a new perspective on early English verse and a new perspective on much of early English literary history. It is an essential addition to the literature on Old and Middle English and will be widely discussed amongst scholars in the field.
A History Of Old English Meter
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Author : R. D. Fulk
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-08-12
A History Of Old English Meter written by R. D. Fulk 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 2015-08-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
In A History of Old English Meter, R. D. Fulk offers a wide-ranging reference on Anglo-Saxon meter. Fulk examines the evidence for chronological and regional variation in the meter of Old English verse, studying such linguistic variables as the treatment of West Germanic parasite vowels, contracted vowels, and short syllables under secondary and tertiary stress, as well as a variety of supposed dialect features. Fulk's study of such variables points the way to a revised understanding of the role of syllable length in the construction of early Germanic meters and furnishes criteria for distinguishing dialectal from poetic features in the language of the major Old English poetic codices. On this basis, it is possible to draw conclusions about the probable dialect origins of much verse, to delineate the characteristics of at least four discrete periods in the development of Old English meter, and with some probability to assign to them many of the longer poems, such as Genesis A, Beowulf, and the works of Cynewulf. A History of Old English Meter will be of interest to scholars of Anglo-Saxon, historians of the English language, Germanic philologists, and historical linguists.
Old English Poetic Metre
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Author : Bellender Rand Hutcheson
language : en
Publisher: Ds Brewer
Release Date : 1995-01-01
Old English Poetic Metre written by Bellender Rand Hutcheson and has been published by Ds Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Metrical study of Old English poetry drawing on database of almost half the surviving corpus - a uniquely extensive sample.
An Introduction To Old English Metre
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Author : Alan Joseph Bliss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
An Introduction To Old English Metre written by Alan Joseph Bliss and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with English language categories.
A Comparative Study Of Old English Metre
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Author : F. H. Whitman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Comparative Study Of Old English Metre written by F. H. Whitman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Comparative linguistics categories.
After analysing the dominant pattterns of the earliest accentual verse, he turns to Old English metre, and looks closely at the typical length of the halflines, the phenomenon of clashing stress, and the nature of light lines.
Old English Meter And Linguistic Theory
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Author : Geoffrey Russom
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-11
Old English Meter And Linguistic Theory written by Geoffrey Russom 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 2010-02-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Prior to the publication of this volume in 1987, scholars interested in Old English alliterative meter discovered a number of intriguing restrictions on verse form, and their discoveries proved useful in the editing of texts and in research on the early history of the English language. It had proved impossible up to this point however, to capture these restrictions in a plausible system of rules. In this book Professor Russom obtained a coherent and comprehensive rule system using the insights of linguistic theory. The rules of this system apply not just to stress and syllable count but to other features of word structure as well. Russom claims, in particular, that the concept of 'metrical foot' appropriate for analysis of Old English poetry corresponds to the concept of 'word pattern' used in linguistic analysis. In Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory the author explains these rules carefully, justifies then from a linguistic point of view and goes on to apply them to a wide variety of problems. The results should interest not only those who deal with Old English texts, but also metrists and linguistics generally.
Beowulf And Old Germanic Metre
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Author : Geoffrey Russom
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-03-05
Beowulf And Old Germanic Metre written by Geoffrey Russom 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 1998-03-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This 1998 book is a clear account of early Germanic alliterative verse and how it was treated by the Beowulf poet.