Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
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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.
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.
Speculative Poetry And The Modern Alliterative Revival
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Author : Dennis Wilson Wise
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2023-12-08
Speculative Poetry And The Modern Alliterative Revival written by Dennis Wilson Wise and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-08 with Poetry categories.
If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets—several of whom are previously unpublished—from across North America and Europe. Alongside such established names as C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, Jo Walton, P. K. Page, and W. H. Auden, this anthology includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-Paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism. A lengthy critical introduction by the editor—written accessibly for a general audience—explains and contextualizes the Modern Revival for critics and readers alike, and extensive footnotes offer aids to anyone new to medieval history or Norse mythology. Overall, this indispensable anthology—the first major academic book to focus on speculative poetry—establishes where the medieval meets the modern in the hitherto unrecognized Modern Alliterative Revival.
The Alliterative Revival
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Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1977
The Alliterative Revival written by Thorlac Turville-Petre and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Description And Narrative In Middle English Alliterative Poetry
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Author : Thorlac Turville-Petre
language : en
Publisher: Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud
Release Date : 2018
Description And Narrative In Middle English Alliterative Poetry written by Thorlac Turville-Petre and has been published by Exeter Medieval Texts and Stud this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Foreign Language Study categories.
'[The book offers] meticulous case studies of authorial technique with much relevant historical detail. Discussion of sound symbolism is laudably precise and informative. [...] Glossed illustrative passages are provided throughout to maintain contact with a large potential audience. [...] The overall quality of the book cannot be ignored. This is an outstanding work of literary analysis.' Geoffrey Russom, Brown University
The Cambridge Companion To The Poem
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Author : Sean Pryor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-06
The Cambridge Companion To The Poem written by Sean Pryor 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 2024-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
What is a poem? What ideas about the poem as such shape how readers and audiences encounter individual poems? To explore these questions, the first section of this Companion addresses key conceptual issues, from singularity and genre to the poem's historical exchanges with the song and the novel. The second section turns to issues of form, focusing on voice, rhythm, image, sound, diction, and style. The third section considers the poem's social and cultural lives. It examines the poem in the archive and in the digital sphere, as well as in relation to decolonization and global capitalism. The chapters in this volume range across both canonical and non-canonical poems, poems from the past and the present, and poems by a diverse set of poets. This book will be a key resource for students and scholars studying the poem.
Geoffrey Chaucer In Context
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Author : Ian Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Geoffrey Chaucer In Context written by Ian Johnson 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 2019-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
A New Literary History Of The Long Twelfth Century
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Author : Mark Faulkner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-28
A New Literary History Of The Long Twelfth Century written by Mark Faulkner 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 2022-07-28 with History categories.
Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.