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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
- The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter
Engelsk Hardback

Reconstructing Alliterative Verse

- The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
234
ISBN-13:
9781107154100
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1107154103
Udg. Dato:
20 jul 2017
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
159mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Cambridge University Press
Oplagsdato:
20 jul 2017
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