Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre /

The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk's A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and lite...

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Other Authors: Atherton, Mark (Contributor), Batten, Caroline R. (Contributor), Burns, Rachel A. (Contributor, Editor), Coker, Matthew D. (Contributor), Fulk, R. D. (Contributor), Griffith, Mark (Contributor), Hartman, Megan E. (Contributor), Karasawa, Kazutomo (Contributor), Lucas, Peter J. (Contributor), Momma, Haruko (Contributor), Pascual, Rafael J. (Contributor, Editor), Roberts, Jane (Contributor), Russom, Geoffrey (Contributor), Thomson, S. C. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2022]
Series:Medieval Media Cultures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • A NOTE ON THE CLASP PROJECT
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • TABLES AND FIGURES
  • LIST OF APPENDICES TO INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1 METRE AS AN EDITORIAL CONCERN IN THE ANGLO- SAXON POETIC RECORDS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE OLD ENGLISH SOUL AND BODY POEMS
  • Chapter 2 THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: "NOT ON THE WHOLE METRICALLY DEFICIENT"?
  • Chapter 3 ON THE METRE OF EXODUS
  • Chapter 4 THE BATTLE OF MALDON AND THE VENGEANCE OF OFFA
  • Chapter 5 RHYME AND REASON IN THE BATTLE OF MALDON
  • Chapter 6 HYPERMETRIC NARRATIVE IN THE OLD ENGLISH DANIEL
  • Chapter 7 ELENE 582- 89: HYPERMETRICS, REVELATION, AND JUDGMENT
  • Chapter 8 SINGLE HALF- LINES AND HEAVY HYPERMETRIC VERSES IN MAXIMS I RECONSIDERED
  • Chapter 9 ANAPHORA AND STYLISTIC FLEXIBILITY IN THE METRICAL CHARMS
  • Chapter 10 STRUGGLING TO FIND THE POINT: THE SCRATCHED METRICAL POINTING OF GUTHLAC A IN THE EXETER BOOK
  • Chapter 11 MIND THE GAP: INTER- WORD SPACING AND METRICAL ORGANIZATION IN OLD ENGLISH VERSE
  • Chapter 12 METRE VS RHYTHM: JOHN C. POPE READS SIEVERS
  • Chapter 13 THE MYSTERY OF OLD ENGLISH TYPE A2K
  • Appendix 1 ALAN BLISS: 1921- 1985
  • Appendix 2 SOME CORRECTIONS TO ALAN BLISS'S INDICES TO THE METRE OF BEOWULF, TOGETHER WITH HIS LAST KNOWN VIEWS ON THE METRE OF THE POEM
  • Appendix 3 A GLOSSARY OF METRICAL TERMS
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING
  • INDEX