A History Of Old English Meter
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A History of Old English Meter
Author | : R. D. Fulk |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781512802221 |
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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 Metre
Author | : Jun Terasawa |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781442693845 |
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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.
The Miniatures and Meters of the Old English Genesis MS Junius 11
Author | : Seiichi Suzuki |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 2023-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110788068 |
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The Old English Genesis is the sole illustrated Anglo-Saxon poem. In full appreciation of this unique concurrent execution of visualization and versification in a single manuscript, this multidisciplinary work explores the pictorial (Vol. 1) and the metrical (Vol. 2) organization from both synchronic–structural and diachronic–comparative perspectives. Among the most significant findings of each volume are: The first twenty-two images in the Old English Genesis originated on the whole from the Touronian Bibles; and the underlying classical Old English and Old Saxon meters were interactively reshaped through mutual adaptation and recomposition aimed at their firm integration into a synthesized Old English Genesis. While each part is solidly embedded in the respective scholarly tradition and pursues its own disciplinary concerns and problematics, vigorous formal and cognitive reasoning and theorizing run commonly through both. By way of mutual corroboration and integration, the twin volumes eventually converge on the hypothesis that the earliest portion of the extant Old English Genesis (lines 1–966) derived from the corresponding episodes of an illustrated Touronian Old Saxon Genesis in both pictorial and metrical terms.
The Old English Metrical Calendar Menologium
Author | : Kazutomo Karasawa |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843844099 |
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First modern text and English translation of an important Anglo-Saxon poem dealing with the liturgical year.
English Alliterative Verse
Author | : Eric Weiskott |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107169654 |
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A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Reading Old English Texts
Author | : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521469708 |
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Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in the theory, method, and practice of critical reading. Each chapter engages with work on Old English texts from a particular methodological stance. The authors are all experts in the field, but are also concerned to explain their method and its application to a broad undergraduate and graduate readership. The chapters include a brief historical background to the approach; a definition of the field or method under consideration; a discussion of some exemplary criticism (with a balance of prose and verse passages); an illustration of the ways in which texts are read through this approach, and some suggestions for future work.
English Historical Linguistics 1994
Author | : Derek Britton |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027236395 |
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This volume offers a selection of 19 papers from those read at the 8th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics in Edinburgh. Many of the writers are established authorities in the field, but there are also significant contributions from a younger generation of scholars. The topics discussed span the whole history of English from the Common Germanic period to the present century and the book also includes, as appropriate to the Conference venue, a number of papers on aspects of the historical development of Scots and Scottish English.
Old English Philology
Author | : Leonard Neidorf,Rafael J. Pascual,T. A. Shippey |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781843844389 |
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Essays bringing out the crucial importance of philology for understanding Old English texts.