Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages Essays in Honour of C B Hieatt 1st Edition by M Jane Toswell ISBN 0802006531 978-0802006530

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ISBN 10:  0802006531 

ISBN 13: 978-0802006530

Author: M. Jane Toswell

 The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as ‘complex,’ ‘sophisticated,’ ‘extraordinarily compressed,’ or simply as ‘dense and difficult.’ This collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and early Middle English. The contributors concern themselves with the details of how poems and their metre work and employ a variety of approaches, including traditional text analysis, historiographical consideration of the works and responses to them, linguistics-based analysis, application of pragmatic theory, computer analysis, and a comparative-literature perspective. The writers suggest both implicitly and explicitly that whatever cultural constructions are relevant to the poetry of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, the poems remain worthy of study in and of themselves.

Table of contents:

1.  Preface
   
2. Introduction
   
3. Grammar, Spelling, and the Rhythm of the Alliterative Long Line
   
4. The Battle of Maldon and Beowulfian Prosody
   
5. The Poet’s Self-Interruption in Andreas
   
6. Alliterative Licence and the Rhetorical Use of Proper Names in The Battle of Maldon
   
7. Simplifying Resolution in Beowulf
   
8. Computer Assistance in the Analysis of Old English Metre: Methods and Results – A Provisional Report
   
9. The Case against a ‘General Old English Poetic Dialect’
   
10. The Intonational Basis of La3amon’s Verse
    
11. Constraints on Resolution in Beowulf
    
12. Translation and Transformation in Andreas
    
13. Speech and the Unspoken in Hamðismál
    
14. Heroic Aspects of the Exeter Book Riddles
    
15. Bibliography of C.B. Hieatt
    
16. List of Contributors

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