Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre

Informationen zum Autor GEOFFREY RUSSOM is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Brown University, where he had been the Nicholas Brown Professor of Oratory and Belles Lettres. His previous works include Old English Meter and Linguistic Theory (1987) and Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre (1998). Klappentext A clear account of early Germanic alliterative verse and how it was treated by the Beowulf poet. Zusammenfassung This 1998 book is a clear and concise account of early Germanic alliterative verse which explains how such verse was treated by the Beowulf poet. It should interest scholars of Old English and related Germanic languages! as well as linguists and those concerned with poetic metre. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The foot; 3. The verse; 4. Light feet and extra-metrical words; 5. Metrical archaisms; 6. Alliteration; 7. Metrical subordination within the foot; 8. Resolution; 9. Word order and stress within the clause; 10. Old Saxon alliterative verse; 11. Hildebrandslied; 12. Conclusions.

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• Authors: Geoffrey Russom, Geoffrey (Brown University Russom, Russom Geoffrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521093095
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09309-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Sax; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Anglo-Saxon / Old English