Reconstructing Alliterative Verse - The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter

Informationen zum Autor Ian Cornelius is Edward Surtz, S.J., Professor in the Department of English at Loyola University, Chicago. His work also includes essays on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the medieval disciplines of grammar and rhetoric, the English Rising of 1381, and Piers Plowman. He previously taught at Yale University, Connecticut. Klappentext This book explores the history and development of English alliterative meter, and considers why the form has remained so enigmatic. Zusammenfassung Recent studies of Beowulf! Sir Gawain and the Green Knight! and Piers Plowman point towards a new understanding of English literary history in the Middle Ages. This book explains why alliterative meter has resisted modern efforts at comprehension! how it differed from accentual-syllabic forms! and why it died out. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: what was alliterative poetry?; 1. An unwritten medieval treatise; 2. The accentual paradigm in early English metrics; 3. The origins of the alliterative revival; 4. The fourteenth-century meter; 5. The end of alliterative verse; Epilogue: Edmund Spenser's poetry lesson.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Cornelius, Ian (Loyola University Cornelius, Cornelius Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107154100
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15410-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets