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Reconstructing alliterative verse the pursuit of a medieval meter / Ian Cornelius.
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- Author/Creator:
- Cornelius, Ian, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 99
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alliteration--Poetry.
- Alliteration.
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--Middle English.
- Middle Ages--Poetry.
- Middle Ages.
- Poetics--History--To 1500.
- Poetics.
- History.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction: What Was Alliterative Poetry?; 1 An Unwritten Medieval Treatise; Rum, Ram, Ruf, and All That; The Invention of "Alliteration": A Postmedieval Excursus; Alliteration avant la Lettre; Sort of Like Virgil: Gerald of .Wales on Alliterative Verse; What Goes Without Saying in Icelandic Artes Poeticae; 2 The Accentual Paradigm in Early English Metrics; The Quantitative Paradigm: George Hickes's Thesaurus (1703-1705)
- The Paradigm Shift, 1765-1868Elaborations and Challenges; A Second Paradigm Shift: Yakovlev's Morphological Theory; The Accentual Paradigm: Retrospect and Prospect; 3 The Origins of the Alliterative Revival; "Alliterative Revival": The History of a Problem; Final -e; The Brut; Generalizations: The Alliterative Tradition, c.1000-1250; 1250-1350: A Blank Space; 1350-1450: The "Revival" Again; 4 The Fourteenth-Century Meter; The Study Corpus: Identification of the Texts; A Representative Passage and Initial Description; Light Verses; The End of the Line; The A-Verse
- Schwa and the Rhythmical Structure of the B-VerseWhat Langland Did to the Alliterative Line; 5 The End of Alliterative Verse; Rhyme and Rhythm in the B-Verse; The A-Verse; "Invective vii": A Different Meter; A Field of Variance; Epilogue: Edmund Spenser's Poetry Lesson; Notes; Bibliography; I. Primary Sources; II. Secondary Sources; Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Sep. 5, 2017).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1108223230
- 9781108223232
- 9781108224581
- 110822458X
- 9781316650516
- 9781108219181
- 1108219187
- Publisher Number:
- 99985022457
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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