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Series Statement: Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 96

Content: English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into Old English and Middle English periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition, divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves back together. In combining literary history and metrical description into a new kind of history he calls 'verse history', Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2016). , Evolution of the alliterative b-verse, 650-1550 -- Introduction: the durable alliterative tradition -- Beowulf and verse history -- The evolution of alliterative meter, 950-1100 -- Verse history and language history -- Beowulf and the unknown shape of Old English literary history -- Prologues to Old English poetry -- Old English prologues and Old English poetic styles -- The Beowulf prologue and the history of style -- Lawman, the last Old English poet and the first Middle English poet -- Lawman and the evolution of alliterative meter -- Lawman at a crossroads in literary history -- Prologues to Middle English alliterative poetry -- The continuity of the alliterative tradition, 1250-1340 -- Excursus: Middle English alliterating stanzaic poetry -- Middle English prologues, romaunce, and Middle English poetic styles -- The Erkenwald poet's sense of history -- A meditation on histories -- St. Erkenwald and the idea of alliterative verse in late medieval England -- Authors, styles, and the search for a Middle English canon -- The alliterative tradition in the sixteenth century -- The alliterative tradition in its tenth century -- Unmodernity: the idea of alliterative verse in the sixteenth century -- Conclusion: whose tradition? -- Note to the appendices -- Appendix A. Fifteen late Old English poems omitted from ASPR -- Appendix B. Six early Middle English alliterative poems -- Appendix C. An early Middle English alliterative poem in Latin -- Glossary of technical terms.

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Content: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Quotations and Scansion -- Preface -- Introduction. Modernity: The Problem of a History -- PART I. ALLITERATIVE METER, TETRAMETER, POLITICAL PROPHECY -- Chapter 1. English Political Prophecy: Coordinates of Form and History -- Chapter 2. The Age of Prophecy -- Chapter 3. The Ireland Prophecy and the Future of Alliterative Verse -- Chapter 4. Tetrameter: The Future of Alliterative Verse -- Chapter 5. Where Have All the Pentameter Prophecies Gone? -- PART II. ALLITERATIVE METER, PENTAMETER, LANGLAND -- Chapter 6. Alliterative Meter and Blank Verse, 1540–1667 -- Chapter 7. The Rhymelessness of Piers Plowman -- Chapter 8. Langland’s Meter and Blank Verse, 1700–2000 -- PART III. TETRAMETER, PENTAMETER, CHAUCER -- Chapter 9. Chaucer and the Problem of Modernity -- Chapter 10. Chaucer’s English Metrical Phonology: Tetrameter to Pentameter -- Chapter 11. The Age of Pentameter -- Conclusion. From Archive to Canon -- Appendix A. English Prophecy Books -- Appendix B. Some Texts of English Verse Prophecies Not Noted in NIMEV -- Appendix C. Compilers, Scribes, and Owners of Manuscripts Containing Political Prophecy -- Appendix D. The Ireland Prophecy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts and Rare Printed Books -- Index of Anonymous Poems -- General Index -- Acknowledgments

Content: What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers.In Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of these three meters as markers of literary time, "medieval" or "modern," though all three were in concurrent use both before and after 1500. In each section of the book, he considers two of the traditions through the prism of a third element: alliterative meter and tetrameter in poems of political prophecy; alliterative meter and pentameter in William Langland's Piers Plowman and early blank verse; and tetrameter and pentameter in Chaucer, his predecessors, and his followers. Reversing the historical perspective in which scholars conventionally view these authors, Weiskott reveals Langland to be metrically precocious and Chaucer metrically nostalgic.More than a history of prosody, Weiskott's book challenges the divide between medieval and modern literature. Rejecting the premise that modernity occurred as a specifiable event, he uses metrical history to renegotiate the trajectories of English literary history and advances a narrative of sociocultural change that runs parallel to metrical change, exploring the relationship between literary practice, social placement, and historical time

Content: "This book is a history of meter in English poetry. It questions literary periodization"--

Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 259 - 281 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weiskott, Eric Meter and modernity in English verse, 1350-1650 Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021 ISBN 9780812252644

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Series Statement: Studies in medieval and early modern culture [64]

Content: This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality

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Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Altenglisch ; Versdichtung ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9781580443609

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 281 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-58044-360-9

Series Statement: Studies in medieval and early modern culture [64]

Content: This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality

Note: Fälschlicherweise als Band 51 der Reihe bezeichnet.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-5804-4359-3

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Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Altenglisch ; Versdichtung ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.1515/9781580443609

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 281 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-58044-360-9

Series Statement: Studies in medieval and early modern culture [64]

Content: This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality

Note: Fälschlicherweise als Band 51 der Reihe bezeichnet.

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-5804-4359-3

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Altenglisch ; Versdichtung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: xix, 281 pages , 24 cm

ISBN: 9781580443593 , 1580443591

Series Statement: Studies in medieval and early modern culture 64

Note: Series numbering identified as [no.] 64 on publisher website , Includes bibliographical references and index

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe The shapes of early English poetry Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2019 ISBN 9781580443609

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Keywords: Altenglisch ; Lyrik ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781580443609

Series Statement: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 64

Content: This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Roberta Frank’s Publications, 1970–present -- , Introduction -- , Part 1. Seasons -- , Weathering Time in the Wanderer / , Beowulf as Anti-Virgilian World Literature Archaeology, Ekphrasis, and Epic / , A Portrait of the Translator as Grendel’s Mother The Postcolonial Feminist Polyphony of Meghan Purvis’s Beowulf / , Part 2. Engines -- , Light Verse in Anglo-Saxon England / , The Paris Psalter and English Literary History / , Generative Form / , Kennings and Things: Towards an Object-Oriented Skaldic Poetics / , Part 3. Discordance -- , Lydgate’s Missing “Ballade” and the Bibliographical Imaginary / , Spoiled and Eaten: Figures of Absorption in Medieval English Poetry / , “Gehyre se ðe wille”: Sonic Worlds in Old Testament Poetry / , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

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