Eric Weiskott

Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650

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Produktbeschreibung

Eric Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejecting the traditional division between medieval and modern, Weiskott's analysis of metrical history renegotiates the trajectories of English literary history between 1350 and 1650.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 236mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252644
• ISBN-10: 0812252640
• Artikelnr.: 58814367

Autorenporträt

Eric Weiskott is Associate Professor of English at Boston College. He is author of English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History and coeditor of The Shapes of Early English Poetry: Style, Form, History. He co-edits the Yearbook of Langland Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Acknowledgments