Ian Cornelius (Chicago Loyola University)

Reconstructing Alliterative Verse

The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 167mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107154100
• ISBN-10: 1107154103
• Artikelnr.: 48820545

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.