Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages : : Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt / / M.J. Toswell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Toswell, M.J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cable, Thomas,; Creed, Robert Payson,; Foley, John Miles,; Good, James M .,; Griffith, M.S.,; Keddie, James,; Lishman, J.R.,; Macrae-Gibson, O.D.,; Megginson, David,; Moffat, Douglas,; Russom, Geoffrey,; Shaw, Brian,; Shippey, T.A.,; Stanley, Eric Gerald,; Toswell, M.J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The well-known reference works and analyses of Old English literature show little agreement about the definition and exemplification of style in the poetry of the period. Medieval poetry, particularly its style, is often described as ‘complex,’ ‘sophisticated,’ ‘extraordinarily compressed,’ or simply ‘as dense and difficult.’ This collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and early Middle English. The contributors concern themselves with the details of how poems and their metre work and employ a variety of approaches, including traditional text analysis, historiographical consideration of the works and responses to them, linguistics-based analysis, application of pragmatic theory, computer analysis, and a comparative-literature perspective. The writers suggest both implicitly and explicitly that whatever cultural constructions are relevant to the poetry of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, the poems remain worthy of study in and of themselves. The collection ranges from Old English to Old Norse to early Middle English, and the contributors include internationally known scholars, as well as young scholars whose research is just gaining recognition. The essays are previously unpublished; some are controversial, many are innovative, and all engage the scholarly issues of the day. They will contribute greatly to early medieval stylistics and the poetics of English literature.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Grammar, Spelling, and the Rhythm of the Alliterative Long Line -- The Battle of Maldon and Beowulfian Prosody -- The Poet's Self-Interruption in Andreas -- Alliterative Licence and the Rhetorical Use of Proper Names in The Battle of Maldon -- Simplifying Resolution in Beowulf -- Computer Assistance in the Analysis of Old English Metre: Methods and Results - A Provisional Report -- The Case against a 'General Old English Poetic Dialect' -- The Intonational Basis of La3amon' s Verse -- Constraints on Resolution in Beowulf -- Translation and Transformation in Andreas -- Speech and the Unspoken in Hamoismál -- Heroic Aspects of the Exeter Book Riddles -- Bibliography of C.B. Hieatt -- List of Contributors