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 simpl...

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