Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre
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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

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An up-to-the-minute survey of the importance of metrical analysis to textual criticism in Old English studies from international specialists.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. PREFACE
  3. A NOTE ON THE CLASP PROJECT
  4. ABBREVIATIONS
  5. TABLES AND FIGURES
  6. LIST OF APPENDICES TO INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. Chapter 1 METRE AS AN EDITORIAL CONCERN IN THE ANGLO- SAXON POETIC RECORDS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE OLD ENGLISH SOUL AND BODY POEMS
  9. Chapter 2 THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: “NOT ON THE WHOLE METRICALLY DEFICIENT”?
  10. Chapter 3 ON THE METRE OF EXODUS
  11. Chapter 4 THE BATTLE OF MALDON AND THE VENGEANCE OF OFFA
  12. Chapter 5 RHYME AND REASON IN THE BATTLE OF MALDON
  13. Chapter 6 HYPERMETRIC NARRATIVE IN THE OLD ENGLISH DANIEL
  14. Chapter 7 ELENE 582– 89: HYPERMETRICS, REVELATION, AND JUDGMENT
  15. Chapter 8 SINGLE HALF- LINES AND HEAVY HYPERMETRIC VERSES IN MAXIMS I RECONSIDERED
  16. Chapter 9 ANAPHORA AND STYLISTIC FLEXIBILITY IN THE METRICAL CHARMS
  17. Chapter 10 STRUGGLING TO FIND THE POINT: THE SCRATCHED METRICAL POINTING OF GUTHLAC A IN THE EXETER BOOK
  18. Chapter 11 MIND THE GAP: INTER- WORD SPACING AND METRICAL ORGANIZATION IN OLD ENGLISH VERSE
  19. Chapter 12 METRE VS RHYTHM: JOHN C. POPE READS SIEVERS
  20. Chapter 13 THE MYSTERY OF OLD ENGLISH TYPE A2K
  21. Appendix 1 ALAN BLISS: 1921– 1985
  22. Appendix 2 SOME CORRECTIONS TO ALAN BLISS’S INDICES TO THE METRE OF BEOWULF, TOGETHER WITH HIS LAST KNOWN VIEWS ON THE METRE OF THE POEM
  23. Appendix 3 A GLOSSARY OF METRICAL TERMS
  24. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING
  25. INDEX