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Author : Geoffrey Russom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107148338
This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
Author : Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110626605
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.
Author : G.A. Lester
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349245611
This book gives a linguistic overview of the first eight centuries of English poetry - years which produced such key works as Beowulf, Layaman's Brut and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It begins with chapters on the social and literary context, before turning in more detail to subjects such as poetic diction, rhymed and alliterative verse, borrowed words, recurrent phrases, rhetoric and linguistic variety. Aimed at the beginning student and general reader, the book seeks to enhance appreciation and enjoyment by making the linguistic resources of the poets better understood.
Author : J. Schipper
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066185800
By J. Schipper: Dive deep into the evolution and intricacies of English versification with Schipper's comprehensive study. Covering the historical nuances of English poetry, this book critically examines the techniques, patterns, and transformations in English verse. It's an essential read for scholars and enthusiasts keen on understanding the rhythmic beauty of English poetry and its development over time.
Author : Harriet Soper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009315135
In the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their staging of entanglements between human life courses and those of the nonhuman or more-than-human. While Old English poetry sometimes suggests that uniform patterns shape each life, paralleling patristic traditions of the ages of man, it also frequently disrupts a sense of steady linearity through the life course in striking ways, foregrounding moments of sudden upheaval over smooth continuity, contingency over predictability, and idiosyncrasy over regularity. Advancing new readings of a diverse range of Old English poems, Soper draws on an array of supporting contexts and theories to illuminate these texts, unearthing their complex and fascinating depictions of ageing through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443609
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.
Author : Daniel Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198895268
How to Read Middle English Poetry guides readers through poetry between 1150 and 1500, for study and pleasure. Chapters give down-to-earth advice on enjoying and analyzing each aspect of verse, from the choice of single words, through syntax, metre, rhyme, and stanza-design, up to the play of larger forms across whole poems. How to Read Middle English Poetry covers major figures?such as Chaucer, Langland, the Pearl Poet, and Robert Henryson?but also delves into exciting anonymous lyrics, romances, and drama. It shows, too, how some modern poets have drawn on earlier poems, and how Middle English and early Scots provide crucial standpoints from which to think through present-day writing. Contextual sections discuss how poetry was heard aloud, introduce manuscripts and editing, and lay out Middle English poetry's ties to other tongues, including French, Welsh, and Latin. Critical terms are highlighted and explained both in the main text and in a full indexed glossary, while the uses of key tools such as the Middle English Dictionary are described and modeled. References to accessible editions and electronic resources mean that the book needs no accompanying anthology. At once thorough, wide-ranging, and practical, How to Read Middle English Poetry is indispensable for students exploring Middle English or early Scots, and for anyone curious about the heart of poetry's history.
Author : Anne Schuurman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009385961
Exploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812298512
What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.
Author : Katie L. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426619
First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
Author : Maren Clegg Hyer,Haruko Momma,Samantha Zacher
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845614
Essays demonstrating how the careful study of individual words can shed immense light on texts more broadly.
Author : Daniel Donoghue
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812249941
Daniel Donoghue shows how the earliest readers of Old English poems deployed a unique set of skills that enabled them to navigate a daunting task with apparent ease.
Author : Mark Faulkner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009033091
A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century offers a new narrative of what happened to English language writing in the long twelfth century, the period that saw the end of the Old English tradition and the beginning of Middle English writing. It discusses numerous neglected or unknown texts, focusing particularly on documents, chronicles and sermons. To tell the story of this pivotal period, it adopts approaches from both literary criticism and historical linguistics, finding a synthesis for them in a twenty-first century philology. It develops new methodologies for addressing major questions about twelfth-century texts, including when they were written, how they were read and their relationship to earlier works. Essential reading for anyone interested in what happened to English after the Norman Conquest, this study lays the groundwork for the coming decade's work on transitional English.
Author : Peter Grund,Megan Hartman
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110643282
This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The concept of boundaries is variously defined within linguistics depending on the theoretical framework, from formal and theoretical perspectives to specific fields and more empirical, physical, and perceptual angles. The contributions to this volume do not take one particular theoretical or methodological approach but, instead, explore how examining various types of boundaries—linguistic, conceptual, analytical, generic, physical—helps us illuminate and account for historical use, variation, and change in English. In their exploration of various topics in the history of English, contributions ask a range of questions: what does it mean to set up boundaries between time periods? When do language varieties have distinct boundaries and when do they overlap? Where do language users draw up clausal, constructional, semantic, phonetic/phonological boundaries? Thus, the chapters explore not only how boundaries illustrate synchronic and diachronic features in the history of the English language but also what we can discover by questioning perceived or actual boundaries.
Author : Jennifer A. Lorden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009390316
Firmly establishes the importance of early affective devotion in the hybrid poetics of the earliest English poetry.
