The Shapes Of Early English Poetry

Author : Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580443609

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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 : Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110626605

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The Shapes of Early English Poetry by Eric Weiskott,Irina Dumitrescu Pdf

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 : Lindy Brady,M J Toswell
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580442435

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Early English Poetic Culture and Meter by Lindy Brady,M J Toswell Pdf

This volume develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative meter, and the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Ten eminent scholars from across the field take up Russom's ideas to lead readers in new and exciting directions.

Author : Harriet Soper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009315128

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The Life Course in Old English Poetry by Harriet Soper Pdf

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 : Earl R. Anderson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 083863916X

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Folk-taxonomies in Early English by Earl R. Anderson Pdf

A folk-taxonomy is a semantic field that represents the particular way in which a language imposes structure and order upon the myriad impressions of human experience and perception. Thus, for example, the experience of color in modem English is structured around an inventory of twelve "basic" color terms; but languages vary in the number of basic color terms used, from thirteen or fourteen terms to as few as two or three. Anthropological linguists have been interested in the comparative study of folk-taxonomies across contemporary languages, and in their studies they have sometimes proposed evolutionary models for the development and elaboration of these taxonomies. The evolutionary models have implications for historical linguistics, but there have been very few studies of the historical development of a folk-taxonomy within a language or within a language family. Folk-Taxonomies in Early English undertakes this task for English, and to some extent for the Germanic and Indo-European language families. The semantic fields studied are basic color terms, seasons of the year, geometric shapes, the five senses, the folk-psychology of mind and soul, and basic plant and animal life-forms. Anderson's emphasis is on folk-taxonomies in Old and Middle English, and also on the implications of semantic analysis for our reading of early English literary texts.

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3550162

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Illustrations of Early English Poetry: A gorgious gallery of gallant inventions; The paradyse of daynty devises; Churchyard's Miscellaneous poems; Churchyard's Charge; The phoenix nest by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Russom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107148338

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The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry by Geoffrey Russom Pdf

This book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.

Author : Rachel A. Fletcher,Thijs Porck,Oliver M. Traxel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846505

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Old English Medievalism by Rachel A. Fletcher,Thijs Porck,Oliver M. Traxel Pdf

An exploration across thirteen essays by critics, translators and creative writers on the modern-day afterlives of Old English, delving into how it has been transplanted and recreated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Author : Percy Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009671777

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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society Pdf

Author : Frederick-William Fairholt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z206301303

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Percy Society ; Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ; Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications by Frederick-William Fairholt Pdf

Author : Gary F. Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317895589

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English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century by Gary F. Waller Pdf

Explores the poetry of the Renaissance, from Dunbar in the late 15th century to the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne in the early 17th. The book offers more than the wealth of literature discussed: it is a pioneering work in its own right, bringing the insights of contemporary literary and cultural theory to an overview of the period.

Author : Patrick Cheney,Andrew Hadfield,Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076002628316

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Early Modern English Poetry by Patrick Cheney,Andrew Hadfield,Garrett A. Sullivan Pdf

This text features 28 essays written by important international scholars on the major poems of the English Renaissance. It offers scholarship on subjects ranging from the invention of English verse, Petrarchism, pastoral, elegy, and satire, to women's religious verse, the place of homoeroticism and Cavalier poetry.

Author : Stopford Augustus Brooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B4109878

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The History of Early English Literature by Stopford Augustus Brooke Pdf

Author : John Payne Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3547093

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Illustrations of Early English Poetry by John Payne Collier Pdf

Author : Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876977

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The Earliest English by Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles Pdf

The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid-12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with in the 21st century. Features of the book include: the provision of accessible guides to some important 'problem topics' of classical OE stimulating cross-linguistic comparisons, e.g. the pronoun system of OE as compared with the pronoun system of present day Dutch cleverly laid out translation exercises, with structural help in the form of selective glossaries careful division into eight units, designed for both classroom use and self-study Written in a clear and accessible manner, The Earliest English provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English language and literature, and will be an invaluable textbook for students of English Language and Linguistics.