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

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

Toswell, M. J.

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 148758525X
ISBN13: 9781487585259
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1995
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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