|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets
|
Buy Now
Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages - Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,132
Discovery Miles 11 320
|
|
|
Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages - Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt (Paperback)
Series: Heritage
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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. The collection ranges from Old English
to Old Norse to early Middle English, and the contributors include
internationally known scholars, as well as young scholars whose
research is just gaining recognition. The essays are previously
unpublished; some are controversial, many are innovative, and all
engage the scholarly issues of the day. They will contribute
greatly to early medieval stylistics and the poetics of English
literature.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
