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English historical metrics
- Title
- English historical metrics / edited by C.B. McCully and J.J. Anderson.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PE253.E .E54 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 257 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-255) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction / C. B. McCully and J. J. Anderson -- 2. Clashing stress in the metres of Old, Middle, and Renaissance English / Thomas Cable -- 3. Purely metrical replacements for Kuhn's laws / Geoffrey Russom -- 4. Domain-end phenomena and metrical templates in Old English verse / C. B. McCully -- 5. Can Old English rhythm be reconstructed? / Wolfgang Obst -- 6. On recent theories of metrics and rhythm in Beowulf / Robert P. Stockwell -- 7. Nonprimary stress in early Middle English accentual-syllabic verse / Donka Minkova -- 8. Systematic sound symbolism in the long alliterative line in Beowulf and Sir Gawain / Marie Borroff -- 9. Non-aa/ax patterns in Middle English alliterative long-line verse / A. T. E. Matonis -- 10. The prosody of Middle English Pearl and the alliterative lyric tradition / Richard Osberg -- 11. Alliterative patterning and the editing of Middle English poetry / Gerrit H. V. Bunt -- 12. Reconsidering Chaucer's prosody / Gilbert Youmans --
- 13. Chaucer, Gower, and the history of the hendecasyllable / Martin J. Duffell -- 14. Libertine scribes and maidenly editors: meditations on textual criticism and metrics / Hoyt N. Duggan.
- ISBN
- 0521554640 (hc)
- LCCN
- 95049017
- OCLC
- ocm33440585
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries