Meter and modernity in English verse, 1350-1650 /

Eric Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of three metrical forms as markers of literary periodization: alliterative meter, tetrameter, and pentameter. Rejecting the traditional division between medieval and modern, Weiskott's analysis of metrical history renegotiates the trajectories of Engl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiskott, Eric (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
Temas:
1100-1700
English language > Versification.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Poetics > History.
English literature > Periodization.
Anglais (Langue) > Versification.
Poésie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Poétique > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
English language > Versification
English literature > Periodization
English poetry > Early modern
English poetry > Middle English
Poetics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • English political prophecy: coordinates of form and history
  • The age of prophecy
  • The Ireland prophecy and the future of alliterative verse
  • Tetrameter: the future of alliterative verse
  • Where have all the pentameter prophecies gone?
  • lliterative meter and blank verse, 1540-1667
  • The rhymelessness of Piers Plowman
  • Langland's meter and blank verse, 1700-2000
  • Chaucer and the problem of modernity
  • Chaucer's English metrical phonology: tetrameter to pentameter
  • The age of pentameter

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