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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Үндсэн зохиолч: Weiskott, Eric (Зохиогч)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
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Хэвлэсэн: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
Онлайн хандалт:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16qjz9w
Агуулга:
  • 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