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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Glavni avtor: Weiskott, Eric (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2021]
Online dostop:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16qjz9w
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  • 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?
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  • Langland's meter and blank verse, 1700-2000
  • Chaucer and the problem of modernity
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  • The age of pentameter