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The Form and Style of Gnomic Hypermetrics [PDF]

, 2014
Gnomic poems have often been noted for their unusual metrical style. One aspect of their style that stands out is the hypermetric usage, both because these poems contain a notably high incidence of hypermetric verses and because the verses are frequently
Hartman, Megan E.
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Optimality Theory, Language Typology, and Universalist Metrics [PDF]

, 2018
In Russom (2011), I defended a universalist hypothesis that the constituents of poetic form are abstracted from natural linguistic constituents: metrical positions from phonological constituents, usually syllables; metrical feet from morphological ...
Russom, Geoffrey
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Wynnere and Wastoure, a 14th-Century Alliterative Poem at the Crossroads of Fact and Fiction

Anglophonia, 2013
Wynnere and Wastoure illustre une conception médiévale de l’artefact littéraire : celui-ci se présente en effet comme une combinaison d’éléments hétérogènes. Les conventions et les motifs de la romance chevaleresque et de l’allégorie y sont associés à la
Agnès Blandeau
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The Parlement of the Thre Ages: some notes on the place of origin of one of its manuscripts [PDF]

, 2001
[Abstract] The central goal of the present study is to explore the geographical origins of T, one of the manuscripts of the medieval alliterative poem. The Parlement of the Thre Ages (British Museum, MS 31042). For this purpose we will make use of
Alfaya Lamas, Elena, Moskowich, Isabel
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Some corrections to the notation of verse structure in two recent editions of Middle English alliterative poems

Filologia Germanica
In Germanic alliterative verse the fundamental unit of meter and rhythm is the half-line. Editions of older Germanic alliterative poems now usually record this feature in their typographic design: the poetry is lineated and coordinate half-lines are ...
IAN CORNELIUS
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The Finnic Tetrameter – A Creolization of Poetic Form?

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2019
This article presents a new theory on the origins of the common Finnic tetrameter as a poetic form (also called the Kalevala-meter, regilaul meter, etc.).
- Frog
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Text as tape: On the voice in the late prose of Friederike Mayröcker

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract For a text to have a voice means to be caught in a paradox: the text obviously does not speak, so what is that tone rising from the pages? Taking hold of a striking ambivalence, this essay examines the relationship between text and voice in the late prose of Austrian poet Friederike Mayröcker.
Astrid Elander
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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon

Glossa
This article attempts to extract prosodic information from Germanic (here, Old English and Old Saxon) alliterative poetry by integrating multiple theoretical frameworks.
Nelson Goering
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“Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor”: Revisiting Brunanburi’s Beasts-of Battle Topos (57-65ª) in Translation

Odisea, 2017
Gr/edigne Gudhafoc and d/et Gr/ege Deor: Una revisión del tema de las Bestias de la Guerra (57-65h) en las traducciones de la Batalla de Brunanburi. La entrada correspondiente al año 937 de la Crónica Anglosajona narra los hechos que tuvieron lugar en ...
Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso
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Eomer Gets Poetic: Tolkien\u27s Alliterative Versecraft [PDF]

, 2018
Throughout Tolkien\u27s professional career he dealt with a great number of texts that had varying views on the heroic, the romantic, the everyday world, and the role of Faerie.
Shelton, James
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