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Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre [PDF]
, 2022 The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulk’s A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been brought to bear on questions of poetic style, dating and literary history, linguistics and language history, editing ...
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Did Old English Verse Have a “Morphological” Metre?
Neophilologus, 2023 AbstractThe revision of the four-position theory of Old English metre by Yakovlev (2008) has had a considerable impact, both for its simplification of Sievers’ (1893) metrical principles, and for its supposed shift to a “morphological” rather than an “accentual” metrical type.
Nelson Goering
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Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
GlossaThis 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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SELIMBook review of Burns, Rachel A., and Rafael J. Pascual, eds. 2022. Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre. Leeds: Arc Humanities Press. Pp. xii + 281. ISBN 1802700250.
Daniel Donoghue
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The development of alliterative metre from Old to Middle English [PDF]
, 2008 The thesis deals with the history of the alliterative long line from Old English to both early and late Middle English, and demonstrates that the differences between the metrical systems of those periods are explicable in their entirety by the historical changes in the linguistic prosody rather than a discontinuity of the alliterative tradition.
Yakovlev, Nicolay
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'Shadow' and paradoxes of darkness in Old English and Old Norse poetic language [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis confronts, explores, and attempts to meaningfully interpret a surprising nexus of stimulating cruces and paradoxes in Old English poetry and prose and Old Norse skaldic and Eddic poetry.
Missuno, Filip
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On The Diachronic Analysis of Old English Metre [PDF]
International Journal of Language & Linguistics, 2018 exaly +2 more sources
Metre in Old Saxon and Old High German [PDF]
, 2023 Schematic (bullet-point) overview of Old Saxon and Old High German metre, with a particular emphasis on alliterative verse. My goal is to sketch out the main features of the metre, especially in comparison with Old English, rather than to delve into ...
Nelson Goering
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On Ælfric and Old English Metrical Theory
SELIMIn 2016, Thomas A. Bredehoft wrote a reply to my criticism of his theory of Old English metre, according to which Ælfric's rhythmical compositions ought to be considered verse rather than prose.
Rafael J. Pascual
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