Toswell / Brady Early English Poetic Culture and Meter

The Influence of G. R. Russom
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-58044-243-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 25, 198 Seiten

Reihe: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

This volume develops Geoffrey Richard Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras. Tom Bredehoft and Megan Hartman take up his word-foot theory to offer a radical but very logical restructuring of the relationship between prose and poetry. Jun Terasawa and R. D. Fulk address specific issues in Old English and Old Norse meter, while Eric Weiskott picks up Russom's current concern, the late medieval context for alliterative meter. Dan Donoghue and Hal Momma investigate the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Lindy Brady uses a stylistic detail in Beowulf to rethink the role of the Geats in the poem, and Jane Toswell proffers another dimension of poetic style in the early medieval context - polyptoton in vernacular texts. Tom Cable offers a contextualizing foreword to the collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Toswell, M. J.

Brady, Lindy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Thomas Cable
Introduction by Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell
Secg betsta and egn betstan: A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in Beowulf by Jun Terasawa
Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry by R. D. Fulk
Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory by Daniel Donoghue
Boars and the Geats in Beowulf by Lindy Brady
New Applications for Word-Foot Theory by Megan E. Hartman
The Old English Metrical Psalms: Practice and Theory of Translation by Haruko Momma
Polyptoton in Old English Texts by M. J. Toswell
Confessio et Oratio: An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Alliterative Meter after 1450: The Vision of William Banastre by Eric Weiskott
Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom

Über Autor(innen)

- M. J. Toswell is a professor at the University of Western Ontario.

- Lindy Brady is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi.