Approaches to the metres of alliterative verse

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Approaches to the metres of alliterative verse

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English
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311

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Table of Contents

Introduction / Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter
The metre which does not measure: the function of alliteration in Middle English alliterative poetry / Jeremy Smith
Alliteration and prosody in Old and Middle English / Elizabeth Solopova
Some unnoticed constraints on the A-verse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Geoffrey Russom
To/for to + infinitive and the long medial dip in the A-verse / Noriko Inoue
Diagnostics of metricality in Middle English alliterative verse / Donka Minkova
"For all this werlde ryche": syntactic inversion as evidence for metrical principles in the alliterative Morte Arthure / Gilbert Youmans
On final -e in the B-verses of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Nicolay Yakovlev
Notes on the metre of Piers Plowman: twenty years on / Hoyt N. Duggan
Some prosodic observations on the peculiar metric of Pearl / Alan Gaylord
Foreign influence, native continuation, and metrical typology in alliterative lyrics / Thomas Cable
Measuring discourse: the fourteenth-century alliterative long line as a two-tier system / Ronald Waldron
Metre and emendation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 660b and 815b / Nyra Stokes
Alliterative metre and editorial practice: the case of Death and liffe / Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-307).

Published in
Leeds, England
Series
Leeds texts and monographs. New series -- 17, Leeds texts and monographs -- 17.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
426
Library of Congress
PE659.A6 A66 2009

The Physical Object

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311 pages
Number of pages
311

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Open Library
OL39207866M
Internet Archive
approachestometr0000unse
ISBN 10
085316276X
ISBN 13
9780853162766
OCLC/WorldCat
320268453

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OL28595757W

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