Approaches to the metres of alliterative verse
By: edited by Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter
Series: Leeds texts and monographs. New series -- 17; Leeds texts and monographs -- 17.
Publisher: Leeds Studies in English
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leeds, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780853162766
Subjects: Alliteration; English language; Versification; English poetry; History and criticism; Allitération; Anglais (Langue); Poésie anglaise; Histoire et critique; 18.05 English literature; Middle English; Poems; Metrics; Allitteration; Medelengelska språket; Metrik; Medelengelsk litteratur; Poesi; Historia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-307).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter; title: The metre which does not measure: the function of alliteration in Middle English alliterative poetry / Jeremy Smith; title: Alliteration and prosody in Old and Middle English / Elizabeth Solopova; title: Some unnoticed constraints on the A-verse in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Geoffrey Russom; title: To/for to + infinitive and the long medial dip in the A-verse / Noriko Inoue; title: Diagnostics of metricality in Middle English alliterative verse / Donka Minkova; title: "For all this werlde ryche": syntactic inversion as evidence for metrical principles in the alliterative Morte Arthure / Gilbert Youmans; title: On final -e in the B-verses of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Nicolay Yakovlev; title: Notes on the metre of Piers Plowman: twenty years on / Hoyt N. Duggan; title: Some prosodic observations on the peculiar metric of Pearl / Alan Gaylord; title: Foreign influence, native continuation, and metrical typology in alliterative lyrics / Thomas Cable; title: Measuring discourse: the fourteenth-century alliterative long line as a two-tier system / Ronald Waldron; title: Metre and emendation: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 660b and 815b / Nyra Stokes; title: Alliterative metre and editorial practice: the case of Death and liffe / Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter.