Versatility in versification
Subtitle: multidisciplinary approaches to metrics
By: edited by Tonya Kim Dewey and Frog.
Contributors: Dewey, Tonya Kim.; Frog, 1972-; Háskóli Íslands.
Series: Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics -- v. 74
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433105784
Subjects: Scandinavian languages -- Versification -- Congresses; Scandinavian languages -- Rhythm -- Congresses; Germanic languages -- Versification -- Congresses; Germanic languages -- Rhythm -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments / Kristján Árnason; title: Introduction / Frog & Tonya Kim Dewey; title: Diachronic Approaches: 1. Early Runic 'metrical' inscriptions: How metrical are they? / Michael Schulte; title: 2. Metrical learning and the First Grammatical Treatise / Gürún Nordal; title: 3. On Kuhn's Laws and Craigie's Law in Old Icelandic poetry / Kristján Árnason; title: 4. The syntax of the verb in Old Icelandic: Evidence from poetry / Thórhallur Eythórsson; title: 5. The effect of prosody on the linear structure of adpositional phrases in Eddic verse / Tonya Kim Dewey; title: 6. Alliteration and grammatical categories / Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson; title: Generative Approaches: 7. Old English feet / Chris Golston; title: 8. Accents left and right / Tomas Riad; title: 9. Formal interactions in poetic meter / Nigel Fabb; title: 10. How Germanic features can appear in Italian metrical poetry / Stefano Versace; title: Performative Aesthetics: 11. The poem as a site of inherited structures and artistic innovation / Sissel Furuseth; title: 12. Dipod rules: Norwegian stev, paired accents and accentual poetry Jacqueline Ekgren; title: 13. Speech-Acts in Skaldic Verse: Genre, Compositional Strategies and Improvisation / Frog; title: 14. No royal road: The extremes of dróttkvætt lines in Snorri's Háttatal / Helgi Skúli Kjartansson; title: 15. Gnast and brast: On metrics, enjambment and more in two ditties in Gísla saga, the shorter version / Bergljót Soffía Kristjánsdóttir; title: 16. Towards a theory of aesthetic rhythm / Eva Lilja; title: Index.