Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

book: Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

Open Access Published by ARC Humanities Press 2023

Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre

Edited by: Rachel A. Burns and Rafael J. Pascual

In the series Medieval Media Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781802700251

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About this book

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 practice, manuscript analysis and scribal practice. The essays in this collection include contributions from both new scholars and established metrists. They focus on the application of metrical study to literary criticism and manuscript studies, engaging with current debate and offering new perspectives on the crucial role of metre to Old English scholarship.

Author / Editor information

Rachel A. Burns is a Lecturer in medieval literature at Hertford College, University of Oxford. She previously worked on the CLASP project in the Oxford English Faculty. Her research on Old English poetry has been published as articles in Anglia and The Review of English Studies. Rafael J. Pascual is a Departmental Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Previously he held postdoctoral research positions at CLASP and at Harvard University. He specializes in medieval English language and literature (with a particular focus on Old English poetry).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
A NOTE ON THE CLASP PROJECT Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
TABLES AND FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
LIST OF APPENDICES TO INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION Rafael J. Pascual Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 METRE AS AN EDITORIAL CONCERN IN THE ANGLO- SAXON POETIC RECORDS, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE OLD ENGLISH SOUL AND BODY POEMS R. D. Fulk Open Access Download PDF	11
Chapter 2 THE DREAM OF THE ROOD: “NOT ON THE WHOLE METRICALLY DEFICIENT”? Jane Roberts Open Access Download PDF	19
Chapter 3 ON THE METRE OF EXODUS Peter J. Lucas Open Access Download PDF	43
Chapter 4 THE BATTLE OF MALDON AND THE VENGEANCE OF OFFA Mark Griffith Open Access Download PDF	79
Chapter 5 RHYME AND REASON IN THE BATTLE OF MALDON Mark Atherton Open Access Download PDF	103
Chapter 6 HYPERMETRIC NARRATIVE IN THE OLD ENGLISH DANIEL Megan E. Hartman Open Access Download PDF	121
Chapter 7 ELENE 582– 89: HYPERMETRICS, REVELATION, AND JUDGMENT Matthew D. Coker Open Access Download PDF	139
Chapter 8 SINGLE HALF- LINES AND HEAVY HYPERMETRIC VERSES IN MAXIMS I RECONSIDERED Kazutomo Karasawa Open Access Download PDF	155
Chapter 9 ANAPHORA AND STYLISTIC FLEXIBILITY IN THE METRICAL CHARMS Caroline R. Batten Open Access Download PDF	171
Chapter 10 STRUGGLING TO FIND THE POINT: THE SCRATCHED METRICAL POINTING OF GUTHLAC A IN THE EXETER BOOK S. C. Thomson Open Access Download PDF	189
Chapter 11 MIND THE GAP: INTER- WORD SPACING AND METRICAL ORGANIZATION IN OLD ENGLISH VERSE Rachel A. Burns Open Access Download PDF	207
Chapter 12 METRE VS RHYTHM: JOHN C. POPE READS SIEVERS Haruko Momma Open Access Download PDF	219
Chapter 13 THE MYSTERY OF OLD ENGLISH TYPE A2K Geoffrey Russom Open Access Download PDF	233
Appendix 1 ALAN BLISS: 1921– 1985 Peter J. Lucas Open Access Download PDF	249
Appendix 2 SOME CORRECTIONS TO ALAN BLISS’S INDICES TO THE METRE OF BEOWULF, TOGETHER WITH HIS LAST KNOWN VIEWS ON THE METRE OF THE POEM Mark Griffith Open Access Download PDF	251
Appendix 3 A GLOSSARY OF METRICAL TERMS Rafael J. Pascual Open Access Download PDF	257
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING Open Access Download PDF	263
INDEX Open Access Download PDF	267

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Language: English
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 294
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Old English poetry; Anglo-Latin literature; poetics; metrics; manuscript studies

eBook

Published: September 30, 2022
ISBN: 9781802700251