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Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 99) - Hardcover
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The poetry we call 'alliterative' is recorded in English from the seventh century until the sixteenth, and includes Caedmon's 'Hymn', Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman. These are some of the most admired works of medieval English literature, and also among the most enigmatic. The formal practice of alliterative poets exceeded the conceptual grasp of medieval literary theory; theorists are still playing catch-up today. This book explains the distinctive nature of alliterative meter, explores its differences from subsequent accentual-syllabic forms, and advances a reformed understanding of medieval English literary history. The startling formal variety of Piers Plowman and other Middle English alliterative poems comes into sharper focus when viewed in diachronic perspective: the meter was in transition; to understand it, we need to know where it came from and where it was headed at the moment it died out.
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Recent studies of Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Piers Plowman point towards a new understanding of English literary history in the Middle Ages. This book explains why alliterative meter has resisted modern efforts at comprehension, how it differed from accentual-syllabic forms, and why it died out.
About the Author
Ian Cornelius is Edward Surtz, S.J., Professor in the Department of English at Loyola University, Chicago. His work also includes essays on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, the medieval disciplines of grammar and rhetoric, the English Rising of 1381, and Piers Plowman. He previously taught at Yale University, Connecticut.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1107154103
- ISBN 13 9781107154100
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages234
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