A01=B.R. Hutcheson
Anglo-Saxon Poets
Author_B.R. Hutcheson
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Language Study
Metrical Study
Old English Poetry
Oral-Formulaic Theory
Resolution
Word Stress
Product details
- ISBN 9780859914352
- Weight: 712g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 1995
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Metrical study of Old English poetry drawing on database of almost half the surviving corpus - a uniquely extensive sample.
The primary aim of this study is to provide an improved description of Old English metre. Making use of a computerized database containing 13,044 lines of Old English poetry (about 40% of the total which survives), it is unique among other studies of Old English metre (which have usually confined themselves to Beowulf) for the size of the corpus it examines. Although located firmly within the traditional `five types' theory of Old English metre, itdeparts from previous critical orthodoxies in several respects. It places greater emphasis than is usual on syntax and formulaic diction, and demonstrates, for example, that a coherent metrical system emerges if alliteration is used as a guide to word stress, and that resolution is a metrically significant phenomenon. A secondary aim is to recover the way Anglo-Saxon poets composed their verse, with important implications for oral-formulaic theory; and a revised terminology is suggested.
B.R. HUTCHESON teaches at Macon College, USA.
