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Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom

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Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom

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Description

This volume develops G. R. Russom’s contributions to early English metre and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras, including his word-foot theory, concern for the late medieval context for alliterative metre, and the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts.

ISBN

9781580442428

Publication Date

10-1-2016

Relational Format

book

Department

English

Publisher

Medieval Institute Publications

Disciplines

Literature in English, British Isles

Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom
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