Description
Book SynopsisThis volume develops G. R. Russom's contributions to early English meter 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 meter, and the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Ten eminent scholars from across the field take up Russom's ideas to lead readers in new and exciting directions.
Table of ContentsForeword by Thomas Cable
Introduction by Lindy Brady and M. J. Toswell
Secg betsta and
ðegn betstan: A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in
Beowulf by Jun Terasawa
Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry by R. D. Fulk
Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory by Daniel Donoghue
Boars and the Geats in
Beowulf by Lindy Brady
New Applications for Word-Foot Theory by Megan E. Hartman
The Old English
Metrical Psalms: Practice and Theory of Translation by Haruko Momma
Polyptoton in Old English Texts by M. J. Toswell
Confessio et Oratio: An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem by Thomas A. Bredehoft
Alliterative Meter after 1450:
The Vision of William Banastre by Eric Weiskott
Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom
