Early English Poetic Culture and Metre: The Influence of G. R. Russom (Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures)

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. Ten eminent scholars from across the field take up Russom's ideas to lead readers in new and exciting directions. Cover 1 Contents 8 Foreword 10 Introduction 14 Jun Terasawa – Secg betsta and ðegn betstan: A Reconsideration of the Short Verses in Beowulf 22 R. D. Fulk – Particle Verses in Old English and Eddic Poetry 34 Daniel Donoghue – Old English Verse Punctuation and Linguistic Theory 52 Lindy Brady – Boars and the Geats in Beowulf 74 Megan E. Hartman – New Applications for Word-Foot Theory 86 Haruko Momma – The Old English Metrical Psalms: Practice and Theory of Translation 106 M. J. Toswell – Polyptoton in Old English Texts 124 Thomas A. Bredehoft – Confessio et Oratio: An Unrecognized Old English Confessional Poem 144 Eric Weiskott – Alliterative Meter after 1450: The Vision of William Banastre 162 Publications of Geoffrey Richard Russom 194 This 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. "This volume develops Geoffrey Richard Russom's contributions to early English metre and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras."-- Provided by publisher New approaches on early English poetic culture from the perspective of meter and poetic style.