Prosody and Poetics in the Early Middle Ages Essays in Honour of C.B. Hieatt

Based on a conference held at the U. of Western Ontario in March 1993, this collection of papers, dedicated to medievalist Constance B. Hieatt, considers the prosody and poetics of Old and early Middle English. The contributors address the details of how poems and their meter work and employ a variety of approaches, including traditional textual analysis, historiographical consideration of the works and responses to them, linguistics-based analysis, application of pragmatic theory, computer analysis, and a comparative-literature perspective. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR