 | Early English Poetic Culture and Meter: The Influence of G. R. Russom Subjects: English poetry -- Old English ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; English poetry -- Old English ca. 450-1100 -- Versification; Russom Geoffrey; This volume develops Geoffrey Richard Russom's contributions to early English meter and style, including his fundamental reworkings and rethinkings of accepted and oft-repeated mantras. Tom Bredehoft and Megan Hartman take up his word-foot theory to offer a radical but very logical restructuring of the relationship between prose and poetry. Jun Terasawa and R. D. Fulk address specific issues in Old English and Old Norse meter, while Eric Weiskott picks up Russom's current concern, the late medieval context for alliterative meter. Dan Donoghue and Hal Momma investigate the linguistics of punctuation and translation as applied to Old English texts. Lindy Brady uses a stylistic detail in Beowulf to rethink the role of the Geats in the poem, and Jane Toswell proffers another dimension of poetic style in the early medieval context - polyptoton in vernacular texts. Tom Cable offers a contextualizing foreword to the collection. M. J. Toswell is a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Lindy Brady is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. |
