This book presents a novel treatment of the metre of Beowulf, an Old English epic poem of uncertain date and origin which is nonetheless considered one of the gems of Germanic Alliterative Verse. Building on recent advances in generative linguistics, the analysis presented in this book offers compelling explanations for a wide range of metrical phenomena that have been observed but only poorly understood for over a century.
- ISBN10 3110171058
- ISBN13 9783110171051
- Publish Date 24 October 2002 (first published 1 January 2002)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country DE
- Publisher De Gruyter
- Imprint De Gruyter Mouton
- Edition Reprint 2011
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 378
- Language English
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