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ISBN10: 1433105780, ISBN13: 9781433105784, [publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers] Hardcover In [Uxbridge, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
ISBN10: 1433105780, ISBN13: 9781433105784, [publisher: Peter Lang] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Versatility in Versification grew out of an international conference organized by the University of Iceland and the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies and held at Reykholt, Iceland, the thirteenth-century home of Snorri Sturluson. Although medieval Icelandic poetic culture was highlighted at the conference, the range of subjects remained diverse and discussion became dynamic. Similarly, this volume brings together the work of a broad range of scholars who embark on a discourse across disciplines, addressing aspects of poetry and poetics within the Germanic language family in particular. The subjects range from runic metrical inscriptions to literature and poetics of the modern day, the medieval period becoming a nexus of attention through which the various subjects in this historical scope are interwoven and united. Approaches range from theoretical linguistics and generative metrics to cognitive theory and folkloristics. The discourse initiated at the conference has both continued and expanded during this volume's evolution, and it has significantly enriched the development of the individual chapters, which variously treat meters, their relationships to language, and poetics in application. These diverse subjects and approaches form remarkable constellations of complementary relationships and continue to engage in a discourse to the ...
ISBN10: 1433105780, ISBN13: 9781433105784, [publisher: Peter Lang] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Versatility in Versification grew out of an international conference organized by the University of Iceland and the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies and held at Reykholt, Iceland, the thirteenth-century home of Snorri Sturluson. Although medieval Icelandic poetic culture was highlighted at the conference, the range of subjects remained diverse and discussion became dynamic. Similarly, this volume brings together the work of a broad range of scholars who embark on a discourse across disciplines, addressing aspects of poetry and poetics within the Germanic language family in particular. The subjects range from runic metrical inscriptions to literature and poetics of the modern day, the medieval period becoming a nexus of attention through which the various subjects in this historical scope are interwoven and united. Approaches range from theoretical linguistics and generative metrics to cognitive theory and folkloristics. The discourse initiated at the conference has both continued and expanded during this volume's evolution, and it has significantly enriched the development of the individual chapters, which variously treat meters, their relationships to language, and poetics in application. These diverse subjects and approaches form remarkable constellations of complementary relationships and continue to engage in a discourse to the ...
New York Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 297 p. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 74.
New York Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 297 p. Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, 74.
ISBN10: 1433105780, ISBN13: 9781433105784, [publisher: Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated] Hardcover pp. xvi + 297 [New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]
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