
A History of Old English Verse Layout
Poetics on The Page- Autor:innen:
- Verlag:
- 2024
Zusammenfassung
This study presents the first full history of Old English poetic mise-en-page, drawing its approach from the fields of literary criticism, art history, metrics, palaeography, and the history of the book. Paying special attention to lineation, this book surveys the layout of poetry from the earliest Latin writings in England, to modern editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It argues that the vernacular verse page is not, as has often been assumed, merely constrained by linguistic status. Rather, the layout of Old English poetry is shown to be the result of engaged scribal and editorial choices, and one of a set of tools used to meet readers’ needs and to express identities. Old English verse is not laid out "like prose,” but like Old English verse.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Auflage
- 1/2024
- Copyrightjahr
- 2024
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-80270-116-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-80270-196-8
- Verlag
- Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
- Reihe
- Book Cultures, Medieval to Modern Borderliners
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 186
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Contents Kein Zugriff
- List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
- Series Editors’ Preface Kein Zugriff
- Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
- A Note on Terminology and References Kein Zugriff
- Abbreviations Kein Zugriff
- Manuscripts Referenced, with Abbreviated or Alternative Titles Kein Zugriff
- Introduction. Rethinking the Vernacular Page Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 20
- Chapter 1. Latin Verse to the Tenth Century Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 58
- Chapter 2. Old English Verse in Medieval Manuscripts Kein Zugriff Seiten 59 - 120
- Chapter 3. Old English Verse in Modern Editions Kein Zugriff Seiten 121 - 146
- Conclusions Kein Zugriff Seiten 147 - 150
- Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 151 - 168
- Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 169 - 172





