Phantom Syllables in the English Alliterative Tradition.
The article discusses phantom syllables in Old and Middle English alliteration. R. D. Fulk amended the 1896 comments by Max Kaluza on a link between etymology and metrical resolution in Old English verse, which enabled later scholars to assume the significance of final -e. The author says there is a...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 110; no. 4; pp. 441 - 459 |
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University of Chicago Press
May2013
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| Sumario: | The article discusses phantom syllables in Old and Middle English alliteration. R. D. Fulk amended the 1896 comments by Max Kaluza on a link between etymology and metrical resolution in Old English verse, which enabled later scholars to assume the significance of final -e. The author says there is a need for future scholarship to focus on the poetry's motley meter, be in constant development but never caught up with the times. |
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