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Paul Acker has written a very useful and timely book.
–Speculum
Paul Acker has written a very useful and timely book.
–Speculum
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 27 books | 6 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: rune poem, rune name, memorial transmission, flexible formulas, flexible levels (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Old English, Old Icelandic, Codex Regius, Survey of Oral, Middle English (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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In his study of Homeric verse, Hainsworth redefines the formula as a "mutual expectantly of terms" (57) which, if compositionally useful, may coalesce into a strictly repeating fixed formula, but which may also occur in a more flexible representation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rune poem, rune name, memorial transmission, flexible formulas, flexible levels, formulaic composition, formulaic systems, oral theory, formulaic theory, opening pattern, bound expressions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Old Icelandic, Codex Regius, Survey of Oral, Middle English, Criticism of Eddic Poetry, The Singer of Tales, Old Norse, Saga Conference, Geoffrey Russom, Migration Period, Robert Kellogg, The Battle of Alaldon, The Memory of Caedmon New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
In his study of Homeric verse, Hainsworth redefines the formula as a "mutual expectantly of terms" (57) which, if compositionally useful, may coalesce into a strictly repeating fixed formula, but which may also occur in a more flexible representation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
rune poem, rune name, memorial transmission, flexible formulas, flexible levels, formulaic composition, formulaic systems, oral theory, formulaic theory, opening pattern, bound expressions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old English, Old Icelandic, Codex Regius, Survey of Oral, Middle English, Criticism of Eddic Poetry, The Singer of Tales, Old Norse, Saga Conference, Geoffrey Russom, Migration Period, Robert Kellogg, The Battle of Alaldon, The Memory of Caedmon New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 27
books:
- The Singer of Tales by Albert B. Lord on 4 pages
- The Nature of Narrative (Galaxy Books) by Robert Scholes on page 91, page 95, and Back Matter
- The Poetic Edda by Ursula Dronke on page 110, and Back Matter
- Preface to Plato (History of the Greek Mind,) by Eric Havelock on page 103, and Back Matter
- Reading Beowulf: An Introduction to the Poem, Its Background and Its Style by J. D. A. Ogilvy on page 85, and Back Matter