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03147aam a2200349 i 4500 001 E002E12CE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230503010033 008 220429s2022 inu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0268202524 020 $a 9780268202521 035 $a (OCoLC)1313123926 040 $a VXW $b eng $e rda $c VXW $d VXW $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 082 04 $a 829.10093559 $2 23 100 1 $a Frank, Roberta, $e author 245 14 $a The etiquette of early northern verse / $c Roberta Frank 264 1 $a Notre Dame, Indiana : $b University of Notre Dame Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xxx, 265 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index 505 0 $a Rules of the game -- Secrets of the line -- Accentuating the negative 520 $a "This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses."-- $c Provided by publisher 650 0 $a Old Norse poetry $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English poetry $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English language $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x Style. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Frank, Roberta. $t The etiquette of early northern verse. $d Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2022 $z 9780268202514 830 0 $a Conway lectures in medieval studies 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020403.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907012431.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E002E12CE97711ED8437380758ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search