General & Miscellaneous European Poetry - Literary Criticism, Welsh Literature - Literary Criticism, Indo-European Languages - General & Miscellaneous, Prosody
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Overview
Cynghanedd is an intricate metrical system involving internal rhyme and alliteration that evolved from the earliest Welsh poetry to the 14th century, after which it became regularized under a rigorous set of rules that are still used today. Griffen (foreign languages and literature, Southern Illinois U.-Edwardsville) looks at apparent lapses and exceptions to the prescribed patterns of correspondences among sounds in alliteration and rhyme in actual poems. He argues that the apparent irregularities derive not from the actual acoustic phonetic perceptions of the poets and reciters, but from the manner in which scholars have described the sounds themselves as letters or as phonetic segments. If the poems are returned to their native realm of sound, he says, the irregularities evaporate. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
October 1, 2004
Publisher
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.
Pages
157
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780773463776