European Litanic Verse: A Different Space-Time

by Witold Sadowski

Overview

The book presents the poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, versification, rhetorical figures), with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the litanic world is depicted. Examples are mostly taken from Latin, English, French, German, Iberian, Italian, Scandinavian and Slavic poetry from Antiquity to Early Modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631756249
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	10/02/2018
Series:	Literary and Cultural Theory
Edition description:	New
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Witold Sadowski heads the Section for the Poetics of Verse at the University of Warsaw. He specialises in the theory of verse and the history of literary genres. In his book Litany and Poetry (2011, in Polish) he applied the paradigm of poetic analysis to the liturgical form of the litany and introduced terminology for its description.

Table of Contents

The poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, versification, rhetorical figures) - The philosophy of European litanic verse - Space-time matrix within which the litanic world is depicted - Latin, English, French, German, Iberian, Italian, Scandinavian and Slavic poetry from Antiquity to Early Modernity