Litanic Verse I: Origines, Iberia, Slavia et Europa Media

by Witold Sadowski (Editor), Magdalena Kowalska (Editor), Magdalena Maria Kubas (Editor)

Overview

A comparative history of litanic verse in various European regions. The essays on the origin of the Litany are followed by a consideration of litanic verse in Latin poetry and in the Iberian (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese), Slavic and Central European literatures (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631663509
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	09/19/2016
Series:	Literary and Cultural Theory , #45
Pages:	364
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.

Magdalena Kowalska obtained her Ph.D. from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun´. She specialises in the history of the romantic period and Polish-French literary relations.

Magdalena Maria Kubas obtained her Ph.D. from the University for Foreigners of Siena. She specialises in the twentieth-century Italian literature and the relations between poetry and music.

Table of Contents

Litany genre – Litanic verse from medieval to modern times – Latin poetry – Iberian languages (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese) – Slavonic and Central European literatures (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian)