Nibelungen prosody
The Hague & Paris: Mouton, 1976. 8vo, pp. vi, 116, [6]; printed paper wrappers; fine. Inscribed on series title page to the Russian-American linguist, etymologist, and poet Anatoly Liberman. From a review by Edward R. Haymes: "This book should assume a position among Nibelungenlied posody studies comparable to that occupied in manuscript studies by Helmut Brackert's Beitriige zur Handschriftenkritik des Nibelungenliedes. The target of Wakefield's critical fire is the generally accepted "performance-based prosody of Andreas Heusler with its attempt to fit all the strophes of the epic into a preconceived scheme. In its place, we find here a linguistic-statistical extraction of the prosodic scheme from the manuscript text itself. The text is allowed to dictate its own meter." (Monatschefte, 1980). Item #72157
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