European Litanic Verse
A Different Space-Time
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Beschreibung
This fifth volume in the Litanic Verse series is centered upon the poetics of European litanic verse (genre structure, rhythm, rhetorical figures), as well as its philosophy and cosmology, with a particular focus on the space-time matrix within which the litanic world is depicted. The content of the book moves beyond an analysis of enumerations and parallelisms as it provides an insight into relevant cultural processes, including the history of religion and literary conventions from Antiquity to Early Modernity. This allows seemingly distant topics, such as comparative versification and European identity, to be related. Theoretical considerations are accompanied by examples mostly taken from Latin, English, French, German, Iberian, Italian, Scandinavian and Slavic poetry.
Autor*in
Witold Sadowski
Themen in »European Litanic Verse«
Litany Comparative literature History of verse Literary genres Theory of verse Literature and religion European poetry Worldviews Space-time in literature Religious poetry Poetic prayer Poetry and liturgy Antonomasia Bible and literature Byzantine poetry