Syntactical Study of Epic Formulas and Formulaic Expressions Containing the -ant Form in Twelfth Century Verse - Hardcover

Aspland, C.W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0702206202 ISBN 13: 9780702206207

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1970

Synopsis

From the Introduction: "It became more and more evident to me throughout the preparation of a recently completed syntactical study of the -ant forms in twelfth century French verse1 that epic poets used many of the constructions in such great numbers because phrases like mien esciant, par le mien esciant and de sun cheval curant and expressions like sei lever en estant, aler chevauchant and estre disant could be easily adapted to the metrical requirements of the lines in the chansons de geste. Some of the -ant constructions are found in the fragment Gormont et Isembart whose assonating octosyllabic lines appear to divide regularly into two four syllable hemistichs. They are used very frequently, however, in the six syllable hemistichs of poems composed in alexandrines, for example Le voyage de Charlemagne and The Romance of Horn, and in the epic decasyllable with the caesura after the fourth syllable in poems such as La chanson de Roland, Le charroi de Nimes and Raoul de Cambrai."

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0702206202
• ISBN 13: 9780702206207
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198