How Long to Read The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse

How Long Does it Take to Read The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 15 minutes to read The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse by Roberta Frank

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet’s workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This book places two vernacular poetries of the long Viking Age into conversation, revealing their membership in a single community of taste, a traditional stylistic ecology that did serious political and historical work. Each chapter seeks the codes of a now-extinct verse technique. The first explores the underlying architecture of the two poetries, their irregularities of pace, startling formal conventions, and tight verbal detail work. The passage of time has worn away most of the circumstantial details that literary scholars in later periods take for granted, but the public relations savvy and aural and syntactic signals of early northern verse remain to some extent retrievable and relatable, an etiquette prized and presumably understood by its audiences. The second and longest chapter investigates the techniques used by early northern poets to retrieve and organize the symmetries of language. It illustrates how supererogatory alliteration and rhyme functioned as aural punctuation, marking off structural units and highlighting key moments in the texts. The third and final chapter describes the extent to which both corpora reveled in negations, litotes, indirection, and down-toners, modes that forced audiences to read between half-lines, to hear what was not said. By decluttering and stripping away excess, by drawing words through a tight mesh of meter, alliteration, and rhyme, the early northern poet filtered out dross and stitched together a poetics of stark contrasts and forebodings. Poets and lovers of poetry of all periods and places will find much to enjoy here. So will students in Old English and Old Norse courses.

How long is The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse?

The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse by Roberta Frank is 248 pages long, and a total of 63,984 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse aloud.

What Reading Level is The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse?

The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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