Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival

Extrapolation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Dennis Wilson Wise
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Alliterative Verse ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Alliterative Poetry ◽  
Alliterative Revival

Although Poul Anderson is best known for his prose, he dabbled in poetry all his life, and his historical interests led him to become a major—if unacknowledged— contributor to the twentieth-century alliterative revival. This revival, most often associated with British poets such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis, attempted to adapt medieval Germanic alliterative meter into modern English. Yet Anderson, a firmly libertarian Enlightenment-style writer, imbued his alliterative poetry with a rationalistic spirit that implicitly accepted (with appropriate qualifications) a narrative of historical progress. This article analyzes the alliterative verse that Anderson wrote and uncovers how the demands of the pulp market shaped what poetry he could produce.

Sacred Torrents in Modernity: German Jewish Philosophers and the Legacy of Secularization

transversal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44
Author(s):  
Nils Roemer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Franz Rosenzweig ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
German Jewish

AbstractThis article investigates the ongoing interaction between the Jewish sacred past and its modern interpreters. Jewish thinkers from the eighteenth century reclaimed these ideals instead of dismissing them. Sacred traditions and modern secular thought existed in their mutual constitutive interdependence and not in opposition. When the optimism in historical progress and faith in reason unraveled in the fin de siècle, it engendered a new critical response by Jewish historians and philosophers of the twentieth century. These critical voices emerged within the fault lines of nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish anti-historicist responses. What separated twentieth-century Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Gershom Scholem from their nineteenth-century forerunners was not their embrace of religion but their critical stance toward reason and their crumbling faith in historical progress.

Introduction: Modernism, Time Machines and the Defamiliarisation of Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tung
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reference Frames ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Pivot Point ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Machines ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Function

This introduction returns to modernism’s incipient moments as the “Jonbar hinge” or pivot point for an alternative history of the period’s well-known time fixation. Using Lefebvre to reconsider aestheticism and impressionism in light of multiplicity rather than ephemerality, this new time-story expands the cultural significance and function of Wells’s foundational trope of the time machine to show how twentieth-century culture was defined not just by a Bergsonian repudiation of the clock but also by a proliferation of clocks. The rise of the time-travel trope, from the late nineteenth century to our contemporary moment, can be reconsidered not only as a symptom of the “eternal present” of late capitalism or our lost sense of history, but also as a component in a larger network that produces heterochrony—time’s multiple rates, scales, and reference frames. Our current political desire to revise history and envision other histories in contemporary discourses connects to the century-wide imaginative contestation of historical progress and the earlier openness to history’s irregular rhythms, its variety of scales, and its divarication of branches.

scholarly journals REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF A POETICAL TRADITION: FOREIGN INCLUSIONS AS A LITERARY DEVICE (stylistic aspect)

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1008-1013
Author(s):  
A.G. Stoliarova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Gradual Decline ◽  
Scottish Gaelic ◽  
Alliterative Verse ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Alliterative Poetry ◽  
Literary Device ◽  
Alliterative Tradition

Scottish alliterative poetry, which can be regarded as a regional variety and at the same time the final step in the evolution of the alliterative tradition in England and Scotland, was composed in the second half of the 15th century, the period that marked the gradual decline of the tradition. In Scotland the alliterative verse was mainly employed for ironic or satirical purpose. The Buke of Howlat by Richard Holland, the earliest Scottish poem, can provide an example of using alliterative style in allegory and parody. The paper deals with how elements of a foreign language, as well as imitation of foreign speech can be employed as a literary device. By means of abracadabra, imitating the sounding of Scottish Gaelic, parody of Seanchas, or Gaelic genealogy, and the wrong transmission of Gaelic terms of poetry, the author creates a caricature on a Gaelic poet and the ancient oral Celtic poetical tradition, which was unjustly neglected by early Scottish writers.

Alliterative Narrative Poetry: The Control of the Medium

Traditio ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 419-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Finlayson
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
North West ◽  
Narrative Poetry ◽  
The North ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Alliterative Poetry ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Alliterative Revival

Critical approaches to alliterative poetry can and do include all the approaches imposed on literature in general. But to these must be added approaches particular to the fact that we confront a body of literature defined by a distinctive, some would say peculiar, metrical form. Alliterative poetry has been accorded a separate status precisely because it is alliterative, flourished in a relatively short time-frame, and is associated with a geographic region. For most of this century, the Alliterative Revival has reigned as an historical fact — a nationalistic metrical response, fostered by the North West Midlands baronial families, to the increasing power of the Court in the East Midlands and the pernicious influence of foreign, mainly French fashions, particularly poetic. In the last fifteen years, and at a galloping pace in the last ten, we have seen one of the massive certainties of literary history first quietly mined by the late Elizabeth Salter, and then besieged, assaulted, and overrun by an increasing band of scholarly invaders numbering among them Norman Blake, Derek Pearsall, T. Turville-Petre, and David Lawton. The Theory of the Alliterative Revival, once a Castle of Truth, now lies in ruins, picked over by its destroyers for useful material with which to build a new Tower on a Tofte. While the orthodox view of the alliterative revival has been disestablished, and no single creed has yet emerged as an authoritative substitute, there is currently underway a major re-assessment of alliterative poetry, which has both been caused by and also generated a substantial increase in scholarly knowledge of the field. The questions that have been posed and continue to be explored are mainly of the following kind: Was there a revival or simply a continuation? How and where was this revival/continuation generated and located? Should we distinguish sub-groups of alliterative poetry according to metrical variants? How do we scan alliterative verse? What are the origins of or influences on the metres and rhythms of the great alliterative works of the late fourteenth century?

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century Classics

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiva Wijesinha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century
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