Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse by Roger Pensom

Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse by Roger Pensom

This book frames and tests a theory of the nature and role of accent and rhythm in French verse, and of their relationship with meaning. A clear and continuing tradition emerges, spanning a thousand years in the writing of poetry in French. Far from accent being irrelevant to metre, as is widely assumed, patterns of alternating accent prove indispensable for the perception of metricality. A detailed exploration of the relation between accent and syllable-count creates the basis for close readings of French verse-texts from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, readings which reveal the productive interdependency of rhythm and meaning.

Roger Pensom (1939-2018), a distinguished scholar of medieval French literature and of the historical development of rhythm in French, was a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Old French Literature and Language at the University of Oxford.

The Author: Roger Pensom was born in 1939. He was educated at Manchester University where he received the degrees of BA and M.A., specializing in Old French language and literature and linguistics. He was appointed in 1966 to a lectureship at Exeter University from which he received a doctorate in 1980. He is presently University Lecturer in Old French Language and Literature in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. He has published The Literary Technique of the Chanson de Roland (Geneva, 1982), Reading Beroul's Tristran (Berne, 1995) and articles on topics in French language and literature.

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ISBN 13	9781781883846
ISBN 10	178188384X
Title	Accent, Rhythm and Meaning in French Verse
Author	Roger Pensom
Series	Research Monographs In French Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legenda
Year published	2020-09-28
Number of pages	180
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