TY  - BOOK
AU  - Witold Sadowski
AU  - Magdalena Kowalska
AU  - Magdalena Maria Kubas
PY  - 2016
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653057515
TI  - Litanic Verse I
T2  - Origines, Iberia, Slavia et Europa Media
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-05751-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049388
N2  - The book contains comparative analyses of the development of litanic verse in European poetry, from medieval to modern times. Litanic verse is based on different syntactic devices, such as enumeration, parallelism, anaphora and epiphora. However, it is not to be seen merely as a convention of versification as the popularity of different variants of the verse in Europe reflects the religious, intellectual, social and political history of various European regions. The essays in the first volume focus on the origins of the Litany (the Near East, Greece, Byzantium, Rome), as well as the emergence of litanic verse in the Iberian languages (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese) and Slavic and Central European literatures (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Serbian, Russian).
KW  - syntax, religion, Europe, poetry
LA  - English
ER  -