Alliteration in culture

by Roper, Jonathan

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Full title :Alliteration in culture / edited by Jonathan Roper.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 253 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780230232648, 0230232647
oclc:ocn701328929
LC Classification:P311
Dewey Decimal:414/.6

Introduction : key topics in the study of alliteration / Jonathan Roper -- Love, silver and the devil : alliteration in English place-names / Jeremy Harte -- Alliteration in English-language versions of current widespread European idioms and proverbs / Fionnuala Carson Williams -- Alliteration in inaugural addresses : from George Washington to Barack Obama / Helena Halmari -- Purposely to please the palates of pretty prattling playfellows / Paul Cowdell -- Dealing dooms : alliteration in the Old Frisian laws / Rolf H. Bremmer Jr -- Restrictions on alliteration and rhyme in contemporary Swedish personal names with an Old Germanic retrospect / Lennart Hagåsen -- Alliteration in the 'Þrymskviða' and in Chamisso's German translation / Larissa Naiditch -- Alliteration in Iceland : from the Edda to modern verse and pop lyrics / Kristján Árnason -- Alliteration involving /s/ in the history of Icelandic poetry / Ragnar Ingi Aðalsteinsson -- Alliteration in Mongol poetry / György Kara -- Around analysis and hypothesis of Hungarian alliteration / Vilmos Voigt -- Alliteration in (Balto-) Finnic languages / Frog and Eila Stepanova -- Alliteration in Somali poetry / Martin Orwin -- Alliteratio…