[Gandur] RMN Newsletter 11, special issue The Ecology of Metre

[- Frog]

Hello everyone,

      The special issue of RMN Newsletter - The Ecology of Metre - is now available.  We hope that you will all find something interesting or even exciting in these pages.  This special issue is comprised of:
The Ecology of Metre: An Introduction 
Frog and Ilya Sverdlov

Description of Poetic Form as a Tool for Stylistic Analysis of a Traditional Song Performance: A Case of a Western Nenets Narrative Song 
Jarkko Niemi

The Metre of Yeats’s “Lake Isle of Innisfree” in Context 
Michael Cade-Stewart

Formulaic Language in Minimal Metrical Requirements: The Case of Post-Medieval Icelandic þulur
Yelena Sesselja Helgadóttir

Linguistic Multiforms in Kalevalaic Epic: Toward a Typology 
Frog

Narratological, Metrical, and Syntactic Emphasis in the Old English Genesis A
Ilona Paulis

      These main articles are complemented by the following research report:

Word Constellations as Tools in Skaldic Composition: Arnórr jarlaskáld and Óttarr svarti as a Case of Assimilation
Cole Nyquist      

      This issue of the journal is available open-access on line at:http://www.helsinki.fi/folkloristiikka/English/RMN/RMN_11_Winter_2014-2015_Ecology_of_Metre.pdf  
      Best regards,

              Frog, Helen F. Leslie-Jacobsen and Joseph S. Hopkins.