Daniel Call’s Schocker: German Knittelvers in the late twentieth century
The word “Knittelvers” has been used since the eighteenth century to describe four-stress rhyming couplets which seem to be rather simply and awkwardly constructed, and whose content is frequently comical, course, vulgar or obscene. Today German Knittelvers is perhaps best known from the works of G...
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University of Tartu Press
2017-12-01
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Series: | Studia Metrica et Poetica |
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Online Access: | https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/smp/article/view/13955 |