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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Main Author: David Chisholm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2017-12-01
Series:Studia Metrica et Poetica
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Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/smp/article/view/13955