The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from April 1999

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from April 1999

The Latin Men: The Norman Sources of the Scandinavian Kings' Sagas.
April 1, 1999... In both the Morkinskinna and Heimskringla versions of Haralds saga Sigurdarsonar Haraldr hardradi has a falling out with the Greek commander Gyrgir, whereupon Harald leaves the army together with the Varangians and the "Latin men."(1) In a...

On the Antwerp-London Glossaries.
April 1, 1999... In the early eleventh century, a group of Anglo-Saxon schoolmen made additions to several related manuscripts. Working perhaps at Abingdon,(1) they annotated the grammar Excerptiones Prisciani (Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum 16.2 + London, BL...

The Slain Deer and Political Imperium: As You Like It and Andrew Marvell's "Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn".
April 1, 1999... Levi-Strauss argued long ago in his celebrated Savage Mind that, for humanity, animals constitute bons a penser: that by preliterate mind and modern alike they are apprehended primarily not in terms of whether they are good to eat but as "food...

"Arabian Nights": "Make-Believe," Exoticism, and Desire in Daniel Deronda.
April 1, 1999... In its attempt to arrive at two states of marriage in which desire is safely regulated or even replaced by spiritual vocation, Daniel Deronda journeys through the dangerous and unregulated experience of sexuality as it is represented by two...

THE UNIVERSITY IN RUINS.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE UNIVERSITY IN RUINS. By Bill Readings. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 238. $29.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Recent controversies over the role of the university in society have demonstrated, despite their...

LANGUAGE HISTORY, LANGUAGE CHANGE, AND LANGUAGE RELATIONSHIP: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS.(Review)
April 1, 1999... LANGUAGE HISTORY, LANGUAGE CHANGE, AND LANGUAGE RELATIONSHIP: AN INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS. By Hans Henrich Hock and Brian D. Joseph. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xv + 602. DM 68. ...

THE COMPOSITION OF OLD ENGLISH POETRY.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE COMPOSITION OF OLD ENGLISH POETRY. By H. Momma. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 20.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xiii + 205 $49-95. One of the many intriguing questions about the nature of Old English...

"BEOWULF" AND THE MEDIEVAL PROVERB TRADITION.(Review)
April 1, 1999... "BEOWULF" AND THE MEDIEVAL PROVERB TRADITION. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 155.) By Susan E. Deskis. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. Pp. viii + 178. $22. The work under review is concerned with passages in...

THE OLD ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE GOSPELS. Volume I: TEXT AND INTRODUCTION.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE OLD ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE GOSPELS. Volume I: TEXT AND INTRODUCTION. Edited by R. M. Liuzza. (Early English Text Society, O.S. 304). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 1xxviii + 202; 1 frontispiece. $49.95. In Roy Liuzza's...

LAURENCE NOWELL, WILLIAM LAMBARDE, AND THE LAWS OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS.(Review)
April 1, 1999... LAURENCE NOWELL, WILLIAM LAMBARDE, AND THE LAWS OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS. By Raymond J. S. Grant. (Costerus New Series, 108.) Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. Pp. iv + 196. $44. The past twenty-five years have seen a new accumulation of evidence...

THE INDEX OF MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE. HANDLIST XI: MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE INDEX OF MIDDLE ENGLISH PROSE. HANDLIST XI: MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. By Linne R. Mooney. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1995. Pp. xxxviii + 251. $81. The present volume is a list--with incipits--of...

FACSIMILE OF OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS DIGBY 86.(Review)
April 1, 1999... FACSIMILE OF OXFORD, BODLEIAN LIBRARY, MS DIGBY 86. With an Introduction by Judith Tschann and M. B. Parkes. (Early English Text Society, S.S. 16.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. lxii + ff. 210 (with covers and spine). $125. ...

KINDLY SIMILITUDE: MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN PIERS PLOWMAN.(Review)
April 1, 1999... KINDLY SIMILITUDE: MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN PIERS PLOWMAN. By M. Teresa Tavormina. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995. Pp. xix + 262. $71. This monograph offers a comprehensive treatment of its subject in four chapters and a brief conclusion. The...

CHAUCERIAN TRAGEDY.(Review)
April 1, 1999... CHAUCERIAN TRAGEDY. By Henry Ansgar Kelly. (Chaucer Studies, 24.) Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xii + 297. $79. Now publishing his third book on medieval tragedy, bolstered by a bibliography including twenty-eight of his own...

THE EXAMINATIONS OF ANNE ASKEW.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE EXAMINATIONS OF ANNE ASKEW. Edited by Elaine V. Beilin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. lxi + 198. $35. (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The writings of Anne Askew and An Collins were produced almost exactly a century apart. Both...

AN COLLINS: DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS.(Review)
April 1, 1999... AN COLLINS: DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS. Edited by Sidney Gottlieb. Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996. Pp. xxii + 131. $20. The writings of Anne Askew and An Collins were produced almost exactly a century apart. Both...

IMAGINING RABELAIS IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND.(Review)
April 1, 1999... IMAGINING RABELAIS IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND. By Anne Lake Prescott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 257; 21 illustrations. $30. Perhaps the greatest obstacle to any sober appraisal of Anne Prescott's new book lies in...

STAGE-WRIGHTS: SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, MIDDLETON, AND THE MAKING OF THEATRICAL VALUE.(Review)
April 1, 1999... STAGE-WRIGHTS: SHAKESPEARE, JONSON, MIDDLETON, AND THE MAKING OF THEATRICAL VALUE. By Paul Yachnin. New Cultural Studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 210; $36.50. From the beginning of the industry in...

JAMES JOYCE, ULYSSES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY: CULTURE, BIOGRAPHY, AND "THE JEW" IN MODERNIST EUROPE.(Review)
April 1, 1999... JAMES JOYCE, ULYSSES, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY: CULTURE, BIOGRAPHY, AND "THE JEW" IN MODERNIST EUROPE. By Neil R. Davison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 305. $49-95. In the "Cyclops" episode of...

AUTHORITY AND FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN COLONIAL AMERICA.(Review)
April 1, 1999... AUTHORITY AND FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN COLONIAL AMERICA. By William J. Scheick. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. x + 150. $29.95. In Design in Puritan American Literature, his well-received 1992 book, the distinguished...

STUDIES IN CLASSIC AUSTRALIAN FICTION.(Review)
April 1, 1999... STUDIES IN CLASSIC AUSTRALIAN FICTION. By Michael Wilding. Sydney Studies in Society and Culture 16. Sydney and Nottingham: Shoestring Press, 1997. 231 pp. $25 (Australian), 12 [pounds sterling]. The title of Michael Wilding's new work of...

KELTAR A ISLANDI.(Review)
April 1, 1999... KELTAR A ISLANDI. By Hermann Palsson. Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 1996. Pp. 233. Ikr. 2,490. The transportation of Norse culture and society to Iceland by Viking Age colonists has been the object of scholarly interest from the twelfth...

UM HAF INNAN: VESTRAENIR MENN OG ISLENZK MENNING A MIDOLDUM.(Review)
April 1, 1999... UM HAF INNAN: VESTRAENIR MENN OG ISLENZK MENNING A MIDOLDUM. By Helgi Gudmundsson. Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 1997. Pp. 409. Ikr. 3,490. The fascination of modern Icelanders with Celtic or Irish influence on their medieval culture has...

I LEIT AD KONUNGI: KONUNGSMYND ISLENSKRA KONUNGASAGNA.(Review)
April 1, 1999... I LEIT AD KONUNGI; KONUNGSMYND ISLENSKRA KONUNGASAGNA. By Armann Jakobsson. Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 1997. Pp. 377. Ikr. 2,490. At the age of twenty-seven Armann Jakobsson has published a richly informed and dramatically original study of...

THE COMPLETE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS INCLUDING 49 TALES.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE COMPLETE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS INCLUDING 49 TALES. General Editor: Vidar Hreinsson. Reykjavik: Leifur Eiriksson Publishing, 1997. 5 vols. Pp. I:i-lv + 402; II: 466; III: 472; IV: 477; V: 448. Old Norse texts have been translated into...

MIRMANNS SAGA.(Review)
April 1, 1999... MIRMANNS SAGA. Edited by Desmond Slay. (Editiones Arnamagnaeanae, Series A, Vol. 17.) Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels forlag, 1997. Pp. clxxi + 216. Dkr. 325. With this copious volume, the most recent in the Editiones Arnamagnaeanae series, the...

ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS: AN ANALYTICAL GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.(Review)
April 1, 1999... ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE SCANDINAVIAN MEDIEVAL BALLADS: AN ANALYTICAL GUIDE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. By Larry E. Syndergaard. (NIF Publications No. 30.) Turku: Nordic Institute of Folklore, 1995. Pp. i-x, 242. The extensive list of...

DIE "ALEMANNISCHEN VITASPATRUM": UNTERSUCHUNGEN UND EDITION.(Review)
April 1, 1999... DIE "ALEMANNISCHEN VITASPATRUM": UNTERSUCHUNGEN UND EDITION. Von Ulla Williams. (Texte und Textgeschichte, 45). Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. xi + 145* + 438. DM 296. One of the major vernacular works of the Middle Ages,...

THE END OF CONDUCT: GROBIANUS AND THE RENAISSANCE TEXT OF THE SUBJECT.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE END OF CONDUCT: GROBIANUS AND THE RENAISSANCE TEXT OF THE SUBJECT. By Barbara Correll. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2996. Pp. xv + 225. Cloth. $39.95. The subject of Barbara Correll's book is the satire called Grobianus: De morum...

MYSTERIENREDE; ZUM SELBSTVERSTANDNIS ROMANTISCHER INTELLEKTUELLER.(Review)
April 1, 1999... MYSTERIENREDE; ZUM SELBSTVERSTANDNIS ROMANTISCHER INTELLEKTUELLER. Von Dirk von Petersdorff. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp ix + 447. Mysterienrede is an assiduous study of Romantic discourse circa 1800 that delineates a...

LOCATING THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT: NOVALIS WITH WINNICOTT.(Review)
April 1, 1999... LOCATING THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT: NOVALIS WITH WINNICOTT. By Gail M. Newman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1997. Pp. 258. $34.95. In her erudite yet lucid book, Gail M. Newman charts the context and trajectory of poetic subjectivity...

E. T. A. HOFFMANN.(Review)
April 1, 1999... E. T. A. HOFFMANN. By James M. McGlathery. (Twayne's World Authors Series, 868.) New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997. Pp. 195. In keeping with the objectives of the series, the meticulously executed and wellwritten examination of Hoffmann's...

HEINES "FRANZOSISCHE ZUSTANDE": UBER DIE FORTSCHRITTE DES REPUBLIKANISMUS UND DIE ANMARSCHIERENDE WELTLITERATUR.(Review)
April 1, 1999... HEINES "FRANZOSISCHE ZUSTANDE": UBER DIE FORTSCHRITTE DES REPUBLIKANISMUS UND DIE ANMARSCHIERENDE WELTLITERATUR. Von Bodo Morawe. Heidelberg: Winter, 1997. Pp. 109. DM 28. How many times would Heine have had to insist, publicly and...

Tagebucher IV: 1890-1897.(Review)
April 1, 1999... Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Tagebucher IV: 1890-1897. Kritisch herausgegeben und kommentiert von Karl Konrad Polheim und Norbert Gabriel unter Mitwirkung von Markus Jagsch. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Kritische Texte und Deutungen....

REVOLUTION ALS "GESCHICHTE": ALFRED DOBLINS "NOVEMBER 1918". EINE PROGRAMMATISCHE LEKTURE DES HISTORISCHEN ROMANS.(Review)
April 1, 1999... REVOLUTION ALS "GESCHICHTE": ALFRED DOBLINS "NOVEMBER 1918". EINE PROGRAMMATISCHE LEKTURE DES HISTORISCHEN ROMANS. Von Anne Kuhlmann. (Studien zur europaischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte, 14.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997. Pp. ix +...

JEWISH WRITERS, GERMAN LITERATURE: THE UNEASY EXAMPLES OF NELLY SACHS AND WALTER BENJAMIN.(Review)
April 1, 1999... JEWISH WRITERS, GERMAN LITERATURE: THE UNEASY EXAMPLES OF NELLY SACHS AND WALTER BENJAMIN. Edited by Timothy Bahti and Sibley Fries. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. Pp. x + 221. $44.50. Der provokative Haupttitel dieses...

UNDERSTANDING JOHANNES BOBROWSKI.(Review)
April 1, 1999... UNDERSTANDING JOHANNES BOBROWSKI. By David Scrase. Charleston: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 149. $34.95 Like the other volumes in the "Understanding Modern... Literature" series, edited by James Hardin, this study is...

BREAKING BOUNDARIES: A NEW GENERATION OF POETS IN THE GDR.(Review)
April 1, 1999... BREAKING BOUNDARIES: A NEW GENERATION OF POETS IN THE GDR. By Karen Leeder. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 369. $80. I do not know exactly when Karen Leeder started her project on those young GDR writers who--according to Uwe Kolbe's...

THE FEMINIST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GERMAN LITERATURE.(Review)
April 1, 1999... THE FEMINIST ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GERMAN LITERATURE. Edited by Friederike Eigler and Susanne Kord. Westport and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xiii + 676. $99.50. The title of this important work obscures somewhat its broader focus, which...

TROUBLED PLEASURES: DUTCH COLONIAL LITERATURE FROM THE EAST INDIES, 1600-1950.(Review)
April 1, 1999... TROUBLED PLEASURES: DUTCH COLONIAL LITERATURE FROM THE EAST INDIES, 1600-1950. By E. M. Beekman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. 654. $125. This book consists of exemplary biographies, about twenty in all, starting with the journals of...