The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from April 2000

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from April 2000

Die Donau als Paradigma der Kreativitat bei Wordsworth und Holderlin.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... Wir haben uns seit langem daran gewohnt, die Thematisierung des Gegensatzes zwischen gottlicher Gegenwart im Osten und transzendenter Leere im Westen als kennzeichnend fur Holderlins Werk uberhaupt aufzufassen. Die Gedichte "Brot und Wein" oder...

From the Seat of the Pyle? A Reading of Maxims I, Lines 138-40.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... The three-part collection of Old English poetic maxims and other gnomic material in the Exeter Book which is known as Maxims I contains several discrete, individually-structured, short-item lists. Examples are lines 71-74, Forst sceal freosan,...

"There Is Our Commission": Writing and Authority in Measure for Measure and the London East India Company.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... The parting instructions that begin Measure for Measure are strikingly cryptic. The Duke is copious with maxims but short on particulars. His opening speech to Escalus is incoherent: Of government the properties to unfold Would...

Milton and the Monument Topos: "On Shakespeare," "Ad Joannem Rousium," and Poems (1645).(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... Critics have frequently regarded the publication of Poems of Mr. John Milton in 1645 as the author's introduction of himself as a poet to a reading public which knew him mainly as a political controversialist. The extent and precise character...

The Poetics of Natural History in Annus Mirabilis.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2000... In "An Account of the Ensuing Poem," John Dryden describes his Annus Mirabilis: the Year of Wonders, 1666 as "Historical" rather than "Epick" on the grounds that "the Action is not properly one" but "broken."(1) The poem, as a matter of fact,...

BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... BEOWULF AND OLD GERMANIC METRE. By Geoffrey Russom. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 23.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 235. $64.95. This book provides a linguistic account of the divergence of Old...

JUDITH.(Review)
April 1, 2000... JUDITH. Edited by Mark Griffith. (Exeter Medieval English Texts and Studies.) Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 223. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. Mark Griffith's welcome new Judith supersedes the existing edition of the poem...

ANGLO-SAXON CONVERSATIONS: THE COLLOQUIES OF AELFRIC BATA.(Review)
April 1, 2000... ANGLO-SAXON CONVERSATIONS: THE COLLOQUIES OF AELFRIC BATA. Edited by Scott Gwara. Translated with an introduction by David W. Porter. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997. Pp. 209. $81. The colloquies of AElfric Bata are a fertile source of...

CHAUCER AND THE UNIVERSE OF LEARNING.(Review)
April 1, 2000... CHAUCER AND THE UNIVERSE OF LEARNING. By Ann W. Astell. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1096, Pp. xiii + 254. $37.50. Ann Astell's book investigates whether the ordering of the fragments of the Canterbury Tales in the Ellesmere Manuscript...

VIRGIN MARTYRS: LEGENDS OF SAINTHOOD IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.(Review)
April 1, 2000... VIRGIN MARTYRS: LEGENDS OF SAINTHOOD IN LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. By Karen A. Winstead. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xiv + 202; 30 illustrations. $35. Karen Winstead's chronological account of vernacular virgin martyr legends...

SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN.(Review)
April 1, 2000... SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN. By Harold Bloom. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1998. Pp. xx + 745. $35 hardback; $15.95 paperback. The product of a self-confessed High Romantic Bardolator, Harold Bloom's massive Shakespeare: The...

SHAKESPEARE AND THE AUTHORITY OF PERFORMANCE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... SHAKESPEARE AND THE AUTHORITY OF PERFORMANCE. By W. B. Worthen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 255. $54.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). W. B. Worthen gets right to the point in his stimulating, well-documented, and...

CEREMONY AND COMMUNITY FROM HERBERT TO MILTON: LITERATURE, RELIGION, AND CULTURAL CONFLICT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND.(Review)
April 1, 2000... CEREMONY AND COMMUNITY FROM HERBERT TO MILTON: LITERATURE, RELIGION, AND CULTURAL CONFLICT IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. By Achsah Guibbory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 275. $59.95. With imaginative sympathy...

THE MILTONIC MOMENT.(Review)
April 1, 2000... THE MILTONIC MOMENT. By J. Martin Evans. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Pp. 192. $39.95. J. Martin Evans sees a Miltonic moment, a plunge into immediacy, as happening by design in each of the early poems of Milton....

"VISITATION UNIMPLOR'D": MILTON AND THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA.(Review)
April 1, 2000... "VISITATION UNIMPLOR'D": MILTON AND THE AUTHORSHIP OF THE DE DOCTRINA CHRISTIANA. By William B. Hunter. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998. Pp. 192. $48. J. Martin Evans sees a Miltonic moment, a plunge into immediacy, as...

PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE IN THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT: THEOLOGY, AESTHETICS, AND THE NOVEL.(Review)
April 1, 2000... PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUE IN THE BRITISH ENLIGHTENMENT: THEOLOGY, AESTHETICS, AND THE NOVEL. By Michael Prince. (Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought, 31.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 282....

VENTURES INTO CHILDLAND: VICTORIANS, FAIRY TALES, AND FEMININITY.(Review)
April 1, 2000... VENTURES INTO CHILDLAND: VICTORIANS, FAIRY TALES, AND FEMININITY. By U. C. Knoepflmacher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 444; 39 illustrations. $35. Professor Knoepflmacher's new book discusses some of the works of...

MARY MOODY EMERSON AND THE ORIGINS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM.(Review)
April 1, 2000... MARY MOODY EMERSON AND THE ORIGINS OF TRANSCENDENTALISM. By Phyllis Cole. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 370. $45. In most early biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, his aunt Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1862) was typecast...

PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BLACK NOVELS: DESIRE AND THE PROTOCOLS OF RACE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BLACK NOVELS: DESIRE AND THE PROTOCOLS OF RACE. By Claudia Tate. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 248. $45 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Claudia Tate's latest study of African American novels affords us an...

UMBERTO ECO AND THE OPEN TEXT: SEMIOTICS, FICTION, POPULAR CULTURE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... UMBERTO ECO AND THE OPEN TEXT: SEMIOTICS, FICTION, POPULAR CULTURE. By Peter Bondanella. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi + 18. $44.95. Umberto Eco is probably the most well-known European cultural and literary theorist...

PLACIDUS SAGA.(Review)
April 1, 2000... PLACIDUS SAGA. Edited by John Tucker. With an Edition of Placitus drapa by Jonna Louis-Jensen. (Editiones Arnamagnaeanae, Series B, Vol. 31.) Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1998. Pp. clvi + 124 + 4 facsimiles. DK 280. The last decade...

OLAFR PORDARSON HVITASKALD.(Review)
April 1, 2000... OLAFR PORDARSON HVITASKALD. Dritte Grammatische Abhandlung. Der islandische Text nach den Handschriften AM 748 I, 4to und Codex Wormianus. Herausgegeben von Bjorn Magnus Olsen; ubersetzt, kommentiert und herausgegeben von Thomas Krommelbein....

DER SPRUCHDICHTER BOPPE: EDITION--UBERSETZUNG--KOMMENTAR.(Review)
April 1, 2000... DER SPRUCHDICHTER BOPPE: EDITION--UBERSETZUNG--KOMMENTAR. Von Heidrun Alex. (Hermaea, 82.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998. Pp. iv + 242. DM 72. Fifty didactic poems attributed to the late thirteenth-century author Boppe are edited and...

DIE SACHSISCHE WELTCHRONIK IM SPIEGEL IHRER HANDSCHRIFTEN: UBERLIEFERUNG, TEXTENTWICKLUNG, REZEPTION.(Review)
April 1, 2000... DIE SACHSISCHE WELTCHRONIK IM SPIEGEL IHRER HANDSCHRIFTEN: UBERLIEFERUNG, TEXTENTWICKLUNG, REZEPTION. Von Jurgen Wolf. (Munstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 75.) Munich: Fink, 1997. Pp. xv + 495 + ix. DM 118. In its ambitious scope and...

DIE MIRABILIA ROMAE: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU IHRER UBERLIEFERUNG MIT EDITION DER DEUTSCHEN UND NIEDERLANDISCHEN TEXTE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... DIE MIRABILIA ROMAE: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU IHRER UBERLIEFERUNG MIT EDITION DER DEUTSCHEN UND NIEDERLANDISCHEN TEXTE. Won Nine Robijntne Miedema. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen, 108.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. x + 589. DM 136....

KONRAD VON MEGENBERG DAS BUCH DER NATUR: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU SEINER TEXT- UND UBERLIEFERUNGSGESCHICHTE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... KONRAD VON MEGENBERG DAS BUCH DER NATUR: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU SEINER TEXT- UND UBERLIEFERUNGSGESCHICHTE. Von Gerold Hayer. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 110.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998. Pp....

THE LATIN AND GERMAN `ETYMACHIA': TEXTUAL HISTORY, EDITION, COMMENTARY.(Review)
April 1, 2000... THE LATIN AND GERMAN `ETYMACHIA': TEXTUAL HISTORY, EDITION, COMMENTARY. By Nigel Harris. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, 102.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1994. Pp.-ix + 466. DM 118. The...

DER SCHULERSELBSTMORD IN DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR UM DIE JAHRHUNDERTWENDE.(Review)
April 1, 2000... DER SCHULERSELBSTMORD IN DER DEUTSCHEN LITERATUR UM DIE JAHRHUNDERTWENDE. Yon Joachim Noob. (Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte, 3. Reihe, 158.) Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1998. Pp. 250. DM 78. "Der Tod ist eine schone...

UNDERSTANDING FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT.(Review)
April 1, 2000... UNDERSTANDING FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT. By Roger A. Crockett. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 220. $29-95. Eight years after Friedrich Durrenmatt's death it is fitting to reexamine his multifaceted aeuvre...

JUREK BECKER.(Review)
April 1, 2000... JUREK BECKER. Edited by Colin Riordan. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 154. Das schlanke Bandchen gehort in die traditionsgebundene walisische Reihe "Contemporary German Writers". Diese Reihe ist Autoren gewidmet, die...

THE PORTRAYAL OF JEWS IN GDR PROSE FICTION.(Review)
April 1, 2000... THE PORTRAYAL OF JEWS IN GDR PROSE FICTION. By Paul O'Doherty. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 126.) Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997. Pp. 348. $57.50. This is an interesting and informative book that helps close...

WOMEN WRITERS IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK.(Review)
April 1, 2000... WOMEN WRITERS IN GERMAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES: A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CRITICAL SOURCEBOOK. Edited by Elke P. Frederiksen and Elizabeth G. Ametsbichler. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xxxiii + 561. $95 Those who concern themselves...