The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from July 1998

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from July 1998

The Old English "Ritual of the Admission of Mildrith" (London, Lambeth Palace 427, fol. 210).(Critical Essay)
July 1, 1998... Two fragments of Old English prose are preserved in London, Lambeth Palace 427, fols. 210-11; they were written by the same scribe, in a late eleventh-century Exeter-type script, and were used in the fifteenth century or earlier as binding...

The Study of Old English in America (1776-1850): National Uses of the Saxon Past.
July 1, 1998... One of the central tasks confronting American patriots after the Revolution was the creation of a national identity. As the lexicographer Noah Webster put it in 1789: "every engine should be employed to render the people of this country...

Eavesdropping on "The Eve of St. Agnes": Madeline's Sensual Ear and Porphyro's Ancient Ditty.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 1998... Not much has been made of the ditty, "La belle dame sans mercy", which Porphyro plays into Madeline's ear in "The Eve of St. Agnes."(1) Yet, Madeline's response to it--"wherewith disturbed, she uttered a soft moan" (1. 294)--breaks the rule of...

Der Stechlinsee: Symbol und Struktur in Fontanes Altersroman.
July 1, 1998... Kein Versuch, den Stechlin zu bewerten, kommt darum herum, da[Beta] Fontanes Altersroman keine augenfallige Struktur aufweist. In der Handlung ist sie jedenfalls nicht zu finden, und daraus haben viele den Schlu[Beta] gezogen, er besitze gar...

GUDAMJODUR OG ARNARLEIR: SAFN RITGERDA UM EDDULIST.(Review)
July 1, 1998... GUDAMJODUR OG ARNARLEIR: SAFN RITGERDA UM EDDULIST. Edited by Sverrir Tomasson. Reykjavik: Haskolautgafan, 1996. Pp. xii + 348. This volume of essays, which treats the reception of the Eddas and their influence on Icelandic literature from...

GYDINGA SAGA.(Review)
July 1, 1998... GYDINGA SAGA. Edited by Kirsten Wolf. (Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a Islandi, Rit 42.) Reykjavik: Stofnun Arna Magnussonar a Islandi, 1995. Pp. clxvi + 233;6 plates. Gydinga saga is a thirteenth-century compilation which relates the political...

HISTOIRE DES LITTERATURES SCANDINAVES.(Review)
July 1, 1998... HISTOIRE DES LITTERATURES SCANDINAVES. De Regis Boyer. Paris: Fayard, 1996. Pp. 561. Ff. 250. Regis Boyer's Histoire des litteratures scandinaves is an ambitious piece of work. Starting from runic inscriptions and ending on new trends of...

STUDIEN: ZUR DICHTERISCHEN GESTALTUNG IM MARIENPREIS HEINRICHS VON MUGELN.(Review)
July 1, 1998... -STUDIEN: ZUR DICHTERISCHEN GESTALTUNG IM MARIENPREIS HEINRICHS VON MUGELN. Von Michael Stolz. (Bibliotheca Germanica, 36.) Tubingen and Basel: Francke Verlag, 1996. Pp. xi + 522. DM 120. In his study of the , Michael Stolz demonstrates how...

HEINRICH STEINHOWELS `ESOPUS' UND SEINE FORTSETZER: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU EINEM BUCHERFOLG DER FRUHDRUCKZEIT.(Review)
July 1, 1998... HEINRICH STEINHOWELS `ESOPUS' UND SEINE FORTSETZER: UNTERSUCHUNGEN ZU EINEM BUCHERFOLG DER FRUHDRUCKZEIT. Von Gerd Dicke. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen, 103.) Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1994. Pp. ix + 564. DM 128. Many readers,...

BIBLIOGRAPHIA KLESCHIANA: THE WRITINGS OF A BAROQUE FAMILY.(Review)
July 1, 1998... BIBLIOGRAPHIA KLESCHIANA: THE WRITINGS OF A BAROQUE FAMILY. Edited and with an Introduction by Karl F. Otto Jr. and Jonathan P. Clark. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House 1996. Pp. xxix + 191. The international orientation of modern German studies...

FAUST THE THEOLOGIAN.(Review)
July 1, 1998... FAUST THE THEOLOGIAN. By Jaroslav Pelikan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. PP. ix + 145. $20. This is a grandly conceived but not quite perfect book. Readers who expect the elegance of style and design of Jaroslav Pelikan's earlier...

THE RETREAT OF REPRESENTATION: THE CONCEPT OF DARSTELLUNG IN GERMAN CRITICAL DISCOURSE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE RETREAT OF REPRESENTATION: THE CONCEPT OF DARSTELLUNG IN GERMAN CRITICAL DISCOURSE. By Martha Helfer. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. 225. This study, a Stanford University dissertation in its original form,...

THE MASK OF ENLIGHTENMENT: NIETZSCHE'S "ZARATHUSTRA".(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE MASK OF ENLIGHTENMENT: NIETZSCHE'S "ZARATHUSTRA". By Stanley Rosen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xviii + 264. $59.95. Rosen's book is a full-length commentary on Thus Spake Zarathustra, taking the reader through the...

FRANZ KAFKA: GENDER, CLASS, AND RACE IN THE LETTERS AND FICTIONS.(Review)
July 1, 1998... FRANZ KAFKA: GENDER, CLASS, AND RACE IN THE LETTERS AND FICTIONS. By Elizabeth Boa. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. Pp. x + 304. $70. The very title of Elizabeth Boa's study of Kafka appears to make a statement. As verbal objects for analysis and...

BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER WERKE ERNST JUNGERS.(Review)
July 1, 1998... BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER WERKE ERNST JUNGERS. Von Horst Muhleisen. Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1996. Pp. 350. DM 178. With the present bibliography of primary literature, the author has created a reliable basic research tool for the...

BRECHT UNBOUND: PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL BERTOLT BRECHT SYMPOSIUM HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, FEBRUARY 1992.(Review)
July 1, 1998... BRECHT UNBOUND: PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL BERTOLT BRECHT SYMPOSIUM HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, FEBRUARY 1992. Edited by James K. Lyon and Hans-Peter Breuer. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1995. Pp. 316. $46.50. How have...

A BERTOLT BRECHT REFERENCE COMPANION.(Review)
July 1, 1998... A BERTOLT BRECHT REFERENCE COMPANION. Edited by Siegfried Mews. Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 430. $95. The reader of A Bertolt Brecht Reference Companion edited by Siegfried Mews learns on page 2 that...

DRAMATIC METAPHORS OF FASCISM AND ANTIFASCISM.(Review)
July 1, 1998... DRAMATIC METAPHORS OF FASCISM AND ANTIFASCISM. By Leah Hadomi. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1996. Pp. ix + 145. Hadomi's study compares fascist and antifascist dramas by examining semantic and semiotic structures, discourse strategies,...

SHADOW LINES: AUSTRIAN LITERATURE FROM FREUD TO KAFKA.(Review)
July 1, 1998... SHADOW LINES: AUSTRIAN LITERATURE FROM FREUD TO KAFKA. By Lorna Martens. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 291. $40. Anyone interested in the topic of fin-de-siecle Vienna will want to read Martens's dense,...

RUNES AND RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING, RUNES.(Review)
July 1, 1998... RUNES AND RUNIC INSCRIPTIONS: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON ANGLO-SAXON AND VIKING, RUNES. By R. I. Page. Edited by David Parsons with a bibliography by Carl T. Berkhout. Woodbridge, Suffolk & Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 346. 49.50...

IN THE FOREGROUND: `BEOWULF'.(Review)
July 1, 1998... IN THE FOREGROUND: `BEOWULF.' By Eric Gerald Stanley. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994. Pp. xiv + 273. $63/35 [pounds sterling]. Professor Stanley is one of those few famous scholars who have received not one, but two festschriften, and...

OLD ENGLISH BIBLICAL VERSE: STUDIES IN GENESIS, EXODUS AND DANIEL.(Review)
July 1, 1998... OLD ENGLISH BIBLICAL VERSE: STUDIES IN GENESIS, EXODUS AND DANIEL. By Paul G. Remley. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 16.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvii + 476. $69.95. This hefty volume on Old English...

"ANCRENE WISSE," THE KATHERINE GROUP, AND THE WOOING GROUP.(Review)
July 1, 1998... "ANCRENE WISSE," THE KATHERINE GROUP, AND THE WOOING GROUP. By Bella Millett, with the assistance of George B. Jack and Yoko Wada. (Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature, 2 [General Editor, T. L. Burton].) Cambridge: D....

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN TREVISA, MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN TREVISA, MEDIEVAL SCHOLAR. By David C. Fowler. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995. Pp. xiv + 281. $40. This book is clearly the culmination of a lifetime, intending to bring together several threads of...

OXFORD GUIDES TO CHAUCER: THE CANTERBURY TALES.(Review)
July 1, 1998... OXFORD GUIDES TO CHAUCER: THE CANTERBURY TALES. By Helen Cooper. 2d edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv + 439. $ 19.95 (paper). It does not happen in the regular course of events that a scholarly book on Middle English...

READING FROM THE MARGINS: TEXTUAL STUDIES, CHAUCER, AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... READING FROM THE MARGINS: TEXTUAL STUDIES, CHAUCER, AND MEDIEVAL LITERATURE. Edited by Seth Lerer. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1996. Simultaneously published as Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 58, no. 1. Pp. vii + 168. $12. As Seth...

THE TWO VERSIONS OF MALORY'S MORTE DARTHUR.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE TWO VERSIONS OF MALORY'S MORTE DARTHUR. By Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade. (Arthurian Studies, 35.) Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995. Pp. 169. $53. These two volumes, both in the Arthurian Studies series published by Boydell & Brewer...

A COMPANION TO MALORY.(Review)
July 1, 1998... A COMPANION TO MALORY. Edited by Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards. (Arthurian Studies, 37.) Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. Pp. xv + 262. $63 (cloth); $30 (paper). These two volumes, both in the Arthurian Studies series published by...

BAKHTIN AND MEDIEVAL VOICES.(Review)
July 1, 1998... BAKHTIN AND MEDIEVAL VOICES. Edited by Thomas J. Farrell. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp. 240. $49.95. While Mikhail Bakhtin was clearly interested in the literature and culture of the Middle Ages, most notably in his...

WHAT IS PASTORAL?(Review)
July 1, 1998... WHAT IS PASTORAL? By Paul Alpers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Pp. xiii + 499. $34.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). The appearance of What is Pastoral? marks the fruition of a three-decade-long critical project, anticipated by its...

THE BODY EMBLAZONED: DISSECTION AND THE HUMAN BODY IN RENAISSANCE CULTURE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE BODY EMBLAZONED: DISSECTION AND THE HUMAN BODY IN RENAISSANCE CULTURE. By Jonathan Sawday. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 377; 32 illustrations. $45. This is an important book that greatly advances our knowledge...

RESISTANT STRUCTURES: PARTICULARITY, RADICALISM, AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS.(Review)
July 1, 1998... RESISTANT STRUCTURES: PARTICULARITY, RADICALISM, AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS. By Richard Strier. (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics, 34.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. Pp. xiii + 239. $38. (cloth); $15.95 (paper). ...

FRAMING ELIZABETHAN FICTIONS: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO EARLY MODERN NARRATIVE PROSE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... FRAMING ELIZABETHAN FICTIONS: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO EARLY MODERN NARRATIVE PROSE. Edited by Constance C. Relihan. Kent: The Kent State University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 274. $35. Constance Relihan introduces this collection of ten essays...

SEIZURES OF THE WILL IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA.(Review)
July 1, 1998... SEIZURES OF THE WILL IN EARLY MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA. by Frank Whigham. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, 11.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xii + 299. $54.98 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Conquering the...

WRITING ON THE RENAISSANCE STAGE: WRITTEN WORDS, PRINTED PAGES, METAPHORIC BOOKS.(Review)
July 1, 1998... WRITING ON THE RENAISSANCE STAGE: WRITTEN WORDS, PRINTED PAGES, METAPHORIC BOOKS. By Frederick Kiefer. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1996. Pp. 337. $52-50 The starting premise of this book is...

SHAKESPEARE AND SOUTH AFRICA.(Review)
July 1, 1998... SHAKESPEARE AND SOUTH AFRICA. By David Johnson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1996. Pp. 276. $70. David Johnson has written about an important subject: the evolution of the teaching and criticism of Shakespeare in South Africa from the...

EDMOND MALONE, SHAKESPEAREAN SCHOLAR: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY.(Review)
July 1, 1998... EDMOND MALONE, SHAKESPEAREAN SCHOLAR: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY. By Peter Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. PP. xxiii + 298. $59.95. As Shakespeareans and Johnsonians know, Edmond Malone was one of England's greatest scholars...

THE BOUNDARIES OF FICTION: HISTORY AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE BOUNDARIES OF FICTION: HISTORY AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL. By Everett Zimmerman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Pp. vi + 250. $39.95. Exploring a familiar subject from a fresh perspective, this impressive study...

REVISION AND ROMANTIC AUTHORSHIP.(Review)
July 1, 1998... REVISION AND ROMANTIC AUTHORSHIP. By Zachary Leader. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Pp. ix + 354. $70. Sir Francis Bacon posed the relation between writing and authorial identity with memorable simplicity: "writing [maketh] an exact man."...

FANTASTIC MODERNITY: DIALECTICAL READINGS IN ROMANTICISM AND THEORY.(Review)
July 1, 1998... FANTASTIC MODERNITY: DIALECTICAL READINGS IN ROMANTICISM AND THEORY. By Orrin N. C. Wang. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 232; $38.50. Orrin Wang's Fantastic Modernity takes as its starting-point "the particularly...

OPEN FIELDS: SCIENCE IN CULTURAL ENCOUNTER.(Review)
July 1, 1998... OPEN FIELDS: SCIENCE IN CULTURAL ENCOUNTER. By Gillian Beer. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. Pp. x + 341. Illustrations. $45. Gillian Beer's Darwin's Plots (1983) marked the emergence of an unmistakable critical voice, a voice that speaks...

SOUL SAYS.(Review)
July 1, 1998... SOUL SAYS. By Helen Vendler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. viii + 266. $29.95. These three books, a remarkable harvest for one year, are in a way occasional works. Soul Says is mostly a collection of reviews, and the other...

THE BREAKING OF STYLE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE BREAKING OF STYLE. By Helen Vendler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 100. $29.95. These three books, a remarkable harvest for one year, are in a way occasional works. Soul Says is mostly a collection of reviews, and...

THE GIVEN AND THE MADE.(Review)
July 1, 1998... THE GIVEN AND THE MADE. By Helen Vendler. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. Pp. xii + 139. $29.95. These three books, a remarkable harvest for one year, are in a way occasional works. Soul Says is mostly a collection of reviews,...