The Journal of English and Germanic Philology articles from July 1999

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology archives from July 1999

Hands across the Hall: The Legalities of Beowulf's Fight with Grendel.
July 1, 1999... Critics have paid considerable attention over the years to the "dance of honor" Beowulf performs in his approach to Heorot. The hero has to undergo a series of verbal tests with the coastguard, Wulfgar, and Unferth before he is given the...

The Aesthetics of "Sprawling" Drama: The Digby Mary Magdalene as Pilgrims' Play.
July 1, 1999... Once valued as the quaint, if sometimes ungainly, precursor to Shakespearean theater, medieval drama has emerged during the last decade from its long critical adolescence. Spurred in part by O. B. Hardison's 1965 study, Christian Rite and...

"Proprietie in this Hebrew poesy": George Wither, Judaism, and the Formation of English National Identity.
July 1, 1999... Spenser introduces his enigmatic and polyvalent representation of Arthur in The Faerie Queene with a detailed description of the legendary king's attire. In his depiction of the crest of Arthur's helm, Spenser writes that a bunch of colored...

Passive Resistance in Shelley: A Psychological View.
July 1, 1999... In The Sensitive Plant and its presiding Lady, Shelley envisions the gentleness with which evil might be controlled in an unfallen paradise: And all killing insects and gnawing worms And things of obscene and unlovely forms ...

THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THE PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES. By Stephen Howe. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996. Pp. xxii + 390. DM 198. Howe's ambitious monograph "investigates the forms and development of the personal pronouns in all the Germanic languages...

RUNRISTAREN OPIR. EN MONOGRAFI. WITH A SUMMARY IN ENGLISH: THE RUNEMASTER OPIR. A MONOGRAPH.(Review)
July 1, 1999... RUNRISTAREN OPIR. EN MONOGRAFI. WITH A SUMMARY IN ENGLISH: THE RUNEMASTER OPIR. A MONOGRAPH. By Marit Ahlen. (Runron. Runologiska bidrag utgivna av Institutionen for nordiska sprak vid Uppsala universitet, 12.) Uppsala: Institutionen for...

PROLONGED ECHOES: OLD NORSE MYTH IN MEDIEVAL NORTHERN SOCIETY. VOLUME 1: THE MYTHS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... PROLONGED ECHOES: OLD NORSE MYTH IN MEDIEVAL NORTHERN SOCIETY. VOLUME 1: THE MYTHS. By Margaret Clunies Ross. (Viking Collection: Studies in Northern Civilization, 7.) Odense: Odense University Press, 1994-Pp. 325. Dkr 240. Like others...

OLD NORSE IMAGES OF WOMEN.(Review)
July 1, 1999... OLD NORSE IMAGES OF WOMEN. By Jenny Jochens. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 326. $39.95. Blessedly absent from the literature of thirteenth-century Iceland are the familiar comic and satirical images of...

THE HAUSTLONG OF PJODOLFR OF HVINIR.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THE HAUSTLONG OF PJODOLFR OF HVINIR. Edited and translated by Richard North. Enfield Lock, Middlesex: Hisarlik Press, 1997. Pp. lxvii + 105. $29.95. Pjodolfr of Hvinir's "Haustlong" (`autumn-long') is one of the oldest extant Old Norse...

THE ICELANDIC LEGEND OF SAINT DOROTHY.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THE ICELANDIC LEGEND OF SAINT DOROTHY. Edited by Kirsten Wolf. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1997. Pp. 132; 1 illustration. $28.50. This new edition of the Old Icelandic legend of the virgin martyr Saint Dorothy...

FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN--FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN. STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DER WAHRNEHMUNG UND ZUR BEGEGNUNG VON KULTUREN IN MITTELALTER UND FRUHER NEUZEIT.(Review)
July 1, 1999... FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN--FREMDES WAHRNEHMEN. STUDIEN ZUR GESCHICHTE DER WAHRNEHMUNG UND ZUR BEGEGNUNG VON KULTUREN IN MITTELALTER UND FRUHER NEUZEIT. Herausgegeben von Wolfgang Harms und C. Stephen Jaeger, mit Alexandra Stein. Stuttgart: S....

PREDIGTEN UND STUCKE AUS DEM KREISE BERTHOLDS VON REGENSBURG (TEILSAMMLUNG [Y.sup.III]).(Review)
July 1, 1999... PREDIGTEN UND STUCKE AUS DEM KREISE BERTHOLDS VON REGENSBURG (TEILSAMMLUNG [Y.sup.III]. Herausgegeben von Frank G. Banta. (Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 621.) Goppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1995. Pp. xlvi + 206. DM 62. Nearly three...

MNEMOSYNE: ZEIT UND ERINNERUNG IN HOLDERLINS DENKEN.(Review)
July 1, 1999... MNEMOSYNE: ZEIT UND ERINNERUNG IN HOLDERLINS DENKEN. Von Helmut Huhn. Stuttgart, Weimar: J. B. Metzler, 1997. Pp. vi + 306 [+ 8]. DM 128. Few of Holderlin's mature poems have received more attention of late than the hymns "Mnemosyne" and...

EGO--ALTER EGO: DOUBLE AND/AS OTHER IN THE AGE OF GERMAN POETIC REALISM.(Review)
July 1, 1999... EGO--ALTER EGO: DOUBLE AND/AS OTHER IN THE AGE OF GERMAN POETIC REALISM. By John Pizer. (University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 120.) Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998. Pp. xiii...

MODERNITAT ALS PARADOX: DER BEGRIFF DER "MODERNE" UND SEINE ANWENDUNG AUF DAS WERK ALFRFED DOBLINS (BIS 1933).(Review)
July 1, 1999... MODERNITAT ALS PARADOX: DER BEGRIFF DER "MODERNE" UND SEINE ANWENDUNG AUF DAS WERK ALFRFED DOBLINS (BIS 1933). Von Birgit Hoock. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1997. Pp. xiv + 335. DM 96. Birgit Hoock raises an interesting and vexed issue...

DIE THOMAS-MANN-LITERATUR. BAND III: BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER KRITIK 1976-1994.(Review)
July 1, 1999... DIE THOMAS-MANN-LITERATUR. BAND III: BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER KRITIK 1976-1994. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Thomas-Mann-Archiv Zurich herausgegeben von Klaus W. Jonas/Helmut Koopmann. Frankfurt/M: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997. Pp. xvi + 614. DM 198. ...

THOMAS MANN--BIBLIOGRAPHIE. UBERSETZUNGEN, INTERVIEWS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THOMAS MANN--BIBLIOGRAPHIE. UBERSETZUNGEN, INTERVIEWS. Von Georg Potempa, Mitarbeit Gert Heine. Morsum/Sylt: Cicero Presse, 1997. Pp. xvi + 696. DM 400. "Archivalisches Gewuhle"--so nannte Hans Wysling, der unvergessene Leiter des...

"UND WAS WERDEN DIE DEUTSCHEN SAGEN??" THOMAS MANNS ROMAN `DOKTOR FAUSTUS'.(Review)
July 1, 1999... "UND WAS WERDEN DIE DEUTSCHEN SAGEN??" THOMAS MANNS ROMAN `DOKTOR FAUSTUS'. Herausgegeben yon Hans Wi[Beta]kirchen und Thomas Sprecher. Lubeck: Verlag Drager Druck, 1997. Pp. 533. DM 35. "Archivalisches Gewuhle"--so nannte Hans Wysling,...

HERZLICH ZUGEEIGNET. WIDMUNGEN VON THOMAS MANN 1887-1955.(Review)
July 1, 1999... HERZLICH ZUGEEIGNET. WIDMUNGEN VON THOMAS MANN 1887-1955. Herausgegeben von Gert Heine und Paul Schommer. Lubeck: Verlag Drager Druck, 1998. Pp. 283. DM 45. "Archivalisches Gewuhle"--so nannte Hans Wysling, der unvergessene Leiter des...

LUKACS READS GOETHE: FROM AESTHETICISM TO STALINISM.(Review)
July 1, 1999... LUKACS READS GOETHE: FROM AESTHETICISM TO STALINISM. By Nicholas Vazsonyi. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1997. Pp. viii + 158 [+2]. $49.95. It is well known that Georg Lukacs,...

WALTER BENJAMIN'S OTHER HISTORY: OF STONES, ANIMALS, HUMAN BEINGS, AND ANGELS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... WALTER BENJAMIN'S OTHER HISTORY: OF STONES, ANIMALS, HUMAN BEINGS, AND ANGELS. By Beatrice Hanssen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 207. $35. Much has been written on Benjamin's project of articulating a natural...

ANNA SEGHERS: DAS SIEBTE KREUZ. WELT UND WIRKUNG EINES ROMANS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... ANNA SEGHERS: DAS SIEBTE KREUZ. WELT UND WIRKUNG EINES ROMANS. Von Alexander Stephan. Berlin: Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997. Pp. 406. DM 19.90. Von der Sekundarliteratur kann man nicht immer behaupten, da[Beta] man sie mit gro[Beta]er...

THE EARLY POETRY OF PAUL CELAN: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THE EARLY POETRY OF PAUL CELAN: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD. By Adrian Del Caro. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. pp. 256. $45. Adrian Del Caro's recent book on the early poetry of Paul Celan acknowledges...

NEUE DEUTSCHE LITERATURGESCHICHTE. VOM "ACKERMANN" ZU GUNTER GRASS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... NEUE DEUTSCHE LITERATURGESCHICHTE. VOM "ACKERMANN" ZU GUNTER GRASS. Von Peter J. Brenner. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer, 1996. Pp. viii + 379. To condense six centuries of German literature into just 328 pages of text--with an additional...

KEEPERS OF THE MOTHERLAND: GERMAN TEXTS BY JEWISH WOMEN WRITERS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... KEEPERS OF THE MOTHERLAND: GERMAN TEXTS BY JEWISH WOMEN WRITERS. By Dagmar C. G. Lorenz. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xxii + 402. $55. The "motherland" that Dagmar Lorenz evokes as containing the disparate writings of...

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE III. VISIONS OF THE OTHER WORLD IN MIDDLE ENGLISH.(Review)
July 1, 1999... ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE III. VISIONS OF THE OTHER WORLD IN MIDDLE ENGLISH. By Robert Easting. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xii + 119. $54. This volume is in many ways an exemplary work of...

MEDIEVAL MARRIAGE: LITERARY APPROACHES, 1100-1300.(Review)
July 1, 1999... MEDIEVAL MARRIAGE: LITERARY APPROACHES, 1100-1300. By Neil Cartlidge. Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xii + 250. "English" should be in the title or subtitle of this book; for, though the introductory chapters do bring in some...

THE CASE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE.(Review)
July 1, 1999... THE CASE FOR WOMEN IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE. By Alcuin Blamires. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. viii + 279. $75. This study is a welcome response and complement to the recent emphasis on medieval misogyny. It is not that the author (or the...

MYSTICISM AND SPIRITUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.(Review)
July 1, 1999... MYSTICISM AND SPIRITUALITY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND. Edited by William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xii + 260; 9 illustrations. $63. By taking as its theme "mysticism and spirituality," the Pollard...

NICHOLAS LOVE AT WASEDA: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 20-22 JULY 1995.(Review)
July 1, 1999... NICHOLAS LOVE AT WASEDA: PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 20--22 JULY 1905. Edited by Shoichi Oguro, Richard Beadle, and Michael G. Sargent. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Pp. xxiv + 280; frontispiece + 10 illustrations. $71. ...

EDMUND SPENSER'S IRISH EXPERIENCE: WILDE FRUIT AND SALVAGE SOYL.(Review)
July 1, 1999... EDMUND SPENSER'S IRISH EXPERIENCE: WILDE FRUIT AND SALVAGE SOYL. By Andrew Hadfield. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. xii + 227. $65. In a characteristically suggestive and wide-ranging article ("Exodus," Critical Inquiry, 20 [1994]),...

SENECA BY CANDLELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES OF RENAISSANCE DRAMA.(Review)
July 1, 1999... SENECA BY CANDLELIGHT AND OTHER STORIES OF RENAISSANCE DRAMA. By Lorraine Helms. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. 201. $35. Seneca by Candlelight is a hybrid book: part autobiography, part postmortem on the...

REPRESENTING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND.(Review)
July 1, 1999... REPRESENTING WOMEN IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND. Edited by Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. PP. ix + 250. $44-95. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth's Representing Women in...

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BEN JONSON.(Review)
July 1, 1999... NEW PERSPECTIVES ON BEN JONSON. Edited by James Hirsh. Cranbury, NJ.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London Associated University Presses, 1997. Pp. 221. $36.50. When an author has been studied as long and diligently as Ben Jonson...

GEORGE HERBERT: SACRED AND PROFANE.(Review)
July 1, 1999... GEORGE HERBERT: SACRED AND PROFANE. Edited by Helen Wilcox and Richard Todd. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1995. Pp. xx + 211. $30. This important collection of fifteen essays, first presented in 1993 at an international conference held...

MILTON AND THE TANGLES OF NEAERA'S HAIR: THE MAKING OF THE 1645 POEMS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... MILTON AND THE TANGLES OF NEAERA'S HAIR: THE MAKING OF THE 1645 POEMS. By Stella P. Revard. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Pp. x + 299. $44.95. Modern editors have seldom prompted readers to take seriously the integrity of...

BARBAROUS DISSONANCE AND IMAGES OF VOICE IN MILTON'S EPICS.(Review)
July 1, 1999... BARBAROUS DISSONANCE AND IMAGES OF VOICE IN MILTON'S EPICS. By Elizabeth Sauer. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. Pp. x + 213. $49.95. Readers who depend heavily on John Milton's epic narrator to secure their moral,...

BRITISH SATIRE AND THE POLITICS OF STYLE, 1789-1832.(Review)
July 1, 1999... BRITISH SATIRE AND THE POLITICS OF STYLE, 1789-1832. By Gary Dyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997- Pp. xii + 263. $59.95 Dyer's study of the surprisingly many verse and prose satires published in Britain between the French...