Pub Date : 2023-11-18DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09794-5
Rachel A. Burns
The ruined-city motif in the Old English poem The Wanderer (lines 73–87) has long been read as a reflex of traditional Germanic diction, and as a symbol of material transience. In line with more recent biblical readings of the poem, this paper identifies a number of analogues and possible sources for both the excidio urbis image and other images of transience, in the biblical Book of Ezekiel. Among these correspondences between The Wanderer and the prophetic biblical narrative are references to scavenging animals, traditionally read as Germanic ‘beasts of battle’ when encountered in the Old English elegies. Reading this passage alongside Gregory the Great’s Homilies on Ezekiel further illuminates how the poem’s structure and changing use of tense corresponds with contemporary thought on the revelatory processes of prophecy. It is here proposed that the Old English poet has chosen to use images and devices which resonate with both biblical and traditional vernacular poetic diction.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09790-9
Martín Zulaica López
{"title":"El proyecto de edición del Poema del Cid del Marqués de Pidal para la Real Academia Española","authors":"Martín Zulaica López","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09790-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09790-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135476460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09784-7
Chenyun Zhu
{"title":"Beowulf and Ragnarǫk: A Reassessment","authors":"Chenyun Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09784-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09784-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09792-7
Tom Grant
Abstract For almost two centuries, Böðvarr bjarki has been a household name in Beowulf studies. The exploits of this monster-slaying champion of the Danish king match those of the epic hero at many points, and this has made Bjarki the subject of critical fascination. Many scholars have viewed the correspondences between Beowulf and Bjarki as evidence that certain aspects of Beowulf’s career may have been modelled on existing Scandinavian legend — a view with clear implications for our understanding of the originality of Beowulf . The value of the Bjarki story has also been challenged, largely on the basis that Scandinavian evidence is inconsistent in its presentation of this tradition. This article defends the usefulness of the Bjarki analogue by returning to the Scandinavian source material. It demonstrates that the various versions of the Bjarki story across Old Norse and Latin sources are structurally consistent and point to the existence of a coherent underlying tradition. This reopens the possibility that Beowulf and Bjarki may independently derive from the same legendary archetype.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-19DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09785-6
Ali Yiğit
{"title":"Depolarizing the Polarized: Elif Shafakʼs Three Daughters of Eve and Turkey","authors":"Ali Yiğit","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09785-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09785-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135732014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09793-6
Sharon M. Wofford
{"title":"The Old English Phoenix as a Model of Saintly Embodiment","authors":"Sharon M. Wofford","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09793-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09793-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136209964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09791-8
Sara von der Fecht-Fernández, Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez
Abstract Richard Hakluyt’s Principall Nauigations (1589) was a landmark in the history of English travel literature which compiled and glorified the naval deeds and expeditions undertaken by the English throughout the world. This article focuses on the third volume of Hakluyt’s compilation devoted to America which gathers first-hand accounts describing the way of life and the natural environment of the new territories conquered and populated by the Spaniards. The incorporation in these texts of almost 100 borrowings from Spanish to designate elements related to sea voyages and experiences in the Spanish colonies has raised the following research questions: What kind of terms were most likely to be introduced? And, given that these Spanish terms were unfamiliar to English readers, did the authors resort to any kind of strategy to explain the meaning of the new words? This article will address these questions by setting the following objectives. (i) to compile an inventory of the Spanish terms that have been incorporated into the English texts; (ii) to classify these terms according to the lexical fields they refer to; (iii) to analyse how the meaning of these new words is explained to English readers.
Richard Hakluyt的《航海原理》(1589)是英国旅行文学史上的一个里程碑，它汇编和颂扬了英国人在世界各地进行的海军行动和探险。这篇文章的重点是关于美国的汇编的第三卷，它收集了第一手资料，描述了西班牙人征服和居住的新领土的生活方式和自然环境。在这些文本中，几乎有100个借用西班牙语来指定与海上航行和西班牙殖民地经历有关的元素，这提出了以下研究问题:什么样的术语最有可能被引入?而且，考虑到这些西班牙语术语对英语读者来说并不熟悉，作者是否采取了某种策略来解释这些新词的含义?本文将通过设定以下目标来解决这些问题。(i)汇编已纳入英文文本的西班牙语术语清单;(ii)根据所涉及的词汇领域对这些术语进行分类;(三)分析如何向英语读者解释这些生词的意思。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09781-w
Nelson Goering
Abstract The revision of the four-position theory of Old English metre by Yakovlev (2008) has had a considerable impact, both for its simplification of Sievers’ (1893) metrical principles, and for its supposed shift to a “morphological” rather than an “accentual” metrical type. I contextualize Yakovlev’s important contribution to metrical theory, highlighting that his main innovations are to eliminate the principle that every verse should have two lifts, and to collapse the metrical notions of “lift” and of “half-lift” into a single type of unit, the “strong position”. These major and thoughtful innovations are unconnected to the supposed “morphological” aspect of Yakovlev’s system, which consists of arbitrary and unmotivated stipulations of certain classes of syllables as inherently strong or weak. Calling the metre “morphological” on this basis is at best misleading, placing too much emphasis on a marginal component of the system. Moreover, the definitions of strong and weak positions are better explained with reference to linguistic stress: elements bearing some degree of stress (primary or secondary) are strong, while those bearing no stress are weak. Such a reframing leads to a slight revision of Yakovlev’s theory to incorporate the “rule of the coda” (Fulk, 1992). The result is a version of Yakovlev’s theory which is both theoretically simpler and more descriptively adequate, but in which the label “morphological” lacks even the limited and inapt validity of the original version. This reintroduction of stress into the system does not, however, make the theory “accentual”, and it remains better characterized as an “alliterative-syllabic” view of the metre (Cable, 1991).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09780-x
Susana Gala Pellicer
Abstract Halfway between orality and writing, the statement of the women accused by the Inquisition of practicing sorcery raises interpretive difficulties that are hard to resolve. The analysis of the confession made by Vicenta Graçia Almenar before the Inquisition of Valencia (1623) will allow us to detect some of the factors that mediate between the discourse of the woman and the text produced by the Inquisition: aspects such as the transcription process (for example, the presence of errors and spelling slips introduced by the notary), the context of emission (which determines the use of a characteristic formulaic language) or the discursive typology (the narration of experiences and magical practices), among others, will shed new light on the construction of the defendant’s speech and on its transformation into a judicial text.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-08DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09783-8
Roghayeh Farsi
{"title":"Tense and Tension in Alice Munro’s “In Sight of the Lake”: A Cognitive Study","authors":"Roghayeh Farsi","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09783-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09783-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77021494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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