Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09741-w
Erin Sebo
For most people alive today, the COVID-19 pandemic was our first experience of widespread isolation. However, among medieval cultures, with low population density and limited urbanisation, isolation, especially through exile, was common as a political expedient or even, as now, as a method of controlling the spread of illness. This is reflected across myriad aspects of medieval culture, from pilgrim badges to legal codes. Stories and tropes of isolation are common in medieval literature. From the immrama which often include depictions of the isolation of voyages, to images of homesickness in romances or Crusade narratives to descriptions of isolation in exile in Old English elegies and Old Norse sagas. In many instances, the literature reveals a greater fear of loneliness than death, so much so that isolation was used both as a form of punishment considered as severe as mutilation in some parts of medieval Europe, and as an important religious practice, since many people willingly distanced themselves from society in pursuit of salvation through hardship. This introductory essay introduces a dossier on medieval experiences of isolation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09744-7
Jooyeup Lee
This paper tries to read What Where as Beckett's realistic and pessimistic presentation of the ontological conditions of the human history, which the play defines as investigation, exploitation and quest for the ultimate truth. Its analysis finds that this presentation has important threads in common with the criticism of civilization in the later Freud's metapsychology, which formulated "an all-embracing, grand theory of the psyche" in terms of the development of the individual as well as the evolution of the entire species on the basis of the maxim that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" What Where enacts this Freudian vision in theatrical terms as its theater version foregrounds the phylogenetic scale with the physical subjections happening among the characters and its television version the interior depth of the mind with the maneuvering of the television images. Another important commonality is that the character Bam is presented as a figure pertaining to Freud's concept of the death drive. The resulting theatrical picture is a sobering and realistic testimony to the individual and collective human existence that has always survived on questionings about, exploitation of and quest for a different object. This strikes a chord with how Beckett's characters embody his poetics of 'senility,' and leads to the political implications of freedom without hope or meaning, which is the infinite task of Beckett's senile characters.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09751-8
Liam Michael Plimmer
{"title":"The Invisibility of the Soul and the Rhetoric of Dissent: Conscience and the Wycliffite Heresy","authors":"Liam Michael Plimmer","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09751-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09751-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"104 1","pages":"485 - 502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73360937","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 : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09753-6
Deniz Kırpıklı
{"title":"New Ways of Identification: Black Diaspora and Memory in Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow","authors":"Deniz Kırpıklı","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09753-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09753-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"158 1","pages":"329 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82645803","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 : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09748-3
John Lucas
{"title":"Scripted Revolution: Aspects of the Carnivalesque and Grotesque in Tirant lo Blanc and Curial i Güelfa","authors":"John Lucas","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09748-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09748-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"64 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80196885","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 : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09749-2
Ferràndez López
{"title":"Window Women: A Way into Nineteenth-Century English Literature","authors":"Ferràndez López","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09749-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09749-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"11 1","pages":"311 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75747743","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 : 2022-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09743-8
David González Ramírez
{"title":"La traducción al español de las Questioni d’amore (Filocolo) de Boccaccio: del texto “vicioso” (Laberinto de amor) a la edición revisada (Trece cuestiones muy graciosas)","authors":"David González Ramírez","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09743-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09743-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"105 1","pages":"13 - 32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86782052","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 : 2022-12-16DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09747-4
Mikael Males
{"title":"Hear No Sievers, See No Sievers: Metrics and the Eddic Commentary Tradition","authors":"Mikael Males","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09747-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09747-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"12 1","pages":"257 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81489977","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 : 2022-12-02DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09742-9
Luis Gómez Canseco, Fernando Navarro Antolín
{"title":"Un soneto olvidado de Calderón de la Barca para el Equilibrio cristiano político y moral de Gaspar Agustín de Lara (1680)","authors":"Luis Gómez Canseco, Fernando Navarro Antolín","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09742-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09742-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"35 1","pages":"33 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82379092","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 : 2022-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s11061-022-09750-9
Joshua C. Wright
{"title":"The Pilgrim’s Carnivalesque: The Textual Chaucer and the Negation of Narration in The Canterbury Tales","authors":"Joshua C. Wright","doi":"10.1007/s11061-022-09750-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-022-09750-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":"85 1","pages":"301 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78530817","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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