Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 2003"
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TL;DR: Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions as mentioned in this paper, and a Land Fit for Heroes: Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt.
Abstract: 1 Introduction: Mapping the Terrain 2 Heimat at the Turn of the Century: The Heimat Art Movement and Clara Viebigs Eifel Fictions 3 A Land Fit for Heroes? Ernst Wiechert's Das einfache Leben and Marieluise Fleisser's Pioniere in Ingolstadt 4 (Un)happy Families: Heimat and Anti-Heimat in West German Film and Theatre 5 At Home in the GDR? Heimat in East German Film 6 Heimat Past and Present - A Land Fit for Youth: Lenz's Deutschstunde, Emil Nolde and Heimatkunst, Michael Verhoeven's Das schreckliche Madchen 7 Homeward-bound: Edgar Reitz's Heimat for the 1980s 8 Heimat Regained, Dissolved, or Multiplied? Chronology Bibliography
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TL;DR: This article present a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries, which is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts.
Abstract: This book presents a new and comprehensive descriptive grammar of English, written by the principal authors in collaboration with an international research team of a dozen linguists in five countries. It represents a major advance over previous grammars by virtue of drawing systematically on the linguistic research carried out on English during the last forty years. It incorporates insights from the theoretical literature but presents them in a way that is accessible to readers without formal training in linguistics. It is based on a sounder and more consistent descriptive framework than previous large-scale grammars, and includes much more explanation of grammatical terms and concepts, together with justification for the ways in which the analysis differs from traditional grammar. The book contains twenty chapters and a guide to further reading. Its usefulness is enhanced by diagrams of sentence structure, cross-references between sections, a comprehensive index, and user-friendly design and typography throughout.
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TL;DR: The function of photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten goes beyond the merely illustrative as discussed by the authors, where photographs that are handed down to the narrator in the course of his researches are read in terms of postmemory and the affiliative gaze, both of which allow the narrator to suture himself into the biographies of the four emigrants.
Abstract: The function of photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten goes beyond the merely illustrative. The photographs that are handed down to the narrator in the course of his researches are read in terms of postmemory and the affiliative gaze, both of which allow the narrator to suture himself into the biographies of the four emigrants. Photographs taken by the narrator, on the other hand, are read in terms of reflexive reference: images refer to other images within the text, constituting a pictorial metaphor of the overall textual thematics. In both cases, photographs enable the narrator to construct a sense of continuity and permanence in the face of historical trauma and loss.
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TL;DR: In this article, a translation of "De die iudicii" is presented as a translation to the Hatton homily "Be domes doege" in the Bodleian Library.
Abstract: Part 1 Introduction: the title of the poem the manuscript the context of "Judgement Day II" in MS C the poems, the "Benedictine Office" and Wulfstan description of Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 113 comparison between the poetic and prose version Bede's "De die iudicii" description of British Library, Cotton Domitian A.i "Judgement Day II" as a translation of "De die iudicii" the language of "Judgement Day II" poetic technique, style and metre a literary analysis. Part 2 The text and translation: "Judgement Day II" "Be domes doege" - the Hatton homily. Part 3 Commentary. Appendix: "De die iudicii" in British Library Cotton Domitian A.i.
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TL;DR: The authors take a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new mother tongue - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood.
Abstract: This text takes a serious look at Dante's relation to Latin grammar and the new mother tongue - Italian vernacular - by exploring the cultural significance of the nursing mother in medieval discussions of language and selfhood.
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TL;DR: The present travail replace l'ouvrage dans les conditions de sa publication and de sa reception, tente de lui rendre sa deroutante provocation et son originalite fonciere as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Monument de l'histoire des lettres, objet de controverse a travers les siecles et, dans le meme temps, objet fossilise par la tradition academique, La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse exigeait une nouvelle edition. Le present travail replace l'ouvrage dans les conditions de sa publication et de sa reception, tente de lui rendre sa deroutante provocation et son originalite fonciere. C'est pourquoi l'edition originale de 1549 de La Deffence, avec son orthographe et sa ponctuation primitives, a ete choisie. C'est aussi pourquoi au texte meme de Du Bellay sont joints le Dialogo delle lingue de Sperone Speroni, sa source cachee, et l'ensemble des documents relatifs a la premiere reception (polemique) de La Deffence.
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TL;DR: The Domestic Revolution as mentioned in this paper explores how eighteenth-century women writers of novels, conduct books, and tracts addressed key social, political, and economic issues, revising public thinking about the family and refashioning women's sexual and domestic conduct.
Abstract: Alongside the three revolutions we usually identify with the long eighteenth century-the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688-Enlightenment ideology gave rise to a quieter but no less significant revolution which was largely the fruit of women's imagination and the result of women's work. In The Domestic Revolution, Eve Tavor Bannet explores how eighteenth-century women writers of novels, conduct books, and tracts addressed key social, political, and economic issues, revising public thinking about the family and refashioning women's sexual and domestic conduct. Bannet examines the works of women writers who fell into two distinct camps: "Matriarchs" such as Eliza Haywood, Maria Edgeworth, and Hannah More argued that women had a superiority of sense and virtue over men and needed to take control of the family. "Egalitarians" such as Fanny Burney, Mary Hays, and Mary Wollstonecraft sought to level hierarchies both in the family and in the state, believing that a family should be based on consensual relations between spouses and between parents and children. Bannet shows how Matriarch and Egalitarian writers, in their different ways, sought to raise women from their inferior standing relative to men in the household, in cultural representations, and in prescriptive social norms. Both groups promoted an idealized division of labor between women and men, later to be dubbed the doctrine of "separate spheres." The Domestic Revolution focuses on women's debates with each other and with male ideologues, alternating between discursive and fictional arguments to show how women translated their feminist positions into fictional exemplars. Bannet demonstrates which issues joined and separated different camps of eighteenth-century women, tracing the origins of debates that continue to shape contemporary feminist thought.
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TL;DR: Orientations Poetry and its times Poets and nations Three types of unity The inspiration of Italy From elegy to prophecy The scope of narrative: Aurora Leigh Repulsive Clough Browning's alien pages Tennyson's Britain Ever-broadening Britain The empire of the imagiantion The married state: Idylls of the King Coda: After the realms of verse Works cited Index
Abstract: Orientations Poetry and its times Poets and nations Three types of unity The inspiration of Italy From elegy to prophecy The scope of narrative: Aurora Leigh Repulsive Clough Browning's alien pages Tennyson's Britain Ever-broadening Britain The empire of the imagiantion The married state: Idylls of the King Coda: After the realms of verse Works cited Index
TL;DR: Weiss as mentioned in this paper mapped medieval translation, Ivana Djordjevi "Waldef" and the matter of/with England, Rosalind Field verbal and visual disguise - society and identity in some 12th-century texts, Morgan Dickson the Breton lay in Middle English - genre, transmission and the Franklin's tale.
Abstract: Introduction, Judith Weiss mapping medieval translation, Ivana Djordjevi "Waldef" and the matter of/with England, Rosalind Field verbal and visual disguise - society and identity in some 12th-century texts, Morgan Dickson the Breton lay in Middle English - genre, transmission and the Franklin's tale, Elizabeth Archibald veiling the text - the true role of the Cloth in "Emare", Amanda Hopkins "The Erle of Tolous" - the price of virtue, Arlyn Diamond confessions of a godless killer - "Guy of Warwick" and comprehensive entertainment, Paul Price "Sir Degrevant" and composite romance, W.A. Davenport the undercover king, Rachel Snell "Evele knowen e Merlyne, jn certeyn" - Henry Lovelich's "Merlin", Roger Dalrymple the Elizabeth Havelok - William Warner's "First of the English", Helen Cooper.
TL;DR: Ryuta et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss the early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Japan's construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century, and present a survey of the history of Japanese Shakespeare.
Abstract: List of illustrations List of contributions Preface Takahashi Yasunari Acknowledgements Introduction Minami Ryuta, Ian Carruthers and John Gillies Part I. Early Modern and Traditional Theatre Productions: 1. What do we mean by 'Japanese' Shakespeare? Anzai Tetsuo 2. Japan as 'half-civilized': and early Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Japan's construction of its national image in the late nineteenth century Yoshihara Yukari 3. Shakespeare in Kabuki James R. Brandon 4. Osanai Kaoru's version of Romeo and Juliet, 1904 Matsumoto Shinko 5. Some Noh adaptations of Shakespeare in English and Japanese Ueda Munakata Kuniyoshi 6. The Braggart Samurai: a Kyogen adaptation of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor Michael Shapiro Part II. Modern Productions (Post World War II): 7. Weaving the spider's web: interpretation of character in Kurosawa Akira's Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jo) Paula von Loewenfeldt 8. Innovation and continuity: two decades of Deguchi Norio's Shakespeare Theatre Company Suematsu Michiko 9. Tragedy with laughter: Suzuki Tadashi's The Tale of Lear Takahashi Yasunari 10. The Chronicle of Macbeth: Suzuki method acting in Australia, 1992 Ian Curruthers 11. The rose and the bamboo: Noda Hideki's Sandaime Richado Suzuki Masae 12. Shakespeare reinvented on the contemporary Japanese stage Minami Ryuta 13. Juliet's girlfriends: the Takarazuka Revue Company and the Shojo culture Ohtani Tomoko 14. Directing 'Japanese Shakespeare' locally and universally: an interview with Gerald Murphy Ted Motohashi Part III. Interviews with Directors and Actors: 15. Interview with Deguchi Norio 16. Interview with Suzuki Tadashi 17. Interview with Ninagawa Yukio 18. Interview with Noda Hideki 19. Interview with Hira Mikijiro Afterword: Shakespeare removed: some reflections on the localization of Shakespeare in Japan John Gillies Index.
TL;DR: The debate on editing Malory's "Le Morte Darthur" is described in this paper, with a re-view, the beseiged printer, a question of texts, William Matthews desperately defending Winchester - arguments from the edge, Charles Moorman the Winchester Malory, Shunichi Noguchi Caxton's "Roman War", PJC Field Caxton edits the 'Roman War Episode" - the chronicles of England and Caxton Book V, Masako Takagi and Toshiyuki Takamiya musings on the reviser of Book V in Ca
Abstract: Introduction - the debate on editing Malory's "Le Morte Darthur", Bonnie Wheeler and Michael N Salda Caxton and Chaucer - a re-view, the beseiged printer, a question of texts, William Matthews desperately defending Winchester - arguments from the edge, Charles Moorman the Winchester Malory, Shunichi Noguchi Caxton's "Roman War", PJC Field Caxton edits the "Roman War Episode" - the chronicles of England and Caxton's Book V, Masako Takagi and Toshiyuki Takamiya musings on the reviser of Book V in Caxton's Malory, Yuji Nakao Caxton, Malory, and the "Noble Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius", Edward Donald Kennedy Caxton at work - a reconsideration, NF Blake opening up the Malory Manuscript, Helen Cooper back to the past - editing Malory's "Le Morte Darthur", D Thomas Hanks, Jr reading Malory's text aloud, Shunichi Noguchi Malory's "Roman War Episode" - an argument for a parallel text, Meg Roland on the attractions of the Malory incunable and the Malory manuscript, Sue Ellen Holbrook afterword - the Winchester Malory manuscript - an attempted history, Paul Yeats-Edwards
TL;DR: Treharne and Swan as mentioned in this paper described the production and script of manuscripts containing English religious texts in the first half of the twelfth century, including the Life of Martin in Bodley 343.
Abstract: List of plates Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1. Introduction Elaine M. Treharne and Mary Swan 2. The production and script of manuscripts containing English religious texts in the first half of the twelfth century Elaine M. Treharne 3. The compilation and use of manuscripts containing Old English in the twelfth century Susan Irvine 4. 'lfric's Catholic Homilies in the twelfth century Mary Swan 5. Wulfstan and the twelfth century Jonathan Wilcox 6. Mnemonic transmission of Old English texts in the post-Conquest period Loredana Teresi 7. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the evidence of the extant manuscripts Joana Proud 8. Old English prose saints' lives in the twelfth century: the Life of Martin in Bodley 343 Susan Rosser 9. Scribal habit: the evidence of the Old English Gospels Roy Michael Liuzza 10. The Old English gloss of the Eadwine Psalter Phillip Pulsiano 11. The Tremulous Worcester Hand and Gregory's Pastoral Care Wendy Collier Index of manuscripts General index.
TL;DR: Geyer, Michael, ed. as mentioned in this paper The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany: A Survey of GDR Political and Intellectual Culture collected in this volume of conference papers differ greatly in scope and interest and the reviewer will have to be selectively focused.
Abstract: Geyer, Michael, ed. The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 459 pp. $60.00 hardcover; $25.00 paperback. The post-Wall readings of GDR political and intellectual culture collected in this volume of conference papers differ greatly in scope and interest and the reviewer will have to be selectively focused. If the editor's heavily annotated introduction was meant to establish a degree of coherence-a notoriously difficult task in the case of such collections-it does not succeed: see especially the rather opaque section "The Native as Stranger" (3 ff) summing up the difficulties of GDR intellectuals with the cultural rupture of unification. We are informed in the "Acknowledgements" that the aim of the conference had been to "explore the relations" between the Stasi and GDR intellectuals, that is, "the responsibility of intellectuals in the face of state power and the fallibility of moral and aesthetic authority were its main concerns" (ix). The authority to define such responsibility and denounce "fallibility" in the aftermath of the collapse of state power, then, seems to be a given: GDR intellectuals were powerful under a government that used them to its and their advantage, including their complicity with its repressive policies of silence and secrecy. Now, after its collapse, they are impotent because their complicity with a criminal regime has revealed the irrresponsibility of their former power. But by whose standards is this irresponsibility to be judged? Would not its meanings have to differ for the accusers and the accused? And would we not therefore have to start with acknowledging and exploring those differences as soberly and fairly as possible? This has rarely happened in the aftermath of the collapse and the essays collected here too reflect a Western and an Eastern set of views on and from the post-Wall situation. It seems an enduring separation, both obvious and obscure, inevitable but also inevitably changing that has created particular difficulties for the development of a realistic and coherent analysis-apparently more so for the Western than the Eastern perspective and I will therefore focus on the former. In many cases trying to be fair, the Western perspective is still based on a perceived authority to interrogate and criticize to the point of sentencing; the Eastern perspective is based on the perceived need for self-defense and coping with powerful of expectations of self-critique. Adept at turning to her advantage the power of others' expectations, Christa Wolf put it perfectly: defending herself against anticipated accusations that she had waited nine months before making public the discovery of her former, forgotten informer-self "Margarete" in her Stasi "victim" file, she cited the witch hunt atmosphere in the spring of 1992, which "would block rather than promote a debate about the complex reality of the GDR as well as self critical working through of our experiences in this country." David Bathrick quotes her in his essay "Language and Power" (143) to conclude a section "What happened," where he also deals with the more serious cases of Stasi informers Sascha Anderson and Rainer Schedlinski. Despite his attempts at differentiation, his account of the events remains in important ways inconclusive precisely because he is not sufficiently clear about the powerful dilemmas of GDR intellectuals at the core of that "complex realty of the GDR." Bathrick himself gives an example of the complicated games Stasi played with them: Schedlinski had tricked a known dissident into sending him copies of several texts considered highly dangerous by the regime which he then promptly sent on to the Stasi. They could easily have arrested the man on this occasion but refrained from doing so, possibly from fear of exposing a part of their complicated surveillance system. In Bathrick's view, "convincing Schedlinski and Anderson that as informers they were actually using the Stasi for their own purposes was one of the means this organization employed to keep the upper hand. …
TL;DR: In this paper, the symbolic importance of processions in Malory's "Morte Darthur" and in 15th-century England, and the argument against war with France.
Abstract: Old worlds, new worlds - King Arthur in England, Terence McCarthy "Thou woll never have done" - ideology, context and excess in Malory's war, Andrew Lynch Sir Thomas Malory's "grete booke", Karen Cherewatuk" Malory and the Battle of Towton, P.J.C. Field the symbolic importance of processions in Malory's "Morte Darthur" and in 15th-century England, Ann Elaine Bliss Malory's anti-knights - Balin and Breunys, D. Thomas Hanks Jr Malory's argument against war with France - the political geography of France and the Anglo-French alliance in the "Morte Darthur", Robert L. Kelly Wynkyn de Worde and the creation of Malory's "Morte Darthur", Kevin Grimm.
TL;DR: Gale et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the relationship between the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years of the theatre and society, focusing on women's roles in the theatre.
Abstract: List of illustrations Notes on contributors Introduction Maggie B. Gale 1. Theatre and society: the Edwardian legacy, the First World War and the inter-war years Clive Barker 2. Body parts: the success of the thriller in the inter-war years John Stokes 3. When men were men and women were women John Deeney 4. Girl crazy: musicals and revue between the wars James Ross Moore 5. Errant nymphs: women and the inter-war theatre Maggie B. Gale 6. Blood on the bright young things: Shakespeare in the 1930s Tony Howard 7. The religion of socialism or a pleasant Sunday afternoon?: The ILP Arts Guild Ros Merkin 8. Delving the levels of memory and dressing up in the past Mick Wallis 9. The ghosts of war: stage ghosts and time slips as a response to war Clive Barker Index.