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{"title":"Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable","authors":"U. Schaefer","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0030","url":null,"abstract":"(although one would have welcomed a clear statement on which “good” narratives he thinks overcome the moral relativism of the more exploitative texts). Overall, the excess of evil in literature seems to flourish particularly in postmodern poetics and in American culture. True, Puschmann-Nalenz touches on some texts, but in general there is a paucity of “Anglophone”, i.e. non-American, nonEnglish literature in the volume. Surely Irish literature would have produced wonderful material, and the missing case of Martin McDonagh also points to a second blind spot in the collection: the almost complete absence of theatre and drama. Kathleen Starck addresses issues of ethnicity in her essay on the demonization of black male characters in American film. She singles out a somewhat predictable target, The Birth of a Nation, and compares it unfavourably with Richard Wright’s Native Son. Ethnicity is also the focus of Jutta Ernst’s contribution on Native American fiction that, interestingly, does not seem to conclude with a unifying, specific stance on evil in her texts. As the editors concede in their introduction, the concept of evil is so versatile and blurry that it embraces a vast, potentially unlimited territory, uncharted even in this rich volume, between resurgent moral binaries, an entanglement of good and evil, a variety of psycho-social analyses of evil that are so frequent in literature and the acceptance of a residual degree of inexplicable autonomy in evil. All in all, this is an intelligent and inspiring edition, prepared, with few exceptions, to generally high editorial standards. Its diversity, however, may compromise its usefulness as an “introductory survey of the phenomenon of evil in Anglophone literatures and cultures” (6), a claim made in the introduction.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"10 1","pages":"148 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74906345","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}

{"title":"The Study of Medieval Manuscripts of England: Festschrift in Honor of Richard W. Pfaff","authors":"H. Gneuss","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0056","url":null,"abstract":"Mit den neunzehn Beiträgen dieses Bandes wird Richard W. Pfaff, ein hochverdienter Mediävist, Historiker, Liturgiewissenschaftler und Handschriftenkenner geehrt. Eines seiner Hauptwerke, The Liturgy in Medieval England: A History, wurde hier kürzlich besprochen (Anglia 128, 2010, 144–6). Von den Aufsätzen dieser Festschrift sind sieben unter dem Titel “Liturgical Studies” angeordnet; ihnen folgen die übrigen als “Historical Studies”. Zu den einzelnen Aufsätzen ist hier nur eine knappe Charakteristik möglich. Die “Liturgical Studies” beginnen mit einer Abhandlung zur Geschichte des Gilbertinerordens und seiner Laienbrüder von Janet Sorrentino. – Christopher Jones bespricht die von ihm schon früher behandelte verkürzte Fassung des Liber officialis des Amalarius von Metz und druckt einen Auszug daraus in der Hs. Lambeth Palace 1229, sowie ein Verzeichnis von Handschriften mit zwei exegetischen Texten, die auf dem Werk des Amalarius basieren. – Elizabeth Teviotdale untersucht die Sammlung von Evangelienauszügen in der Hs. Cambridge, Pembroke College 302, und schließt daran ein vergleichendes Inhaltsverzeichnis dieser Handschrift sowie der Hss. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Lat. liturg. F.5 (‘St Margaret’s Gospelbook’) und Florenz, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Plut. xvii.20. – Mit der Ausgestaltung von Seiten in liturgischen Handschriften befasst sich Andrew Hughes. – Die Auswirkungen des Umzugs von der alten Kathedrale in Old Sarum in die neue von Salisbury bespricht im Hinblick auf die Prozessionen William Peter Mahrt. Die Variation der Sanctorale-Teile in den Missalien und Brevieren des Gebrauchs von Sarum untersuchen in zwei aufschlussreichen Beiträgen Nigel Morgan und Sherry Reames. Der zweite Teil der Festschrift, “Historical Studies”, beginnt mit einem Aufsatz von Alan Thacker zu dem neuerdings aktuellen Thema der Seelsorge (John Blair; Francesca Tinti), hier für die angelsächsische Frühzeit; es wird überzeugend deutlich, dass die Zahl der Priester (die als Pfarrgeistliche wirken konnten) in dieser Zeit zwar beschränkt war, dass zugleich aber die Seelsorge durch die Klöster eine wichtige Rolle spielte. – Joshua Westgard untersucht die Überlieferung der auf St. Wilfrid bezogenen und in Bedas Historia Ecclesiastica V.24 zugefügten Annalen und ediert sie; ein nützlicher Anhang verzeichnet Beda-Handschriften, die in der Ausgabe von Colgrave und Mynors noch nicht erfasst waren. – Joseph Wittig widmet sich der Frage, ob lateinische Glossen in Handschriften der Consolatio des Boethius als Quellen für die altenglische Version gedient haben könnten. Er äußert sich vorsichtig skeptisch dazu. Wertvoll ist sein Anhang von Boethius-Handschriften mit verschiedenen, von Wittig klassifizierten Glossierungen. – Jaroslav Folda","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"29 1","pages":"286 - 287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77587582","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}

{"title":"Jonathan B. Himes. The Old English Epic of Waldere","authors":"Leonard Neidorf","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0029","url":null,"abstract":"with silent . It is unlikely that the written form of these words had anything to do with this, as most speakers of English would have been illiterate. But the fact that there was a significant number of Romance words with non-silent may well have contributed to the interpretation of as unambiguously consonantal (if pronounced at all). To sum up, the present volume is highly recommended to anyone researching phenomena of weakening in English or investigating this topic from a phonetic or theoretical perspective. The papers address a range of phenomena and combine fine-grained analyses with detailed and large collections of data, providing reliable information on specific issues and starting points for further investigation.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"33 1","pages":"158 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84529496","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}

{"title":"Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair & Nicholas Smith. Change in Contemporary English. A Grammatical Study","authors":"U. Lenker","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0027","url":null,"abstract":"In recent decades, corpus linguistics has become one of the mainstream paradigms in the study of languages, in particular in the study of English. All of the authors of the book under review here have played a crucial part in this development, as compilers and also as early researchers of corpora of Present-Day English (Leech: LOB; Leech/Smith: Lancaster 1931 Corpus; BLOB-1931; Mair/Hundt: F-LOB and Frown). Claiming to have been “more intimately engaged with these corpora than any other research group” (xix), the authors highlight the “affection” they feel for corpora (xx). And indeed, the book is a token of their affection for corpus linguistics and for the corpora analyzed. The volume aims at giving an empirically-based account of how the English language has been changing recently, i.e. in the time-span from 1961 to 1991/2. This time-span is determined by the corpora used, namely the four corpora of the wellknown “Brown quartet” or “Brown family”, i.e. Brown (American English) and LOB (British English) for 1961 and Frown (American English) and F-LOB (British English) for 1991/2 (descriptions of the corpora are found in Chapter 2.2 and in Appendix II). The strength of this group of corpora lies in their comparability: they are of virtually the same size and the same selection of texts and genres (represented by 500 matching text samples of c. 2,000 words of written British or American English). All of these corpora have – individually or comparatively – been much used in recent years, but the authors nonetheless claim that the studies collected in this book present a new approach, namely a new kind of corpus-based historical research labelled “comparative corpus linguistics” or “short-term diachronic comparable corpus linguistics” (24; for a discussion of the methodology, see also Chapter 2, 24–50). The comparisons themselves are documented in many statistical tables and charts, exhaustively comparing frequencies across time, varieties and genres (fortunately, the authors decided to move many of the more complex tables and diagrams to Appendix III). Yet, even if the studies can generally be said to follow a more “rigorous methodology” than some comparable studies, presenting “comparative corpus linguistics” as a new approach here seems somewhat awkward, given that the 1991/2 corpora F-LOB and Frown were deliberately designed by the Freiburg team (among them Mair and Hundt) for allowing comparison with the earlier LOB and Brown corpora. As its subtitle specifies, the book focuses on changes in grammar (cf. the broader design of Mair 2006, which is also based on a systematic evaluation of virtually the same corpora, but also discusses changes in the lexicon etc.). After the two introductory chapters outlining the methodology and introducing the corpora, the main parts of the book – seven chapters – concentrate on changes in the verb phrase: the subjunctive (in particular the were-subjunctive and the revival of the “mandative subjunctive”; Chapter","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"63 1","pages":"152 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82048697","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}

{"title":"Dealing with Deprivation: Figurations of Poverty on the Contemporary British Book Market","authors":"Barbara Korte","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0001","url":null,"abstract":"There have been demands in recent years that literature and its analysis should play a more significant role than to date in the emerging transdisciplinary field of Poverty Studies. Poverty re-emerged as a theme on the British book market in the course of the 1990s. This reappearance, especially in the form of fictional and factual narratives, concurred with increased societal attention to issues of extensive social inequality and class polarisation, economic deprivation, homelessness and precarious work. The essay proposes an approach that tries to do justice to the textual and extra-textual factors that configure the image of poverty in the literary field. It then discusses a selection of poverty narratives from three sectors of the contemporary UK book market: the autobiographical ‘misery memoir’ (Peter Roche, Unloved), ‘popular’ fiction (by Ian Rankin and Neil Gaiman) and ‘literary’ fiction (Jon McGregor, Even the Dogs). 1. THE NEW PRESENCE OF POVERTY IN LITERATURE AND LITERARY STUDIES Poverty, “the lack of basic capabilities to live in dignity”, re-emerged as a theme on the British book market in the course of the 1990s. This reappearance, especially in the form of fictional and (allegedly) factual narratives, concurred with increased societal attention in post-Thatcherite DOI 10.1515/ang-2012-0001 1 United Nations, Substantive Issues Arising in the Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Poverty. E/C.12/2001/ 10 (Geneva and New York: United Nations, 2001) §7. This definition is followed by a more extensive one: “a human condition characterized by sustained or chronic deprivation of the resources, capabilities, choices, security and power necessary for the enjoyment of an adequate standard of living and other civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights” (§8). This reflects the current use in the social and economic sciences, which understand poverty as a relative and multi-dimensional phenomenon. 2 For Krishan Kumar, the early 1960s saw “the last attempt to date to portray ‘the poor’ in literature in anything like a systematic fashion”, and he speculated, in the early 1990s, that “literature may no longer be the best way to represent [the poor]”. Cf. his “Versions of the Pastoral: Poverty and the Poor in English Fiction from the 1840s to the 1950s”, Journal of Historical Sociology 8 (1995): 1–35, at 28f. This statement is contradicted, however, by the recent revival of the theme in","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"52 1","pages":"75 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81645369","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}

{"title":"Language and Style in Old English Composite Homilies","authors":"Winfried Rudolf","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0048","url":null,"abstract":"Kreuzzugsdarstellungen in der Yates-Thompson-Handschrift der französischen Fassung der Historia des Guillaume de Tyr. – Über William Reed, Bischof von Chichester, seinen erstaunlichen Bücherbesitz und sein großzügiges Vermächtnis von Hunderten von Büchern an Oxforder Colleges schreibt Rodney Thomson. – Leben und Werk Gilberts (Gilbertus Anglicus), des Verfassers des weit verbreiteten Compendium medicine (um 1250), behandelt Michael McVaugh. – Dass Benediktinermönche – entgegen der Regel – gewisse Geldbeträge besitzen konnten, woher diese stammten und wofür sie verwendet wurden, zeigt Barbara Harvey am Beispiel der Mönche von Westminster. – Was eine mittelalterliche Handschrift einer Predigtsammlung gelegentlich noch enthalten konnte (Urkunden u.a.), zeigt Siegfried Wenzel anhand der Hs. Cambridge University Gg. 6.26. – Das Studium der Ethik (moral philosophy) in England seit dem 13. Jahrhundert behandelt Charles Briggs und fügt ein wertvolles Verzeichnis von einschlägigen englischen Handschriften des 13.–15. Jahrhunderts an. Dem Jubilar, den Herausgebern und den Verfassern der Beiträge kann man zum Erscheinen dieser gehaltvollen und gelungenen Festschrift gratulieren. Für sein Werk The Liturgy in Medieval England hat die Medieval Academy of America im März 2012 Richard Pfaff die renommierte und traditionsreiche Haskins Medal verliehen.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"43 1","pages":"287 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91057266","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}

{"title":"“The impediment that cannot say its name”: Stammering and Trauma in Selected American and British Texts","authors":"Patrick Müller","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0005","url":null,"abstract":"The essay examines selected fictional representations of stammering in the context of trauma studies. The literature on stammering and the reports of sufferers suggest that the experiences connected with speech impediments must be regarded as traumatic. The therapeutic strategies to overcome trauma are usually concerned with the verbalization of the traumatic experience; psychoanalysts, narrative psychologists, and literary trauma studies highlight the need to exorcize the mental wounds with words. Stammering, however, is identified here as a special case, as a ‘perpetuated trauma’. The stammerer’s ability to give expression to his anxieties is limited, and so the wound is constantly reopened. Fiction can therefore be a means to couch the traumata connected with stammering in words. The writers discussed here, some of them suffering from a stammer, usually place the impediment in the context of power relations – language appears as a means of exerting power over others. Beyond that, the linguistic awareness triggered by speech impediments reveals the general inadequacy of language when it comes to organizing human experience. In this way, the individual traumata that attach themselves to stammering are turned into a chiffre for the general inability of language to structure the lives of human beings in a meaningful way.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"69 1","pages":"54 - 74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73369538","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}

{"title":"Adrian Papahagi. Boethiana Mediaevalia: A Collection of Studies on the Early Medieval Fortune of Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy","authors":"Mechthild Pörnbacher","doi":"10.1515/ANG-2012-0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ANG-2012-0037","url":null,"abstract":"Der junge rumänische Anglist und Kodikologe Adrian Papahagi hat einen Sammelband mit sechs überarbeiteten Aufsätzen zur Consolatio Philosophiae des Boethius vorgelegt, erschienen zwischen 2005 und 2009 in verschiedenen Zeitschriften (Nachweise S. 12); ihr Gegenstand ist “a philological study of this book’s reception in the ninth and tenth centuries” (Vorwort, S. 11). Der sorgfältig gestaltete Band in Taschenbuchformat bringt wertvolle Erkenntnisse, die auf detaillierten philologischen und kodikologischen Studien beruhen, für den Leser vielfach durch die beigegebenen Abbildungen und die zehn Tafeln mit Proben aus Handschriften am Ende des Buches nachvollziehbar gemacht. Der erste Aufsatz, “The Transmission of the Consolatio Philosophiae in the Carolingian Age” (15–36), ist der frühen Rezeptionsgeschichte des Boethius gewidmet. Der Autor stellt die bis in jüngste Publikationen vertretene Theorie in Frage, Alkuin sei der Vermittler von Boethius in die karolingische Gelehrtenwelt und insbesondere auf die britischen Inseln gewesen, und postuliert stattdessen Fleury als Ausgangspunkt für die Verbreitung auch der Consolatio. Wichtige Zeugen in der Argumentationskette bezüglich der Datierung der altenglischen Boethius-Übersetzung sind der vom hl. Dunstan glossierte Vaticanus latinus 3363, der seine Bibliotheksheimat aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach in Fleury hatte, und die Handschrift B.L. Cotton Vespasian D. XIV (vgl. bes. S. 22 mit Anm. 30–31 und S. 24ff.). Kapitel 2, “Hic magis philosophice quam catholice loquitur: The Reception of Boethian Platonism in the Carolingian Age” (37–72), setzt sich mit fatum und providentia (Buch 4 Prosa 6; vgl. auch Kap. 4) und den möglichen Quellen auseinander. Papahagi untersucht die Glossen und Kommentare in den 15 Handschriften des 9. Jahrhunderts, die das Kapitel enthalten. Alle Zeugen werden kurz beschrieben, und ihre Bibliotheksheimat ist auf einer Karte dargestellt: Tours, Auxerre, Fleury, Ferrières, Laon, Aachen, Köln, Fulda, St. Gallen, Reichenau und Tegernsee. Papahagi konzentriert sich schließlich auf die Frage, wie sich das Problem, ob Boethius als christlicher Autor angesehen werden kann oder nicht, in den Kommentaren bis hin zum sogenannten Remigius-Kommentar manifestiert, um endlich den entsprechenden Abschnitt der altenglischen Übersetzung anzuführen, die die Kommentartradition rezipiert, jedoch fatum gleichsetzt mit providentia. Der dritte Aufsatz, “Glossae collectae on the Consolatio in Paris, BN Lat. MS 13953” (Corbie, s. x1; 73–139), bietet nach einer Einordnung der Handschrift in die Glossentradition und einer Beschreibung des Kodex (93–96) die Edition der Glossen (althochdeutsche Glossen sind fett hervorgehoben). In Kapitel 4, “The Wheel of Fate Metaphor in the Old English Boethius” (141– 177), werden die Illustrationen der orbes untersucht, die das Verhältnis von providentia und fatum (Buch 4 Prosa 6; vgl. auch Kap. 2) veranschaulichen sollen. Von","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"43 1","pages":"290 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75729958","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}

{"title":"Homiletic Fragment I, lines 40–42: A New Reading and Interpretation","authors":"Robert Getz","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0043","url":null,"abstract":"The manuscript reading of line 40 of the Vercelli Book’s Homiletic Fragment I, which lacks alliteration by the standards of classical Old English verse, has not yet been convincingly explained. The possibility of an intended alliteration of vowel with antevocalic h (eallunga : hyht) should be considered only in default of a plausible conjecture that would preserve the distinction between these sounds evident elsewhere in the poem. Such a conjecture is offered by the supposition that the adverb holunga ‘in vain’, attested exclusively in texts of probable Anglian origin or colouring, was not recognised by a southern copyist, who replaced it with eallunga. Southern copies of Anglian texts provide evidence of scribal unfamiliarity with holunga elsewhere, and, in one case, of just this substitution. The sense of lines 40–42 of Homiletic Fragment I is also ameliorated by this conjecture, since it permits an understanding of hyht ‘hope, joy’ consonant with its use elsewhere in Old English. 1. THE QUESTION OF ALLITERATION IN LINE 40 The conclusion of Homiletic Fragment I, an Old English poem about the deceitfulness of men preserved in acephalous condition in the Vercelli Book, is preceded by a passage of twelve lines describing the fickleness of the world, where enmity abounds, but charity is rare (31–42). This passage ends with a sentence that plainly states the moral deduced by the poet from his preceding observations, as the introductory Forþan (‘therefore’) shows: Forþan eallunga hyht geceoseð, woruld wynsume, se ðe wis ne bið, snottor, searocræftig sawle rædes. (40–42) [Therefore he entirely chooses joy, the pleasant world, who is not wise, prudent and ingeniously discerning of what is good for the soul.] DOI 10.1515/ang-2012-0043 1 Homiletic Fragment I was edited by George Philip Krapp in The Vercelli Book, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 2 (New York: Columbia UP, 1932) 59–60. For a recent and detailed study of the poem, see Jonathan T. Randle, “The ‘Homiletics’ of the Vercelli Book Poems: The Case of Homiletic Fragment I”, New Readings in the Vercelli Book, ed. Samantha Zacher & Andy Orchard (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2009) 185–224. 2 This is a provisional translation of the passage; see the end of this article for a text and translation revised according to the conclusions reached here. The absence of alliteration in line 40 is conspicuous, yet no convincing explanation of it has been offered. Holthausen twice proposed to restore alliteration by the emendation of hyht to a word beginning with a vowel, suggesting first are (‘honour, benefit, possessions’), and then est (‘favour, grace’). Whether adequate sense is procured for lines 40–42 by either of these conjectures is dubious; but it is at least arguable that neither is worse than the manuscript reading with hyht. It is more to the point that neither word is likely to have been corrupted into hyht (although est is somewhat less improbable graphically than are): there is nothing to recommend eithe","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"21 1","pages":"207 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87600962","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}

{"title":"Practice in Learning: The Transfer of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages. The Antwerp-London Glossaries. The Latin and Latin-Old English Vocabularies from Antwerp","authors":"H. Gneuss","doi":"10.1515/ang-2012-0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/ang-2012-0057","url":null,"abstract":"Aitken, Adam J. 1981. “The good old Scots tongue: Does Scots have an identity?”. Minority Languages Today. Ed. Einar Haugen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. 72– 90. Aitken, Adam J. 1982. “Bad Scots: some superstitions about Scots speech”. Scottish Language 1: 30–44. Aitken, Adam J. 1985. “Is Scots a Language?”. English Today 3: 41–45. Bergs, Alexander. 2005. Modern Scots. 2nd ed. München/Newcastle: Lincom Europa. Görlach, Manfred. 1985. Focus on Scotland. Amsterdam: Benjamins. Görlach, Manfred. 1991. “Jamaica and Scotland – bilingual or bidialectal?”. Englishes: Studies in Varieties of English 1984–1988. Ed. Manfred Görlach. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 69–89. Görlach, Manfred. 1998. “And is it English?”. Even more Englishes. Ed. Manfred Görlach. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1–18. Ed. Charles Jones. The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language. 1997. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP. Macafee, Caroline. 1997. “Ongoing change in Modern Scots. The social dimension”. In ed. Jones. 514–548. Macaulay, Ronald K.S. 1991. Locating Dialect in Discourse. The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr. Oxford: Oxford UP. McClure, J. Derrick. 1980. “Developing a Scots language”. Ed. J. Derrick McClure, Adam J. Aitken & J. Thomas Low. The Scots Language: Planning for Modern Usage. Edinburgh: Ramsay Head. 11–141. McClure, J. Derrick. 1988. Why Scots Matters. Edinburgh: Saltire Society. Pollner, Clausdirk. 1985. “Old words in a young town”. Scottish Language 4: 5– 15. Preston, Dennis. 1989. Perceptual Dialectology. Nonlinguists’ Views of Areal Linguistics. Dordrecht: Foris. Weinreich, Max. 1945. “Der YIVO un di problemen fun undzer tsayt”. YIVO Bleter 25.1: 13.","PeriodicalId":43572,"journal":{"name":"ANGLIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ENGLISCHE PHILOLOGIE","volume":"6 1","pages":"283 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83796481","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}