NEOPHILOLOGUSPub 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":null,"pages":null},"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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09792-7
Tom Grant
{"title":"In Defence of Böðvarr bjarki","authors":"Tom Grant","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09792-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09792-7","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135513187","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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub 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":null,"pages":null},"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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub 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":null,"pages":null},"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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09791-8
Sara von der Fecht-Fernández, Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez
{"title":"The Role of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principall Nauigations (1589) in the Introduction and Dissemination of Spanish Loanwords in the English Language","authors":"Sara von der Fecht-Fernández, Alicia Rodríguez-Álvarez","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09791-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09791-8","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135386681","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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-09-20DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09781-w
Nelson Goering
{"title":"Did Old English Verse Have a “Morphological” Metre?","authors":"Nelson Goering","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09781-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09781-w","url":null,"abstract":"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).","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136313754","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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09780-x
Susana Gala Pellicer
{"title":"La Voz De La Hechicera: De La Narración Oral Al Registro Judicial","authors":"Susana Gala Pellicer","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09780-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09780-x","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981941","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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub 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":null,"pages":null},"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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09778-5
Leonard Neidorf
{"title":"The Heremod Digressions in Beowulf: A Reassessment","authors":"Leonard Neidorf","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09778-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09778-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84646707","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}
NEOPHILOLOGUSPub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1007/s11061-023-09782-9
W. Sayers
{"title":"From Agnostic Heathen to Christian Convert: Trust in One’s Own Might and Main in the Viking Age","authors":"W. Sayers","doi":"10.1007/s11061-023-09782-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09782-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44392,"journal":{"name":"NEOPHILOLOGUS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76656868","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}