Constructing nations, reconstructing myth : essays in honour of T. A. Shippey / edited by Andrew Wawn with Graham Johnson and John Walter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shippey, T. A.

Wawn, Andrew.

Johnson, Graham, 1973-

Walter, John.

Series:

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 9.

Making the Middle Ages ; v. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.

English literature.

Philology, Modern.

Myth in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvii, 382 pages : illustrations, maps, portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2007]

Summary:

Making the Middle Ages is a series of monographs, and occasionally of collections, which aims to open up the rapidly growing and relatively newly recognised field of 'medievalism' - the post-medieval construction of the Middle Ages in scholarship and the arts - to a readership of academics, graduate students and, in the case of some volumes, undergraduates or the general reader. The series is devoted to scholarship in the cultural influence of the Middle Ages on England, mainland Europe, and North America from the sixteenth century to the present day. It focuses on two perspectives of medievalism: (i) Mediavistik, the origins and history of medieval studies, both inside and outside the academy; and (ii) Mediavismus, the creation and recreation of the Middle Ages in post-medieval art, history, literature and popular culture.

This collection of essays examines the 'Grimmian Revolution', the paradigm shift in the humanities that came with the publication of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Grammatik. In doing so, it honours T. A. Shippey, who has been a leading figure in reconsidering the contributions of the Old Philology and its impact on the humanities, particularly the rediscovery of the ancient languages and literatures of Northern Europe; the role this has played in the creation of national and regional identities; the attempts to extend the methods of cmoparative philology to comparative mythology; and the collection of folktales, folk-ballads, and the development of folkloristics. The sixteen essays in this collection focus on the impact made by nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philology in the fields of medieval studies and language studies, and in the construction of Northern European national identities, mythologies, and folklore.

Contents:

Part 1 Nations and Nationalism

James Macpherson's Ossian: Forging Ancient Highland Identity for Scotland / Stefan Thomas Hall 3

'Lord and Protector of the Earth and its Inhabitants': Poetry, Philology, Politics, and Thor the Thunderer in Denmark and Germany, 1751-1864 / Martin Arnold 27

Beowulf Editions for the Ancestors: Cultural Genealogy and Power in the Claims of Nineteenth-Century English and American Editors and Translators / John Hill 53

The Forest Writes Back: The Ausbau of Finnish from Peasant Vernacular to Modernity / Keith Battarbee 71

English and the Jutland Dialect; Or, The Demise of a Romantic Notion / Hans Frede Nielsen 97

Part 2 Philology and Philologists

How Elvish were the Alfar? / Terry Gunnell 111

The Textual Criticism of Frederick Klaeber's Beowulf / Robert D. Fulk 131

Some Critics of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi / Andrew Breeze 155

Samuel Ferguson's 'Death-Song' (1833): An Anglo-Irish Response to Krakumal / Rory Mcturk 167

A Bit of a Lad: J. B. B. Roquefort (1777-1834) / Keith Busby 193

The Grimms, The Kirk-Grims, and Sabine Baring-Gould / Andrew Wawn 215

Worter, Sachen, und Wahrheit: Philology and the Tree of Language in Tolkien / Jonathan Evans 243

Part 3 Myths and Mythology

Spouting Poetry: Cognitive Metaphor and Conceptual Blending in the Old Norse Myth of the Poetic Mead / Peter Orton 277

Women's Work and Women's Magic as Literary Motifs in Icelandic Sagas / Joyce Tally Lionarons 301

What is 'Middle-Earth'? Origin, Evolution, and Mythic Function / Paul Battles 319

Jacob Grimm and the Reconstruction of Estonian Religion and Mythology / David Elton Gay 343

Tom Shippey: Academic Publications 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

2503523935

9782503523934

OCLC:

156832025