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Vox Germanica : essays in Germanic languages and literature in honor of James E. Cathey / edited by Stephen J. Harris, Michael Moynihan, and Sherrill Harbison.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 429.
- Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germanic languages--History.
- Germanic languages.
- History.
- Germanic literature--History and criticism.
- Germanic literature.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tempe : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012.
- Summary:
- Vox Germanica celebrates the career and scholarship of James E. Cathey, who retired from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst after more than forty years of distinguished service. In this multifaceted Festschrift, colleagues from North America and Europe offer Cathey cultural and philological studies that complement his capacious interests in the languages and literary traditions of northwestern Europe. The studies range in time and place from Etruscan to the earliest Germanic inscriptions; from the literary monuments of Old English, Old Saxon, and Old Icelandic to modem works by Rilke, Cather, Wagner, and Søeborg; and from historical linguistics to recent changes in Norwegian phonology. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Sound change and distinctive features in light of dynamic synchrony / Anatoly Liberman
- 'Every day' verses and anacrusis in the Heliand / Thomas E. Bredehoft
- Norwegian accent shift triggered by the negation marker ikke: is a unitary semantic account possible? / Thorstein Fretheim
- Evaluating the evidence for Old Norse syllable structure / Marc Pierce
- The sun and the Saxon irminsûl / Douglas Simms
- Exapted 'oh': how does it fit into the prosodic hierarchy? / Irmengard Rauch
- hlewagastiR exposed / Thomas L. Markey
- The Old English digraph <dh> / Stephen J. Harris
- An Etruscan inscription recovered beneath the northern building at Poggio Civitate (Murlo) / Rex E. Wallace
- Yggdrasil and the stave church / G. Ronald Murphy
- Images of the Germanic drinking hall in the Old Saxon Heliand / Michael Moynihan
- A mother from hell: love and vengeance in Beowulf / Craig R. Davis
- A note on the tripartit treasure of the Nibelungs / Stephen E. Flowers
- 'Herburt ok hlldr': a Tristan parody in Þiđreks saga af Bern? / Edward R. Haymes
- Die Egilssaga als isländische Ergänzung der Heimskringla / Alois Wolf
- Rilke and Rurik / George C. Schoolfield
- Willa Cather and the Scandinavian revival / Sherrill Harbison
- Wagner's leitmotifs: a counterpart of Sámi yoik? / John Weinstock
- Some thoughts about one Danish novelist's observations of the human condition / Frank Hugus
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780866984775
- 0866984771
- OCLC:
- 822971461
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