Honor, Debate, and Translatio imperii in Cligés

Arthuriana;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......DK) The prologue to Chrtien de Troyes's Cligs concludes with the translatio imperii et...it. What is honor? A debatable issue in Cligs, the answer to which reveals the ethos...recognize. The Glossary to our edition of Cligs contains a number of these meanings (pp...

Green Helmet, The

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      42 words ...Green Helmet, The (1910), a play by W. B. Yeats , first performed in a prose version under the title The Golden Helmet at the Abbey Theatre in 1908. Based on Fled Bricrenn , it tells how a Red Man from the otherworld challenges the warriors of Ulster to take off his head.

Deboraerzahlung und Deboralied.(Book Review)

Shofar;  March 22, 2005 ;     343 words ......events being described in the song are reported likewise in a prose version, Judges 4 is extensively analyzed as well. Neef's small book...author makes no attempt to solve the discrepancy between the prose version and the song regarding the participating tribes. The subject...

banshenchas

The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature;      51 words ......metrical and prose form. The original metrical version was composed by Gilla Mo-Dotu ua Casaide on Devinish Island, Lower Lough Erne, in 1147. The poem catalogues the history of the famous women of Ireland. An expanded prose version also survives.

Love and War in Cligés

Arthuriana;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...In the first part of Cligs, the intercalated stories of love and...is articulated through the other. (PM) Cligs is the only one of Chrtien's romances...narrative of war? ARTIFICE AND AFFECT Cligs is a romance unique in its focus on arts-particular...

Another Golcar variation on the theme of Handel.(News)

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England);  May 27, 2006 ;     191 words ......s Messiah with often hilarious results. Horace has located an original copy of the poem Selections From The Messiah (the prose version is usually called Goin' To T'Messiah). The author is said to be one Alfred Singleton, and Horace notes that Singleton is...

RECLAIMING THE "WAYWARD NUN:" THEMATIC SIMILARITIES IN THREE MIDDLE...

Magistra;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Society. These translations are titled by Kock as the Northern Prose Version, The Northern Metrical Version and The Caxton Abstract.(2...rule in the 1902 collection, which is called The Northern Prose Version by Kock, features obedience to God in chapter five. In the...

Statistical Significance.(Review)

Technometrics;  May 1, 1999 ;     303 words ......Kudos to the publisher for making a softcover version available at 1/3 of the price of the hardcover edition. This is the prose version of the null-hypothesis significance-test procedure, referred to as the NHSTP throughout the book. Basically a defense of...

Ancient & modern

The Spectator;  October 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the anti-Zionist Left support this war MY left-wing big brother Christopher has astonished the world with what amounts to a prose version of the Battle Hymn of the American Republic. He reclassifies the White House, once the headquarters of reactionary evil in...

O brother, where art thou?

The Spectator;  October 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the anti-Zionist Left support this war MY left-wing big brother Christopher has astonished the world with what amounts to a prose version of the Battle Hymn of the American Republic. He reclassifies the White House, once the headquarters of reactionary evil in...

Feature film of the week: `Enchanted April'.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  April 4, 2003 ;     469 words ......Enchanted April. Based on Elizabeth von Arnim's 1922 novel, this featherweight charmer from 1991 is a little like an updated, prose version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. While not so overtly fantastical, it has similar qualities of escapism and entrancement. The...

Meter 20: context bereft.(Old English translation of Boethius's De...

ANQ;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......with readings and passages of the later Bodley 180, an OE prose version of DCP. Sedgefield respected neither the textual integrity...rightly belongs in Cotton Otho A. vi, but rather inserts the prose version from Bodley 180. To be sure Cotton Otho A. vi, thanks to...

A prose version of Ehud Barak's datebook

Jerusalem Post;  April 19, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Headline: A prose version of Ehud Barak's datebook Byline: Steven Plaut Edition; Daily Section: Books Page: 13 Friday, April 19, 2002 -- Harikiri Ehud Barak...

What's the Latin for`the Brookside vice'?

The Independent - London;  May 4, 1997 ;     700+ words ......Metamorphoses, in particular, to heart with a string of recent translations, over here we can field only two: Mary Innes's 1955 prose version and A D Melville's accomplished, if starchy, verse rendition from the mid-Eighties, a far cry from Golding's influential...

LESSONS TO LEARN FROM AMERICA'S 'GREAT FAILURES'

The Boston Globe;  February 27, 1989 ;     562 words ......American dream turned to nightmare in 1968. He bases his saturnine vision on four historic events in a book that reads like a prose version of "American Pie" or "A Day in the Life." It is an insightful and highly readable study about the feeling that affects many...