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Writing from the Periphery: W. G. Sebald and Outsider Art
Etzler, Melissa Starr. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2014
In: Etzler, Melissa Starr. (2014). Writing from the Periphery: W. G. Sebald and Outsider Art. UC Berkeley: German. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1979c8pp (2014)
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The Origins of Beowulf: Studies in Textual Criticism and Literary History
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Foundational Ambiguities: Metaphor, Translation, and Intertextuality in Hans Blumenberg's Metaphorology.
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Encountering Others, Imagining Modernity: Primitivism in German Ethnology, Art, and Theory.
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Vernacular psychologies in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English
Abstract: This thesis examines the vernacular psychology presented in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. It focuses on the concept 'hugr', generally rendered in English as ‘mind, soul, spirit’, and explores the conceptual relationships between emotion, cognition and the body. It argues that despite broad similarities, Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English vernacular psychology differ more than has previously been acknowledged. Furthermore, it shows that the psychology of Old Norse-Icelandic has less in common with its circumpolar neighbours than proposed by advocates of Old Norse-Icelandic shamanism. The thesis offers a fresh interpretation of Old Norse-Icelandic psychology which does not rely on cross-cultural evidence from other Germanic or circumpolar traditions. In particular, I demonstrate that emotion and cognition were not conceived of ‘hydraulically’ as was the case in Old English, and that 'hugr' was not thought to leave the body either in animal form or as a person’s breath. I show that Old Norse-Icelandic psychology differs from the Old English tradition, and argue that the Old English psychological model is a specific elaboration of the shared psychological inheritance of Germanic whose origins require further study. These differences between the two languages have implications for the study of psychological concepts in Proto-Germanic, as I argue that there are fewer semantic components which can be reliably reconstructed for the common ancestor of the North and West Germanic languages. As a whole, the thesis applies insights from cross-cultural linguistics and psychology in order to show how Old Norse-Icelandic psychological concepts differ not only from contemporary Germanic and circumpolar traditions but also from the Present Day English concepts used to describe them. The thesis comprises four chapters and conclusion. Chapter 1 introduces the field of study and presents the methodologies and sources used. It introduces the range of cross-cultural variety in psychological concepts, and places Old Norse-Icelandic 'hugr' and its Old English analogue 'mōd' in a typological perspective. Chapter 2 reviews previous approaches to early Germanic psychology and introduces the major strand of research that forms the background to this study: Lockett’s (2011) proposal that Old English vernacular psychology operated in terms of a ‘hydraulic model’, where the 'mōd' would literally boil and seethe within a person’s chest in response to strong emotions. Chapter 3 outlines the native Old Norse-Icelandic psychological model by examining indigenously produced vernacular texts. It looks first at the claims that 'hugr' could leave the body in animal form or as a person’s breath. It then describes the relationship between emotion, cognition and the body in Old Norse-Icelandic texts and contrasts this with the Old English system. Chapter 4 examines the foreign influences which could potentially account for the differences between the Old English and Old Norse-Icelandic systems. It looks first at the imported medical traditions which were known in medieval Scandinavia at the time Old Norse-Icelandic texts were being committed to writing. Next it considers the psychology of Christian tradition from the early Old Icelandic Homily Book to late-fourteenth-century devotional poetry. Finally, it examines the representation of emotion and the body in the translated Anglo-Norman and Old French texts produced at the court of Hákon Hákonarson and explores how this was transposed to native romances composed in Old Norse-Icelandic. The conclusion summarises the findings of the thesis and presents a proposal for the methodology of studying medieval psychological concepts with directions for further research.
Keyword: P Philology. Linguistics; PD Germanic languages; PT Germanic literature
URL: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/1/2014mackenziephd.pdf
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5290/
https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b3060333
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Translating German novellas into English: A comparative study
Schweissinger, Marc J.. - : Peter Lang, 2014
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The reception of Jane Austen in Europe
Mandal, Anthony; Southam, Brian. - : Bloomsbury, 2014
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W.G. Sebald and the Cinematic Imagination
Pasic, Sabina. - 2014
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Veränderte Umwelt: Neue Leseweisen im Anthropozän
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Sexuated Topology and the Suspension of Meaning: A Non-Hermeneutical Phenomenological Approach to Textual Analysis
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A semantic study of German and Chinese demonstratives
Lin, Lin. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2013
In: Lin, Lin. (2013). A semantic study of German and Chinese demonstratives. UCLA: Scandinavian Section 0834. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9v40c1w2 (2013)
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The Impact of Idealism: The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought: Volume 3: Aesthetics and Literature
Cooper, Ian. - : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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In the Eyes of Others: The Dialectics of German-Jewish and Yiddish Modernisms.
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Pure Violence on the Stage of Exception: Representations of Revolutions in Georg Büchner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Heiner Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek
Hengge, Jan. - 2013
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From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies
Werbeck, Kai-Uwe. - : The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012
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Die Darstellung des Luftkriegs bei Hans Erich Nossack, Heinrich Boell, Alexander Kluge und Dieter Forte
Fink, Fabian. - : The University of Alabama, 2012
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Die Vermessung „Neu-Seellands“: Schreibweisen der Psychologien in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der Jahrhundertwende
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Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialectic: Scots poetic translation and the second generation modern Scottish renaissance (c.1940-1981)
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The Hamlet zone: reworking Hamlet for European cultures
Owen, Ruth J.. - : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012
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Apperception and Linguistic Contact between German and Afrikaans
Bergerson, Jeremy. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2011
In: Bergerson, Jeremy. (2011). Apperception and Linguistic Contact between German and Afrikaans. UC Berkeley: German. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8sr6157f (2011)
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