References to the English Language in the German Literature of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

1903 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Ewald Flügel
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
German Literature

German Literature

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-108
Author(s):  
W. T. H. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
German Literature ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Century Literature

After years in which several important contributions on the drama of the Renaissance appeared, it is disappointing to have to record that 1962 was a poor year for new works on the literature of the period. No new book of full length has conic to my notice. A revised version of the second volume of the Annalen der deutschen Literatur provides a useful work of reference for those seeking the names of authors and works written during the sixteenth century but it can scarcely claim new interpretations. Such editions of texts as have appeared are either reprints of the Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke, e.g., Luther's Fables, or popular versions such as the Stiasny paperbacks of Rebhhun's Susanna. One important series should be mentioned. The Realienbücher für Germainisten being produced by the Metzler Verlag plans volumes in the field of sixteenth-century literature, and if all are of the same high standard as Bert Nagel's Meistersang they will indeed be useful.

Vocal colour in English sixteenth~century polyphony

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 19-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wulstan
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
English Language ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Tone Production ◽  
Vocal Quality

Genetical factors cannot be excluded from the forces which determine vocal colour. There is no reason to suppose, therefore, that English singing should resemble that of any other nation in all respects. The facility for falsetto singing (by adult male, boys' and women's voices), the paucity of ‘true’ tenor voices and the ‘duller’ tone production all may be cited as characteristic of English singing, and might have a genetical basis. Vocal quality would also be affected by the time at which boys' voices changed, and if Latin were superseded by the somewhat duller English language.

Morbid Jealousy: Some Clinical and Social Aspects of a Psychiatric Symptom

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (449) ◽  
pp. 687-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Psychiatric Symptom ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Green Is ◽  
French Word

Jealousy is more than a psychiatric symptom. Its language is universal: the conduct and feelings of the jealous man and woman have repeatedly drawn the attention of the great observers of human nature, the moralists and the philosophers as well as the poets and the novelists. They have, on the whole, described the reaction more successfully than they have defined it. Even the most celebrated definitions—Descartes' “kind of fear related to a desire to preserve a possession” or Spinoza's “mixture of hate and love”, for example— merely illustrate the complexity of a term whose many nuances of meaning can be detected in its roots. The English adjective “jealous” and the noun “jealousy” are derived respectively from the French “jaloux” and “jalousie”, both taken from the old Provençal “gilos”; “gilos” in turn may be traced back to the vulgar Latin adjective “zelosus” which comes from the late Latin “zelus” and so indirectly from the Greek ζηλoς. In its transmission the word has thus been debased. It has ceased to denote “zeal” or “ardour”; the “noble passion” which stood opposed to “envy” for the Greeks has acquired a pejorative quality. In modern German the distinction is preserved verbally, “Eifersucht” having been formed from the original “Eifer” (zeal) and the suffix “-sucht”, which is cognate with “siech”, meaning “sickly”. Amorous jealousy claims associations of its own. During the seventeenth century the French word “jalousie” acquired the meaning of “blind” or “shutter”; in this sense it entered the English language as a noun in the early nineteenth century; the transmutation is thought to have signified a jocular reference to the suspicious husband or lover who could watch unobserved behind the jalousie; the Italian word “gelosia” is used in this way as early as the middle of the sixteenth century. In the Scandinavian languages separate words designate amorous jealousy. (1) The Swedish “svartsjuk”, literally “black sick”, is taken from an old expression which identified jealousy with the wearing of black socks; the Danish “skinsyg”, “afraid of getting skin (a rebuff)”, harks back to an old link of jealousy with skin which may in turn have been connected with hose or socks. (2) The origin of the colours which are traditionally employed to depict jealousy, especially black, yellow and green, is obscure.

Rhetorical Delivery for Renaissance English: Voice, Gesture, Emotion, and the Sixteenth-Century Vernacular Turn

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 1265-1296 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wesley
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Textual Production ◽  
Physical Defects ◽  
Rhetorical Delivery

AbstractIn the sixteenth century, perceptions of the English language changed from one of barbaric inadequacy to that of rare eloquence. Accounts for this shift tend to focus on literary or textual production, but this essay shows how these very linguistic concerns were motivated by the nonlinguistic practices appropriate to Latin rhetorical delivery(pronuntiatio et actio). The emotional contagion, legitimization of the inarticulate, cultural contextualization, and overcoming of natural physical defects that all stand at the heart of delivery here situate vernacular uplift at the corporeal level. The essay ends with an illustrative reading of William Shakespeare’sTitus Andronicus.

Neighbor Hob and neighbor Lob

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-59
Author(s):  
Lindsey Marie Simon-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
English Language ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
History Of

Drawing on scholars like Paula Blank, Janette Dillon and Tim Machan, this article argues that, in the Tudor university and court plays of Shakespeare’s youth, the stigmatization of non-standard, dialect speakers demonstrates a cultural renegotiation of the contemporary linguistic climate. By defining the English language and the English people not against a foreign Other, but rather against the domestic, servile, and dialect-speaking Other, sixteenth-century playwrights demonstrated the threat of non-standard speaking and advocated the standardization of language through education while effecting cultural change through negative reinforcement. Keywords: Tudor drama; interludes; history of English language; dialect; university grammarians

scholarly journals Sixteenth-Century Italian, French, Spanish and English Language Learning Material. A Bibliographical Study

Sederi ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
Rocío G. Sumillera
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
English Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Selection Of

This bibliographical study offers a list of the first printed language manuals in Western Europe expressly designed to teach a particular foreign language to speakers of a particular tongue. Hence, the study lists references to sixteenth-century grammars, dictionaries and language handbooks with the possible linguistic combinations of Italian, French, Spanish and English, the first three being the most popular modern languages in sixteenth-century Western Europe and hence the most representative ones offering an insight into the foreign language learning map of the time. The bibliographical study is preceded by an introduction to the manner in which foreign tongues were taught and learned in the early modern period, and is completed by a selection of references to secondary sources that have been researched on each linguistic combination.

The Concept of Social Policy (Sozialpolitik)

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner J. Cahnman ◽  
Carl M. Schmitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Action ◽  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
German Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time ◽  
Language Literature

ABSTRACTThe concept of Sozialpolitik (social policy) has rarely been considered in the English-language literature thus far. The present article surveys the pertinent English, American and German literature which led to the initiation of the Verein für Sozialpolitik (Social Policy Association) in 1873. All these efforts culminated in Otto von Zwiedineck's classic book, Sozialpolitik (1911). A chapter of this book, now printed in Zwiedineck's collected essays, Mensch und Wirtschaft, is offered in English translation for the first time. The article presents and clarifies the concept of Sozialpolitik in terms of social action directed toward problems affecting society as a whole and the continued attainment of society's goals. However, the definition of these goals remains subject to change. A theoretical foundation for the integration of scientific and normative perspectives in the social sciences is thereby provided.

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