Published in Anglia
Shakespeare’s 1594 The Rape of Lucrece recounts the eponymous character’s defacement of an image of the Fall of Troy. When reread in light of a widespread medieval practice of defacing images, including those in manuscripts about Troy, Lucrece’s act is not (solely) a metaphor or a literary device, but an indication of how visual matter could be tou...
Published in Anglia
Published in Anglia
Homer’s treatment of the Matter of Troy illuminates the foundational impossibility of representation in ways that sponsor examination of the semiotic choices, the costs and benefits and tradeoffs, of different practices. Homer’s ekphrastic description of the shield of Achilles highlights a variety of available semiotic systems focused on different ...
Published in Anglia
Published in Anglia
Published in Anglia
This article considers the distinct lack of bodies and embodiment throughout Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde. While it seems to be a war-time erotic romance in which the plot hinges on the physical threats and pleasures available to its characters, through its many contradictions and deceptions, the poem makes the bodies of Troilus, Criseyde, and Pa...
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Dido, Queene of Carthage is calibrated to disrupt the smooth passage of the translation of empire and studies embraced by humanist pedagogy. Taking full advantage of the theatrical affordances offered by the boy actors of the Children of her Majesty’s Chapel, the play aims to whisk its target audience, the sophisticated wits of the Inns of Court, b...
Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
In this work, the symmetric comparative correlatives attested in the journalist Rubén Amón’s speech and writing are analysed. The interest of these constructions lies in the fact that they are virtually non-existent in European Spanish (and have very low frequency in American varieties, as I show). By exhaustively analysing the linguistic productio...
Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
The origin of it. anche ‘also, too’ and of its Romance cognates is commonly traced back to Protoromance *anque, a reconstructed form, which is interpreted as a derivative of the dubitative Latin particle an. This explanation turns out to be untenable, because it does not account for the primitive meanings of anche and its Romance cognates, that is ...
Published in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
