Research
Interests:
Doctoral
work in the field of late medieval devotional literature, in particular
Church teaching on The Four Last Things. Publications arising from
this include the entry on ‘Gerard van Vliederhoven’ in Die Deutsche
Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, and a study of
‘quattuor novissima’ teaching in Heinrich Seuse’s Horologium
Sapientiae.
Blessed Henry Suso’s Vita and his theological writings remain
a focus of interest.
A
more recent, modern focus in Anglo-German literary relations. The
volume Anglo-German Studies (co-edited with K. G. Knight)
appeared in 1992, to which I contributed an essay on Alfred Andersch’s
‘Nachdichtungen’ from the English.
A sequel, Cousins
at One Remove. Anglo-German Studies 2,
appeared in 1998, including ‘Mephisto in Modern English Guise’ –
an analysis (marked by irony in response to irony) of the way Mephisto
is presented in five modern English versions of Faust (D.J.Enright,
Robert Nye, Terry Pratchett, Emma Tennant and Fay Weldon).
On
medieval topics:
‘Late
Medieval Eschatology: Gerard van Vliederhoven's Cordiale
de IV novissimis',
in Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society,
Literary and Historical Section, vol.XVII, Part II, 1979.
‘Judgment
and Cursings in the Psalms as Translated by Notker’, in John L.
Flood und David N. Yeandle (eds.) Mit regulu bithuungan: Neue
Arbeiten zur althochdeutschen Poesie und Sprache, (GAG Nr 500),
Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1989.
‘National
Stereotypes Reflected in German Literature’, in Simon Forde, Lesley
Johnson and Alan V.Murray (eds.) Concepts of National Identity
in the Middle Ages, Leeds Texts & Monographs, New Series
14, 1995.
‘Zum
Begriffsfeld "rein" im religiösen Lied’, in C.Edwards, E.Hellgardt,
and N.H.Ott (eds), Lied im deutschen Mittelalter. Überlieferung,
Typen, Gebrauch. Chiemsee-Colloquium 1991, Tübingen: Niemeyer,
1996.
‘Das
Ideal der "geistlichen Ritterschaft" mit Bezug auf Hartmann von
Aue, Wolfram von Eschenbach und Heinrich Seuse’, in Paola Schulze-Belli
(ed.), Mediaevalia Tergestina, Trieste 1998 (pub. 2002),
7-21.
‘Nahtstelle
Handschrift — Druckvorlage: Johannes Bämler im Augsburger
Kloster S.Ulrich u. Afra’, in Texttyp und Textproduktion in
der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, Herausgegeben von
Elizabeth Andersen, Manfred Eikelmann, Anne Simon unter Mitarbeit
von Silvia Reuvekamp, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 2005,
437-450.
On
literary topics:
Jonathan
Swift's Locket for Stella Swift: a sacramental marriage-'certificate'?’,
in Swift Studies 3 (The Annual of the Ehrenpreis
Center, Münster) ed.Hermann J.Real, pp.1-7, München:
Fink, 1988, pp.1-7.
Jonathan
Swift's Locket for Stella Swift: Further Considerations’, in Swift
Studies 6 (The Annual of the Ehrenpreis Center, Münster),
ed.H.J.Real, München: Fink, 1991, pp.38-48.
‘ugly
short infantry of the mind – dreckige infanterie des geistes: Alfred
Andersch and the English Language’, in R.F.M.Byrn and K.G.Knight
(eds.) Anglo German Studies, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical
and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section, vol.XXII,
Part 1, 1992.
‘Mephisto
in Modern English Guise’, in Richard Byrn (ed) Cousins
at One Remove. Anglo-German Studies 2,
Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 1998.
On
the Leeds University German Department (1956-2000):
LektorInnenlob.
45 Years Applied Völkerverständigung at Leeds
University – This volume features reminiscences of their time
in Leeds by 17 former Lectors (1956-2000) plus contemporaneous recollections
of Germany by 6 English contributors.
Also included is an account of the Leeds-Tübingen and Leeds-Leipzig
academic links, plus a record of German Department personnel, book
publications, sample graduation statistics, an account of how policy
on teaching the German language developed during these decades,
and a record of the LektorInnentreffen held at the end of July 2000.
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