The Place of Argument: Essays in Honour of Nicholas G. Round (Monografías A)

259 Pages·2007·1.63 MB·English

by  Rhian Davies

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ThE PlACE OF ARGuMENT
ESSAyS IN hONOuR OF NIChOlAS G. ROuNd
Nicholas Round is among international hispanisms’s most prodi-
giously gifted scholars. These essays in his honour embrace the three
areas to which he has most memorably contributed. Within Medieval
studies, Alan deyermond illuminates the tradition of the true king
and the usurper; david Pattison challenges conventional interpreta-
tions of women’s place in the Spanish epic; david hook uncovers the
surprising ‘afterlife’ of medieval documents; John England examines
Juan Manuel’s views on money. Within Nineteenth-century studies,
Geoffrey Ribbans analyses unexpected continuities between Galdós’s
Marianela and El doctor Centeno, Eamonn Rodgers discovers mythic
dimensions in El caballero encantado, Rhian davies explores regen-
eración in the Torquemada novels and the late Arthur Terry reflects
on the non-realist bases of El amigo Manso, while harriet Turner
traces parallels between Alas’s La Regenta and the trial of Martha
Stewart. Within Translation studies and pedagogy, Jeremy lawrance
analyses sixteenth-century translation’s contribution to the prestige
of vernacular languages; Philip deacon evaluates the Italian transla-
tion of Moratín’s El viejo y la niña; Robin Warner explores the trans-
lation of cartoon humour; Patricia Odber contrasts ten translations of
a poem by Gil Vicente; and Anthony Trippett and Paul Jordan reflect
on the purpose and practices of higher education.
Rhian davies is Senior lecturer, and Anny Brooksbank Jones is
hughes Professor of Spanish, in the department of hispanic Studies
at the university of Sheffield.

ThE PlACE OF ARGuMENT
ESSAyS IN hONOuR OF NIChOlAS G. ROuNd
Edited by
Rhian davies
Anny Brooksbank Jones
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction: Celebrating Nick Round ix
ANNy BROOKSBANK JONES and RhIAN dAVIES (university of Sheffield)
Publications of Nicholas Grenville Round xix
Medieval Studies
‘¿Rei otro sobre mí?’: The Exile of the True King in Thirteenth- 3
Century Castilian literature
AlAN dEyERMONd (Queen Mary, university of london)
The Role of Women in Some Medieval Spanish Epic and 17
Chronicle Texts
dAVId G. PATTISON (Magdalen College, university of Oxford)
Chronicle as Precedent: Some Aspects of Quotation from late 31
Medieval Chronicles in an Eighteenth-Century Crisis Memorandum
dAVId hOOK (university of Bristol)
‘El omne con bondad … acrecenta las riquezas’: Juan Manuel and 43
Money
JOhN ENGlANd (university of Sheffield)
The Nineteenth-century Novel
From Socartes to Madrid: The Continuity between Marianela and 57
El doctor Centeno
GEOFFREy RIBBANS (Brown university, Providence)
The Recovery of the Knight: Myth and Regeneration in Galdós’s 73
El caballero encantado
EAMONN ROdGERS (university of Strathclyde)
Regeneración and Philosophy in the Torquemada Novels 86
RhIAN dAVIES (university of Sheffield)
The Illusion of Realism: Reflections on El amigo Manso 103
† ARThuR TeRRy (formerly of university of essex)
On Realism, Now and Then: Martha Stewart Meets Ana Ozores 112
hARRIeT TuRNeR (university of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Translation Studies and Pedagogy
Illustrating the Language: The Cultural Role of Translation in 127
the Spanish Renaissance
JeReMy LAwRANCe (university of Manchester)
The Sense of an ending: Leandro Fernández de Moratín’s El Viejo 149
y la niña and its Italian Translation
PhILIP DeACON (university of Sheffield)
A Poem For All Seasons: Gil Vicente in Translation 161
PATRICIA ODbeR De bAubeTA (university of birmingham)
Knocked Down with a (Vulture’s) Feather: Some Issues of everyday 179
Argumentation, humour and Translation
RObIN wARNeR (university of Sheffield)
Assessing Assessment 192
ANThONy TRIPPeTT (university of Sheffield)
Civilization and barbarism: The Perpetual Question 203
PAuL JORDAN (university of Sheffield)
Index 221
Tabula Congratulatoria 233
ACKNOWlEdGEMENTS
The editors’ thanks are due to the following, without whose generous support
publication of this volume might not have been possible: all the subscribers
named in the Tabula Congratulatoria; the Modern humanities Research Asso-
ciation Publications Fund; the Fundación Cañada Blanch; the department of
hispanic Studies, university of Sheffield. We also gratefully acknowledge
hayley Rabanal’s invaluable assistance with the editing process.

Introduction
Celebrating Nick Round
ANNy BROOKSBANK JONES and RhIAN dAVIES
It is a truism of contemporary publishing that the mark of a strong collec-
tion of academic essays is its coherence. The Oxford English dictionary
reflects this term’s deployment in several quite different ways, according to
context: it foregrounds the action or fact of sticking together, logical connec-
tion, propriety and consistency, the harmonious connection of the several
parts of a discourse. For the generality – but thankfully not the totality – of
publishers, however, it is generally reserved for the precise congruence of a
set of essays with a designated target readership. It has been something of a
challenge, then, to assemble a coherent Festschrift in honour of a colleague
with the exceptional scholarly range and intellectual energies of Nicholas
Grenville Round.
Nick Round, as he is universally known, graduated from Pembroke College,
Oxford, with a double first in French and Spanish in 1959, completing his
dPhil – a monumental study of fifteenth-century converso translator Pero
díaz de Toledo – eight years later. From 1962 to 1972 he taught Spanish,
first as lecturer, then as Reader, at Queen’s university Belfast, before taking
up the Stevenson Chair of hispanic Studies at the university of Glasgow.
There he remained until 1994, when he left for the hughes Chair at Sheffield,
becoming Emeritus Professor after his retirement in 2003.
This was a relatively settled career by today’s standards. his scholarship,
by contrast, ranged prodigiously. A true polymath, his standing as one of the
most erudite academics of his generation is evidenced in books, pamphlets,
articles and translations that range with seamless authority from the medieval
to the contemporary periods, through narrative, drama and poetry, history
and philosophy, translation, linguistics and pedagogy. There are, in this sense,
many Nick Rounds. For some, he is a medieval and early-modern histo-
riographer of consummate intelligence, or the author of scholarly studies
of Fernando de Rojas and Juan Ruiz characterized by penetrating textual
and contextual insight. In the assessment of a distinguished medievalist and
friend, Alan deyermond: