Colección Támesis SERIE A: MONOGRAFÍAS, 245 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 TAMESIS © Contributors 2007 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2007 by Tamesis, Woodbridge ISBN 978–1–85566–152–3 Tamesis is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3dF, uK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt hope Avenue, Rochester, Ny 14620, uSA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British library This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by Biddles ltd, King’s lynn 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: