WEINSTOCK, JOHN M.

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• Beginning and Second Year Norwegian
• Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung
• Old Icelandic
• Introduction to Old Norse
• Historical Linguistics
• Old Norse Literature
• Linguistic Structure of German
• Scandinavian Culture and Civilization
• Medieval Scandinavian Literature
• The World of Ingmar Bergman
• Scandinavian Literature
• The Ski and Early Northern Man
• English Composition and Literature
• Scandinavian Music and Culture
• Edvard Grieg and Nineteenth Century European Music
• Scandinavian Culture and the Music of Sibelius
• Nielsen
• Stenhammar and Valen
• Sami Culture and Civilization (Midnight Sun People)
• The Vikings and Their Literature
• Translation: Theory & Practice
  

• Scandinavian language, culture and music
• Wagner's Ring
• History of skiing
• Promotion of Scandinavian Studies in the U.S.
• Norwegian Language and Literature
• Scandinavian Music
• Scandinavian Linguistics
• Old Norse Language and Literature
• General and Historical Linguistics
• Scandinavian Music
• Sami Culture and Civilization

• An article "On Translating Bellman"
• A book manuscript: Skis and Skiing: From the Stone Age to the Modern Sport
• Computer Study: Yngvars saga viƒförla, concordance. G. K. Hall, Boston, 1981
• Editorships:

SAGA OG SPRÅK: Studies in Language and Literature. Presented to Lee M. Hollander (Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1972), 319 pp.

The Hero in Scandinavian Literature: Proceedings of Scandinavian symposium held in Austin in May, 1972. Edited with an introductory article by John Weinstock and Robert Rovinsky (Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1975), 260 pp.

The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics/3. Proceedings of the Third International Concerence of Nordic and General Linguistics (Austin: The University of Texas, 1978), 550 pp.

Linnaeus, Contemporary Perspectives: Proceedings of 1981 Linnaeus Symposium. University Press of America, 1984.

The Nordic Mind: Studies in Scandinavian Literary Criticism. University Press of America, 1986.

Contemporary Nordic Literature. Special Issue of Dimension, 1994. 510 pp.

Rami Abiel. You and No Other. Ed. John Weinstock. 1996.

• Web Publications: Wagner Web Page (including Real audio for leitmotivs, biography, key structure, selective, annotated bibliography and much more; under construction). URL: http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wagner/
  
• Articles:

"On Translating Bellman." Irmengard Rauch Festschrift. Peter Lang (forthcoming)

Articles on "bokmål" and "nynorsk" for the Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages (forthcoming).

"Fartein Valen: Atonality in the North." Fins-de-Siecle: Festskrift in honor of Harald Næss, 1993.

"Translation: A Matter of Time." Leslie Willson Festschrift, 1993.

"Odysseus Returns Home" (On Christian Stannow's Sängen i trädet). Book World, December, 1990.

"Translation: Minimizing errors in the thought process." Languages and Cultures: Studies in Honor of Edgar C. Polomé. Ed. M.A. Jazayery and W. Winter. (Berlin, New York, Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter, 1988).

Articles on Snorri and other Norse topics in Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade.

"The Writer and His Translator." ATA Source, No. 5 August, 1988.

"Sondre Norheim: Folkhero to Immigrant." Norwegian-American Studies, Vol. 29. (Northfield, Minnesota, 1983):339-58.

"On Scandinavian Labialization." Linguistic and Literary Studies in in Honor of Archibald A. Hill. Ed. M. A. Jazayery, E. C. Polomé, W. Winter. (The Hague: Mouton, 1978):315-21.

"Quantity and Labialization in the Nordic Languages: An Historical Interpretation." The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics/2, ed. Karl-Hampus Dahlstedt (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1975):756-73.

"Caveman to Modern Man." Nordic World 2, no. 1 (1974):35.

"East Germany Dominates World Nordic Championships" (with Lennart Strand). Nordic World 2, no. 3 (1974).

"A Sport Through the (P)ages." Nordic World 2, no. 3 (1974).

"Redundancy Rules and Norwegian Vowel Alternation." SAGA OG SPRÅK: Studies in Language and Literature presented to Lee M. Hollander, ed. John Weinstock (Austin: The Pemberton Press, 1972):201-09.

"Strindberg and Women's Lib." Germanic Notes 2, no. 8 (1971).

"On the Provenance of AM 677 4to B." Scandinavian Studies 42 (1970):419-29.

"A Sketch of Norwegian Phonology." The Nordic Languages and Modern Linguistics, ed. Hreinn Benediktsson, Vísindafélag Islendinga 39 (Reykjavík, 1970):572-98.

"Grimm's Law in Distinctive Features." Language 44, no. 2 (1968):224-29.

•  Translations:

"An Owl Flies Into the Twilight of German Literature" (An essay on Ulrike Längle by Lars Gustafsson). Tr. John Weinstock and Elizabeth Brotherton. Dimension2 (forthcoming).

Tarjei Vesaas, "G for Gudny." To appear in a collection of Vesaas' short stories.

Eilert Sundt, Om Piperviken og Ruseløkbakken, tr. John Weinstock and with an introduction by Knut Grøholt (to appear).

Christian Stannow, Smallcraft Warning. Forthcoming.

Christian Stannow, The Bed in the Tree. Forthcoming.

Rami Abiel, Du og Ingen Annen. Forthcoming (400+ pages).

Christian Stannow, 4 poems. Dimension, 1994.

Ingemar Algulin, History of Swedish Literature. The Swedish Institute. 1989.

Anders Ohlson, "Ekelöf's No." In The Nordic Mind, p. 375. Edited by Frank Egholm Andersen and John Weinstock. University Press of America, 1986.

Kurt Aspelin, "A Drywood Flame in the Stoves of Mankind." In The Nordic Mind, p. 343. Edited by Frank Egholm Andersen and John Weinstock. University Press of America, 1986.

Sigurd Aarnes, "The Problem of Evil--Nazism in the Writings of Jens Bjørneboe." In The Nordic Mind, p. 223. Edited by Frank Egholm Andersen and John Weinstock. University Press of America, 1986.

Lars Gustafsson, Stories of Happy People. New Directions, 1986.

Lars Gustafsson, Sigismund. New Directions, 1984.

Alfred Hauge, Cleng Persson. The Norwegian Society of Texas. Tr. John Weinstock and Turid Sverre, 1983.

Gunnar Broberg, "Linné's Systematics and the New Natural History Discoveries." In Contemporary Perspectives on Linnaeus.

Lennart Strand, "Sixten Jernberg: A Legend in His Own Time." Nordic World 3, no. 1 (1975).

Lennart Strand, "US Team Impressive in Europe." Nordic World 3, no. 2 (1975).

Lennart Strand, "Thomas Magnusson." Nordic World 2, no. 3 (1974).

Lennart Strand, "Equipment Golden Rules." Nordic World, Nordic Booklet Series no. 1 (1974).

Jens Bjørneboe, "Frihetens øyeblikk." The Literary Review (1968-69):97-202.

Kjell Askildsen, "Møte." The Literary Review (1968-69):223-32.

•  Reviews:

The Nielsen Companion. Ed. Mina Miller. Scandinavian Studies (forthcoming).

Richard Wagner "Der Ring des Nibelungen." Hrsg. Udo Bermbach und Dieter Borchmeyer. Notes (forthcoming).

Lawrence D. Snyder. German Poetry in Song: An Index of Lieder. Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1995. Notes June 1996 (1160-61).

Rami Abiel. You and No Other. Kirkenes: JKSM Publ., 1996. Sør-Varanger Avis. May 11, 1996: 7.

Benestad, Finn and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe. Johan Svendsen: The Man, the Maestro, the Music. Tr. William H. Halverson. Columbus, Ohio: Peer Gynt Press, 1995. Scandinavian Studies 68:4, Fall 1996.

Eva Helenius-Öberg. Johan Helmich Roman: liv och verk genom samtida ögon. Stockholm: Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, 1994. Scandinavian Studies 67:4, Fall 1995.

Lionel Carley. Grieg and Delius: A Chronicle of their Friendship in Letters. London: Marion Boyars, 1993. Notes 50(4), 1994.

Bo Wallner. Wilhelm Stenhammar och hans tid. Stockholm: Norstedts, 1991. Scandinavian Studies 65:1, Winter 1993.

Pandora Hopkins. Aural Thinking in Norway: Performance and Communication with the hardingfele. New York: Human Sciences Press, 1986. Scandinavian Studies 65:2, Spring 1993.

Toril Fiva. Possessor Chains in Norwegian. Oslo: Novus Forlag, 1987. Scandinavian Studies 65:1, Winter 1993.

Ingrid De Geer. Earl, Saint, Bishop, Skald--and Music: The Orkney Earldom of the Twelfth Century, A Musicological Study. X + 333 pp. Uppsala, Institutionen för musikvetenskap. Uppsala Universitet, 1985. Scandinavian Studies 59:4, Aug. 1987.

Einar Haugen, The Scandinavian Languages: An Introduction to Their History (London: Faber, 1977). The Germanic Review, Vol. XIV, no. 1 (Winter 1978):45-46.

Oskar Bandle, Die Gliederung des Nordgermanischen (Basel und Stuttgart: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1973). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 77 (1976-77):396-98.

Elias Wessén, Schwedische Sprachgeschichte I-III (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1970), tr. Suzanne Öhman. Scandinavian Studies 46, no. 8 (1974):285-86.

Herbert Penzl, Methoden der Germanischen Linguistik (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1972). Journal of English and Germanic Philology 73, no. 2 (1974):280-81.

Tarjei Vesaas, The Great Cycle, tr. E. Rokkan (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1967). The Modern Language Journal 52, no. 8 (1968):510.

Hreinn Benediktsson, Early Icelandic Script. (Reykjavík: The Manuscript Institute of Iceland, 1965). Scandinavian Studies 39, no. 3 (1967):281-83.

•  Lectures:

"The Art Song in Scandinavia: the Songs of Sibelius, Nielsen, Stenhammar and Valen." SASS Meeting, Pullman, 1995.

"Edvard Grieg and Intimidation." SASS Meeting, Davenport, 1994.

"Fartein Valen: Atonality in the North." SASS Meeting, Amherst, 1991.

"Fartein Valen: Recluse or Avant Garde" SASS Meeting, Madison, 1990.

"The Earliest Literary Evidence for the Ski." SASS Meeting, Provo, 1989.

"Tobias Berggren's 24 romantiska etyder." SASS Meeting, Eugene, 1988.

"Wilhelm Stenhammar." SASS Meeting, Columbus, 1987.

"Edvard Grieg's Haugtussa: A Musical Masterpiece." SASS Meeting, Decorah, 1986.

"On Translating Lars Gustafsson." SASS Meeting, Minneapolis, 1984.

"Sondre Norheim: Folkhero to Immigrant." SASS Meeting, Albuquerque, 1981.

"On the History of the Ski." University of Chicago, 1978.

"The Origin of the Ski." SASS Meeting, Amherst, 1978.

"The Ski in Norwegian Literature." University of Minnesota, 1976.

"Quantity and Labialization in the Nordic Languages: An Historical Interpretation." Second International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Umeå, Sweden, 1973.

"On Scandinavian Labialization." SASS Meeting, New York, 1972.

"Strindberg and Women's Lib." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, 1971.

"Redundancy Rules and Norwegian Vowel Alternations." SASS Meeting, Chicago, 1970.

"A Sketch of Norwegian Phonology." First International Conference of Nordic and Gerneral Linguistics, Reykjavík, Iceland, 1969.

"On the Provenance of AM 677 4to B." SASS Meeting, Berkeley, 1968.

1962-66 PhD, Indo-European Linguistics, Scandinavian Studies, U. of Wisconsin

Dissertation Title: A Graphemic-Phonemic Study of the Icelandic Manuscript AM 677 4to B; director: Murray Fowler

1962 Diplôme d'Études, University of Paris, Paris, France

1953-57 BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin