Journal of European Studies articles from December 1995

Journal of European Studies archives from December 1995

Jerzy Andrzejewski: life and times. (Polish novelist)
December 1, 1995... Jerzy Andrzejewski is probably Poland's best known modern novelist. His lifetime and professional career spanned the entire postwar 'communist' period and virtually the whole Polish experience of the twentieth century: partition, independence,...

Four Frenchwomen's narratives of World War II. (response to Mary Jean Green, Journal of European Studies, p. 224, March-June 1993)
December 1, 1995... A recent article by Mary Jean Green has commented that although men's accounts of World War II were published soon after the end of the war, 'the memoirs of women begin to appear only in the late 1960s and 1970s.'(1) This statement perhaps needs...

La Reneissenco felibrenco.
December 1, 1995... Frederic Mistral often referred to the movement to restore Provencal as a literary language inaugurated by the Felibrige as a renaissance. His address to a group of visiting Catalan poets at Saint-Remy in 1868 begins with a reference to 'la...

Critical attempts to 'effeuiller la Marguerite.'
December 1, 1995... Since her death in 1987, there has been a growing interest in the work of Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman to enter the Academie Francaise and a self-imposed exile from France since 1939. A number of reasons exist for this increased critical...

Shakespeare in the New Europe.
December 1, 1995... At any moment, at the end of the millenium, there are more plays in production by Shakespeare than by any other playwright. In translation, adapted, cut, filmed, animated (language of dubbing what you will), in period, modernized, Gay, Marxist,...

Modern Hamlets and Their Soliloquies.
December 1, 1995... At any moment, at the end of the millenium, there are more plays in production by Shakespeare than by any other playwright. In translation, adapted, cut, filmed, animated (language of dubbing what you will), in period, modernized, Gay, Marxist,...

Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction.
December 1, 1995... The starting point for Steven Bruhm's study is Delacroix's canvas The Death of Sardanapalus (1827), reproduced on the title page, with the point made that the painting in question depicts not Sardanapalus's death, which would follow upon the...

Der Erste Weltkrieg in deutscher und englischer Dichtung.
December 1, 1995... There is an uncanny sense in which this excellently researched and immensely informative book thematizes the subject-matter that it discusses. For the first eight chapters (pp. 11-236) one finds oneself in the middle of a 'wissenschaftlichen...

Der fruhe Kandinisky: 1900-1910.
December 1, 1995... The first decade of Kandinsky's belated life as a painter was marked not just by the speculations which issued in Uber das Geistige in der Kunst but also by an amazingly wide range of visual work which this book, the catalogue of an exhibition in...

Le Dernier Avertissement, Pie XI: encyclique 'Mit brennender Sorge'; Goebbels: 'Dernier advertissement aux catholiques allemands'.
December 1, 1995... The attitude of the Vatican towards Hitler and Nazism has always aroused controversy. In particular, accusations of silence in the face of mass persecutions (especially of the Jews) have been levelled against Pius XII and until (or unless) all...

The Ceremonial City: Toulouse Observed, 1738-1780.
December 1, 1995... Voltaire's view of Toulouse as a hotbed of narrow-minded Catholic intolerance is confirmed by the obscure Latin tutor, Pierre Barthes, whose diary serves as a framework for studying the social message inherent in the love of public ritual and...

Herve Guibert.
December 1, 1995... Guibert's black-and-white portrait on the cover of this issue of Nottingham French Studies sets the mood: his eyes - 'surpris en train de se surprendre' foreshadow the reader's surprise. A 'dandy janseniste et solitaire', he has left his mark as...

Walter Hasenclever: Briefe in zwei Banden, 1907-1940.
December 1, 1995... One of the most rich and remarkable Nachlasse to have survived the Second World War is that of the dramatist Walter Hasenclever, whose biography has recently been exhaustively narrated by Bert Kasties, one of the editors of this collection of 586...

Erich Muhsam: Tagebucher (1910-1924).
December 1, 1995... Anyone who has tried to read the microfilms of Muhsam's diaries in the East Berlin Akademie der Kunste has every reason to be grateful to Chris Hirte for this new edition - which admirably complements the two-volume edition of Muhsam's letters....

Albert Ehrenstein. Mythenzerstorer and Mythenschopfer.
December 1, 1995... The year 1988 is regarded by many Austrians with a blend of embarrassment, loathing and fear, signifying as it does a confrontation with Austria's unholy past, fifty years after what in official mythology reads as the annexation of Austria by...

Jugend, Frauen, Drittes Reich.
December 1, 1995... 'Es ist niemals leicht, das rechte Wort zu setzen. Sehr ferne oder doch sehr neuartige Dinge zu beschreiben, das macht oft vollig ratios. Aber noch schwieriger ist es, eine Sache darzustellen, die ebenso erbarmlich wie furchtbar ist.' Ernst...

Exploring Gogol.
December 1, 1995... It has to be said that this book starts unpromisingly. Its very title, discouragingly familiar initial references to 'the Gogol problem', and introductory descriptions of Gogol's art as a mysterious, ill-lit house in which the alluring secrets of...

Marina Tsvetaeva: The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell.
December 1, 1995... This book, which gives a coherent and convincing account of the poet's dramatic life, does not create a picture of Tsvetaeva principally as a poet-genius adrift in an alien world of non-poets, nor as the victim of Soviet repression and emigre...

The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature.
December 1, 1995... The title of Deming Brown's book promises a study which would fill a gap in the writing of literary histories and surveys of contemporary Russian literature. It is indeed a very informed study of the prose published in the last sixteen years of...

Russian Rightists and the Revolution of 1905.
December 1, 1995... The subjects of this book are the extreme Right of late Tsarist Russia, a loose category of men and women united by a belief that the autocracy of the early twentieth century was making too many concessions. Their determination to stop the rot...

Government, Industry and Rearmament in Russia, 1900-1914: The Last Argument of Tsarism.
December 1, 1995... Nicholas II's military machine failed dismally in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905. Fearing a recrudescence of revolution, and still dismayed by the shock of defeat, the Romanovs let down the Serbs in the Bosnian Crisis of 1908-1909. The...

Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991.
December 1, 1995... Why did the Soviet Union collapse? Who were the main actors in the drama? What role was played by Gorbachev's glasnost' and perestroika? Questions like these will doubtless puzzle historians well into the twenty-first century. Donald Filtzer...

Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega.
December 1, 1995... This book applies the patterns, formulations and insights of feminist and cultural theory to the representation of women in forty-six of Lope's plays, while drawing in the process on an eclectic range of modern critical writing. It performs its...

The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain.
December 1, 1995... This book is informed by a remarkable quantity of research in primary and secondary sources. It ranges over a vast array of dramatic texts, their authors, publishers, audiences, and actors, and the theatre as an institution, its buildings,...

Writing the Good Fight: Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War.
December 1, 1995... The subtitle of Dr Monteath's book effectively encapsulates its impressive range. (His eye-catching main title echoes that of a collective endeavour of 1989.) Writing the Good Fight takes in writers of all political persuasions, languages and...