Journal of European Studies articles from December 1996

Journal of European Studies archives from December 1996

'Pastors and perpetrators': Dutch Churches and the reintegration of Nazi collaborators.
December 1, 1996... 1. Introduction Just after liberation of the Netherlands, August 1945, the publication of a brochure by a clergyman named Krijn Strijd caused a great deal of controversy. The writer advocated justice and humane treatment of the Dutch...

The papacy: a case study in organizational longevity.
December 1, 1996... The chair of Peter, that sacred repository of all truth. POPE PIUS XI(1) A pope's bull, a dead man's skull, and an old trull are not all worth a pound of wool. BARNABE RICH(2) If the range of human opinion and emotion regarding the...

Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton.
December 1, 1996... I acquired my copy of Mark Polizzotti's Revolution of the Mind: the Life of Andre Breton very shortly after its publication by Bloomsbury in October last year. Other concerns taking precedence, I came to read some of the very extensive coverage...

Zeitschriften und Anthologien des Expressionismus in Osterreich. Analytische Bibliographie und Register.
December 1, 1996... There was a specific form of Austrian Expressionism, at least that is what these two huge volumes would have us believe with their wealth of bibliographic detail that supersedes even that of Paul Raabe's Die Zeitschriften und Sammlungen des...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Reform, Revolt and Repression: 1953-1963.
December 1, 1996... Before the collapse of the Soviet Empire no objective history of the 1956 Hungarian revolution could be published in Hungary proper. The Kadar regime which was born out of the Soviet military intervention could never face those 'regrettable...

The Short Story: Structure and Statement.
December 1, 1996... This volume is a collection of thirteen essays on the European and Latin-American short story, mostly based on papers read at a symposium held at the School of Modern Languages, University of Exeter, in 1994. The editor's preface does not provide...

American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place.
December 1, 1996... If Paris were Bombay, this book would be exoticist. That is, its argument resembles those descriptions of artistic and human release which accompanied the discovery of, and immersion in, a romantically misperceived East. That the expatriates...

France and Britain: 1900-1940. Entente and Estrangement.
December 1, 1996... This is the first part of a two-volume study which will take us, as Bell puts it in his Preface, 'as near to the present day as can be managed', and it is unusual as well as highly enjoyable to read a history of military and diplomatic relations...

The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky. A Visual Fugue.
December 1, 1996... In the West, a clear view of the achievement of the Soviet film-maker Andrei Tarkovskii still seems impeded by a clutter of idees recues. We have been led to believe that - despite their great visual beauty - Tarkovskii's films are flawed by...

Seeing Through the Mother Goose Tales: Visual Turns in the Writings of Charles Perrault.
December 1, 1996... The dust-jacket of this book bears an apparently unfamiliar, abstract pattern. On closer inspection however, if I am not mistaken, the design proves to be a small section, magnified into unrecognizability, of one of Gustave Dore's celebrated...

Jean Grenier - Les Iles: eine Untersuchung zu werkkonstituierenden Themen und Motiven.
December 1, 1996... Jean Grenier (1898 - 1971) is remembered principally in connection with his most famous pupil, Albert Camus. The book that originally opened Camus's eyes to the philosophical dimension of literature, and indeed to culture more generally, was...

Socialist Realism in Louis Aragon's Le Monde reel.
December 1, 1996... The knee-jerk critical reaction to socialist realism is universally hostile. Any attempt explicitly to link cultural practice with socialist politics is perceived from a Western critical perspective as an impoverishment of the complexity of...

Becoming a Revolutionary. The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790).
December 1, 1996... An anecdote from the first month of the Estates General of 1789 told how the king returning in his carriage from the hunt was surrounded by a host of deputies crying out 'Long live the king', to which he was said to have replied in good humour:...

Tragedy in Paradise: Family and Gender Politics in German Bourgeois Tragedy, 1750-1850.
December 1, 1996... In this perceptive, stimulating, well-written, but oddly constructed study of the German 'burgerliches Trauerspiel', Gail K. Hart acknowledges the inspiration of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's well-known study of gender relations in English literature,...

The Portrayal of the Maturation Process of Girl Figures in Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
December 1, 1996... The author of this study subscribes to the traditional Romantic view that the lasting fascination of the Marchen, codified in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmarchen (KHM), is due to its reflection of the unchanging essence of 'society,...

Mimetic Desire: Essays on Narcissism in German Literature from Romanticism to Post Modernism.
December 1, 1996... This volume has an ambitious span, covering one of the most fundamental of literary tropes over a period of two centuries (though with a striking gap between the ages of Goethe and Freud). Psychoanalytic theory has served to suggest that...

Marriage and Divorce in the Plays of Hermann Sudermann.
December 1, 1996... This doctoral thesis will be of interest not only to scholars of German Naturalist drama but equally to all those concerned with the representation of the family and its discontents around the turn of the century. Indeed the title of Leydecker's...

Intellektuelle in der Weimarer Republik.
December 1, 1996... In the Introduction, one of the editors describes this collection of 24 essays by 'WissenschaftlerInnen vorwiegend der mittleren Generation' (p.9) as 'Mosaiksteinchen zu einem notwendig in sich widerspruchlichen Gesamtbild des facettenreichen...

Cockpit of Ideologies. The Literature and Political History of the Weimar Republic.
December 1, 1996... The interrelation of art and politics, elaborated in Heinrich Mann's normative essay 'Geist und Tat' (1910), undoubtedly reached its peak in Germany during the years of the Weimar Republic. Anthony Grenville's recent study attempts to elucidate...

My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity.
December 1, 1996... The 'private Germany' of the title refers to the fantasy realm of the Senatsprasident of the Saxon Supreme court, Paul Daniel Schreber, whose Memoirs of my Nervous Illness were published in 1903 and subsequently analysed in 1911 as a case-study...

Weltdada Huelsenbeck: Eine Biografie in Briefen und Bildern.
December 1, 1996... For some years now, the Haymon-Verlag has been producing high-quality, richly-illustrated, generously set out and extremely scholarly works on Dada. This present volume, which reproduces 270 of the 1,800+ extant letters to and from the Dadaist...

Musikbolschewismus. Die Politisierung der Musik in Deutschland: 1918-1938.
December 1, 1996... Nearly forty years had to pass after the end of the Third Reich before the appearance of the first comprehensive survey of musical politics during the Nazi period (E Prieberg, Musik im NS-Staat, 1982). The best contribution in the English...

The Modern Functional Building.
December 1, 1996... The critic and architectural theorist Adolf Behne (1885-1948), whose work was, until recently, forgotten by all but a few devotees, was one of the most far-sighted and multi-talented personalities in the art world of the Weimar Republic. Although...

Dialogue with the Reader. The Narrative Stance in Uwe Johnson's Fiction.
December 1, 1996... Uwe Johnson's novels remain - as Fickert puts it - the object of literary controversy. Some still regard him as a 'difficult' author, he argues; others, by contrast, place him amongst the greatest twentieth-century writers. This study's stated...

The War for the German Mind. Re-educating Hitler's Soldiers.
December 1, 1996... There is an extensive literature on the efforts made by the Allies to re-educate the German civilian population after the fall of Nazism. Much less attention has been devoted to similar efforts made in respect of German prisoners of war which in...

Culture in the Federal Republic of Germany: 1945-1995.
December 1, 1996... Many British commentators are accustomed to think of the Federal Republic of Germany almost exclusively in economic and political terms. That is perhaps understandable in view of British preoccupations with the role that Germany plays in the...