Journal of European Studies articles from December 1999

Journal of European Studies archives from December 1999

Alexander's bitter tears.
December 1, 1999... STEVEN CARTER [*] 'What's that he said? Ahab Beware of Ahab. There's something there!' Moby Dick Shall I project a world? The Crying of Lot 49 An amputation policy is full of dangers. Today one is amputated, another...

Neither Washington nor Moscow? The rise and fall of the Rassemblement Democratique Revolutionnaire.
December 1, 1999... IAN H. BIRCHALL [*] The Rassemblement democratique revolutionnaire (RDR) [1] is now largely forgotten, one of the many mysterious acronyms that appear from time to time in the footnotes to a history of the post-war French left. Yet for a...

The difficulty of saying 'I'.
December 1, 1999... JOSHUA COLE [*] Ambivalence in the former East Germany toward the West became a journalistic cliche in the German press in the early 1990s, but few people have managed to embody the problem more intimately than the novelist and essayist...

The birth of analytical psychology from the spirit of Weimar Classicism.
December 1, 1999... PAUL BISHOP [*] In a paper written in 1909 called Der Familienroman der Neurotiker, Freud suggested that, during their childhood psychological development, some neurotics entertained the fantasy that their parents were not their biological...

Nineteenth-Century European Art. A Topical Dictionary.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Nineteenth-Century European Art. A Topical Dictionary. By Terry W. Strieter. London: Aldwych Press, 1999. Pp. x + 300.[pounds]75.00. This is a reference-book which begs many questions, starting with what one gets for its astonishing...

European Memories of the Second World War.(Review)
December 1, 1999... European Memories of the Second World War. Edited by Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett and Claire Gorrara. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 1999. Pp. 333. [pounds]40.00. This book is that rare thing: a genuinely collaborative...

Die deutsche literarische 'Kriegskolonie' in Belgien, 1914-1918.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Die deutsche literarische 'Kriegskolonie' in Belgien, 1914-1918. By Hubert Roland. Berne, Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, New York, Paris and Vienna: Peter Lang, 1999. Pp. xvii + 343. [pounds]30.00. When we speak of 'German Expressionism', it is...

L'expressionisme.
December 1, 1999... L'expressionisme. By Maurice Gode. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999. Pp. 354. Ffrs 178,-. It takes a brave author to entitle a relatively short book 'Expressionism', given the scope of the subject and the fact that, as Armin...

From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power.(Review)
December 1, 1999... From Louis XIV to Napoleon: The Fate of a Great Power. By Jeremy Black. London: UCL Press (Taylor and Francis Group), 1999. Pp. xvi + 287. [pounds]50.00. Ever since Pascal commented on the size of Cleopatra's nose it has been tempting to...

Reading the French Enlightenment. System and Subversion.
December 1, 1999... Reading the French Enlightenment. System and Subversion. By Julies Chandler Hayes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 243. [pounds]40.00. The present closely-argued study draws extensively on the work of modern critical...

Reading Paul Valery: Universe in Mind.
December 1, 1999... Reading Paul Valery: Universe in Mind. Edited by Paul Gifford and Brian Stimpson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 317. For much of his life Valery woke before sunrise and set to work outlining his responses and ideas during...

Romain Rolland.
December 1, 1999... This publication is a timely and welcome addition to criticism on R. Rolland at a time when interest appears to have focused away from him. The book is a comprehensive study of Rolland's life and work and, as such, demonstrates a unity amongst...

Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France.
December 1, 1999... Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France. By Miranda Pollard. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. vii + 285. [pounds]15.95. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a considerable number of articles and longer...

Women of Letters. A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schiegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim.
December 1, 1999... Women of Letters. A Study of Self and Genre in the Personal Writing of Caroline Schiegel-Schelling, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, and Bettina von Arnim. By Margaretmary Daley. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. Pp. xii + 135. [pounds]35.80. In her...

Gottfried Keller and His Critics. A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism.
December 1, 1999... Gottfried Keller and His Critics. A Case Study in Scholarly Criticism. By Richard R. Ruppel. Literary Criticism in Perspective. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998. Pp. x + 214. [pounds]40.00. Although justly prized as a Swiss classic,...

'Zu allererst ANTIKONSERVATIV': Kurt Hiller (1885-1972).(Review)
December 1, 1999... 'Zu allererst ANTIKONSERVATIV': Kurt Hiller (1885-1972). Edited by Wolfgang Beutin and Rudiger Schutt (Hamburg: Edition fliehkraft, 1998). Pp. 199. In 1988, an exhibition dealing with the life and work of the self-styled Activist Kurt...

Avantgarde und Anarchismus: Dada in Zurich und Berlin.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Avantgarde und Anarchismus: Dada in Zurich und Berlin. By Hubert van den Berg. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter, 1999. Pp. 509. DM98,-. For a decade now, Dr van den Berg has been publishing substantial essays that explore the...

From Expressionism to Exile: The Works of Walter Hasenclever (1890-1940).(Review)
December 1, 1999... C. By Christa Spreizer. Rochester NY: Camden House, 1999. Pp. 202. [pounds]35.00. Ever since the publication of Hasenclever's Samtliche Werke and Briefe in zwei Banden, the anglophone world has been waiting for a book on that writer which...

Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion 1894-1917.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion 1894-1917. Edited by Anna Geifman. Oxford and Malden: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. Pp. viii + 310. [pounds]15.99. The introduction to this volume boasts that its 'diversity of views and...

Russian Postmodernism. New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture.(Review)
December 1, 1999... Russian Postmodernism. New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture. By Mikhail Epstein, Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover. Translated and edited by Slobodanka Vladiv Glover. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xii + 528....