Journal of European Studies articles from December 2000

Journal of European Studies archives from December 2000

'...to give...death a place' Rejecting the 'ineffability' of the Holocaust: the work of Gillian Rose and Anne Michaels.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... ANN PARRY [*] 'Mourning draws on transcendent but representable justice which makes the suffering of immediate experience visible and speakable.' Gillian Rose, Mourning Becomes the Law, p. 36. 'The point now is to see in the...

Translating the symbolizing into the symbolized: after Walter Benjamin.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... E. D. YEATS [*] 'Un terme de splendeur brilliant, ou qu'il s'eteigne, inverse' Mallarme ('Crise de vers'). 'I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence' Keats (30...

Autumn Interiors, or The Ladies Eve: Woody Allen's Ingmar Bergman-Complex.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2000... BERT CARDULLO [*] If without knowing anything whatsoever about the work of either director, one had seen Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata right after Woody Allen's Interiors, one might easily have concluded that the Swedish film-maker had...

Borders: the aesthetic of conquest in Soviet cinema of the 1930s [1].
December 1, 2000... EMMA WIDDIS [*] In 1935, the Narodnyi komissariat vnutrennykh del [NKVD], or Ministry of Internal Affairs, assumed control of Soviet cartography. This political move may be read as a symbolic acknowledgment of the ideological power of the...

Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991. Edited by David Parker. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. 237. [pound]15.99. This effective and interesting volume offers a series of aptly chosen case studies and a general...

Slavery.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Slavery. By David Turley. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Pp. xi + 174. [pound]14.99. This is an intelligent and interesting account of an emotive and difficult topic. Dr Turley, Director of the Centre for American Studies at the University of...

The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xv + 293. $16.95. David Cannadine has already written extensively about class, but in this book, originally based on lectures...

Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Questioning the Father: From Darwin to Zola, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Hardy. By Ross Shideler. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 226. Professor Shideler draws in his opening lines the historical map over which his lucid...

Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Gendarmes and the State in Nineteenth-Century Europe. By Clive Emsley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 288. [pound]50.00. Few institutions represented the aspirations of the nineteenth-century European state so well as the...

A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.(Review)
December 1, 2000... A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Edited by Jo Catling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 395. [pound]15.95. This most welcome volume consists of a collection of 16 essays, together with a...

Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Amazons and Apprentices. Women and the German Parnassus in the Early Enlightenment. By Katherine E. Goodman. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1999. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk). Pp. 316. [pound]40.00 This is a study...

Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. By Irving Massey. (Conditio Judaica, 29.) Tubingen: Niemeyer, 2000. Pp. vi + 199. DM 98.- Nineteenth-century German fiction and drama contains many Jewish figures, but few are...

The Poet as Provocateur: Heinrich Heine and His Critics.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Poet as Provocateur: Heinrich Heine and His Critics. By George F. Peters. Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp. xii + 227. [pound]35.00. In Ecce Homo, Nietzsche wrote that 'the highest concept of the lyrical...

Otto Weininger. Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Otto Weininger. Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna. By Chandak Sengoopta. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 239. [pound]20.50. Chandak Sengoopta's study of Weininger's controversial Sex and...

Zarathustra's Children: A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Zarathustra's Children: A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers. By Raymond Furness. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000. Pp. ix + 220. [pound]40.00. In his Literary History of...

Freud's Literary Culture.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Freud's Literary Culture. Graham Frankland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 260. [pound]35.00. In a letter to Freud of 2907, Jung wrote that 'every properly analysable case has something aesthetically beautiful about...

Writing Weimar: Critical Realism in German Literature 1918-1933.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Writing Weimar: Critical Realism in German Literature 1918-1933. By David R. Midgley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 390. [pound]50.00. If you are looking for an easily digestible introduction to the most important works...

Journey of No Return: Five German-speaking Literary Exiles in Britain 1933-1945.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Journey of No Return: Five German-speaking Literary Exiles in Britain 1933-1945. By Richard Dove. London: Libris, 2000. Pp. ix + 308. [pound]25.00. Over the past two decades, much (belated) work has been done on German speaking exiles in...

Hitler. Study of a Revolutionary?(Review)
December 1, 2000... Hitler. Study of a Revolutionary? By Martyn Housden. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 220. [pound]14.99 (pbk). Martyn Housden's source book aims to help students gain an understanding of the life and career of Adolf Hitler and a sense of...

Hitler's Vienna. A Dictator's Apprenticeship.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Hitler's Vienna. A Dictator's Apprenticeship. By Brigitte Hamann. Translated by Thomas Thornton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 482. [pound]25.00. Hitler's claim in Mein Kampf that he acquired the foundations of his...

Munich and Memory. Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Munich and Memory. Architecture, Monuments and the Legacy of the Third Reich. By Gavriel D. Rosenfeld. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xxiv + 434. [pound]28.50. From Monuments to Traces. Artifacts of German Memory,...

Jazz, Rock and Rebels, Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Jazz, Rock and Rebels, Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. By Uta G. Poiger. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 333. [pound]19.95 (pbk). Uta C. Poiger's fascinating study of the reception of...

Modern Czech Theatre. Reflector and Conscience of a Nation.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Modern Czech Theatre. Reflector and Conscience of a Nation. By Jarka M. Burian. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 265. $18.95. Twentieth-century Czech theatre is distinctive for its artistic achievements and its...

Tribunes and Amazons: Men and Women of Revolutionary France, 1789-1871.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Tribunes and Amazons: Men and Women of Revolutionary France, 1789-1871. By R. B. Rose. Paddington NSW: Macleay Press, 1998. Pp. 383. $39.95. Almost entirely reworked from articles that first appeared from the late 1950s onwards, the...

Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony. By Sonya Stephens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 181. [pound]35.00. The first chapter of this relatively short but richly suggestive and multifarious assault...

Apollinaire.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Apollinaire. Edited and translated by Robert Chandler. London: Dent, 2000. Pp. 101. [pound]2.00. This is a most useful introduction to Apollinaire for the English-speaking reader. Chandler's translations of Sappho have already appeared in...

The Collaborator. The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Collaborator. The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach. By Alice Kaplan Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2000. Pp. xiv + 308.[pound]17.50. In the closing pages of her book Alice Kaplan claims that had De Gaulle...

Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts.(Review)
December 1, 2000... Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts. Edited by Catriona Kelly and Stephen Lovell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 315. [pound]40 .00. This collection of essays represents an excellent example of an...

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture.(Review)
December 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture. Edited by David T. Gies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxii + 327. David T. Gies's volume, the third in a series from Cambridge University Press, is divided into seven...