Journal of European Studies articles from December 2002

Journal of European Studies archives from December 2002

James's 'The Madonna of the Future' and the problem of artistic failure: some French models.(Henry James)(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2002... Galleries, paintings and the domestic circumstances of the artist fill the pages of many of Henry James's early short stories. They arise from that same shaping experience of the first visits to Italy which provided the insights of those essays...

Modernity, urban semiology and the Beckettian cityscape.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2002... The cities of modernity are, according to Bonnie Menes Kahn, just like the biblical city of Babylon, 'cities with a purpose, a sense of mission, an idea... Beautiful. Seductive. Sinful' (23). Ever since its emergence in biblical times and in...

Bent straight: the destruction of self in Martin Sherman's Bent.(Critical Essay)
December 1, 2002... Despite the homophobia of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Hixnmler, homosexuals in Nazi Germany lived in relative safety until the Night of Long Knives, which began on 28 June 1934 and continued until 3 July. During this purge, Hitler rid himself of...

The NRF: behind the scenes. (Review Essay).(Nouvelle Revue Francaise Francois Mauriac et Jean Paulhan: Correspondance 1925-1967)(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Francois Mauriac et Jean Paulhan: Correspondance 1925-1967. Edition etablie, presentee et annotee par John E. Flower. Paris: Editions Claire Paulban, 2001. Pp. xxvii + 367. [euro]28 (paperback). ISBN 2-912222-15-X In recent years, numerous...

The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe & The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe. By Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. viii + 130. [Pounds sterling]13.99. The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans. By Dennis P....

Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny. By David Ellison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 290. [pounds sterling]40.00. David Ellison's aim in this study is to...

Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. By Ulrich Baer. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 343. [pounds sterling]14.95. On what grounds might we come to consider Baudelaire...

Critical Essays on Roland Barthes. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Critical Essays on Roland Barthes. Edited by Diana Knight. (Critical Essays on World Literature.) New York: G. K. Hall, 2000. Pp. xi + 314. This rich and valuable volume--the first retrospective collection of critical writing on...

Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Enlightenment Thought in the Writings of Goethe: A Contribution to the History of Ideas. By Paul E. Kerry. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 2001. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.) Pp. 243. [pounds sterling]40.00. Paul...

Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Goethe's Elective Affinities and the Critics. By Astrida Orle Tantillo. Rochester, N.Y and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2001. Pp. xxiv + 241. [pounds sterling]45. Overviews of the secondary literature written on a text can sometimes...

Reading Goethe. A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work & Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from the Cambridge Symposium for his 250th Anniversary. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Reading Goethe. A Critical Introduction to the Literary Work. By Martin Swales and Erika Swales. Rochester, N.Y. and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House. Pp. ix + 186. [pounds sterling]40. Goethe and the English-Speaking World. Essays from...

A Poisoned Chalice.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... A Poisoned Chalice. By Jeffrey Freedman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. xx + 236. $24.95. This well-written and interesting book fits into a now well-established pattern of writing: episode scholarship or revelation by...

Heroes and Heroism in German Culture. Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Heroes and Heroism in German Culture. Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000. Edited by Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 145.) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. $47. ...

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann.(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann. Edited by Ritchie Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. 258. [pounds sterling]40 (hardback), [pounds sterling]14.95 (paperback). On the opening page of this 'Companion', the...

Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology. The Birth of Modernity, 1880-1920. By Ralph M. Leck. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2000. Pp. 356. $35.00. The title of this otherwise fascinating book is slightly misleading. Ralph Leck's study...

The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Novels of Thomas Bernhard: Form and its Function. By J. J. Long. Rochester and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2001. Pp. vii + 232. [pounds sterling]40.00. Since his death in 1989. the critical industry around Thomas Bernhard has grown...

The 1848 Revolutions in German-Speaking Europe. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The 1848 Revolutions in German-Speaking Europe. By Hans Joachim Hahn. Harlow: Longman, 2001. Pp. xix + 237. [pounds sterling]16.99. This is a useful volume in what is turning out to be an impressive series; Themes in Modern German History....

Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany & Weimar Surfaces. Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany. By Bernd Widdig. London: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 278. [pounds sterling]45. Weimar Surfaces. Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany. By Janet Ward. London: University of...

Dresden. Paradoxes of Memory in History & Facing the Nazi Past. United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Dresden. Paradoxes of Memory in History. By Elizabeth A Ten Dyke. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xxiv + 316. [pounds sterling]55. Facing the Nazi Past. United Germany and the Legacy of the Third Reich. By Bill Niven. London: Routledge, 2002....

German Literature of the Twentieth Century: From Aestheticism to Postmodernism. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... German Literature of the Twentieth Century: From Aestheticism to Postmodernism. By Ingo R. Stoehr. Rochester and Woodbridge: Camden House, 2001 (Camden House History of German Literature, vol. 10.) Pp. xiii + 529. [pounds sterling]50.00. ...

Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste. By Elizabeth Schachter. Leeds: Northern Universities Press, 2000. Pp. 179. [pound sterling]26.00. This volume is a collection of essays of varying length dealing mainly with literary...

The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia. By Maureen Perrie. Pp. xv + 255. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. [Pounds sterling]45. In the glasnost' years immediately following her completion of The Image of Ivan the Terrible in Russian...

Happy Moscow & A Hundred Years of Andrei Platonov. .(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... Happy Moscow. By Andrey Platonov. Translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Angela Livingstone, Nadya Bourova and Eric Naiman with an Introduction by Eric Naiman. London: The Harvill Press, 2001. Pp. xxxvii + 154. [pounds sterling]9.99....