Journal of European Studies articles from June 1994

Journal of European Studies archives from June 1994

The status of European languages in sub-Saharan Africa.
June 1, 1994... It would be naive in the extreme to try to divorce current linguistic policy in Africa[1] from the history of the continent. While the world in some ways becomes more and more homogenized, the question of language is one which strikes at the...

Australian perspectives on Europe.
June 1, 1994... I Social context since World War II When Robert Gordon Menzies, Australia's longest serving Prime Minister (1939-1941 and 1946-1966), proclaimed that he was 'British to the bootstraps', he was expressing a view of Australian identity...

The spread of English in Europe.
June 1, 1994... Introduction Some causes Seeing that the English language has grown from roots and elements coming from several parts of Europe, brought by many peoples (Angles, Saxons, Danes, Norman French) and influences (Latin, Greek,...

Sartre resartus: the circuit of 'ipseite' from London to Clermont Ferrand. 'L'Etre et le neant' at 50.
June 1, 1994... The close of the 1993 Conference season was illuminated for Sartreans everywhere by the two excellent colloquia' organized to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of what is probably Sartre's best and, arguably, only claim to...

Politics and Value in English Studies: A Discipline in Crisis?
June 1, 1994... In Britain under the Tories, in a United States where passions run high about how high culture and multi-culturalism may conflict to the detriment of society's disadvantaged groups, |English' has become one of the prime areas for political...

European Culture: A Contemporary Companion.
June 1, 1994... Cassell's new guidebook to European culture tries to do something that is not impossible but exceedingly difficult to achieve. It selects over a thousand European cultural personalities who are worthy of a biographical entry because of their...

Herbarium Verbarium: The Discourse of Flowers.
June 1, 1994... The association of wonder with flowers is timeless. Their connection with change is obvious as we witness the cycle from seed to bloom to seed. In this book, Sartiliot takes for granted the role of flowers in antiquity and their presence in...

Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe.
June 1, 1994... The fashion for Renaissance self-fashioning continues in this study of the playwright more famous for the manner of his own death (stabbed in a tavern brawl, probably murdered by Elizabeth I's secret police) than that of any of his characters....

The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, and the Occult.
June 1, 1994... The basic thesis of Professor Surette's detailed and impressively argued book is that |modernist literary scholarship' has |totally neglected or avoided' (p.54) the pervasive influence of occultism - defined as |the capacity of the human soul...

The Decline of Modernism.
June 1, 1994... The Trades Descriptions Act seems not to apply to works of literary criticism, especially to those which have a strong theoretical bent. Or to put it another way, publishers seem all too often intent on reinforcing the contention that there is...

Avant Garde, vol. 7, Technology.
June 1, 1994... This anthology, Volume 7 of a series called Avant Garde, contains seven essays: Peter Frank on the impact of technology on post-war performance art (pp.9-39); Eric Vos on literature and technology (pp.1-65); Wolfgang Preikschat on the Icelandic...

The Political Psyche.
June 1, 1994... This is one of the most important books on the social aspects of depth psychology, especially analytical psychology, since Ira Progoff's work of the Fifties. In it, the analyst Andrew Samuels undertakes to dissolve (in the words of a colleague...

Visions sur le Developpement des Etats Europeens: Theories et Historiographies de l'Etat Moderne.
June 1, 1994... This volume, in the series 'Collection de L'Ecole Francaise de Rome', is a collection of papers given at a conference organized there in 1990 by the European Science Foundation. The Foundation is currently devoting much effort to a collective...

Corneille: 'Rodogune' and Nicomede.'
June 1, 1994... Undergraduates with the sense and curiosity to add dimensions to their understanding of Corneille by exploring more than the canonic tetralogy will find an excellent commentary on Rodogune and Nicomede in Derek Watt's brisk, informative and...

The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France.
June 1, 1994... Professor Brewer sets out to show a similarity between Diderot's critique of existing knowledge and aspects of modern critical theory. A wide familiarity with Diderot is necessary in the reader of this book and a considerable acquaintance with...

The Fables of Reason: A Study of Voltaire's 'Contes Philosophiques.'
June 1, 1994... In the blurb to Pearson's book we read: |Arguing that narrative is Voltaire's essential mode of thought, the book stresses the role of the reader and shows how the contes are designed less to communicate a set of truths than to encourage...

French Historians and Romanticism: Thierry, Guizot, the Saint-Simonians, Quinet, Michelet.
June 1, 1994... Dr Crossley's new book is primarily an intellectual history of major authors and texts in liberal and republican historiography from the 1820s to 1851. There are separate chapters on the historians Augustin Thierry, Francois Guizot, Edgar...

Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850.
June 1, 1994... In April 1840 the Conseil des batiments civils of Nantes rejected Louis Piel's Gothic revivalist plans for the church of Saint-Nicholas as an 'anachronisme frappant' (p.138). That Piel's scheme had been endorsed by Philippe Buchez, one of the...

The Theatre Industry in Nineteenth-Century France.
June 1, 1994... Entrepreneurs de succes was the sobriquet claimed by the leaders of the claque that could make a play seem to score a triumph at its first performance on a Parisian stage in the nineteenth century. As well as men with hands like hammers to lead...

Circumstances: Chance in the Literary Text.
June 1, 1994... The rise of the nineteenth-century realist novel has generally been perceived as closely linked with the development of methods of historical and scientific analysis, based on Newtonian and Laplacean concepts of the world as totally explicable...

The Writings of Melancholy: Modes of Opposition in Early French Modernism.
June 1, 1994... As Professor Chambers explains, his account of novelty in French literature around the middle of the last century is in large part a translation of his book Milancolie et opposition (Paris: Corti, 1987). To this he adds chapter 4 on Nerval's...

Francois Mauriac: Bloc-Notes, 5 vols.
June 1, 1994... To turn to journalism after a literary career or to run the two concurrently was not all that uncommon a phenomenon in mid twentieth-century France. But to do so to the extent that Mauriac did, is by any standards remarkable. At the age of 67...

Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason.
June 1, 1994... In an epoch dominated by post-modernist, post Cold War preoccupations, the legacy of Sartre's work frequently remains elusive and difficult to pin down. Sartre's ideas seem strangely out of kilter not only with the more fashionable intellectual...

Autobiographical Tightropes.
June 1, 1994... Intriguingly titled Autobiographical Tightropes, Leah D. Hewitt's work studies the lives and selected works of five twentieth-century female Francophone writers to illustrate the fine line between fact and fiction. Reconciling autobiographical...

System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida.
June 1, 1994... As the title indicates, this book is an examination of Derrida's deconceptualization of the concept 'writing' evident in his work for some decades. Johnson relates this project to the notion 'system', which recurs throughout recent theories of...

Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch.
June 1, 1994... Every now and again, thanks to what the Dadaists themselves called 'hasard objectif', an academic equipped with an appropriate methodology finds heror himself confronting a mass of neglected material which is ripe for investigation by means of...

Andreas Gryphius: A Modern Perspective.
June 1, 1994... Spahr's book has a proselytizing tone. He has chosen a writer better-known than most in his age, which is not saying much when we are talking about the German Baroque, and engaged in an attempt to increase his readership in the English-speaking...

Fathers and Daughters: Patterns of Seduction in Tragedies By Gryphius, Lessing, Hebbel and Kroetz.
June 1, 1994... In the Preface to this interesting study, which develops a dissertation topic, Ingrid Walsoe-Engel states her intention of establishing a paradigmatic basis for the identification of 'a new, historically defined subgenre' (p.xiv): the seduction...

Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the Critics: 1779-1991.
June 1, 1994... Eckardt readily admits that the path of reception in Lessing studies is well-trodden, but hopes nonetheless |to fill a gap by presenting the most pertinent interpretations of Lessing's Nathan the Wise chronologically, shedding light on the...

The German Bildungsroman: History of a National Genre.
June 1, 1994... Todd Kontje, whose Private Lives in the Public Sphere: The German Bildungsroman as Metafiction (1992) was itself an important contribution to Bildungsroman scholarship, offers in this publication an overview of the history of such scholarship....

Social Comedy in Austria and Germany: 1890-1930.
June 1, 1994... The series |British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature', which published several good books between 1974 and 1983 and then fell dormant, has now been reanimated under the combined editorship of Professors Hans Reiss and W E....

Rudolf Blumner: Ango Iaina und andere Texte.
June 1, 1994... Anyone who has seen Fritz Lang's film M (1931) will remember the final mock court-room scene and may remember the reedy voice of the thin-faced old man who slowly and unexpectedly rises to his feet to defend the cowering Peter Lorre. That is Dr...

The Dada Market: An Anthology of Poetry.
June 1, 1994... While many of us devote our lives to making the incomprehensible not worth knowing, Professor Bohn has spent a part of his translating the untranslatable. A brave task, since the non-english Dada poetry selected for this anthology is not only...

The Germans and Their Neighbours.
June 1, 1994... The reunification of Germany in 1989-90 was so unexpected an that Germany's neighbours scarcely had time to react in a considered and reflected manner. They were obliged to accept as inevitable something many believed would never happen. For...

The Lonely Mirror: Italian Perspectives on Feminist Theory.
June 1, 1994... This is the second of two volumes which aim to present to an English-speaking readership a selection of the most important theoretical and political writings to have emerged from the Italian feminist movement since its inception. In 1991 the...

Machiavelli and Republicanism.
June 1, 1994... This collection of essays, now available in paperback, constitutes the eighteenth volume in the 'Ideas in Context' series and is the result of a conference held at the European University Institute in the summer of 1987. As is often the case...