Journal of European Studies articles from June 1996

Journal of European Studies archives from June 1996

The use of Kant in Jung's early psychological works.
June 1, 1996... I need only remark that it is by no means unusual, upon comparing the thoughts which an author has expressed in regard to his subject, whether in ordinary conversation or in writing, to find that we understand him better than he has understood...

The myth of Don Juan and feminine sensibility: a new turning point?
June 1, 1996... Don Juan is above all an exquisite literary figure. Together with Hamlet, Faust or Don Quixote he is one of the most intriguing creations of Western culture. Yet, unlike these other characters, the origins of Don Juan, the dissolute libertine who...

From Whitman to Mussolini: modernism in the life and works of a French intellectual.
June 1, 1996... To historians, the name Henri Guilbeaux brings to mind one of the first French communists, the devoted friend of Lenin in Switzerland, who nonetheless abandoned communism in the thirties to support instead Mussolini.(1) Art specialists, however,...

Giscardian desiring machines: Alain Resnais's Mon oncle d'Amerique.
June 1, 1996... Alain Resnais's international reputation - going back more than thirty-five years to his feature debut with Hiroshima mon Amour - as among the greatest of film directors can be said, generally, to hinge on the craft and audacity of his...

Dickens in Denmark: four Danish versions of his novels.
June 1, 1996... In his discussion of the development of film narrative in the first decade of this century, Tom Gunning posits a major turning point with the introduction of what he calls the 'narrator system' around 1908.[1] Film narratives prior to 1908 are...

A History of Russian Symbolism.
June 1, 1996... From the early nineteenth century until the end of the Soviet period, Russian literature has been distinguished not merely by its high seriousness, but by its obsession with what Irina Paperno terms, in her introduction to Creating Life: The...

Creating Life: The Aesthetic Utopia of Russian Modernism.
June 1, 1996... From the early nineteenth century until the end of the Soviet period, Russian literature has been distinguished not merely by its high seriousness, but by its obsession with what Irina Paperno terms, in her introduction to Creating Life: The...

Living is an Art: some recent books on Russian Modernism.
June 1, 1996... From the early nineteenth century until the end of the Soviet period, Russian literature has been distinguished not merely by its high seriousness, but by its obsession with what Irina Paperno terms, in her introduction to Creating Life: The...

British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History.
June 1, 1996... Like its predecessor in the series, Jennifer Goodman's British Drama Before 1660 (Boston, 1991), this study aims to cover an ambitious chronological span and limitations inevitably result. Kavenik insists that she takes a fresh approach in...

Fairy Tale as Myth: Myth as Fairy Tale.
June 1, 1996... Professor Zipes's book turns out not to be about the traditional oral folk-tale but about the literary folk-tale and, in particular, about the manipulation in literate cultures of what have come to be regarded, often erroneously, as...

Francois Mauriac: Psycholectures/Psychoreadings.
June 1, 1996... Psycholectures/Psychoreadings is an attempt to bring Mauriac criticism into the realm of psychoanalysis. As editor John Flower notes in his introduction, traditional Mauriac criticism has generally been conservative. He states rightly, however,...

Politics, Society and Christianity in Vichy France.
June 1, 1996... With his new book, W. D. Halls has made another significant contribution to the history of Vichy. His earlier work, The Youth of Vichy France (1981), focused on an area of policy and experience which, while critical to any comprehensive...

Claude Simon: Narratives Without Narrative.
June 1, 1996... The two latest additions to the corpus of Simon criticism raise in a particularly acute form the question of legibility. I have read both, in the sense that my eyes have travelled from left to right along the lines of each page, but I find it...

Lire Claude Simon: La Polyphonie Du Monde.
June 1, 1996... The two latest additions to the corpus of Simon criticism raise in a particularly acute form the question of legibility. I have read both, in the sense that my eyes have travelled from left to right along the lines of each page, but I find it...

Historical Dictionary of Germany.
June 1, 1996... This substantial and attractively produced volume aims to provide a comprehensive reference guide to modern Germany since reunification. It also includes as much information concerning history and culture as might be required to make sense of the...

German Thought and Culture: From the Holy Roman Empire to the Present Day.
June 1, 1996... Anyone who has ever had to teach a comprehensive outline course on German history and culture will sympathize with Hans-Joachim Hahn's dissatisfaction at the lack of a useful course book. Despite the sustained interest in Germany in this country...

Turning Points in Modern Times: Essays on German and European History.
June 1, 1996... This selection of nineteen papers written by Karl Dietrich Bracher between 1987 and 1992 illustrates the remarkable consistency of one of Germany's most distinguished living historians in the pursuit of historical themes that are still of central...

Western Europe and Germany: The Beginnings of European Integration, 1945-1960.
June 1, 1996... The transformation of the political map of Europe since 1989-90 has given a new intensity to the debate on European integration. On the one hand the collapse of the Soviet Union and its system of alliances has opened up the possibility of further...

Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism.
June 1, 1996... This book surveys the critical reception of Schiller's aesthetic essays from the time of their publication to the present day. Dr Sharpe begins with a brief summary of these important but 'baffling essays', which reveal so much about the author's...

Novalis: Signs of Revolution.
June 1, 1996... In this fresh, exciting, contentious, and deeply scholarly study of a major Romantic figure, the author begins by looking sceptically at how Friedrich von Hardenberg, who died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight with barely eighty...

The German Novel in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Realism.
June 1, 1996... Most British and American studies of the German novel in the twentieth century themselves embody one of two main types of narrative about their subject. The first focuses on the development of German fiction in the decades after the Second World...

Vom expressionistischen Aufbruch zur inneren Emigration: Gunther Weisenborns weltanschauliche und kunstlerische Entwicklung in der Weimarer Republic und im Dritten Reich.
June 1, 1996... To the extent that anyone remembers Gunther Weisenborn (1902-1969), they do so for his post-1945 plays. This study attempts to rectify this situation by delineating Weisenborn's personal and artistic development up to 1940 and, in the process,...

German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism.
June 1, 1996... This anthology of 89 articles, extracts from letters and diaries, essays and manifestos first appeared under another imprint in 1993 and is now available as a paperback which will be extremely valuable for any art historian who knows no German....

Dada-Mappe Berlin 1920/21: Funf Rara, ein Rarissimum und ein Aufsatz zum Thema.
June 1, 1996... Although most major Dada publications have been available as reprints for a decade or more, there exists a penumbra of lesser-known Dada publications which are extremely hard to locate and virtually impossible to copy. Six of these have now been...

Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter: Letters and Reminiscences, 1902-1914.
June 1, 1996... Over 1,200 pages of correspondence between the painters Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter have been preserved from the years 1902-1914 and a complete edition in the original languages is currently being prepared. So what we have here is an...

Carl Zuckmayer Criticism: Tracing Endangered Fame.
June 1, 1996... Carl Zuckmayer is one of the most famous names in modern German literature, yet also, as the subtitle intimates, one which excites controversy and ambivalent appreciation. His life, work and outlook are shot through with tensions and apparent...

Der lebendige Schatten: Film In Der Literatur Bis, 1938.
June 1, 1996... Although the extensive cross-fertilization of academic disciplines which produced a new growth industry - 'Theory' - inevitably opened up literary studies to other areas of enquiry, this transformation of an essentially nineteenth-century...

Kafka's Castle and the Critical Imagination.
June 1, 1996... Dowden approaches the 'contested site' of Kafka's novel from a standpoint of cultural critique, with a concise and often illuminating contextualization of selected critics, before offering a brief concluding reading of his own. A chapter on the...

Everyone's Darling: Kafka and the Critics of His Short Fiction.
June 1, 1996... There is an inevitable gulf separating creative literature from the interpretation or criticism of such writing. Although poets and novelists never tire of reminding us that if they could have said things differently, they would have done just...

The Hapsburgs: Embodying Empire.
June 1, 1996... Some years ago historians of nineteenth-century Europe were taken by the notion of the 'invention of tradition': the construction of bogus traditions by monarchs and aristocrats which at least partly explained how they survived intact in a world...

The Solidarity of a Philosophie: Diderot, Russia and the Soviet Union.
June 1, 1996... Despite its explanatory preface, it is difficult to understand why Peter Kaufman thought it useful to disinter the nostrums of Soviet Marxism in 1994 and why he believes that a detailed re-examination of Soviet Marxist interpretations of Diderot...