Journal of European Studies articles from June 2000

Journal of European Studies archives from June 2000

'Soft framing': a comparative aesthetics of painting and photography.
June 1, 2000... E. R. DAVEY [*] 1 Over the years, a lot of work has been done on the relation of photography to painting. [1] For the most part, this work has concentrated on influences between the two media: painting on photography; photography on...

Film as memory: Siegfried Kracauer's psychological history of German 'National Culture'.
June 1, 2000... MICHAEL MACK [*] Introduction Kracauer's From Caligari to Hitler has been criticized as a biased, reductive and unscholarly account of both German film and German history. Evaluations range from outright condemnation to critical...

Christianity, humanism and myth: problems of interpretation in Sartre's Bariona ou le fils du tonnerre.
June 1, 2000... J. H. GILLESPIE [*] A considerable amount of critical attention has been devoted to Sartre's theatre, particularly Les Mouches, Huis clos, Les Mains sales, Le Diable et le bon Dieu and Les Sequestres d'Altona. However, Sartre's earliest...

The Bird and the Word: France's literary parrots [1].
June 1, 2000... COLIN NETTELBECK [*] Thanks to Julian Barnes, Flaubert's interest in parrots is well known. But what Barnes does not tell us is that the parrot has spread its wings over much vaster literary territory. Readers of English literature will...

A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720.(Review)
June 1, 2000... A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720. By Barbara J. Shapiro. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2000. Pp. x + 284. [pound]32.50. For many years, the debate has continued about the nature of the great transition from the medieval to the early...

Facing the Public. Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Facing the Public. Portraiture in the Aftermath of the French Revolution. By Tony Halliday. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1999 (The Barber Institute's critical perspectives in Art History). Pp. viii + 229. [pound]48.50....

Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: the Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Louis Prieur, Revolutionary Artists: the Public, the Populace, and Images of the French Revolution. By Warren Roberts. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 370. 115 illustrations. $24.95. ...

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust. By Janell Watson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. x + 227. [Pound]40.00. The second volume of Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre's memoirs lament the passing of the art of...

Proust, the Body and Literary Form.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Proust, the Body and Literary Form. By Michael R. Finn. (Cambridge Studies in French 59). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 207. [pound]40.00. Michael Finn's founding proposition is declared without further ado in the first...

Barthes: Mythologies.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Barthes: Mythologies. By Andrew Leak. (Critical Guides to French Texts, no. 107.) London: Grant and Cutler, 1994. Pp. 82. [pound]4.95. Mythologies (1957) is the first book of modern theory to make it into Grant and Cutler's 'Critical Guides...

Goethe in East Germany 1949-1989. Toward A History of Goethe Reception in the GDR.(includes additional reviews)(Review)
June 1, 2000... Goethe in East Germany 1949-1989. Toward A History of Goethe Reception in the GDR. By Daniel J. Farrelly. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998. (Distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk.) Pp. 168. [pound]45.00. Lukacs Reads...

Unwrapping Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Unwrapping Weimar: Essays in Cultural Studies and Local Knowledge. Edited by Burkhard Henke, Susanne Kord and Simon Richter. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp. xi + 39. [pounds]40.00. In 1995, the Bulgarian-born...

Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar. By Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 1999. Pp. xvi + 264. [pound]45.00. Metempsychosis is, according to The...

Lovers, Parricides, and Highwaymen: Aspects of Sturm und Drang Drama.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Lovers, Parricides, and Highwaymen: Aspects of Sturm und Drang Drama. By Bruce Duncan. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 1999. Pp. vii + 267. [pound]40.00. In Dichtung und Wahrheit Goethe devoted much of Part 3 to a...

Selected Writings, 2 vols.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Selected Writings. By Franz Baermann Steiner. Edited by Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon. Vol. 1: Taboo, Truth and Religion. Pp. xiv + 279. Vol. 2: Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilisation. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. xv + 296....

Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-war German Novel: a Study of Novels by Johnson, Frisch, Wolf, Becker and Grass.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Narrative and Fantasy in the Post-war German Novel: a Study of Novels by Johnson, Frisch, Wolf, Becker and Grass. By Chloe E. M. Paver. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 225. [pound]40.00. The title of this very useful study is...

Modern Germany. An Encyclopedia of History, People and Culture. 1871-1990.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Modern Germany. An Encyclopedia of History, People and Culture. 1871-1990. Edited by Dieter K. Buse and Juergen C. Doerr. New York: Garland, 1998. 2 vols. Pp. lii + 1158. [pound]115.00. Historical encyclopedias and dictionaries are often of...

German-Jewish History in Modern Times. Volume 3: Integration in Dispute. 1871-1918.(vol. 4 also reviewed)(Review)
June 1, 2000... German-Jewish History in Modern Times. Volume 3: Integration in Dispute. 1871-1918. By Peter Pulzer, Monica Richarz, Steven Lowenstein and Paul Mendes-Flohr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 466. [pound]40.00. ...

Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Ritualized Violence Russian Style: The Duel in Russian Culture and Literature. By Irma Reyfman. (Studies of the Harriman Institute). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 364. [pound]30.00. The first stab of this study is...

The Poetry. of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos.(Review)
June 1, 2000... The Poetry. of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos. By Neil C. McKinlay. London: Tamesis, 1999. Pp. 183, [pound]30.00. Any critical contribution to the scholarship on the work of the gifted Spanish poet Luis Cernuda is to be welcomed...