Journal of European Studies articles from June 2001

Journal of European Studies archives from June 2001

Literature and reality.
June 1, 2001... DEREK ALLAN (*) "To decide with what attitudes and expectations aesthetic objects are best approached,' Monroe Beardsley has written, 'we have to ask... whether or in what way they connect with reality, that is with the rest of the world...

Amphibiologie: ethnographic surrealism in French discourse on jazz.
June 1, 2001... MATTHEW F. JORDAN (*) Ethnography: that science which has something magnificent about it, placing all civilizations on the same foot and considering no parts of them a priori more valuable than the others. Michel Leiris The white...

Kazimuk -- Jewish Krakow.
June 1, 2001... Is it at all possible that no trace should be left of the Jewish presence in Eastern Europe? Some traces are certainly left; but whether in the long run they will have more meaning than the traces that the Red Indians have left on the American...

Fall out: World War II and the shaping of postwar Europe. (Book reviews - European studies).
June 1, 2001... Fall Out: World War II and the Shaping of Postwar Europe. By Peter Calvocoressi. London & New York: Longman, 1997. Pp. v + 202. This is a small book about a large subject: the part played by the Second World War in the shaping of modern...

The master and the slave: Lukacs, Bakhtin, and the ideas of their time. (Book reviews - European studies).
June 1, 2001... The Master and the Slave: Lukacs, Bakhtin, and the Ideas of Their Time. By Galin Tihanov. Oxford: OUP, 2000. Pp. xiv + 327. [pounds sterling]45.00. This is a brilliant comparative study of the ideas of G. Lukacs and M. Bakhtin, two major...

France-Germany in the twenty-first century. (BOOK reviews - European studies).
June 1, 2001... France-Germany in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Patrick McCarthy. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi + 202. [pounds sterling]30.00. It is a commonplace that the history of European integration since 1945 has been...

Old regime France 1648-2788. (Book reviews - French studies).
June 1, 2001... Old Regime France 1648-2788. Edited by William Doyle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 293. The first volume of the new Short Oxford History of France, a project under the general editorship of William Doyle, is a valuable work...

Watteau and the cultural politics of eighteenth-century France. (Book reviews - French studies).
June 1, 2001... Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France. By Julie Anne Plax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 260. [pounds sterling]52.50. As familiar as the doleful figure of Watteau's Gilles which adorns the cover...

On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as one of the first authors of the revolution. (Book reviews - French studies).
June 1, 2001... On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution. By James Swenson. Stanford: University Press, 2000. Pp. 320. [pounds sterling]12.95 (Pbk). Beneath the self-consciously derivative and anachronistic terms...

Michel Tournier and the metaphor of fiction. (Book reviews - French studies).
June 1, 2001... Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction. By David Platten. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 250. [pounds sterling]15.99 (Pbk). Michel Tournier has been well served by his English critics. To the stimulating...

Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and theory. Questions of difference. (Book review - French studies).
June 1, 2001... Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and Theory. Questions of Difference. By Ann Jefferson. (Cambridge Studies in French, lxiv) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 214. [pounds sterling]37.50. Much modern French thought has been...

The Tale of Bluebeard in German literature from the eighteenth century to the present. (Book review -- German studies).
June 1, 2001... The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. By Mererid Puw Davies. (Oxford Modem Languages and Literature Monographs), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001. Pp. xiii + 279. [pounds sterling]40.00. One...

Schiller's early dramas. A critical history. (Book reviews - German studies).
June 1, 2001... Schiller's Early Dramas. A Critical History. By David Pugh. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 2000 (distributed by Boydell and Brewer, Woodbridge, Suffolk). Pp. 231. [pounds sterling]40.00. The benefits of this survey of critical writing on...

Adalbert Stifter's late prose: The mania for moderation. (Book reviews - German studies).
June 1, 2001... Adalbert Stifter's Late Prose: The Mania for Moderation. By Helena Ragg-Kirkby. Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2000. Pp. 137. What distinguishes this book from the other Stifter criticism to which it is related (for...

Adolf Behne: Essays zu seiner kunst- und architekturkritik. (Book reviews - German studies).
June 1, 2001... Adolf Behne: Essays zu seiner Kunst- und Architekturkritik. Edited by Magdalena Bushart. Berlin: Gebruder Mann Verlag, 2000. Pp. 288. DM 198.00. In recent years, Adolf Behne (1885-1948), the left-wing art and architecture critic and hugely...

Germany since unification. The development of the Berlin Republic. (Book reviews - German studies).
June 1, 2001... Germany since Unification. The Development of the Berlin Republic. Edited by Klaus Larres. 2nd edn. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. lxii + 261. [pounds sterling]16.99 (Pbk). These essays were first published in 1998. They are...

Venice reconsidered: The history and civilization of an Italian city-state, 1297-1797. (Book reviews - Italian studies).
June 1, 2001... Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797. Edited by John Martin and Dennis Romano. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 538. o35.00. Venice Reconsidered provides...

Catherine the Great and the British: A pot-pourri of essays. (Book reviews - Russian studies).
June 1, 2001... Catherine the Great and the British: A Pot-Pourri of Essays. By Anthony Cross. Nottingham: Astra Press, 2001. Pp. iv + 115. [pounds sterling]13.50. Professor Cross's new offering features ten essays, nine of which have appeared before,...

The Cambridge companion to modern Russian culture. (Book reviews - Russian studies).
June 1, 2001... The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture. Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky. Cambridge: CUP, 1998. Pp. 372. [pounds sterling]13.95. For all its paperback format this is a meaty volume encompassing all aspects of Russian culture:...

D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English life 1890-1939. (Book reviews - Russian studies).
June 1, 2001... D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life 1890-1939. By G. S. Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 398. [pounds sterling]65.00. By the time the NKVD knocked at the door of his squalid Moscow apartment one midsummer night in...

Mandel'shtam's poetics: A challenge to postmodernism. (Book reviews - Russian studies).
June 1, 2001... Mandel'shtam's Poetics: A Challenge to Postmodernism. By Elena Glazov-Corrigan. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. xvii + 194. [pounds sterling]30.00. The book is impressive because of the author's courageous...

The Stalinist penal system: A statistical history of Soviet repression and terror 1930-1953. (Book reviews - Russian studies).
June 1, 2001... The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror 1930-1953. By J. Otto Pohl. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland & Co. Inc., 1997. Pp. ix + 165. This is a statistical survey covering various aspects of the...