Journal of European Studies articles from March 1995

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1995

Curtius and the position of the intellectual in German society.
March 1, 1995... I. It may seem paradoxical at first glance to associate the term 'intellectual' with Curtius or indeed with any other German academic, thinker or writer of the first half of the twentieth century. This term was born in the specifically French...

From Calvin to Cromwell through Beard. (John Calvin; Oliver Cromwell; Thomas Beard)
March 1, 1995... The image of Oliver Cromwell which survives today is unclear; in many ways it is self contradictory. He is remembered as a successful military leader and as an ambitious acquisitor of power. But he is also identified with an attitude loosely...

Literature, history and factidiversiality.
March 1, 1995... The twentieth century is commonly held to be an era when the existence of the individual is invaded by or subsumed under the wider collective adventure - or calamity. Helene in Simone de Beauvoir's Le Sang des autres exemplifies the experience as...

Bataille and surrealist pornography: dance or treadmill?. (Georges Bataille)
March 1, 1995... 'The actions of the mind when we masturbate are not a dance; they are a treadmill.[1] I. Pornography and surrealism I teach a university course called 'Literature and Totalitarianism 1920-1950'. Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye (1928) is...

Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print.
March 1, 1995... Desiderius Erasmus was an intellectual popularizer who fashioned his own greatness. Adopting the figure of St Jerome and equating the father of true scripture with the father of humane learning, Erasmus represented himself as a modern exemplar of...

British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions: 1783-1793.
March 1, 1995... In the first of these two books, the prolific Professor Black addresses a subject of long-standing interest to himself. His basic argument may be put simply: theories of international relations and emphases on the distinctive characteristics...

Convergence or Divergence? Britain and the Continent.
March 1, 1995... In the first of these two books, the prolific Professor Black addresses a subject of long-standing interest to himself. His basic argument may be put simply: theories of international relations and emphases on the distinctive characteristics of...

Trails in No-Man's Land: Essays in Literary and Cultural History.
March 1, 1995... Contrary to what the title might suggest, this is not a post-modern esoteric book of theories but a compilation of essays on a wide range of literary and cultural questions, written by a scholar who possesses the gift of writing as much as he is...

The Poet as Thinker: Holderlin in France.
March 1, 1995... In his introduction Lernout refers to Alessandro Pellegrini's Friedrich Holderlin: Sein Bild in der Forschung (Berlin, 1965) and considers his own book as a 'survey of the history of criticism' (p. 1); but he takes on more than this by attempting...

Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe.
March 1, 1995... This book grew out of a conference entitled 'Cinema and Europe: Diversity and Identity', held at the University of Ulster in March 1993, and is an important publication both in its range of contributors and in their critical examination of cinema...

The Female Protagonist in the Nouvelles of Mme de Villedieu.
March 1, 1995... The chief difficulty with Mme de Villedieu is simply getting access to the texts. As the bibliography to this study attests, only three or four short tales by this once quite popular novelist, as great an authority as any on the subject of the...

Benjamin Constant: A Biography.
March 1, 1995... In his preface to this biography, Dennis Wood sets out his 'modest purpose' - to provide an English-language biography of Constant, integrating the major discoveries in the field (notably the publication of Cecile) made since Sir Harold...

Feminisms of the Belle Epoque: A Historical and Literary Anthology.
March 1, 1995... Feminist scholars of all disciplines, as well as those with a lay interest in the social position of women, have grown accustomed to debates on women standing as political candidates, gender issues in language and education, the comparative...

Marcel Ayme: Uranus; La Tete des autres.
March 1, 1995... Marcel Ayme's 'Le Passe-Muraille' is the story of a man who is given a drug which enables him to pass through walls until one day its potency fails and he is left trapped inside. I have always read this as a wry commentary, in 1958, by Ayme on...

Jean-Paul Sartre: The Evolution of His Thought and Art.
March 1, 1995... This extensive book offers a lengthy and comprehensive account of Sartre's ambitions as philosopher, novelist, dramatist and biographer. Seventeen chapters trace the origin and development of a writing project that extends from childhood literary...

France Free and Unfree: The Literary and Sociological Image.
March 1, 1995... Rather than being a development of the earlier French Writers and Politics, 1936-1944 (1987), as Bill Craw claims in his introduction, this volume is a kind of sequel. Now, as then, four essays explore hitherto neglected socio-political features...

The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing.
March 1, 1995... This study builds on the view of analogy developed by Foucault and others, on the concept of the protean, uncontrollable nature of writing of the kind associated with deconstructionists and on a proto-Freudian view of the unconscious. Geoffroy...

Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France.
March 1, 1995... From Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press to twentieth-century agonizing on the possible effects of sex and violence on television, the debate has continued over ways of maintaining social control over the media-widened horizons and...

Between Mutiny and Obedience: The Case of the French Fifth Infantry Division During World War I.
March 1, 1995... In support of this case study of the mutinous French Fifth Infantry Division in the Great War, Leonard V. Smith suggests that national histories of the relationship between soldiers and society enhance our understanding of power relations in...

Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry: The Power of Artifice.
March 1, 1995... As Professor Terry states in his Preface to this fascinating volume, the first idea for such a book came at the end of the 1960s, after he had completed his justly celebrated anthology of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish poetry, long...

Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin-American Literature.
March 1, 1995... Celestina's Brood is a collection of ten essays, written over twenty years, on texts ranging from Fernando de Rojas's Celestina (1499) to Sarduy's Cobra (1972), with a preamble in which the author muses on his intellectual development and...

Benito Perez Galdos: 'Fortunata y Jacinta.'
March 1, 1995... Professor Turner's enthusiastic and readable contribution to this series makes positive offerings to the general reader and the professional Hispanist alike. The preceding study of this type, that of Ribbans in the Critical Guides to Spanish...

The Reframing of Realism: Galdos and the Discourses of the Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel.
March 1, 1995... This is a book that serious students of Galdos should read, not least for its critical apercus on the individual Galdosian texts it discusses. Professor Gold herself is extremely well read: her work is based on a thorough knowledge of primary and...

Lorca: Poet and Playwright: Essays in Honour of J.M. Aguirre.
March 1, 1995... This collection of seven essays on the poetry and theatre of Garcia Lorca spanning a chronological span from the Libro de poemas through to the rural trilogy is an apt tribute to the work of J. M. Aguirre as scholar and teacher, and forms a slim...

A Concise History of German Literature to 1900.
March 1, 1995... This book brings together twelve essays by American Germanists which tackle the problem of the periodization of German literature: 'The Early Middle Ages: Gothic and Old High German' (Richard H. Lawson), 'Middle High German' (Frank Tobin), 'Late...

Interpreting Goethe's 'Faust' Today.
March 1, 1995... If uniform critical consensus indicates the death of a literary text, we need have no fears for the critical health of Goethe's Faust. The twenty-two essays offered here, representing the fallout from two brainstorming sessions on Faust in...

Kleist on Stage: 1804-1987.
March 1, 1995... Despite his burning ambition to replace Goethe as the leading writer of his generation, Heinrich von Kleist was singularly unsuccessful as a playwright during his own lifetime. He never witnessed a single public performance of his work, although...

Nestroy and the Critics.
March 1, 1995... As the author of a densely informative study of Nestroy (1972), coordinating editor of the new Critical Edition of Nestroy's plays, and editor of the journal Nestroyana, Professor Yates is exceptionally qualified to guide us through the complex...

End of a Mission: Kafka's Search for Truth in His Last Stories.
March 1, 1995... Fickert argues that the search for truth through art is a central theme of many stories by Kafka, particularly his later ones, including those which do not self-evidently fall into the category of 'artist stories'. The 'artists' within the...

Das fruhe Bauhaus und Johannes Itten.
March 1, 1995... To accompany the exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the rounding of the Bauhaus, the Verlag Gerd Hatje has produced an immensely informative and generously illustrated book. It consists of eighteen essays (pp. 13-442), a selection...

Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism: 1753-1780.
March 1, 1995... Wenzel Anton Kaunitz is best known as an adept in the complexities of mid eighteenth-century international relations, an ingenious practitioner of what he called 'political algebra', author of the renversement des alliances of 1756 and for the...

Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany: 1887-1912.
March 1, 1995... The development of working class movements and the emergence of the intellectual as an identifiable social type were two of the most significant features of the evolution of European society in the nineteenth century. Both challenged the...

The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation.
March 1, 1995... One might wonder whether we really need yet another volume of essays devoted to the holocaust. The existing literature is immense and new publications continue to pour out. Relatively few, it seems, have anything genuinely new to offer. The...

Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s.
March 1, 1995... Few historians would disagree that the year 1945 marked a radical break in German history. It might therefore come as something of a surprise to find a volume of essays devoted to the theme of continuity in German historiography from the 1930s to...