Journal of European Studies articles from March 1996

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1996

The conflict of instincts in 'Le Roi se meurt.' (drama)
March 1, 1996... In L'Impromptu de l'Alma, Ionesco defined theatre as 'la projection sur scene du monde du dedans' (TC, 465)(1) and certain of his plays, for instance, Victimes du devoir, with its dramatization of the conflict within Choubert's unconscious mind,...

Gabriel Peri and the poetry of commemoration.
March 1, 1996... Gabriel Peri was born in Toulon in 1902. He joined the Communist Party in 1920. He was twice imprisoned, in 1921 and 1923, for political agitation and for opposing the French occupation of the Ruhr (on the latter occasion sustaining an eleven day...

Herzen versus Schopenhauer: an answer to pessimism. (philosophers Alexander Herzen and Arthur Schopenhauer)
March 1, 1996... If I can't cheerfully describe myself as an optimist, I must insist that I'm an anti-pessimist of the utmost vehemence - ferociously anti-pessimist, in fact, for there's no other realistic form my anger can take. Robert Simpson: 'The...

A problem in self-identity: Russian intellectual thought in the context of the French Revolution.
March 1, 1996... No other country in Europe has been so perplexed about its self-identification as Russia. Since the nineteenth century, Russian intellectuals have pondered whether their country was European or the result of some other cultural entity. The...

Literature, Education and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832.
March 1, 1996... Richardson's interests in Literature, Education and Romanticism are not, as the title perhaps implies, confined to the role of literature in the educational developments during these five decades of English social history. Literature usefully...

Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820.
March 1, 1996... Richardson's interests in Literature, Education and Romanticism are not, as the title perhaps implies, confined to the role of literature in the educational developments during these five decades of English social history. Literature usefully...

Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837.
March 1, 1996... Richardson's interests in Literature, Education and Romanticism are not, as the title perhaps implies, confined to the role of literature in the educational developments during these five decades of English social history. Literature usefully...

Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Utopia.
March 1, 1996... As the epitaphs to communism are composed, intellectual history comes into its kingdom. To borrow Owen Chadwick's phrase, 'intellectual historians look for bumps in philosophy' to find in them the origins and motive force of great historical...

Stendhal: 'Le Rouge et le Noir.'
March 1, 1996... The typical undergraduate response to Le Rouge et le Noir consists in equal parts of fascination with the story of Julien Sorel, bewilderment concerning the political and social context of the 'Chronique de 1830', and disorientation with regard...

Stendhal's Italy: Themes of Political and Religious Satire.
March 1, 1996... As the subtitle indicates, this study of Stendhal's relations with his pays d'election focuses on historical, rather than psychological issues. Crouzet's Stendhal et l'italianite, with its emphasis on Brulard and the egotistical, is set firmly to...

Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism.
March 1, 1996... 'Schizoanalysis insists on restoring the full range of social and historical factors to psychoanalytic explanations of psychic structure and proclivities' (xiii), and also on doing the converse. More specifically, Holland explores the proposition...

The Liberation of France: Image and Event.
March 1, 1996... Historical narratives speak as much of the present as of the past. The same process is enacted when we commemorate something. In looking back we pause, and in that reflective pause we learn and look forward. Thus, those who still worry about the...

Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany.
March 1, 1996... Much attention has been devoted in recent years to aspects of what Arno J. Mayer labelled the 'persistence of the old regime' in nineteenth-century Europe. This has involved a study of both the survival of pre-modern structures and attitudes and...

Marchenkinder - Zeitgenossen: Untersuchungen zur Kinderliteratur der Weimarer Republik.
March 1, 1996... The paradox in writing about writing for children - and often of children's literature itself - is that such writing is generally an adult conversation producing only a fantasy of 'the child'. Helga Karrenbrock's dissertation-based study of the...

Georg Kaiser and His Critics: A Profile of Expressionism's Leading Playwright.
March 1, 1996... This is an extremely useful book, which packs a great deal of information into a very short compass. Among its attractive features are a chronological bibliography of the dramatic works and novels Kaiser completed, and a detailed listing of...

Ernst Junger im 20. Jahrhundert.
March 1, 1996... The grand old man of German literature has just turned one hundred, the latest episode of a remarkable life and literary career that have been dogged by seemingly never-ending controversy and debate. Muller and Segeberg have produced a book that...

Johann Cristoph Gottsched: 1700-1766.
March 1, 1996... The author is a contributor to the recently completed critical edition of Gottsched's selected works begun in 1968 by the late Dr Joachim Birke. As P. M. Mitchell indicates, the Ausgewahlte Werke have helped to bring about a welcome re-evaluation...

The Salon Album of Vera Sudeikin-Stravinsky.
March 1, 1996... This is facsimile reproduction at its very best and incorporated within a scholarly work of distinction. The album which has been reproduced belonged to a lady whose name spelt out in full indicates her passage from spinsterhood to third...

Russian Critics on the Cinema of Glasnost.
March 1, 1996... One of the biggest problems faced by students of Russian cinema is the unavailability of Russian language criticism in the West. This is a two-fold problem for Russian speakers and non-speakers alike: Russian film journals are difficult to...

The Russian Far East: A History.
March 1, 1996... Vladivostok has never really managed to dominate the East, as its name implies it should, and has still to achieve anything like its fair share of the prosperity of the Pacific Rim. 'This place is a dump', Boris Eltsin was reported to have said...

Jews and Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Russia.
March 1, 1996... Studies of the Jewish community in Tsarist Russia have tended to emphasize the Jews' passivity in that society by portraying them solely as the victims of bureaucratic and popular anti-Semitism. In focusing on the role played by Jewish activists...

Stalin's Cold War: Soviet Strategies in Europe, 1943 to 1956.
March 1, 1996... Few areas of research in international history are as contentious as the origins and causes of the Cold War, probably because few areas of historical enquiry have been so subject to the fluctuations of international politics. Moreover,...

Russians Beyond Russia: The Politics of National Identity.
March 1, 1996... Among the myriad problems posed by the demise of the Soviet Union has been the question of the various national diaspora scattered throughout the territory. Most international attention has been paid to areas of conflict, such as the...

TEXT counter TEXT: Rereadings in Russian Literary History.
March 1, 1996... Alexander Zholkovsky has been recognized as one of the leading Russian literary critics and theorists of literature for the last twenty-five years, ever since the publication, with his now fellow emigre, Iurii Shcheglov, of 'Towards a "Theme -...