Journal of European Studies articles from March 1999

Journal of European Studies archives from March 1999

La langoureuse Asie...the European view of Asia.
March 1, 1999... La langoureuse Asie et la brulante Afrique, Tout un monde lointain (...) Baudelaire, La Chevelure Il n'est jamais sur que l' 'asiatisme' ne soit, dans la litterature, autre chose qu'un mirage enchante. Malleret, L'Exotisme...

Pierre Loti in Japan: impossible exoticism.(French writer)
March 1, 1999... L'absence de seduction d'une race, lorsque je circule parmi ses representants tres nombreux, me fiche le cafard. Andre Gide, 31 janvier 1939, Carnets d'Egypte 1. Races We very often notice Loti's racism towards the Japanese...

Ernst Junger's thematic use of the Orient and Asia.(German writer)
March 1, 1999... Even a cursory historical examination reveals the overwhelming extent and intensity of the relations between the Orient, including Asia,(1) and German literature.(2) Since the Middle Ages, occidental literature has been absorbing subject matter...

Andre Malraux and the temptation of the Orient in 'La Condition humaine'.(French writer)
March 1, 1999... When he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for La Condition humaine in 1933, Andre Malraux said that he had written it 'pour soutenir la lutte des communistes chinois [qui avaient] toute sa sympathie'.(1) Malraux had absorbed Oriental culture due to...

Asia in the work of Leopardi.(Italian poet)
March 1, 1999... Leopardi was not a great traveller. In fact he imagined his foreign travels, and it was only his hatred for Recanati that led him to stay elsewhere in Italy. For him, Recanati was a prison from which he wanted to escape. However, escaping from...

Towards modern exotic literature.
March 1, 1999... In the late sixties India was fashionable, and when I was a teenager, it was one of the parts of the world about which I most often dreamed up exotic fantasies. Between friends, we devoured poems and novels about India (we found the...

Europe from down under: a case-study in the development of European studies programmes outside Europe.
March 1, 1999... Introduction: the paradigm-change in European Studies research The Australian Academy of the Humanities recently published its report, Australian Research Council Strategic Disciplinary Review of Research and Research Training in the...

Europe. A Cultural History.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Peter Rietbergen. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xvi + 516. [pounds]16.99. Stendhal points out that if you want to get on in society, you need to develop the art of looking interested while somebody tells you what you already...

Writing National Histories. Western Europe Since 1800.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Stefan Berger, Mark Donovan and Kevin Passmore. London: Routledge, 1999. Pp. xv + 314. [pounds]15.99. Much that appears under the banners of historiography is tendentious and ephemeral. This is especially true of much...

Meetings with Mallarme in Contemporary French Culture.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Michael Temple. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1998. Pbk, [pounds]14.99 Writing to Viele-Griffin in 1891, Mallarme refers to 'l'eparse chuchoterie de ma solitude'. It seems at times that we, in order to detect a meaning,...

La Litterature des Lointains: Histoire de L'Exotisme Europeen au XX.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Jean-Marc Moura. Paris: Editions Honore Champion, 1998. Pp. 488. FFr. 410,-. While these two books stand independently, they also constitute a diptych round the key words in their respective titles, exotisme and l'ailleurs, both terms...

Europe Litteraire et L'Ailleurs.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Jean-Marc Moura. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1998. Pp. 200. FFr. 128,-. While these two books stand independently, they also constitute a diptych round the key words in their respective titles, exotisme and l'ailleurs, both...

Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Jordan Stump. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. 192. [pounds]33.00. Onomastics: mastic is both glue and gum, which of course can be chewed. Jordan Stump onomasticates. Do we need to swallow him whole? A name by any other...

The German Face of Edgar Allan Poe: A Study of Literary References in His Works.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Thomas S. Hansen with Burton R. Pollin. Columbia: Camden House, 1995. Pp. xii + 140. [pounds] 30.00. In this book, a professor of German (Thomas S. Hansen), with the help of a professor of English (Burton R. Pollin), sets out to provide...

Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in 'Die Gartenlaube', 1853-1900.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Kirsten Belgum. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Pp. xxx + 237. [pounds]43.75. As Kirsten Belgum concedes, the popular nineteenth-century magazine Die Gartenlaube (garden house or arbour) has come to represent for...

The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Helen Chambers. Columbia: Camden House, 1997. Pp. xiv + 172. [pounds] 40.00. It is to be welcomed that Fontane criticism has become the subject of a volume in the Camden House series 'Literary Criticism in Perspective'. According to the...

Geschichte der Deutschsprachigen Literature 1870-1900. Von der Reichsgrundung zur Jahrhundertwende.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Peter Sprengel. Munich: Beck, 1998. Pp. xix + 825. Dm 78,-. The long-established history of German literature initiated by Helmut de Boor and Richard Newald is still being revised and extended. Though some recent volumes, like the...

Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell and Daniel W. Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 351. [pounds]40.00. Famously, Nietzsche remarked that the world is only justified - or bearable as an aesthetic phenomenon (The...

Karl Kraus and the Critics.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Harry Zohn. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, Literary Criticism in Perspective.) Columbia: Camden House, 1997. Pp. xv + 161. [pounds]50.00. The apparent political oscillations of Karl Kraus's career have seldom...

Alfons Petzold - Stefan Zweig: Briefwechsel.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by David Turner (Austrian Culture 27). New York, Washington D.C./Baltimore, Boston, Berne, Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna and Paris: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 190. [pounds]27.00. Alfons Petzold (1882-1923) is the one left-wing Austrian...

Manifeste: Intentionalitat.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Hubert van den Berg and Ralf Gruttemeier. (Avant Garde Critical Studies, vol. 11) Amsterdam and Atlanta/GA: Rodopi, 1998. Pp. 392. [pounds]17.00. This volume is part of the series 'Avant Garde Critical Studies' which, over the...

Abgrund des Widerspruchs: Das Leben des Johannes R. Becher.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Jens-Fietje Dwars. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1998. Pp. 861. DM98,- Ever since the Berlin Wall came down, we have been waiting for a biography of the poet, playwright and dramatist Johannes R. Becher that was characterized neither by fawning...

Avantgarde und Moderne.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Walter Fahnders. Stuttgart and Weimar: J.B. Metzler, 1998. Pp. x + 318. DM39,80. When writing this extraordinarily well-researched 'Lehrbuch' (whose closely-printed Bibliography extends over 34 pages and lists works in French and...

The Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Sander L. Gilman and Jack Zipes. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. Pp. xxxiv + 864. [pounds]35.00. Long before Wilhelm Stapel articulated the notion of a German-Jewish 'symbiosis' in the subtitle of his collected...

Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Ritchie Robertson and Edward Timms. Austrian Studies Vol. 8. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Pp. xix + 210. [pounds]39.50. Long before Wilhelm Stapel articulated the notion of a German-Jewish 'symbiosis' in the...

German-Jewish History in Modern Times, vol 2: Emancipation and Acculturation, 1780-1871.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Michael Brenner, Steffi Jersch-Wenzel and Michael A Meyer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 422. [pounds]40.00. This second volume in a projected four-volume history of the Jews in Germany easily matches the high...

Germans into Nazis.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Peter Fritzsche. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 270. [pounds]16.50. Most accounts of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism begin with the defeat of Germany in 1918. Typically, they emphasize the way in which...

Modern Germany. Politics, Culture and Society.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Peter James. London: Routledge, 1998. Pp. xii +220. [pounds]12.99. It will be tempting to dismiss as out of date any book bearing the title Modern Germany published in 1998 which does not deal with the election which ended the...

Historical Dictionary of Warsaw.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Adriana Gozdecka-Sanford. Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1997. Pp. xxxviii + 319. [pounds]47.05. This historical dictionary published by the Scarecrow Press (in its Historical Dictionaries of Cities series) provides a wealth...

The Cambridge Companion to the Classical Russian Novel.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxvi + 312. [pounds]14.95. This is an excellent volume, which ideally should be in every departmental library and on every student's...