Journal of European Studies articles from March 2000

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2000

Aspects and uses of ekphrasis in relation to photography, 1816-186O [*].(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... EMMANUEL HERMANGE [+] 'La description d'une photographie est [grave{a}] lettre impossible (...) D[acute{e}]crire un dessin est plus facile.' Roland Barthes, 'Le message photographique' (1961) Alongside photography, I intend to discuss...

Poetry, the picturesque and the photogenic quality in the nineteenth century [*].(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... PHILIPPE ORTEL [+] Studies on the relationship between literature and photography often feature the notion of the paradigm. Although photography may be seen as a foil by many writers, it is certainly present in their imaginations, taking...

Frederick Evans: photography as mediation.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... CLIVE SCOTT [*] I would like to begin with two definitions of photography. The first belongs to Georges Potonni[acute{e}]e, to his Histoire de la d[acute{e}]couverte de la photographie (1925): Photography is the art of making permanent...

Ritual and deception: photography and Thomas Hardy.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... MARK DURDEN [*] On 3 June 1882 in the autobiographic notes in The Life of Thomas Hardy the writer has this to say about the art of fiction writing: As in looking at a carpet, by following one colour a certain pattern is suggested, by...

The photograph in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte (1892) [1].(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2000... PAUL EDWARDS [*] Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898, a Belgian author who lived in Paris and wrote in French), published his novel Bruges-la-Morte in 1892, with 35 half-tone reproductions of original photographs supplied by the Parisian 'image...

Photographic portraiture and the forgetting of colour.
March 1, 2000... LINDSAY SMITH[*] The annual autumn display of the National Portrait Gallery of London's John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, named after the journalist and film historian who had a passion for movie-star gazing, reminds us of the...

Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 352. [pounds]19.50. Given the ubiquity of the unmarried throughout European history,...

The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries. By Peter Burke. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. The Making of Europe. Pp. xii + 284. [pounds]19.95. This new series, underwritten by five European publishers (Beck in Germany, Critica in Spain,...

The Enlightenment.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Enlightenment. Edited by David Williams. (Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 529. [pounds]15.95. This book is described as 'the most convenient and accessible...

Complots et conjurations dans l'Europe moderne.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Complots et conjurations dans l'Europe moderne. Ed. by Yves-Marie Berc[acute{e}] et Elena Fasano Guarini. Rome: [acute{E}]cole francaise de Rome, 1996. In these multifarious proceedings from an international colloquium held in Rome in...

Auschwitz im Widerstreit: Zur Darstellung der Shoah in Film, Philosophie und Literatur.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Auschwitz im Widerstreit: Zur Darstellung der Shoah in Film, Philosophie und Literatur. By Sven Kramer. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universit[ddot{a}]ts-Verlag, 1999. Pp. 141. DM38,-. In The Drowned and the Saved (1986), Primo Levi defined with...

Darwinismus und Literatur. Naturwissenschaftliche und literarische Intelligenz in Osterreich, 1859-1914.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Darwinismus und Literatur. Naturwissenschaftliche und literarische Intelligenz in [ddot{O}]sterreich, 1859-1914. By Werner Michler. Literaturgeschichte in Studien und Quellen, Band 2. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: B[ddot{o}]hlau, 1999. Pp. 560....

The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. By Nicholas White. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 214. [pounds]40.00. This is a challenging, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book. It is one of that...

Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature. By Warren Motte. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. iv + 213. The majority of studies so far on Minimalism have appeared in the form of articles. This...

Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition. By Judith Ryan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 256. [pounds]40.00. The basic premise of Judith Ryan's book is that '[i]f the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between...

Pfemfert: Erinnerungen und Abrechnungen: Texte und Briefe.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Pfemfert: Erinnerungen und Abrechnungen: Texte und Briefe. Edited by Lisbeth Exner and Herbert Kapfer. Munich: belleville Verlag Michael Farin, 1999. Pp. 676. DM98,-. Surprisingly little is known about Franz Pfemfert, who edited Die...

The Magic Bishop. Hugo Ball, Dada Poet.(Review)
March 1, 2000... The Magic Bishop. Hugo Ball, Dada Poet. By Erdmute Wenzel White. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1998. Pp. 254. [pounds]35.00. As Erdmute Wenzel White acknowledges in her introduction, making a case for Hugo Ball as a major poet presents quite a...

Ambivalence Transcended: A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-Hulshoff.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Ambivalence Transcended: A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-H[ddot{u}]lshoff. By Gertrud Bauer Pickar. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1997. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture. Pp. 381 + xiii. [pounds]50.00. This...

Thomas Mann's Joseph And His Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Thomas Mann's Joseph And His Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty. By William E. McDonald (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (Camden House),...

Poland's Last King and English Culture. Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Poland's Last King and English Culture. Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798. By Richard Butterwick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. Pp. 376. In the 'Introduction' to his book Richard Butterwick describes the reburial of the remains of...

Lucid Dreams: The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Lucid Dreams: The Films of Krzysztof Kie[acute{s]lowski. Edited by Paul Coates. (Cinema Voices Series). Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Flicks Books, 1999. Pp vi + 234. [pounds]14.95. In the interview which closes Lucid Dreams, Kie[acute{s]lowski...

Russia. A History.(Review)
March 1, 2000... Russia. A History. Edited by Gregory L. Freeze. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 478. [pounds]25.00. This beautifully produced book is not so much A History as histories, an introduction to the Russian...