Journal of European Studies articles from March 2002

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2002

Bakhtin after the boom: pro and contra (+).(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... My topic today is the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895--1975) and the contours of his posthumous life. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed an explosion of interest in Bakhtin, a thinker who hitherto had been almost wholly unknown outside his...

Amnesia and anamnesis in the works of Walter Kempowski: language, history and evasion of guilt.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... In his novels Tadelloser & Wolff (1971) and Uns geht's ja noch gold (1972), (1) part of his Deutsche Chronik, Walter Kempowski describes the history of a family in Rostock from the eve of World War II to the immediate post-war period. The...

Savagery, salvage, salves and salvation: the historico-theological debate of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.(Critical Essay)
March 1, 2002... Because Louis de Bernieres's best-seller is normally and exclusively read as a love story, and because it is also so evocative of Greece -- two features exploited to the full by the film version (2001) -- nonprofessional readers often complain...

Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. (Book Reviews: British, European and Comparative Studies).
March 1, 2002... Early Modern Europe: An Oxford History. Edited by Euan Cameron. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxxi + 402. [pounds sterling]25. We have moved on a long way from the time when modem European history was said to begin with the...

Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire.
March 1, 2002... Black Ivory. Slavery in the British Empire. By James Walvin. 2nd edition. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. Pp. xx + 324. [pound sterling]14.99. This is the second edition of an important work first published in 1992. Walvin has used the opportunity...

Lloyd George and the Lost Peace: From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940.
March 1, 2002... Lloyd George and the Lost Peace. From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940. By Antony Lentin. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvii + 182. [pounds sterling]40.00. This fascinating work offers much for those interested in Lloyd George, the...

The Second World War. A People's History.
March 1, 2002... The Second World War. A People's History. By Joanna Bourke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 270 pp. [pounds sterling]14.99. This is a difficult book to review. It is an impressive and well-written study, wideranging, as...

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe.
March 1, 2002... The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. By James Van Horn Melton. (New Approaches to European History.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 284. [pound sterling]13.95 (pbk). Intended as a work of synthesis...

The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism.
March 1, 2002... The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. By Robert Vilain. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Pp. 376. [pounds sterling]50.00. This is a rich and densely informative publication. Vilain examines in telling detail the European...

Dystopian Fiction East and West, Universe of Terror and Trial.
March 1, 2002... Dystopian Fiction East and West, Universe of Terror and Trial. By Erika Gottlieb. Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. Pp. 323. Erika Gottlieb is no newcomer to the subject of dystopia: her book on...

Nestroy: Die Launen des Gluckes; Nestroy: Eine Biographie in 30 Szenen; and Nestroy in Munchen: Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Theatermuseums 28. September 2001 - 6. Januar 2002. (Book Reviews: Austrian Studies).
March 1, 2002... Nestroy. Die Launen des Gluckes. By Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler. Vienna: Zsolnay, 2001. Pp. 175. [euro]15.90 Nestroy. Eine Biographie in 30 Szenen. By Walter Schubler. Salzburg: Residenz, 2001. Pp. 318. [euro]24.90. Nestroy in Miinchen....

Rethinking Vienna 1900.
March 1, 2002... Rethinking Vienna 1900. Edited by Steven Beller. (Austrian History, Culture, and Society, vol. 3.) New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp. xi + 292. [pounds sterling]17.00 (paperback). `Vienna 1900' is shorthand for the now familiar...

A Political Academy in Paris, 1724-1731: The Entresol and its Members. (Book Reviews: French Studies).
March 1, 2002... A Political Academy in Paris, 1724-1731: The Entresol and its Members. By Nick Childs. (SVEC, 2000: Vol. 10.) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2000. Pp. xi + 289. [pounds sterling]55.00. This is the first book devoted entirely to the Entresol,...

Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros.
March 1, 2002... Apollinaire et Les Mamelles de Tiresias. La revanche d'Eros. By Peter Read. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes (Collection Interferences), 2000. Pp. 246. FF 120. Famously, the term 'surrealism' was coined by Apollinaire in the...

French Rugby Football: A Cultural History.
March 1, 2002... French Rugby Football: A Cultural History. By Philip Dine. Berg: Oxford, 2001. Pp. 229. [pounds sterling]42.99 (hardback), [pounds sterling]14.99 (paperback). Taking as his starting point France's difference, Dine offers a cultural history...

Publications of the Goethe Society of North America. (Book Reviews: German Studies).
March 1, 2002... Goethe Yearbook. Publications of the Goethe Society of North America. Vol. 10. Edited by Thomas P. Saine and Simon Richter. Book Review Editor: Ellis Dye. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2001. Pp. 334. [pounds sterling]45.00. In December...

Criticism and the Literary Outsider. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Case of Hans Henny Jahnn. Criticism and the Literary Outsider. By Thomas P. Freeman. Rochester: Camden House, 2001. Pp. xvii + 261. [pounds sterling]40.00. This survey of the criticism of Hans Henny Jahnn has as its focus 'the...

Georg Buchner's Woyzeck: A History of its Criticism. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Georg Buchner's Woyzeck: A History of its Criticism. By David G. Richards. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective.) Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Camden House, 2001. Pp. xiv + 167....

The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Child's View of the Third Reich in German Literature. By Debbie Pinfold. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (Modem Languages and Literature Monographs.) Pp. xi + 279. [pounds sterling]45.00. This book is a reworked and revised...

The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... The Promised Land? Feminist Writing in the German Democratic Republic. By Lorna Martens. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. x + 273. $19.95. In Irmtraud Morgner's novel Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz nach...

Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871. (Book Reviews).
March 1, 2002... Moltke and the German Wars, 1864-1871. By Arden Bucholz. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. ix + 240. [pounds sterling] 13.99. This up-to-date study is especially impressive for its thorough attempt to explain why and how Moltke was able to...

Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. (Book Reviews: Russian Studies).
March 1, 2002... Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War. By Jeffrey Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 (hardback), 2001 (paperback). Pp. xx + 319. [pounds sterling] 12.50 (paperback). After his...

Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age. (Book Reviews: Spanish Studies).
March 1, 2002... Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age. By Anthony Close. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 375. [pounds sterling]50.00. Anthony Close's study is a ground-breaking work. It offers a magisterial survey of comedy in early modem...