Journal of European Studies articles from March 2004

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2004

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 1, 2004... A work This special issue of JES is unusual in being a collection of essays about a single film: not a revered classic, but a recent work by the French director Claire Denis. Beau Travail (1998) was Denis's eighth film but, after Chocolat...

A-religion *.
March 1, 2004... This article attends to the film's re-reading of Melville in terms of a presentation of an a-religious religion. The film's display of beauty and its engagement with both the sufficiency and vulnerability of this beauty is seen to partake of a...

The weight of the here and now: conversation with Claire Denis, 2001.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... [Claire Denis began] I was pleasantly surprised to discover the text that Jean-Luc Nancy dedicated to Beau Travail, even if in the ordering of his sentences, in the functioning of the text, it is not quite the same chronology as that of...

Good work, little soldier: text and pretext.
March 1, 2004... This article reads the relation between Denis's Beau Travail and Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 film Le Petit Soldat as a film-on-film variant of film-on-book adaptation. The model informing this reading is not so much intertextual as pretextual. The...

'O heave! O heave away, heave! O heave!' Working through the author in Beau Travail.
March 1, 2004... This article argues that the full significance of Beau Travail only becomes clear if it is placed within both the history of Denis's evolving commentary on the film and its specific auteur context: that is to say, as a fully assumed...

On the margins of Beau Travail.
March 1, 2004... Placing myself on the margins of Beau Travail and inspired by the montage technique used by Claire Denis, in this article I juxtapose scenes from the film with extracts from other texts to suggest an intertextual reading which explores the...

Solid cinema: Claire Denis's strange solidarities.
March 1, 2004... What forms can solidarity take in the least solid of the plastic arts? Claire Denis asks this question in the images of the human body's solidity in her films and, more specifically, in her discussions of Beau Travail. Projecting thoughts onto...

Love of the soldier: citizenship, belonging and exclusion in Beau Travail.
March 1, 2004... This paper examines belonging and non-belonging as set out in Claire Denis's Beau Travail, in the context of the Enlightenment ideal of citizenship and the historical development of the Foreign Legion. Inclusion and exclusion are also treated...

From the universal to the cosmic: the surroundings of Beau Travail.
March 1, 2004... This article is in two parts, where the first part offers a reading of the film in terms of an inversion of genre. This de-centring inversion of genre is extended to an inversion of generality and universality, and it is further envisaged that...

Forms of beauty: moving beyond desire in Bersani/Dutoit and Beau Travail.
March 1, 2004... This article approaches Claire Denis's film Beau Travail by way, first, of a passage in Alan Hollinghurst's novel The Folding Star; then, more extensively, of the theoretical and art-critical writings of Leo Bersani and Ulysse...

Interview with Claire Denis, 2000 *.(Interview)
March 1, 2004... What motivated your Beau Travail project, beyond the idea of a fiction set in a strange land? I don't know. I remember that Rivette once said that there were unhappy films. Beau Travail was unhappy. You can never tell, perhaps in ten...

The European Reformation. Religion, Political Conflict, and the Search for Conformity.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The European Reformation. Religion, Political Conflict, and the Search for Conformity, 1350-1750. By Peter G. Wallace. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003. Pp. xi + 268. [pounds sterling] 16.50. This well-written and clearly-organized book serves...

John Selden. Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventh-Century England.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... John Selden. Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England. By Reid Barbour. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. x + 417. [pounds sterling] 42.000 The polymath, intellectual and lawyer John Selden (1584-1654)...

Imperial Cities. Landscape, Display and Identity.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Imperial Cities. Landscape, Display and Identity. Edited by Felix Driver and David Gilbert. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii + 283. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. The paperback of a work first published in 1999, this...

Themes in Modern European History Since 1945.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Themes in Modern European History Since 1945. Edited by Rosemary Wakeman. London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. 303. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. This is the latest in a series on themes in European history that has already seen volumes on 1780-1830...

Richelieu and Mazarin.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Richelieu and Mazarin. By David Sturdy. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004. Pp. xv + 198. 16.50 [pounds sterling]. David Sturdy has already written in this series a thoughtful and important volume on Louis XIV, published in 1998. The appearance of...

France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart. By Raymond Jonas. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 308. 25.00 [pounds sterling]. For anyone who reads this illuminating book, the climb up to (or the...

Michel Tournier. Exploring Human Relations.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Michel Tournier. Exploring Human Relations. By Mairi Maclean. Bristol: Bristol Academic Press, 2003. Pp. 308. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. Few authors have received quite as much critical attention during their life as Michel Tournier. To date...

The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Complete Writings of an Italian Heretic. By Olympia Morata. Edited and translated by Holt N. Parker. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xxxiii + 275. [pounds sterling]16.00. This...

Early Modern Italy 1550-1796.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Early Modern Italy 1550-1796. Edited by John Marino. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 313. The fourth volume in the Short Oxford History of Italy to be published, following books on the nineteenth century, 1900-1945, and...

A Companion to the Works of Heinrich yon Kleist.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... A Companion to the Works of Heinrich yon Kleist. Edited by Bernd Fischer. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2003. Pp. vi + 258. [pounds sterling]50.00. Writing about Kleist presents several problems which are visible in this largely excellent...

Ungleichzeitige/verspatete Moderne: Prosaformen in der osterreichischen Literatur 1820-1880.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Ungleichzeitige/verspatete Moderne: Prosaformen in der osterreichischen Literatur 1820-1880. By Primus-Heinz Kucher. Tuibingen and Basel: Francke, 2002. Ever since Georg Lukacs' classic study of the German novel, we have been confronted...

Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing. By John Zilcosky. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvi + 289. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Although Kafka's physical travels were bounded by Paris,...

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Edited by James Rolleston. Rochester: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xvi + 372. 50.00 [pounds sterling]. This volume contains sixteen essays by leading Kafka scholars (with one exception, all based in North...

German Literature, Jewish Critics. The Brandeis Symposium.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... German Literature, Jewish Critics. The Brandeis Symposium. Edited by Stephen D. Dowden and Meike G. Werner. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002. Pp. xxxiv +1321. 50.00 [pounds sterling]....

The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: a Social History, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. By Michael Hau. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. x + 286. 15.50 [pounds sterling]. Modern Western culture has elevated the body into a major locus of...

The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... The Cambridge Companion to Tolstoy. Edited by Donna Tussing Orwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 271. 14.95 [pounds sterling] (paperback). This superb companion, expertly edited by Donna Tussing Orwin, brings...

New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema.(Book Review)
March 1, 2004... New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema. By John Haynes. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 207. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. The theme of masculinity in cultural studies has...