Journal of European Studies articles from March 2005

Journal of European Studies archives from March 2005

Introduction.(Editorial)
March 1, 2005... In the twenty years since Pierre Nora began publishing his landmark work on Les Lieux de memoire (Nora, 1984-92), the study of memory, especially in its collective forms, has become a veritable industry. If historians such as Nora were to the...

Plenitude, scarcity and the circulation of cultural memory.
March 1, 2005... An argument is made for the need to conceptualize cultural memory, not as merely derivative of individual psychology, but in terms of a 'working memory' (Assmann) that is constructed and reconstructed in public acts of remembrance and evolves...

Christine de Pizan, France's memorialist persona, performance, memory.
March 1, 2005... This study deals with the ways that Christine de Pizan (c. 1365-1430) transformed her personal memories of King Charles V into an enduring form of national memory by allying her 1404 biography of Charles with official French history. To...

Memory and the politics of forgetting Paris, the Commune and the 1878 Exposition universelle.
March 1, 2005... This study focuses on the representation of Paris during the 1878 Exposition universelle (World Fair) and the Fete du 30 juin (Festival of 30 June) in a selection of articles in the popular, conservative, illustrated journal Le Monde illustre...

Protecting the past Albert Robida and the Vieux Paris exhibit at the 1900 World's Fair.
March 1, 2005... The 1900 Paris World's Fair prided itself on the modernity of its exhibits. Paradoxically, however, one of its most successful attractions proved to be Le Vieux Paris, a picturesque model city built along the Seine to 'bring Old Paris back to...

From Baalbek to Baghdad and beyond Marcel Proust's foreign memories of France.
March 1, 2005... A work of memory, Marcel Proust's novel is also a lieu de memoire, a monument of French culture. Yet, we must remember how strange it is. Indeed, we recall here some of the oriental aspects of the book, like the 'semitic' traits friends and...

Memory gaps: Maurice Halbwachs, memory and the Great War *.
March 1, 2005... When one reads Maurice Halbwachs's Les Cadres sociaux de la memoire, it is noticeable that the sociologist-philosopher has almost completely obliterated from his thoughts the war he has just lived through. At the very time when an arsenal of...

From the Moselle to the Pyrenees: commemoration, cultural memory and the 'debatable lands'.
March 1, 2005... Memory debates in the twentieth century were determined very largely by war and the aftermath of conflict. The analysis of commemorative practice in historically problematic French frontier territories after 1918 offers insight into the way...

The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality. By Michael Lucey. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xxx + 308. Readers of criticism on French literature will know Professor Lucey's work from his 1995 book on...

A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Edited by Thomas A. Kovach. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. Pp. xvii + 265. 50 [pounds sterling], $75. As the editor admits, there are many obstacles to compiling a companion to...

The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s. Edited by Arnd Kruger and William Murray. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 260. $44.95. There is a vast literature on the Berlin Olympics of...

Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The Yale 2001 Broch Symposium.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Hermann Broch, Visionary in Exile: The Yale 2001 Broch Symposium. Edited by Paul Michael Lutzeler in cooperation with Matthias Konzett, Willy Riemer and Christa Sammons. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, NY:...

Germany and its Gypsies. A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Germany and its Gypsies. A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal. By Gilad Margalit. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. Pp. xviii + 285. 16.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk). The political health of modern Germany has usually been judged by...

Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Women and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia. Edited by Wendy Rosslyn. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003. Pp. 283. 45.00 [pounds sterling] One of the main theses of Rosslyn's latest project in the field of gender studies is the belief that we have...