Journal of European Studies articles from September 1998

Journal of European Studies archives from September 1998

'Silentes loquimur': 'foibe' and border anxiety in post-war literature from Trieste. (geological formations or chasms)
September 1, 1998... In 1943 and 1945, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Italians, both partisans and civilians, were imprisoned and subsequently thrown alive by Yugoslav partisans into various chasms in the Karst region and the hinterland of Trieste and Gorizia. These...

Challenging autobiography: lost object and aesthetic object in Ernaux's 'Une femme.' (author Annie Ernaux)
September 1, 1998... A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness... (Keats, Endymion) On the last page of Une femme Ernaux pronounces on the generic status of her text with the sort of authorial...

Neither myth nor monolith: the bagne in fin-de-siecle France. (overseas penal colonies in Guyana or New Caledonia)
September 1, 1998... In his these pour le doctorat, Edouard Teisseire, a Toulouse attorney, described what he believed to be the major shortcoming of the late nineteenth-century French policy of transporting convicted criminals to bagnes (overseas penal colonies in...

Cultural pathology: roots of Polish literary opposition to communism.
September 1, 1998... Let me start with my family. It is by no means unimportant. I come from a noble family which, for some four hundred years, owned estates in Lithuania, not far from Wilno and Kovno. On account of the property it possessed, the offices it held and...

Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990.
September 1, 1998... By Gene H. Bell-Villada. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Pp. x + 340. [pounds]38.00. When he accused James McNeill Whistler of 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face', John Ruskin reserved his deepest outrage for...

Split Down the Sides. On the Subject of Laughter.
September 1, 1998... By R. D. V. Glasgow. Lanham, New York, London: The University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Pp. x + 244. $57.50. Rupert Glasgow argues that we laugh because we are aware of ourselves both as what we are and of what we are not. But laughter, in...

Literary Criticism: An Autopsy.
September 1, 1998... By Mark Bauerlein. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. 156. [pounds]15.50 Rupert Glasgow argues that we laugh because we are aware of ourselves both as what we are and of what we are not. But laughter, in his view, is...

Writing the Image After Roland Barthes.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Michel Rabate. Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. Pp. 281. [pounds]16.50. Rupert Glasgow argues that we laugh because we are aware of ourselves both as what we are and of what we are not. But laughter, in his view,...

Novel Gazing: Queer Reading in Fiction.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997. Pp. 519. [pounds]19.95. Rupert Glasgow argues that we laugh because we are aware of ourselves both as what we are and of what we are not. But laughter, in his...

The Singular Beast. Jews, Christians and the Pig.
September 1, 1998... By Claudine Fabre-Vassas. Translated by Carol Volk. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. x + 401. [pounds]27.95. If the past is another country, then the terrain explored by Claudine Fabre-Vassas must be Atlantis. Its landmarks are...

The Laws of Hostility: Politics, Violence, and the Enlightenment.
September 1, 1998... By Pierre Saint-Amand. Foreword by Chantal Mouffe. Translated by Jennifer Curtiss Gage. London; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. Pp. xi +180. [pounds]14.95. 'Perhaps a few will find this vision of the Age of Voltaire somewhat...

Political Dimensions of Arthur Schnitzler's Late Fiction.
September 1, 1998... By Felix W. Tweraser. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998. (Distributed by Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge.) Pp. 163. [pounds]45.00. Felix Tweraser describes the purpose of his study not as a rehabilitation of the late narratives of Arthur Schnitzler...

Walter Hasenclevers mystische Periode: Die Dramen der Jahre 1917-1925.
September 1, 1998... By Bernhard F. Reiter. Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Berne, New York, Paris and Vienna: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 305. [pounds]36.00. In 1994, Klaus Vondung said that the Expressionist period experienced a 'Renaissance der Mystik', a phenomenon which the...

Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews.
September 1, 1998... By Eva Hoffman. London: Secker and Warburg, 1998. Pp. 269. [pounds]16.99. Shtetl is the third book published by the Polish-born Canadian-American author Eva Hoffman and it is her first excursion from the field of autobiography and journalism...

A Girl from Schindler's List.
September 1, 1998... By Stella Muller-Madej. Tr. by William R. Brand. London: Polish Cultural Foundation, 1997. Pp. 278 and Photographs. Shtetl is the third book published by the Polish-born Canadian-American author Eva Hoffman and it is her first excursion from...

A Russian Advocate of Peace: Vasili Malinovskii, 1765-1814.
September 1, 1998... By Paola Ferretti. Dordrecht/Boston/London; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. [pounds]90.00. As well as providing a comprehensive biography of V.I. Malinovskii, this pioneering study presents a critical re-evaluation of his contribution to...

Anna Bunina (1774-1829) and the Origins of Women's Poetry in Russia.
September 1, 1998... By Wendy Rosslyn. Lewiston, Queenston, Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 356. $99.95 Russian women's writing is a relatively new area of research which in recent years has attracted enormous interest in the West, and received...

Baudelaire in Russia.
September 1, 1998... By Adrian Wanner. Gainesville, USA: University Press of Florida, 1996. Pp. xi + 253. [pounds]45.00. 'Baudelaire', Walter Benjamin wrote, 'envisaged readers to whom the reading of lyric poetry would present difficulties.' Les Fleurs du Mal is...

S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works, vol. 3.
September 1, 1998... Writings 1934-47. Edited by Richard Taylor, translated by William Powell. London: British Film Institute, 1996. Pp. ix + 405. 35. This third volume of Richard Taylor's valuable editions of Eisenstein's writings is, like the earlier volumes, as...

The Russian Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Searching for a Place in the World.
September 1, 1998... By Aleksandr B. Kamenskii. Translated and edited by David Griffiths. Armonk, New York, London: Sharpe, 1997. Pp. xii + 338. Pbk. [pounds]17.50. Not since Antony Lentin produced his succinct Russia in the Eighteenth Century: From Peter the...

Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland.
September 1, 1998... By Robert Weinberg. Introduction by Zvi Gitelman. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 105. US$24.95. In 1934 the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR) was established in the Soviet Union. Popularly known as Birobidzhan,...