Journal of European Studies articles from September 1999

Journal of European Studies archives from September 1999

Nizan and Spain: the origins of a revolutionary novel.
September 1, 1999... '(Les villes) sont comme les femmes qu'on ne connait bien que si on les a vues dormir et s'eveiller', noted Nizan during his trip to the Soviet Union in 1934-35.[1] Cities and women figure prominently in Nizan's work. The linkage between the...

The caesura of the Holocaust in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader.(Critical Essay)
September 1, 1999... 'But here, this experience will turn out to have been crucial, and massive, invading everywhere, devouring everything... It's the experience of radical Evil.' J. Semprun, Literature or Life (New York: Penguin, 1997), 88. 'It is not memory...

Mapping the origins of glamour: Giovanni Boldini, Paris and the Belle Epoque.
September 1, 1999... The purpose of this paper is to investigate the origins of glamour. Today this magical and evocative term is widely used in connection with fashion, showbusiness and entertainment, beauty and beauty marketing and the social worlds that are...

'Le Deuxieme Sexe is 50': report of the 'Cinquantenaire du Deuxieme Sexe', Paris 19-23 January 1999.
September 1, 1999... In Memory of Philip Thody The 1999 Conference season opened, in what can only be described as spectacular style, with this five-day-long Parisian colloque, convened to celebrate fifty years of Beauvoir's Le Deuxieme Sexe. Organized jointly...

Short French Fiction: Essays on the Short Story in France in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Edited by J. E. Flower, University of Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1998, pp. 182. [pounds]14.99. The Introduction to this volume soon dispels any uncertainty which may exist as to its aim and contents. In the opening pages, John Flower...

British Policy and the Refugees 1933-41.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Yvonne Kapp and Margaret Mynatt. With a foreword by Charmian Brinson. London & Portland, Oregon: Cass, 1997. Pp. 152. [pounds]35.00 (Pbk [pounds]16.00). Polemic, unlike revenge, is best enjoyed hot. Arguments once pursued with...

From World War to Waldheim: Culture and Politics in Austria and the United States.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Edited by David Good and Ruth Wodak. (Austrian Culture, History and Society, vol. 2.) New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999. Pp. viii + 248. [pounds]40.00. The nine essays assembled in this attractively produced book result from a...

Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Gerard Genette. Translated by Channa Newman and Claude Doubinsky. Foreword by Gerald Prince. (Stages, Volume 8.) Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 490. [pounds]28.50 (paperback). Gerard Genette's...

The Fifth French Republic. Presidents, Politics and Personalities.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Philip Thody. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Pp.x + 174. [pounds]12.99. The forty-year-old Fifth Republic of France has conveniently produced five presidents, the fifth of whom has now served long enough to be meaningfully...

The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Edited by Eva Kolinsky and Wilfried van der Will. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xxiv + 365. [pounds]37.50 (hbk); [pounds]13.95 (pbk). The Cambridge Companion series began by featuring volumes on philosophers, but has...

Queering the Canon: Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Edited by Christoph Lorey and John L. Plews. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998. Pp. xxiv + 498. [pounds]45.00. In a publication that is certainly overdue, the editors have realized a project to 'out' some of the German-language literature...

Men Viewing Women as Art Objects: Studies in German Literature.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Christoph E. Schweitzer. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1998. Pp.xiv + 103. [pounds]40.00. This short study examines a wide range of texts, from Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto for...

Emilie Linder und Jacob Burckhardt: Stiften und Sammeln fur die Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Nikolaus Meier. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 1997. Pp. 140. One feature of the evolution of a public sphere in the early nineteenth-century Germany was the intense involvement of the Bildungsburgertum in cultural and associational life. This...

Rahel Levin Varnhagen: The Life and Work of a German Jewish Intellectual.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Heidi Thomann Tewarson. Lincoln and London: Nebraska University Press, 1998. Pp.262. [pounds]19.00. Tewarson provides a long overdue scholarly assessment of Rahel to place alongside Hanna Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen: Life of a Jewess...

Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Carol Diethe. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 1998. Pp. viii + 215. [pounds]30.00. The title of this illustrated volume refers to an evolution traceable through the lives, writing and thought of influential nineteenth-century women...

Hermynia Zur Muhlen: Eine Biographie.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Manfred Altner. Bern: Peter Lang, 1997. Pp. 257. [pounds]22.00. This is the first full-length study to be published on Hermynia Zur Muhlen (1883-1951), the 'runaway Countess', as the English translator of her memoirs was to call her....

What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Elizabeth D. Heineman. (Studies on the History of Society and Culture Vol. 33.) Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xviii + 374. [pounds]35.00. One of the most poignant images of German society...

Tenderenda der Phantast.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Hugo Ball. Edited by Raimund Meyer and Julian Schutt. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag. 1999. Pp. 128. Os 198,-. Hugo Ball's Dada-novel Tenderenda (1914-20) first appeared in 1967 in an edition of 2050 copies. Although it was translated into...

A Companion to Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Edited by Stephen D. Dowden. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1999. Pp. xix + 250. [pounds]50.00. No criticism is meant by calling this new collection of essays a very American book. It...

The Radical Subject: Social Change and the Self in Recent German Autobiography.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Andrew Plowman. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature.) Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M, New York, Paris, Wien: Peter Lang, 1998. Pp. 168. [pounds]17.00. This dissertation-based study explores a question which, according...

The Development of Russian Verse. Meter and its Meanings.(Review)
September 1, 1999... By Michael Wachtel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 323. [pounds]45.00. True to publishing fashion, the real topic of Michael Wachtel's book is in its subtitle. Purchasers beware: this is not a systematic or general...