Journal of European Studies articles from September 2000

Journal of European Studies archives from September 2000

The megaphone of the movement. Dario Fo and the working class: 1968-79.
September 1, 2000... TOM BEHAN [*] Introduction Parallels between great artists and the times they live in are frequently drawn, and rightly so. The dominant artistic and cultural influences of the period in which an artist lived are analysed, as is the...

Mauriac and Chekhov: affinities and differences [*].(Francois Mauriac)(Antonin Chekhov)(Critical Essay)
September 1, 2000... BADIA MAZBOUDI [+] Francois Mauriac's passion for the theatre and his admiration for Chekhov are indissociable. For him, the work of the great Russian master anticipated the ideal form of contemporary drama. In Mauriac's eyes, Chekhov was...

Pax Germanica -- the future historical.
September 1, 2000... CARL TIGHE [*] World War II was not one war but a great many overlapping wars with distinct objectives. These differing experiences still haunt the present, not only in the memories of survivors but also in the myths which colour the minds...

Gothic Documents. A Sourcebook 1700-1820.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Gothic Documents. A Sourcebook 1700-1820. Edited by E. J. Clery and Robert Miles. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000. Pp. 13 + 306. [pound] 45.00. In recent times there has been a proliferation of studies on the Gothic from a...

Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle. By Scott Spector. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2000. (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, Vol. 21.) Pp. xiv +...

France and Women 1789-1914: Gender, Society and Politics.(Review)
September 1, 2000... France and Women 1789-1914: Gender, Society and Politics. By James F. McMillan. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xiv + 286. [pound]17.99. James F. McMillan's France and Women 1789-1914 represents an outstanding contribution to a...

Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Eve's Proud Descendants: Four Women Writers and Republican Politics in Nineteenth-Century France. By Whitney Walton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. 308. Walton's highly useful account of the relationship between...

Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Mallarme's Children: Symbolism and the Renewal of Experience. By Richard Canadida Smith. California: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xxiv + 304. [pound]28.50. This is an odd book. Smith seems, against all evidence to the...

Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre. By Patrick McGuinness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 270. It is as if one instinctively knows that Maurice Maeterlinck is an important figure in the development of...

Reading Nathalie Sarraute. Dialogue and Distance.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Reading Nathalie Sarraute. Dialogue and Distance. By Emer O'Beirne. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. 298. [pound]40.00. Prominent among the dialogues which Nathalie Sarraute enacts for...

Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in Classical Weimar. By Lieselotte E. Kurth-Voigt. Rochester, NY and Woodbridge: Camden House, 1999. Pp. xvi +264. [pound]45.00. The chief aim of this study is to demonstrate...

Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771 -1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Women, the Novel, and the German Nation 1771 -1871: Domestic Fiction in the Fatherland. By Todd Kontje. (Cambridge Studies in German.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 242. This book is important both as a detailed and...

Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Why Nietzsche Still? Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics. Edited by Alan D. Schrift. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2000. Pp.xv + 309. [pound]12.50 (pbk). Alan Schrift, whose previous works have...

Brecht 98. Poetique et Politique/Poetik und Politik.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Brecht 98. Poetique et Politique/Poetik und Politik. Edited by Michel Vanoosthuyse. Montpellier: Bibliotheque d'Etudes Germaniques et Centre-Europeennes, Vol. IV, 1999. Pp. xvi + 322. FF. 130.-. Collections of conference papers often have a...

Deconstructing East Germany: Christoph Hein's Literature of Dissent.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Deconstructing East Germany: Christoph Hein's Literature of Dissent. By David W Robinson. Rochester and Woodbridge: Camden House, 1999. Pp. xviii + 237. [pound]40.00. David Robinson's book on Christoph Hem is the second major publication...

Literature and German Reunification.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Literature and German Reunification. By Stephen Brockmann. (Cambridge Studies in German.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. 245. [pound]37.50. Points can often be made more forcefully by showing the limitations of one's...

Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. Essays from The New York Review of Books.(Review)
September 1, 2000... Politics and Culture in Modern Germany. Essays from The New York Review of Books. By Gordon A. Craig. Palo Alto, California: The Society for the Promotion of Science and Scholarship, 1999. Pp. x + 385.[pound]16.95. It is difficult to start...

The Commissioner's Daughter. The Story of Elizabeth Proby and Admiral Chichagov.(Review)
September 1, 2000... The Commissioner's Daughter. The Story of Elizabeth Proby and Admiral Chichagov. By Joanna Woods. Witney: The Stonesfield Press, 2000. Pp xv. + 225. [pound]17.95. This is a well-written love story about real people who lived in fascinating...