The Modern Language Review articles from April 2001

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2001

'But do not so': Herrick's ravishment and lyric address.(Robert Herrick, poet)
April 1, 2001... An adept reader can find in the lyric poetry of the seventeenth century a repertoire of those postures and strategies that characterize the masculine eloquence of Renaissance humanist chivalry. A series of rhetorical performances give voice to...

Sir William Davenant's American Operas.
April 1, 2001... As early as 1656, when he argued the virtues of public entertainment to John Thurloe, Cromwell's Secretary of State, Sir William Davenant attended to the dramatic and propagandistic possibilities that America offered to the London stage: If...

Mauclair and the musical world of the 'Fin de Siecle' and the 'Belle Epoque'.
April 1, 2001... Camille Mauclair (1872-1945) was the writer of more than a hundred books, including novels, poetry, and every sort of criticism and critical theory. Henri Mondor and Lloyd James Austin epitomize him as a 'polygraphe infatigable', while Mallarme,...

Paul Claudel's L'Annonce faite a Marie: A process of visionary revision.
April 1, 2001... In his essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', Walter Benjamin notes that 'the history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a...

D'Annunzio and Alma-Tadema: between pre-raphaelitism and aestheticism.
April 1, 2001... In any consideration of the diffusion of Pre-Raphaelitism in nineteenth-century Italian art, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) stands out as a central figure. D'Annunzio went through a distinct Pre-Raphaelite phase in the 1880s and gave a decisive...

Cervantes and the soldier's tale: Genre and disorder in 'El casamiento enganoso'.
April 1, 2001... El casamiento enganoso is typical of Cervantes's fiction in its recourse to various generic models and in its critical engagement with questions of genre. Gonzalo Sobejano and E. C. Riley have both asserted the likelihood that Cervantes remained...

Postmodernism, history and social critique in post-dictatorship Argentine cinema: a reading of Eliseo Subiela's 'El lado oscuro del corazon'.
April 1, 2001... There is some agreement that the older modernism functioned against its society in ways which are variously described as critical, negative, contestatory, subversive, oppositional and the like. Can anything of the sort be...

Kleist's letter of 1 April 1801.
April 1, 2001... Heinrich von Kleist's letters provide a main source from which to reconstruct his life and thoughts and offer keys to the interpretation of his creative works. They have consequently been minutely examined and interpreted from almost every...

'Wahrhaft das Sacrament': Hofmannsthal's 'Der Schwierige' and the sacrament of matrimony.
April 1, 2001... Welcher ist der notwendigste Unterricht? Der notwendigste Unterricht ist der Unterricht in der katholischen Religion. (1) Hofmannsthal's greeting to his friend Carl J. Burckhardt on the occasion of Burckhardt's engagement has long...

Showing, telling and believing: Gunter Grass's 'Katz und Maus and narratology.
April 1, 2001... Pilenz, the narrator of Katz und Maus, is someone for whom writing is an existential need: 'Ich schreibe, denn das muss weg. Zwar ist es angenehm, Artistik auf weissem Papier zu betreiben--aber [...] was nu tzt alle Zauberei mit der Grammatik;...

Georgii Vladimov's 'The General and His Army': The ghost od Andrei Vlasov.
April 1, 2001... Decades after the Soviet Union emerged victorious from a long and bloody war with Nazi Germany, the collaboration of Soviet citizens, whether coerced or willing, remains the most painful and viciously contested of all the memories and hurts that...

Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism. By ROBERT D. HUME. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xiv + 235 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Like the dyer's hand, sometimes the historian is 'subdu'd' to the period he works...

Theorizing About Myth.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Theorizing About Myth. By ROBERT SEGAL. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. vii + 184 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 15 [pounds sterling]). Grammatical habits have thematic consequences. Consider the title and style of this...

Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN...

C.G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN...

Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN...

Intentions: Negotiated, Contested and Ignored.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. By ARABELLA LYON. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. vii + 215 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $17.95). Loiterature. By ROSS CHAMBERS....

Loiterature.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. By ARABELLA LYON. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. vii + 215 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $17.95). Loiterature. By ROSS CHAMBERS....

The Author of English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature. By W. R. J. BARRON. (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, II) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1999. xvii + 395 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. This book...

'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts.(Review)
April 1, 2001... 'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts. By JOHN J. THOMPSON. (Medium AEvum Monographs, New Series xix) Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. 1998. xii + 193 pp. The Cursor Mundi is a biblical history written...

Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceeding of the International Conference 20-22 July 1995.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the International Conference 20-22 July 1995. Ed. by SHOICHI OGURO, RICHARD BEADLE, and MICHAEL G. SARGENT. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. xxiii + 280 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]; $71. This splendid collection...

John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England.(Review)
April 1, 2001... John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England. By MARGARET CONNOLLY. Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 1998. xi + 247 pp., with 7 plates and 7 line drawings. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. John...

Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech. By JOCELYN CATTY. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. ix + 276 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Jocelyn Catty's erudite...

Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567-1642.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567-1642. By R. B. GRAVES. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1999. x + 275 pp. $44.95; 40.45 [pounds sterling]. One of the most remarkable qualities of Lighting the Shakespearean...

The Dean and his God: John Donne's Concept of the Divine.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Dean and his God: John Donne's Concept of the Divine. By MARIA SALENIUS. (Memoires de la Societe Neophilogique, LIV) Helsinki: Societe Neophilogique. 1998. iii + 208 pp. $40. In the conclusion of her study, Maria Salenius asks, 'if one...

Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne. By THERESA DIPASQUALE. (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. 1999. xviii + 338 pp. $58. The central question for any writer on...

The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton and Blake.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. By A. D. NUTTALL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xiii + 282 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake. By HAROLD FISCH. Oxford:...

The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. By A. D. NUTTALL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xiii + 282 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake. By HAROLD FISCH. Oxford:...

Marvell and Liberty.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Marvell and Liberty. Ed. by WARREN CHERNAIK and MARTIN DZELZAINIS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press in association with Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 1999. xiii + 365 pp. 47.50...

Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth. By JOHN DOLAN. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. viii + 219 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. John Dolan attempts to tell the old story of the...

Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By JULIE ELLISON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xi + 229 pp. $40; 28 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $16; 11.50 [pounds sterling]). Cato's Tears begins and ends in...

The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution. By CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 412 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. This study of Blake seeks to reverse the...

1798: The year of the Lyrical Ballads.(Review)
April 1, 2001... 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads. Ed. by RICHARD CRONIN. (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. viii + 259 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This book is a welcome...

Culture Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women. By ARLENE YOUNG. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. viii + 227 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Arlene Young's new study looks at the...

Rereading Victorian Fiction.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Rereading Victorian Fiction. Ed. by ALICE JENKINS and JULIET JOHN. Foreword by JOHN SUTHERLAND. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xvi + 218 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. The end of the twentieth century seemed a good...

Victorian Sappho.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Victorian Sappho. By YOPIE PRINS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. xiii + 279 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]. Sappho has recently become a fruitful area of enquiry in literary studies. Monographs by, for example, Joan DeJean, Page...

Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like. By GOLDIE MORGENTALER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xv + 221 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. This highly accessible book effectively provides the missing link in terms of...

Out of Place: Englishness, Empire an the Locations of Identity.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity. By IAN BAUCOM. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. x + 249 pp. $55; 33.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18.95; 11.50 [pounds sterling]). How does England claim the...

Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View. Ed. by MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 1999. xii + 215 pp. $49.95. Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman. By...

Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View. Ed. by MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 1999. xii + 215 pp. $49.95. Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman. By...

The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Ed. by RACHEL BLAU DU PLESSIS and PETER QUARTERMAIN. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1999. x + 380 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95). 'My...

'My Toughest Mentor': Theodore Roethke and William Carlos Williams (1940-1948).(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Ed. by RACHEL BLAU DU PLESSIS and PETER QUARTERMAIN. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1999. x + 380 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95). 'My...

W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics.(Review)
April 1, 2001... W. H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics. By RAINER EMIG. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. x + 237 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Rainer Emig begins from the premise that today the poetry of Auden 'rarely troubles...

Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys. By KATHARINE WORTH. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xi + 192 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Katharine Worth's latest book takes the reader on a journey to heaven and hell via the space between, to paraphrase...

Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. By THOMAS TRAVISANO. Charlottesville, and London: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xvi + 325 pp. $35. As its title indicates, this study examines...

Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext. By NEIL CORCORAN. Cardiff: University ofWales Press. 1999. xiv + 223 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. By DANIEL...

Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext. By NEIL CORCORAN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1999. xiv + 223 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. By DANIEL...

Wauchier de Denain: 'La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor'.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Wauchier de Denain: 'La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor'. Ed. by JOHN JAY THOMPSON. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 508) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 271 pp. 43 SwF. John Jay Thompson playfully conceives Wauchier de Denain's...

Beroul: 'Tristran et Iseut': Poeme du XIIe Siecle.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Beroul: 'Tristran et Iseut': Poeme du XIIe siecle. Ed. and trans. by HERMAN BRAET and GUY RAYNAUD DE LAGE. 2 vols. 2nd edn. (Ktemata 10) Paris and Louvain: Peeters. Vol. I: Edition et traduction. 1999. 267 pp. 790 BF; Euro 20. Herman Braet and...

Le Chevalier delibere.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Le Chevalier delibere (The Resolute Knight). By OLIVIER DE LA MARCHE. Ed. by CARLETON W. CARROL. Trans. by LOIS HAWLEY WILSON and CARLETON W. CARROL. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 199) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age. Trans. into modern French by ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 504) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 356 pp. Following his twelve-volume series of critical editions of some sixty-five late medieval...

Conteurs et romanciers de la Renaissance. Melanges offerts a Gabriel-Andre Perouse.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Conteurs et romanciers de la Renaissance. Melanges offerts a Gabriel-Andre Perouse. Ed. by JAMES DAUPHINE and BEATRICE PERIGOT. (Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance, VII). Paris: Champion. 1997. 477 pp. This collection of...

L'Extase et ses paradoxes: Essai sur la structure narrative du 'Tiers Livre'.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... L'Extase et ses paradoxes: Essai sur la structure narrative du 'Tiers Livre'. By OUMELBANINE ZHIRI. (Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance, 23) Paris: Champion. 1999. 275 pp. 240 F. One might think that the market for books on the hidden...

Jehan Marot: Les Deux Recueils.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Jehan Marot: Les Deux Recueils. Ed. by GERARD DEFAUX and THIERRY MANTOVANI. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 512) Geneve: Droz. 1999. ccxxvi + 603 pp. 94.20 SwF. Until now, the works of Jean Marot, one of the Rhetoriqueurs and father of Clement,...

Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron. Ed. by RENJA SALMINEN. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 516). Geneve: Droz. 1999. xcii + 864 pp. 53.20 SwF. Written by the Queen Marguerite of Navarre, the Heptameron has been a bestseller since its creation in...

Poetiques d'Aubigne.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Poetiques d'Aubigne. Edited by OLIVIER POT. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 333) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 306 pp. 71.60 SwF. This collection of essays contains the Acta of a conference on Aubigne (now, apparently, the preferred name) held in...

Femmes savantes, savoirs des femmes. Du crepuscule de la Renaissance a l'aube des Lumieres.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Femmes savantes, savoirs des femmes. Du crepuscule de la Renaissance a l'aube des Lumieres. Ed. by COLETTE NATIVEL. (Actes du Colloque de Chantilly, 22-24 Septembre 1995). Geneve: Droz. 1999. 268 pp. 71.60 SwF. This collection of nineteen...

Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France. By JOHN D. LYONS. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 18) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 1999. xv + 251 pp. John D. Lyons's study mainly discusses La...

La Fontaine: 'Fables'.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... La Fontaine: 'Fables'. By FANNY NEPOTE-DESMARRES. (Etudes litteraires) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1999. 126 pp. 48 F. Despite its modest length, this little book is thought provoking. Fanny Nepote-Desmarres begins by defining the...

Moliere: 'Le Festin de pierre (Dom Juan)': Edition critique du texte d'Amsterdam (1683).(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Moliere: 'Le Festin de pierre (Dom Juan)': Edition critique du texte d'Amsterdam (1683). Ed. by JOAN DEJEAN. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 500), Geneve: Droz. 1999. 317 pp. 22.50 SwF. This work addresses the textual problem raised by the early...

Jean Racine Revisited.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Jean Racine Revisited. By RONALD W. TOBIN. (Twayne's World Authors Series) New York: Twayne. 1999. 195 pp. Ronald Tobin's volume offers an accessible stroll through Racine's works, allotting a chapter to each of the tragedies, together with a...

Racine et la Mediterranee, Soleil et Mer, Neptune et Apollen. Actes du Colloque Internatioal de Nice des 19-20 mai 1999.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Racine et la Mediterranee, Soleil et Mer, Neptune et Apollon. Actes du Colloque International de Nice des 19-20 mai 1999. Ed. by HELENE BABY and JEAN EMMELINA. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines de Nice, University...

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol. 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65. Ed. by ELISABETH LABROUSSE and others. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. xliv + 432 pp. + 24 plates. This long-awaited first volume of Bayle's complete correspondence,...

In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France. By JAY CAPLAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. 230 pp. Sainte-Beuve recounts that when the marquis de Crequi asked Sebastien Roch Nicolas why he insisted on calling...

The Complete Works of Voltaire.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Complete Works of Voltaire/OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by HAYDN MASON. Vol. ix: 1732-1733. Ed. by O. R. Taylor and others. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. 531 pp. 95 [pounds sterling]. The policy of editing Voltaire's complete...

Charles-francois Pannard et l'esthetique du 'petit'.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Charles-Francois Pannard et l'esthetique du 'petit'. By NATHALIE RIZZONI. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. x + 526 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. The new look Studies on Voltaire series is opened by this version, 'allegee', of Nathalie...

Diderot et le portrait.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Diderot et le portrait. By JEANETTE GEFFRIAUD ROSSO. (Histoire et Critique des Idees, 24) Pise: Editrice Libreria Goliardica. 1998. xii + 230 pp. Diderot's ambivalence about the portrait is notorious. Deeply mistrustful of the artificial pose...

Le Mariage du siele ou Lettres de Madame la Contesse de Castelli a Madame la Baronne de Freville.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Le Mariage du siecle ou Lettres de Madame la Comtesse de Castelli a Madame la Baronne de Freville. By ANDRE-GUILLAUME CONTANT D'ORVILLE. Ed. by Sylvie Dangeville. (L'Age des Lumieres, 5) Paris: Champion. 1999. 200 pp. 240 F. As the notes on...

Le Theatre chamge et represente: Lecure critique des auvres dramatiques du marquis de Sade.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Le Theatre change et represente: Lecture critique des oeuvres dramatiques du marquis de Sade. By SYLVIE DANGEVILLE. Paris: Champion. 1999. 732 pp. 620 F. As Sylvie Dangeville points out in her introduction, Sade's twenty or so plays represent...

The Novel's Seductions: Stael's 'Corinne" in Critical Inquiry.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Novel's Seductions: Stael's 'Corinne' in Critical Inquiry. Ed. by KARYNA SZMURLO. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 321 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. Corinne a la page. By HUBERT DE PHALESE....

Corinne a la page.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Novel's Seductions: Stael's 'Corinne' in Critical Inquiry. Ed. by KARYNA SZMURLO. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 321 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. Corinne a la page. By HUBERT DE PHALESE....

Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's 'The Red and the Black'.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Approaches to Teaching Stendhal's 'The Red and the Black'. Ed. by DEAN DE LA MOTTE and STIRLING HAIG. New York: The Modern Languages Association of America. 1999. xii + 187 pp. $37.50 (paperbound $18). Volumes in this series offer themselves...

La Querelle du roman-feuilleton: Literature, presse et politique, un debat precurseur (1836-1848).(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... La Querelle du roman-feuilleton: Litterature, presse et politique, un debat precurseur (1836-1848). Ed. by LISE DUMASY. (Archives critiques) Grenoble: ELLUG. 1999. 280 pp. This is the first of a new series which aims to collect and group by...

Honore de Balzac. Ecrits sur le roman. Anthologie.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Honore de Balzac. Ecrits sur le roman. Anthologie. Textes choisis, presentes et annotes par STEPHANE VACHON. Paris: Livre de Poche. 2000. 350 pp. 49F. Given that this anthology includes extracts from Illusions perdues on the duplicity of the...

Le Mythe romantique de Merlin dans l'auvre d'Edgar Quinet.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Le Mythe romantique de Merlin dans l'oeuvre d'Edgar Quinet. By SIMONE BERNARD-GRIFFITHS. Paris: Champion. 1999. 682 pp. 580 F. Edgar Quinet's Merlin l'Enchanteur (1860) is in many ways and despite its late date the archetype of the French...

George Sand ecrivain: 'Un grand fleuve d'Amerique'.(Review)
April 1, 2001... George Sand ecrivain: 'Un grand fleuve d'Amerique'. By BEATRICE DIDIER. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1998. 839 pp. 270 F. Flaubert wrote, of George Sand: 'Je ne peux mieux vous comparer qu'a un grand fleuve d'Amerique. Enormite et...

Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel and the Modern Self.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Subjects of Terror: Nerval, Hegel and the Modern Self. By JONATHAN STRAUSS. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1999. xiv + 376 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $55. Addressing the philosophical problem of the unknowability of the subject,...

Theophile Gautier: Correspondance generale.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Theophile Gautier: Correspondance generale. Ed. by CLAUDINE LACOSTE-VEYSSEYRE and PIERRE LAUBRIET. Vol. XII: 1872 et complements. (Histoire des Idees et Critique Litteraire, 381) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 411 pp. 60 SwF. The final volume of...

Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts: From Image to Text.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Flaubert and the Pictorial Arts: From Image to Text. By ADRIANNE TOOKE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xi + 316 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]. While Adrianne Tooke outlines her approach in this book as that of 'genetic criticism', it is...

Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and the Politics of Irony.(Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Baudelaire's Prose Poems: The Practice and Politics of Irony. By SONYA STEPHENS. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xii + 181 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. At the start of her preface, Sonya Stephens points out that in the past it was necessary to...

Baudelaire's Poetic Patterns: The Secret Language of 'Les Fleurs du Mal'.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Baudelaire's Poetic Patterns: The Secret Language of 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. By PETER BROOME. (Faux Titre, 166) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1999. 541 pp. Hfl.165; $91. Peter Broome's well-written Baudelaire's Poetic Patterns presents an...

Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre. By PATRICK MCGUINNESS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. 270 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. What was Maeterlinck really good at? What in theatrical terms can he be rightly admired for? This...

From Rodin to Giacometti. Sculpture and Literature in France 1880-1950.(Review)
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