The Modern Language Review articles from April 2003

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2003

'Strange Prophecies Anew': Rereading Apocalypse in Blake, H. D., and Ginsberg.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology. By KATHLEEN LUNDEEN. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 180 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57591-041-1. 'Strange...

William Blake: The Creation of the 'Songs' from Manuscript to Illuminated Printing.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology. By KATHLEEN LUNDEEN. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 180 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57591-041-1. 'Strange...

The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain. By MARLENE TROMP. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2000. x + 289 pp. $37.50. ISBN 0-8139-1949-5....

Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of His Attitude to Women.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of his Attitude to Women. By SHANTA DUTTA. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xi + 256 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-74486-1. There is a rather depressing photograph of Thomas...

Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Modernism, Nationalism and the Novel. By PERICLES LEWIS. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. x + 241 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-66111-0. This is a book written for Proust. The Frenchman comes...

Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Eliot's Dark Angel: Intersections of Life and Art. By RONALD SCHUCHARD. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. xiii + 268 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 17.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-19-510417-X (pbk 0-19-514702-2). What is...

Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. By JOAN ACOCELLA. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2000. ix + 127 pp. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-1046-9. Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City. Ed. by...

Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism. By JOAN ACOCELLA. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2000. ix + 127 pp. 13.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-1046-9. Willa Cather's New York: New Essays on Cather in the City. Ed. by...

Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America. By ELIZABETH A. WHEELER. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2001. x + 301 pp. $60 (pbk $22). ISBN 0-8135-2972-7 (pbk 0-8135-2973-5). There is no doubt about the dominant...

In Cold Fear: 'The Catcher in the Rye', Censorship, Controversies and Postwar American Character.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... In Cold Fear: 'The Catcher in the Rye', Censorship, Controversies and Postwar American Character. By PAMELA HUNT STEINLE. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2000. x + 238 pp. $45. ISBN 0-8142-0848-7. Between 1961 and 1982 The Catcher in...

Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 1970.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Contemporary American Fiction: An Introduction to American Fiction since 2970. By KENNETH MILLARD. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii + 328 pp. 10.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-871178-6. With the exception of Chaucer,...

Pynchon and 'Mason and Dixon.'(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Pynchon and 'Mason & Dixon'. Ed. by BROOKE HORVATH and IRVING MALIN. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 228 pp. $39.50; 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-720-9. Like the arc transcribed by...

Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and His Contemporaries.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Irish Demons: English Writings on Ireland, the Irish, and Gender by Spenser and his Contemporaries. By JOAN FITZPATRICK. Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America. 2000. ix + 185 pp. $36.50. ISBN 0-761-81735-2. Recently...

Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Literature. By RUTH J. DEAN. (Anglo Norman Text Society, Occasional Series, 3) London: Anglo Norman Text Society, 1999. xviii + 553 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $49. ISBN 0-9054-7438-4. Originally...

Conjointure Arthurienne: actes de la 'Classe d'excellence' de la Chaire Francqui, 1998.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Conjointure Arthurienne: actes de la 'Classe d'excellence' de la Chaire Francqui, 1998. Ed. by JULIETTE DOR. Louvain-La-Neuve: Institut d'Etudes medievales de l'Universite Catholique de Louvain. 2000. vi + 125 pp. 22.31 [euro]; 900 BF. This...

Magister Amoris: The 'Roman de la Rose' and Vernacular Hermeneutics.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Magister Amoris: The 'Roman de la Rose' and Vernacular Hermeneutics. By ALSTAIR MINNIS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xv+352 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818754-8 With this book Alastair Minnis makes another substantial...

Distant Voices Still Heard: Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Distant Voices Still Heard: Contemporary Readings of French Renaissance Literature. Ed. by JOHN O'BRIEN and MALCOLM QUAINTON. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. viii+232 pp. 32 [pounds sterling] (pbk 11.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

Etudes Rabelaisiennes, vol. 39.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Vol. XXXIX. Geneva: Droz. 2000. 175 pp. ISBN 2-600-00478-5 This latest volume contains nine lengthy articles, all of a very high calibre, the-majority of which refer to two broad areas of investigation. First of all come...

Le Systeme des objets dans la theatre francais des annes 1625-1650: Corneille, Mairet, Rotrou, Scudery.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Le Systeme des objets dans le theatre francais des annees 1625-1650: Corneille, Mairet, Rotrou, Scudery. By MARK VUILLERMOZ. (Travaux du Grand Siecle, 17) Geneva: Droz. 2000. 333 pp. 53.50 [euro]; 84 SwF. ISBN 2-600-00443-2. We do not need the...

Tartuffe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Tartuffe. By MOLIERE. A new translation by RANJIT BOLT. Introduction by NICHOLAS DROMGOOLE. London: Oberon Books. 2002. 111 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84002-260-4. This volume is attractively produced, with uncluttered text and a...

Racine: The Power and the Pleasure.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Racine: The Power and the Pleasure. Ed. by EDRIC CALDICOTT and DERVAL CONROY. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2001. xiv + 250 pp. 37.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 17.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-900621-56-8 (pbk 1-900621-57-6). This...

Pierre Bayle: la nature et la 'nature des choses'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Pierre Bayle: la nature et la 'nature des choses'. By JEAN-JACQUES BOUCHARDY. (Vie des Huguenots, ed. by Antony McKenna, 14) Paris: Champion. 2001. 349 pp. 350 F. ISBN 2-7453-0385-6. In this densely argued book Jean-Jacques Bouchardy studies...

Lettres d'Elie Luzac a Jean Henry Samuel Formey (1748-1770): regard sur les coulisses de la librarie hollandaise du 18th siecle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... Lettres d'Elie Luzac a Jean Henry Samuel Formey (1748-1770): regard sur les coulisses de la librairie hollandaise du XVIIIe siecle. By HANS BOTS and JAN SCHILLINGS. (Vie des Huguenots, ed. by Antony McKenna, 15) Paris: Champion. 2001. 416 pp. 400...

Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Englightenment.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment. By RAYMOND BIRN. (SVEC, 2001.08) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2001. ix + 281 pp. 49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0770-5. The introduction begins: 'This...

Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Women's Writing in Nineteenth-Century France. By ALISON FINCH. (Cambridge Studies in French, 65) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xvi + 316 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-5216-3186-6. The nineteenth century produced a huge number...

Press, Revolution and Social Identities in France: 1830-1835.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Press, Revolution and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835. By JEREMY D. POPKIN. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. 329 pp. $65 (pbk $22.50). ISBN 0-271-02152-7 (pbk 0-271-02153-5). Journalists are...

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix. Ed. by BETH S. WRIGHT. (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xvi + 240 pp., 69 half-tone illus. 52.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Balzac's Shorter Fictions: Genesis and Genre. By TIM FARRANT. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xii + 356 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815197-7. In this ambitious and original volume Tim Farrant seeks to change what he takes to be...

Poesie et poetique en France 1830-1890: hommage a Eileen Souffrin-Le Breton.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Poesie et poetique en France 1830-1890: hommage a Eileen Souffrin-Le Breton. Ed. by PETER J. EDWARDS. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 101) Bern: Lang. 2001. viii + 253 pp. ISBN 0-8204-5202-5. From the publication of...

Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity. Ed. by PATRICIA A. WARD. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. 2001. xii + 230 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8265-1377-8. This book is a tribute to Claude Pichois, who from 1982 to 1998 was director of the...

'Genitrix' de 'Genitrix': le man uscrit et sa genese.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2003... 'Genitrix' de 'Genitrix': le manuscrit et sa genese. By FRANCOIS MAURIAC. Ed. by PIER LUIGI PINELLI. (Biblioteca della Ricerca, 13: Edizioni Genetiche, I) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier Erudition. 2000. 251 pp. 60,000 L. ISBN 88-8229-186-3....

Poesie et mythe dans l'oeuvre de Patrick Modiano: le fardeau du nomade.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Poesie et mythe dans l'oeuvre de Patrick Modiano: le fardeau du nomade. By PAUL GELLINGS. ('Situation', 55) Paris-Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2000. 209 pp. 170 F. ISBN 2-256-91014-8. Although Modiano has been a prize-winning novelist...

Quebec National Cinema.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Quebec National Cinema. By BILL MARSHALL. Montreal, London, and Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. xi + 371 pp. 46 [pounds sterling] (pbk 19.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7735-2103-8 (pbk 0-7735-2116-x). As Bill Marshall states in...

The Art and Genius of Anne Herbert: Essays on Her Works.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Art and Genius of Anne Hebert: Essays on her Works. Night and the Day are One. Ed. by JANIS L. PALLISTER. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2001. ISBN 0-8386-3913-5. Janet Pallister's anthology brings together a wide range of...

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys Between Cultures.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity: Journeys between Cultures. By CHARLES FORSDICK. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. 242 pp. $74. ISBN 0-19-816014-3. This is the first extensive study of Segalen's work to appear in English,...

Manuel de linguistique romane.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Manuel de linguistique romane. By JACQUES ALLIERES. (Bibliotheque de Grammaire et de Linguistique, 10) Paris: Champion. 2001. xxii + 323 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0439-9. Jacques Allieres sets himself the task of providing an introduction to Romance...

Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua. By GIOVAN FRANCESCO FORTUNIO. Ed. by BRIAN RICHARDSON. Padua and Rome: Antenore. 2001. lxxxv + 254 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 88-8455-520-5. This is a critical edition of the first printed Italian grammar...

Una quiete operosa: forme e pratiche dell'Academia napoletana degli Oziosi, 1611-1645.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Una quiete operosa: forme e pratiche dell'Accademia napoletana degli Oziosi, 1611-1645. By GIROLAMO DE MIRANDA. Naples: Federiciana Editrice Universitaria. 2000. xiv + 408 pp. 20.66 [euro]. ISBN 88-8338-005-3. Academies, once seen as symptom,...

Italo Svevo.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Italo Svevo. By ALBERTO CAVAGLION. Milan: Bruno Mondadori. 2000. 256 pp. 20,000 L. ISBN 88-424-9849-5. Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste. By ELIZABETH SCHACHTER. Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2000. viii + 180 pp. 26...

Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Origin and Identity: Essays on Svevo and Trieste. By ELIZABETH SCHACHTER. Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2000. viii + 180 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-902653-12-2. Italo Svevo. By ALBERTO CAVAGLION. Milan: Bruno Mondadori. 2000. 256...

Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of the Later Years.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Eugenio Montale: The Poetry of the Later Years. By EANNA O CEALLACHAIN. Oxford: Legenda. 2001. xi + 199 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-45-9. How and to what extent does Montale's later poetry reveal important shifts in the poet's...

The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry: Metaphor, Negation, and Silence.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Expression of the Inexpressible in Eugenio Montale's Poetry: Metaphor, Negation, and Silence. By CLODAGH J. BROOK. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2002. xi + 196 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924898-2. The status of language as an imperfect...

Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand. Ed. by MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN. Oxford: Legenda. 2000. xx + 195 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-30-0. This volume, in honour of Peter Brand, focuses on one of...

Las Cantigas de escarnio y maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretacion y critica textual.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Las Cantigas de escarnio y maldecir de Alfonso X: problemas de interpretacion y critica textual. By JUAN PAREDES. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 22) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. 59...

Novelas amorosas y ejemplares.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. By MARIA DE ZAYAS Y SOTOMAYOR. Ed. by JULIAN OLIVARES. Madrid: Catedra. 2000. 562 pp. ISBN 84-376-1825-8. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men. By MARGARET RICH GREER. University Park,...

Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Novelas amorosas y ejemplares. By MARIA DE ZAYAS Y SOTOMAYOR. Ed. by JULIAN OLIVARES. Madrid: Catedra. 2000. 562 pp. ISBN 84-376-1825-8. Maria de Zayas Tells Baroque Tales of Love and the Cruelty of Men. By MARGARET RICH GREER. University Park,...

Rimado de palacio.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Rimado de palacio. By PERO LOPEZ DE AYALA. Ed. by H. SALVADOR MARTINEZ. (Iberica, 35) New York: Lang. 2000. lxxxvi + 362 pp. $72.95. ISBN 0-8204-4916-4. In the introductory study to this volume H. Salvador Martinez carefully locates the...

Echoes and Interpretations: Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literatures.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Echoes and Inscriptions: Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literatures. Ed. by BARBARA A. SIMERKA and CHRISTOPHER B. WEIMER. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 272 pp. 35 [pounds...

Tiempo: Canciones del farero.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Tiempo. Canciones del farero. Vuelta. By EMILIO PRADOS. Ed. by FRANCISCO JAVIER DIEZ DE REVENGA. (Clasicos de Biblioteca Nueva, 15) Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva. 1999. 232 pp. ISBN 84-7030-632-4. Emilio Prados (Malaga 1899-Mexico 1962) is one of...

Understanding Julio Cortazar.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Understanding Julio Cortazar By PETER STANDISH. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2001. xvii + 222 pp. $29.95. ISBN 1-57003-390-0. Peter Standish's Understanding Julio Cortazar admirably fulfils the task it sets itself, and offers...

La pirateria textual: un estudio hipertextual de 'Son vacas, somos puercos' y 'El medico de los piratas' de Carmen Boullosa.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... La pirateria textual: un estudio hipertextual de 'Son vacas, somos puercos' y 'El medico de los piratas' de Carmen Boullosa. By ANNA FORNE. Lund: Romanska institutionen/ Lunds Universitet. 2001. 117 pp. ISBN 91-973886-1-0. There have been a...

Allende, Buitrago, Luiselli: aproximaciones teoricas al concepto del 'Bildungsroman' femenino.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Allende, Buitrago, Luiselli: aproximaciones teoricas al concepto del 'Bildungsroman' femenino. By LEASA Y. LUTES. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 87) New York: Lang. 2000. 130 pp. 29 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Dissolving Frontiers: Second Postgraduate colloquium on Hispanic Research.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Dissolving Frontiers: Second Postgraduate Colloquium on Hispanic Research. Ed. By ANNE CUTTING and ANA FERNANDEZ GUERRA. (Manchester Spanish and Portuguese Studies: Canada Blanch Monographs, 4) Manchester: Department of Spanish and Portuguese...

Specht und Gamse: Beitrage zur Rechtschreibung des Deutschen.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Specht und Gamse: Beitrage zur Rechtschreibung des Deutschen (Symposion Salzburg 1998). Festschrift fur Franz V. Spechtler. Ed. by SIEGRID SCHMIDT, INGRID BENNEWITZ, and ULRICH MULLER. (Goppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 687) Goppingen:...

The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. Ed. by W. H. JACKSON and S. A. RANAWAKE. (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 3) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2000. xii+337 pp. 35 [pounds...

Studies in the Reception of the 'Historia Scholastica' of Peter Comestor: The 'Schwartzwalder Predigten,' the 'Weltchronik' of Rudolf von Ems, the 'Scholastica' of Jacob van Maerlant and the 'Historiebijbel van 1360.'(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Studies in the Reception of the 'Historia Scholastica' of Peter Comestor: The 'Schwarzwalder Predigten', the 'Weltchronik' of Rudolf von Ems, the 'Scholastica' of Jacob van Maerlant and the 'Historiebijbel van 1360'. By MARIA C. SHERWOOD-SMITH....

Albertus Magnus 'On Animals': A Medieval 'Summa Zoologica.'(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Albertus Magnus 'On Animals': A Medieval 'Summa Zoologica'. Trans. by KENNETH KITCHELL, JR, and IRVEN MICHAEL RENNICK. (Foundations of Natural History) Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Vol. i: xlii+856 pp., 16 plates; vol. ii:...

Schulliteratur im spaten Mittelalter.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Schulliteratur im spaten Mittelalter. Ed. by KLAUS GRUBMULLER. (Munstersche Mittelalter-Schriften, 69) Munich:Fink. 2000. 535 pp. 988.40. ISBN 3-7705-2977-4 (hbk). The articles in this weighty and uniformly excellent volume focus on different...

Johannes Widmanns 'Behende und hubsche Rechenung': Die Textsorte 'Rechenbuch' in der Fruhen Neuzeit.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Johannes Widmanns 'Behende vnd hubsche Rechenung': Die Textsorte 'Rechenbuch' in der Fruhen Neuzeit. By BARBARA GARTNER. (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik, 222) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. xvi+662 pp. 98 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-31222-X (pbk). Books on...

Goethe at 250: London Symposium.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Goethe at 250: London Symposium/Goethe mit 250: Londoner Symposium. Ed. by T. J. REED, MARTIN SWALES, and JEREMY ADLER. (Publications of the Institute of Germanic Studies, 75) Munich: Iudicium. 2000. 305 pp. 38.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-89129-049-7...

Das schwierige neunzehnte Jarhundert: Germanistische Tagung zum 65.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Das schwierige neunzehnte Jahrhundert: Germanistische Tagung zum 65. Geburtstag von Eda Sagarra im August 1998. Ed. by JURGEN BARKHOFF, GILBERT CARR, and ROGER PAULIN. (Studien und Texte zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur, 77) Tubingen: Niemeyer....

Stifter-Studien: En Festgeschenk fur Wolfgang Fruhwald zum 65.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Stifter-Studien: Ein Festgeschenk fur Wolfgang Fruhwald zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. by WALTER HETTCHE, JOHANNES JOHN, and SIBYLLE VON STEINSDORFF. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. vi + 258 pp. 72 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-10828-2 (hbk). Adalbert Stifter's Late...

Adalbert Stifter's Late Prose: The Mania for Moderation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Stifter-Studien: Ein Festgeschenk fur Wolfgang Fruhwald zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. by WALTER HETTCHE, JOHANNES JOHN, and SIBYLLE VON STEINSDORFF. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. vi + 258 pp. 72 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-10828-2 (hbk). Adalbert Stifter's Late...

Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature. By IRVING MASSEY. (Conditio Judaica, 29) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. 199 pp. 49 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-1825-7 (pbk). Although this reviewer disagrees profoundly with many points made in Irving...

Regionalitat und Zentrenbildung: Kulturgeographische Untersuchunger zur deutschen Literatur 1870-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Regionalitat und Zentrenbildung: Kulturgeographische Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur 1870-1945. By KLAUS HERMSDORF. (Literatur--Sprache--Region, 2) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Lang. 1999. 418 pp. 50.10 [euro]. ISBN 3-631-32687-4...

Vom 'Zauberberg' zum 'Doktor Faustus': Die Davoser Lateraturtage 1998.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Vom 'Zauberberg' zum 'Doktor Faustus': Die Davoser Literaturtage 1998. Ed. by THOMAS SPRECHER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 23) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2000. 316 pp. 59 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03070-2 (hbk). 'Der Geist der Medizin ist leicht zu...

Bucherverbrennungen: Eine Vorlesung aus Anlass des 65.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Bucherverbrennungen: Eine Vorlesung aus Anlass des 65. Jahrestages der 'Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist'. By THEODOR VERWEYEN. (Beihefte zum Euphorion, 37) Heidelberg: Winter. 2000. 237 pp. 36 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1082-5 (hbk). The Erlangen...

Journey of No Return: Five German-Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1833-1945.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Journey of No Return: Five German-Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1933-1945. By RICHARD DOVE. London: Libris. 2000. ix+308 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 1-870352-36-X (hbk). Die Reise nach Deutsehland. By KARL OTTEN. Ed. by RICHARD DOVE....

Die Reise nach Deutschland.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Journey of No Return: Five German-Speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1933-1945. By RICHARD DOVE. London: Libris. 2000. ix+308 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 1-870352-36-X (hbk). Die Reise nach Deutsehland. By KARL OTTEN. Ed. by RICHARD DOVE....

Langeres Gedankenspiel und Dystopie: Die Mondfiktion in Arno, Schmidts Roman 'Kaff auch Mare Crisium.'(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Langeres Gedankenspiel und Dystopie: Die Mondfiktion in Arno Schmidts Roman 'Kaff auch Mare Crisium'. By ROSWITHA M. JAUK. (Erlanger Studien, 122) Erlangen und Jena: Palm & Enke. 2000. 126 pp. 14 [euro]. ISBN 3-7896-0822-X (pbk). The focus of...

Im Zeichen der Shoah: Aspekte der Dichtungs- und Sprachkrise bei Rose Auslander und Nelly Sachs.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Im Zeichen der Shoah: Aspekte der Dichtungs- und Sprachkrise bei Rose Auslander und Nelly Sachs. By ANNETTE JAEL LEHMANN. (Stauffenburg Colloquium, 47) Tubingen: Stauffenburg. 1999. xxvi+246 pp. 43.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-86057-147-8 (pbk). This...

'Uber die Zeit schreiben' 2: Literatur- und wissenschaftliche Essays zum Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Uber die Zeit schreiben' 2: Literatur- und wissenschaftliche Essays zum Werk Ingeborg Bachmanns. Ed. by MONIKA ALBRECHT and DIRK GOTTSCHE. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2000. 228 pp. 925. ISBN 3-8260-1837-0 (pbk). This volume is the second...

Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens: Das Liedertheater Wenzel und Mensching.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Zwei Clowns im Lande des verlorenen Lachens: Das Liedertheater Wenzel & Mensching. By DAVID ROBB. Berlin: Links. 1998. iv+208 pp. 914.90. ISBN 3-86153-156-9 (pbk). This is the first monograph to examine the prolific GDR poet/Liedermacher duo...

The One-Eyed Man: Social Reality in the German Novel 1848-1968.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... The One-Eyed Man: Social Reality in the German Novel 1848-1968. By ALFRED D. WHITE. (German Linguistic and Cultural Studies, 5) Oxford, Bern, and Brussels: Lang. 2000. 189 pp. 31.70 [euro]. ISBN 3-906758-32-x (pbk). Recent theoretical...

Representing the German Nation: History and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Representing the German Nation: History and Identity in Twentieth-Century Germany. Ed. by MARY FULBROOK and MARTIN SWALES. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2000. v+199 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-5939-9 (hbk). Visual...

Heimat - A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1900.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Heimat--A German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990. By ELIZABETH BOA and RACHEL PALFREYMAN. (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii+ 234 pp. 45 [pounds...

A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Ed. by JO CATLING. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xvii+395pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]; $64.95 (pbk 15.95 [pounds sterling]; $24.95). ISBN 0-521-44482-9 (pbk...

Selbstdarstellungen: Untersuchungen zur deutsch-judischen Erzahlliteratur im neunzehnten Jarhundert.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Selbstdarstellungen: Untersuchungen zur deutsch-judischen Erzahlliteratur im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. By FLORIAN KROBB. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2000. 208 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-8260-1825-7 (pbk). In recent years the...

Encyclopedia of German Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Encyclopedia of German Literature. Ed. by MATTHIAS KONZETT. Chicago and London: Fitzroy Dearborn. 2000. 2 vols. 1174 pp. 120 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-5795-8138-2 (hbk). As Matthias Konzett remarks in his Editor's Note, this is, astoundingly,...

Danisch-deutsch Doppelganger: Transnationale und bikulturelle Literatur zwischen Barock und Moderne.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Danisch-deutsche Doppelganger: Transnationale und bikulturelle Literatur zwischen Barock und Moderne. Ed. by HEINRICH DETERING, ANNE-BITT GERECKE, and JOHAN DE MYLIUS. (Grenzgange: Studien zur skandinavisch-deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 3)...

Old Icelandic Literature and Society.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Ed. by MARGARET CLUNIES ROSS. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 42) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii+336 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-5216-3112-2 (hbk). Old Icelandic...

Gatans namn: tankens och kanslans monster hos nio findlandssvenska modernister.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Gatans namn: tankens och kanslans monster hos nio finlandssvenska modernister. By TORSTEN PETTERSSON. Helsinki: Svenska litteratursallskapet i Finland. 2001. 332 pp. 200 FMK. ISBN 951-583-063-X. Torsten Pettersson's study comprises nine essays...

Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Real Images: Soviet Cinema and the Thaw. By JOSEPHINE WOLL. London: Tauris. 2000. 267 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-86064-369-8 (pbk 1-86064-550-X). Many important books have already appeared in the series...

Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s.(Book Review)
April 1, 2003... Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s. Ed. by ARNOLD MACMILLAN. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. 2000. ix + 324 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9-0570-2594-9. The decade of the 1980s in Soviet Russia is peculiarly marked...