The Modern Language Review articles from April 2004

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2004

The Wife of Bath's Shipman's tale and the invention of Chaucerian fabliaux.
April 1, 2004... The theory that the Shipman's Tale was originally written for the Wife of Bath is generally thought to be based simply on the use of pronouns in the early portions of the tale. The present study shows that the theory is not a textual one, but...

Samuel Purchas as editor--a case study: Anthony Knyvett's journal.
April 1, 2004... Among the manuscripts that Samuel Purchas obtained from Richard Hakluyt, which in 1625 he published in Purchas His Pilgrims, was the journal of Anthony Knyvett, the son of a Wiltshire knight, who in 1601 returned to England after a seven-year...

Henry of Lancaster and Geoffrey Chaucer: Anglo-French and middle English in fourteenth-century England.
April 1, 2004... The study of Middle English and that of medieval English history need to take account of the trilingual character of the civilization of medieval England, especially the pervading influence of Anglo-French between 1066 and about 1450....

Manipulating martyrdom: Corneille's (hetero) sexualization of Polyeucte.(Pierre Corneille)
April 1, 2004... The article offers a reappraisal of one of Pierre Corneille's masterpieces, Polyeucte (1643). This tragedy departs radically from the dramatist's named sources, more so than in any other of his works. It is argued here that the plot is altered...

Foucault on the 'question of the author': a critical exegesis.(Michel Foucault)
April 1, 2004... This analysis of Foucault's 'What is an Author?' produces three main findings. First, Foucault was arguing--subtly yet powerfully--against Barthes's 'The Death of the Author'. Second, 'What is an author?' systematically mystified the figure of...

The critical reception of Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy, 1878-1910.
April 1, 2004... This study looks at the critical response to Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy between the late 1870s and 1910. Information on Pre-Raphaelitism arrived in Italy in two phases: firstly, in the 1880s, when discussion was largely literary and focused on...

'!Volviose en luto la boda!': ritual, torture, and the technologies of power in Lope's Fuente Ovejuna.(Lope de Vega)
April 1, 2004... Fuente Ovejuna's foregrounding of religious and folkloric rituals demonstrates the intimate relationship between politics and ritual in the construction of communal identity. The inhabitants of the village apprehend their past, present, and...

'Prince poli & savant': Goethe's Prometheus and the enlightenment.(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
April 1, 2004... The present reading of Goethe's 'Prometheus' sets out to examine the new work to which the myth is put in the poem. His 'Prometheus' does not stand in a modern opposition to classical accounts of the myth. The poem rather establishes itself at...

'Double-voiced discourse' and psychological insight in the work of Therese Huber.
April 1, 2004... In discussing the work of Therese Huber (1764-1829), most feminist critics have sought to uncover its emancipatory aspects. Examining Luise (1796), 'Der Ehewagen' (1818), and Ellen Percy (1822), the article argues that Huber's fiction is also...

Miljenko Jergovic's art of memory: lying, imagining, and forgetting in Mama Leone and Historijska Citanka.
April 1, 2004... Miljenko Jergovic is one of the contemporary writers from the former Yugoslavia who has devoted a large part of his recent work to the problem of memory and forgetting in a radically changed and changing world. This article examines how the...

Children's Literature as Communication: the ChiLPA Project.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA Project. Ed. by ROGER D SELL. (Studies in Narrative, 2) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2002. xi+352 pp. 990; $81. ISBN 90-272-2642-3 (Eur.); 1-58811-258-6 (US). Roger D....

Il genere 'tenzone' nelle letterature romanze delle origini (Atti del convegno di Losanna, 13-15 novembre 1997).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Il genere 'tenzone' nelle letterature romanze delle origini (Atti del convegno di Losanna, 13-15 novembre 1997). Ed. by MATTEO PEDRONI and ANTONIO STAUBLE. (Memoria del tempo, 15) Ravenna: Longo. 1999. 412 pp. 31 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-192-6. ...

Faking Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Faking Literature. By K. K. RUTHVEN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. x+237 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $64.95 (pbk 14.95 [pounds sterling]; $22.95). ISBN 0-521-66015-7 (pbk 0-521-66965-0). Faking...

A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Ed. by PHILLIP PULSIANO and ELAINE TREHARNE. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2001. xviii+529 pp. 80 [pounds sterling]; $124.95. ISBN 0-631-20904-2. ...

'I have a yong suster': Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... 'I have a yong suster': Popular Song and the Middle English Lyric. By KARIN BOKLUND-LAGOPOLOU. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 269 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; 60 [euro]. ISBN 1-85182-627-0. In this admirable book Karin Boklund-Lagopolou...

Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Textual Situations: Three Medieval Manuscripts and their Readers. By ANDREW TAYLOR. (Material Texts) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 300 pp. $55; 38.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3642-4. Andrew Taylor's Textual...

Sources and Analogues of the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sources and Analogues of the 'Canterbury Tales', vol. I. General Ed. ROBERT M. CORREALE; Ass. General Ed. H. (Chaucer Studies) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. xii+623 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-628-6. The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A...

Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity. By ROBERT R. EDWARDS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xvi+205 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97008-x. Drawing together at least two major strands of recent Chaucer criticism,...

Clerks and Courtiers: Chaucer, Late Middle English Literature and the State Formation Process.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Clerks and Courtiers: Chaucer, Late Middle English Literature and the State Formation Process. By ANDREW JAMES JOHNSTON. (Anglistische Forschungen, 30) Heidelberg: Winter. 2001. 410 pp.; 2 plates. SwF 99; 58 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1234-8. ...

Performance and Spectacle in Hall's Chronicle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Performance and Spectacle in Hall's Chronicle. By JANETTE DILLON. London: The Society for Theatre Research. 2002. xii+345pp. 24 [pounds sterling]; $48. ISBN 0854-30-071-6. Janette Dillon's book will be welcomed by many scholars of early...

Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Imaginary Betrayals: Subjectivity and the Discourses of Treason in Early Modern England. By KAREN CUNNINGHAM. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. vi+216 pp. $42.50; 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3640-8. In her...

Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference. By RICHARD A. MCCABE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiii+306 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818734-3. Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' and...

Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories. By RUTH GILBERT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xii+214 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-92537-8. Ruth Gilbert's splendid study examines 'the ways in which sexually doubled...

Homoerotic Space: the Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature. By STEPHEN GUYBRAY. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. x+265 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3677-5. This interesting but flawed...

In Words and Deeds: the Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy. By ZENON LUIS-MARTINEZ (Costerus New Series, 145) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2002. viii+296 pp. 55 [euro]; $55. ISBN 90-420-0844-x. Dr Zenon Luis-Martinez...

Milton and the Terms of Liberty.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Milton and the Terms of Liberty. Ed. by GRAHAM PARRY and JOAD RAYMOND. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 7) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. xvi+218 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 1-085991-639-1. The 'terms' of liberty, in these papers...

Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, & Christianity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, & Christianity. By JEFFREY S. SHOULSON. New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. xii+340 pp. $52.50; 35.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $19.50; 13.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-231-12328-0 (pbk...

Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Disciplining Satire: The Censorship of Satiric Comedy on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage. By MATTHEW J. KINSERVIK. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 301 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work and Culture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in their Lives, Work and Culture, vol. ii. Ed. by LINDA V. TROOST. London and New York: AMS Press. 2002. vii+351 pp. $94.50. ISBN 0-404-64702-2. The Eighteenth-Century Novel, vol. ii. Ed. by ALBERT J....

The Letters of Matthew Arnold.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Letters of Matthew Arnold, vol. vi: 1885-1888. Ed. by CECIL Y. LANG. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2002. xxiii+552 pp. $60. ISBN 0-8139-2028-0. The final volume of The...

Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Portraying the Lady: Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James. By DONATELLA IZZO. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2001. viii+312 pp. 45.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-2503-2. Portraying the Lady is a...

Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, and the Professionalization of English Society. By DAVID TROTTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. viii+358 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818755-6. A critical...

Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Modernity and Metropolis: Writing, Film and Urban Formations. By PETER BROOKER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. ix+230 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-80168-7. This book begins from the position that modernity and the city...

Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett. By. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+201 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-92393-6. Not only have concepts of the tragic for centuries been central to Western...

Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Stories for Nothing: Samuel Beckett's Narrative Poetics. By PAUL B. KELLEY. Foreword by H. (Currents in Comparative Romance Languages and Literatures, 111) New York, Bern, and Frankfurt a.M: Peter Lang. 2002. xv+198 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]....

Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation. Ed. by. RONNA C. JOHNSON and NANCY M. GRACE. New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2002. xvi+295 pp. $69 (pbk $22). ISBN 0-8135-3064-4 (pbk 0-8135-3065-2). ...

Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption. By ROB LATHAM. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. x+321 pp. $50; 31.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $22; 14 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-226-46891-7 (pbk...

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. By GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xii+ 491 pp. $85; 60 [pounds sterling] (pbk $35.95; 22.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8020-4376-3...

Ecriture et pouvoir a l'aube des temps modernes.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ecriture et pouvoir a l'aube des temps modernes. By JOEL BLANCHARD and JEAN-CLAUDE MUHLETHALER. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2002. iv+230+vi pp. 19.50 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-052398-6. The ambition and scope of this book can be judged...

Fantasy, Identity and Misrecognition in Medieval French Narrative.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Fantasy, Identity and Misrecognition in Medieval French Narrative. By JAMES R. SIMPSON. Oxford and New York: Peter Lang. 2000. vii+290 pp. 51.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-906766-16-0. A casual search through the MLA bibliography gives ample evidence...

The Poetry of Francois Villon: Text and Context.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Poetry of Francis Villon: Text and Context. By JANE H. M. TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in French, 68) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii + 234 pp. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-79270-3. Avoiding the tendency of some earlier critics to...

OEuvres spirituelles 1510-1516.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... OEuvres spirituelles 1510-1516. By GABRIELLE DE BOURBON. Ed. by EVELYNE BERRIOT-SALVADORE. (Textes de la Renaissance, 26) Paris: Champion. 1999. 263 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0141-1. As Evelyne Berriot-Salvadore remarks in the introduction to her...

Eros rebelle: litterature et dissidence a l'age classique.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Eros rebelle: litterature et dissidence a l'age classique. By MICHEL JEANNERET. Paris: Seuil. 2003. 332 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-02-041687-5. Michel Jeanneret's book presents erotic literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in...

Le Roi dans la ville: anthologie des entrees royales dans les villes francaises de province (1615-1660).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le Roi dans la ville: anthologie des entrees royales dans les villes francaises de province (1615-1660). Ed. by MARIE-FRANCE WAGNER and DANIEL VAILLANCOURT. Paris: Champion. 2001. 334 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0424-0. This anthology nicely...

Metre et rythmes du vers classique: Corneille et Racine.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Metre et rythmes du vers classique: Corneille et Racine. By VALERIE BEAUDOUIN (Lettres Numeriques, 11) Paris: Champion. 2002. 620 pp. 80 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0509-3. As Valerie observes in her introduction, previous formal studies of the...

Le Comte d'Essex.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le Comte d'Essex. By THOMAS CORNEILLE. Ed. by WENDY GIBSON. (Textes Litteraires, 110) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2000. xxx+88 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85989-666-8. In a lively introduction, Wendy Gibson considers Thomas...

Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographical Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographical Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry. Ed. and annotated with introductions to the texts by ARLIN C. MIGLIAZZO. Translations from the French by PIERRETTE C....

Francoise de Graffigny: choix de lettres.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Francoise de Graffigny: choix de lettres. Ed. by E. SHOWALTER. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2001. vi+299 pp. 14.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0781-0. Resurgent interest in Francoise de Graffigny's innovative novel Lettres d'une...

Seduction et dialogue dans l'oeuvre de Crebillon.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Seduction et dialogue dans l'oeuvre de Crebillon. By GENEVIEVE SALVAN. (Bibliotheque de Grammaire et de Linguistique, 11) Paris: Champion. 2002. 378 pp. 62 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0559-X. Specialists in historical linguistic studies and...

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, journaliste des lumieres.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard, journaliste des lumieres. By ERIC FRANCALANZA. (Les Dix-huitiemes siecles, 60) Paris: Champion. 2002. 409 pp. 80 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0495-x. Suard's successor at the Academie francaise, Jean-Francois Roger,...

Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten: Fremdbilder in der franzosischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten: Fremdbilder in der franzosischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. By KARL HOLZ. Berlin: Erich Schmidt. 2002. 198 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-503-06137-1. Zigeuner, Wilde und Exoten explores images of the Other in...

Ecrits politiques (1814-1816).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Ecrits politiques (1814-1816). By FRANCOIS-RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND. Ed. by COLIN SMETHURST (Les Classiques de la pensee politique, 18) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 586 pp. 54.10 [euro]; SwF 79.90. ISBN 2-600-00670-2. The Restoration offered a...

Madame de Stael: 'Delphine' and 'Corinne'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Madamede de Stael: 'Delphine' and 'Corinne'. By ANGELICA GOODDEN. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 124) London: Grant & Cutler. 2000. 83 pp. 6.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0417-5. It is good to see Madame de Stael back on the...

Le Restaurant dans le roman naturaliste: narration et evaluation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le Restaurant dans le roman naturaliste: narration et evaluation. By JOELLE BONNIN-PONNIER. (Romantisme et modernites, 48) Paris: Champion. 2002. xii+577 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0528-x. This work falls into two parts: the first, 'Restaurant et...

Cahiers/Notebooks.(by Paul Valery)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Cahiers/Notebooks. By PAUL VALERY. Ed. by BRIAN STIMPSON, PAUL GIFFORD, and ROBERT PICKERING. Trans. by PAUL GIFFORD, SIAN MILES, ROBERT PICKERING, and BRIAN STIMPSON (vol. I); RACHEL KILLICK, ROBERT PICKERING, NORMA RINSLER, STEPHEN ROMER, and...

[Book 1:] The Cubist Painters.
April 1, 2004... [Book 1:] The Cubist Painters. By GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE. Trans. by PETER READ. [Book 2:] Apollinaire and Cubism. By PETER READ. Forest Row: Artists Book-works. 2002. X + (Book 1) 86 pp., 45 plates; (Book 2) 152 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Andre Malraux: Across Boundaries.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Andre Malraux: Across Boundaries. Ed. by GEOFFREY T. HARRIS. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi. 2000. vii + 291 pp. 64 [euro]. ISBN 9-0420-1011-8. In this age of globalization, of interdisciplinary (and even post-disciplinary) method, the...

Jean Dutourd, 'Au Bon Beurre': scenes de la vue sous l'Occupation.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Jean Dutourd, 'Au Bon Beurre': scenes de la vue sous l'Occupation. By KAY CHADWICK. Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2003. iv + 84 pp. ISBN 0-85261-769-0. Kay Chadwick's introductory guide to Au Bon Beurre is a...

Michel Foucault: Form and Power.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Michel Foucault: Form and Power. By DAN BEER. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre. 2002. x + 133 PP. ISBN 1-900755-57-2. Following the publication of Dits et ecrits and the ongoing publication of the College de France...

Brassens: Chansons.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Brassens: Chansons. By SARA POOLE. London: Grant & Cutler. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 125) 2000. 94 pp. 5.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0424-8. In this first book-length study of Brassens in English Sara Poole provides a good...

Les Ecrivains hommes de radio (1940-1970).(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Les Ecrivains hommes de radio (1940-1970). Ed. by PIERRE-MARIE HERON. Montpellier: Centre d'Etude du xxe siecle, Universite Paul Valery. 2001. 259 pp. 35.05 [euro]. ISBN 2-84269-486-4. Since the 1970s many critics have watched with dismay...

Sujet, verbe, complement: le moment grammatical de la litterature francaise 1890-1940.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sujet, verbe, complement: le moment grammatical de la litterature francaise 1890-1940. By GILLES PHILIPPE. (Bibliotheque des Idees) Paris: Gallimard. 2002. 258 pp. 15 [euro]. ISBN 2-07-076408-7. The late nineteenth century witnessed a...

Bibliographie du voyage francais en Italie du moyen age a 1914.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Bibliographie du voyage francais en Italie du moyen age a 1914. By VITO CASTIGLIONE MINISCHETTI, GIOVANNI DOTOLI, and ROGER MUSNIK. (Biblioteca Della Ricerca, Bibliographica, 3) Fasano: Schena Editore; Paris: Presses de l'Universite de...

Penser le devoir de memoire.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Penser le devoir de memoire. By EMMANUEL KATTAN. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2002. iv + 153 pp. 15 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-052478-8. In this timely book, Emmanuel Kattan presents memory today as an individual and collective duty to...

Dante e le figure del vero: la fabbrica della 'Commedia'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Dante e le figure del vero: la fabbrica della 'Commedia'. By EMILIO PASQUINI. Milan: Bruno Mondadori. 2001. viii + 307 pp. 18.08 [euro]. ISBN 88-424-9519-0. Another book on Dante, but this time one that is different. Recasting a number of...

Alfieri Revisited.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Alfieri Revisited. Ed. by JOHN LINDON. (Supplement to The Italianist, 21) Reading: Department of Italian Studies, University of Reading. 2001. 80 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISSN 0261-4340. This supplement to The Italianist finds its timely...

Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburg's Mothers, Daughters and Sisters.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Maternal Desire: Natalia Ginzburg's Mothers, Daughters and Sisters. By TERESA PICARIZZI. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 234 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3904-6. Teresa...

Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Le ragioni dell'altro: la formazione intellettuale di Pasolini tra saggistica, letteratura e cinema. By FABIO VIGHI. Ravenna: Longo Editore. 2001. 286 pp. 18.08 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-3074. Fabio Vighi's book offers a reassessment of...

Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination. Ed. by KEALA JEWELL. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2001. 325 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8143-2838-5. In the introduction the editor presents background to the study of monsters as social...

'Carmen Campidoctoris' o Poema latino del Campeador.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... 'Carmen Campidoctoris' o Poema latino del Campeador. Ed., trans., with an introduction and commentary by ALBERTO MANTANER and ANGEL ESCOBAR. (Mitos Universales de la Literatura Espanola: Biblioteca Complementaria) Madrid: Espana Nuevo Milenio....

The Loving Struggle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Loving Struggle. By FRAY JUAN DE LOS ANGELES. Trans. by ELADIA GOMEZ POSTHILL. London: Saint Austin Press. 2001. xxii+205 pp. 41.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-901157-26-1. It has taken four hundred years for the Lucha espiritual y...

Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Recovering Spain's Feminist Tradition. Ed. by LISA VOLLENDORF. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2001. xii+407 pp. $19.75. ISBN 0-87352-274-5. The aim of this collection is to trace the development of Spanish feminist...

La vanguardia teatral en Espana (1965-1975): del ritual al juego.(Discurso teorico y puesta en escena en los anos sesenta: la encrujada de los 'realismos')(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... La vanguardia teatral en Espana (1965-1975): del ritual al juego. By OSCAR CORNAGO BERNAL (Biblioteca Filologica Hispana, 44) Madrid: Visor Libros. 2000. 304 pp. 16.82 [euro]. ISBN 84-7522-848-5. Discurso teorico y puesta en escena en los...

The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Burden of Modernity: The Rhetoric of Cultural Discourse in Spanish America. By CARLOS J. ALONSO. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1998. x+ 227 pp. $45. ISBN 0-19-511863-4. This book has one key central argument: that while...

Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain, 1962-1974. By MARIO SANTANA. (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2000. 234 pp. $41.50. ISBN 0-8387-5450-3. ...

Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Colonialism Past and Present: Reading and Writing about Colonial Latin America Today. Ed. by ALVARO FELIX BOLANOS and GUSTAVO VERDESIO. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2002. viii+300 pp. 2002. $27.95. ISBN 0-7914-5146-1. In...

Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Killer Books: Writing, Violence, and Ethics in Modern Spanish American Narrative. By ANIBAL GONZALEZ. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2001. xi+176 pp. $40. ISBN 0-292-72839-5. Killer Books explores modern Spanish American reflections on...

Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich/Actos desafiantes: cuatro obras de Diana Raznovich.
April 1, 2004... Defiant Acts: Four Plays by Diana Raznovich/Actos desafiantes: cuatro obras de Diana Raznovich. Ed. By DIANA TAYLOR and VICTORIA MARTINEZ. Trans. By VICTORIA MARTINEZ in collaboration with LYDIA RAMIREZ and NORA GLICKMAN. Lewisburg: Bucknell...

Kommunikation in Wolframs 'Parzival': Eine Untersuchung zu Form und Funktion der Dialoge.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kommunikation in Wolframs 'Parzival': Eine Untersuchung zu Form und Funktion der Dialoge. By ANDREAS URSCHELER. (Deutsche Literatur von den Anfangen bis 1700, 38) Bern, Berlin, and Brussels: Peter Lang. 2002. 315 pp. 55.20 [euro]. ISBN...

Wolfram's "Willehalm": Fifteen Essays.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Wolfram's 'Willehalm': Fifteen Essays. Ed. by MARTIN H. JONES and TIMOTHY MCFARLAND. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2002. xxii + 344 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $79. ISBN 1-57113-211-2 (hbk). Wolfram's incomplete Willehalm, presumed to have...

Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte de Hese's 'Itinerarius' and Medieval Travel Narratives.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Broader Horizons: A Study of Johannes Witte de Hese's 'Itinerarius' and Medieval Travel Narratives. By SCOTT D. WESTREM. (Medieval Academy Books, 105) Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America. 2001. xxiii + 359 pp. $30. ISBN 0-915651-10-6...

The Contested Quill: Literature by Women in Germany, 1770-1800.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Contested Quill: Literature by Women in Germany, 1770-1800. By RUTH P. DAWSON. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 415 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-762-4 (hbk). The title of this...

Weimaraner Weltbewohner: Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff 'Weltliteratur'.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Weimaraner Weltbewohner: Zur Genese von Goethes Begriff 'Weltliteratur'. By MANFRED KOCH. (Communicatio, 29) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2002. viii + 285 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-63029-9 (pbk). Manfred Koch's monograph is neatly divided into two...

Kreuz-Gange: Romanexperimente der deutschen Romantik.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Kreuz-Gange: Romanexperimente der deutschen Romantik. By NICOLA KAMINSKI. Paderborn, Munich, Vienna, and Zurich: Schoningh. 2001. 466 pp. 44.99 [euro]. ISBN 3-506-74255-8 (pbk). Ever since Friedrich Schlegel's definition of the novel...