The Modern Language Review articles from April 2005

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2005

Andrew Marvell and the 'painter satires': a computational approach to their authorship.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Andrew Marvell and the 'Painter Satires': A Computational Approach to their Authorship by John Burrows This article applies the methods of computational stylistics to a notable problem of attribution. Edmund Waller's eulogistic...

Joyce, Bergson, and the memory of words.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Joyce, Bergson, and the Memory of Words by Justin Beplate This article examines the implications of Bergson's dictum that the classical problem of mind-body relations centres upon the subject of memory--in particular, our memory of...

'This curious silent unrepresented life': Greek lessons in Virginia Woolf's early fiction.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... 'This Curious Silent Unrepresented Life': Greek Lessons in Virginia Woolf's Early Fiction by Vassiliki Kolocotroni Virginia Woolf famously identified with the culturally disenfranchised. As a young woman and aspiring writer, she was irked...

Rethinking Madame Bovary's motives for committing suicide.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Rethinking Madame Bovary's Motives for Committing Suicide by Jacqueline Merriam Paskow Unlike most nineteenth-century novels of female adultery in which the heroine's unhappy end is a function of her having broken social taboos, Gustave...

Fugue and flight in Claude Simon's Bataille de Pharsale.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Fugue and Flight in Claude Simon's Bataille de Pharsale by Jean Duffy The article argues that Claude Simon has drawn heavily on fugal patterns of composition in the writing of La Bataille de Pharsale and examines the aesthetic, thematic,...

The perversion of a fairy tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo'.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... The Perversion of a Fairy Tale: Primo Levi's 'La bella addormentata nel frigo' by Lucie Benchouiha This article examines Primo Levi's short story La bella addormentata nel frigo in its relation to both the traditional Sleeping Beauty story...

Jose Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo: outline of a newer testament.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Jose Saramago's O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo: Outline of a Newer Testament by David Frier This article explores Jose Saramago's controversial novel O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo (1991) from a variety of perspectives: fictional...

From bureaucratic alienation to political exile: evolving views of Uruguayan identity in the work of Mario Benedetti.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... From Bureaucratic Alienation to Political Exile: Evolving Views of Uruguayan Identity in the Work of Mario Benedetti by Paul R. Jordan An introduction presents Uruguayan history from the 1910s to the 1980s, covering the social and economic...

'In allem ist der Riss': trauma, fragmentation, and the body in Herta Muller's prose and collages.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... 'In allem ist der Riss': Trauma, Fragmentation, and the Body in Herta Muller's Prose and Collages by Lyn Marven In Herta Muller's works, trauma characterizes the experience and continuing effects of the repressive regime in Romania; it...

The passenger as flaneur? Railway networks in German-language fiction since 1945.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... The Passenger as Flaneur? Railway Networks in German-Language Fiction since 1945 by Simon Ward Throughout the nineteenth and into the twentieth century, literature employed the railway network to investigate the experience of modernity....

The road to nowhere, a road to glory: Vladimir Nabokov and Aleksandr Grin.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... The Road to Nowhere, A Road to Glory: Vladimir Nabokov and Alexander Grin by Margarit Tadevosyan This article discusses the use of visual art as textual space in Vladimir Nabokov's and Aleksandr Grin's prose. Special attention is given to...

Moliere, commedia dell'arte, and the question of influence in early modern European theatre.(Critical Essay)
April 1, 2005... Moliere, Commedia dell'arte, and the Question of Influence in Early Modern European Theatre by Richard Andrews Although Moliere's links with Italian commedia dell' arte are recognized in general terms, there is still much analysis to be...

Le Livre de l'hospitalite: accueil de l'etranger dans l'histoire et les cultures.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Le Livre de l'hospitalite: accueil de l'etranger dans l'histoire et les cultures. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. Paris: Bayard. 2004. 2036 pp. 59 [euro]. ISBN 2-227-47207-3. Hospitality is a basic fact of social living. Hospes: host, or guest. To...

The Wandering Giant in Literature: From Polyphemusto Papageno.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Wandering Giant in Literature: From Polyphemusto Papageno. By D.D.R. OWEN. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. 2003. vi+ 153 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN I-86232-127-2. So long as humans remember to exaggerate, giants will not become an...

Why Does Literature Matter?(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Why Does Literature Matter? By FRANK B. FARRELL. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. xi+266pp. $39.95422-95. ISBN 0-8014-4180-3. The title of this book poses one of the most important questions facing those of us who...

Historiography in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Historiography in the Middle Ages. Ed. by DEBORAH MAUSKOPF DELIYANNIS. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2002. vi+464 pp. 159 [euro]. ISBN 90-04-11881-0. Given the recent surge of interest in medieval historiography, the appearance of a new...

Studies in Bibliography.(Periodical Review)
April 1, 2005... Studies in Bibliography, 54 (2001). Ed. by DAVID L. VANDER MEULEN. Charlottesville, VA: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. 2003 for 2001. vi+335 pp. ISBN 0-8139-2262-3. Perhaps it is partly the effect of the familiar...

Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn. By ANN Moss. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. viii+306 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924987-3. Building upon the achievement of her Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of...

Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern Europe and France. By MARGARET W. FERGUSON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xiv + 506 pp. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-24312-5. Margaret W. Ferguson' Dido's...

The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Influence of Switzerland on the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon. By BRIAN NORMAN. (SVEC 2002:03) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. xvi+176 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0791-8. This study, the first to concentrate so closely...

London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. By MATT COOK. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiv+223 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65. ISBN...

The Culture of Collected Editions.(The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Culture of Collected Editions. Ed. by ANDREW NASH. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+274PP. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-0266-6. The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical...

Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte D'Arthur.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's 'Morte Darthur. By DORSEY ARMSTRONG. Gainsville: University Press of Florida. 2004. viii+272 pp. $59.95 ISBN 0-8130-2686-5. The premiss of Dorsey Armstrong's study is that the' particular...

Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacies Ed. by CHRISTOPHER IVIC and GRANT WILLIAMS. (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) London and New York: Routledge. 2004. x + 195 pp. 60 [pounds...

Jonsonians: Living Traditions.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Jonsonians: Living Traditions. Ed. by BRIAN WOOLLANO. (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2003. xv + 246 pp. [pounds sterling]45; $79-95. ISBN 0-7546-0610-4. The reputation of Ben Jonson has been suffering...

Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Opening Scripture: Bible Reading and Interpretive Authority in Puritan New England. By LISA M. GORDIS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xi + 309 pp. $39. ISBN 0-226-30412-4. Of course the New England Puritans read the...

Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage.(Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage. By B. J. SOKOL and MARY SOKOL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. x+262 pp. [pounds sterling]45. ISBN o-521-82263-7. Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser,...

Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy. By CRISTINA LEON ALFAR. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 254 pp. [pounds sterling]36. ISBN...

The Arms of the Family: The Significance of John Milton's Relatives and Associates.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Arms of the Family: The Significance of ,john Milton's Relatives and Associates By JOHN T. SHAWCROSS. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2004. vii + 304 pp. $45431-95. ISBN 0-8131-2291-0. The life of John Milton can hardly be...

Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Reading the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel. By JULIET MCMASTER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xviii + 194 pp. ISBN 1-40393314-6. The eighteenth-century novel is particularly fertile ground for students of the body....

The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. By SARAH JORDAN. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 298 pp. [pounds sterling]42. ISBN 0-8387-5523-2....

The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Wondrous Art: William Blake and Writing. By JOHN B. PIERCE. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 188 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3938-0. John B. Pierce is already...

Dickens's Fiction: Tapestries of Conscience.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Dickens's Fiction: Tapestries of Conscience By STANLEY FRIEDMAN. New York: AXIS Press. 2003. xii+195 pp. $72-50. ISBN 0-404-64460-0. Stanley Friedman's book, analysing the complex patterns employed by Dickens in eight of his major novels,...

The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt. By CAROLINE LEVINE. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 2003. xii + 237 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8139-2217-8. Recent criticism of...

Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market. By MARY NVLSON CARPENTER. Athens: Ohio University Press. 2003. xxii + 206 pp. $39-95. ISBN 0-82141-515-8. Mary Wilson Carpenter has a rich subject in...

So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death. By HAROLD ASPIZ. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 2004. xii + 294 pp. $42-50. ISBN 08173-1377-x. The sophisticated ease of Harold Aspiz's prose belies the scope and ambition of...

Piramus et Tisbe.(Narcisus et Dane)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Piramus et Tisbe. Ed. and trans. by PENNY ELEY. (Liverpool Online Series: Critical Editions of French Texts, 5) Liverpool: University of Liverpool, French Department. 2001. 164 pp. Not on general sale. ISBN 0-9533816-4-1. Narcisus et Dane....

Epistre du roy a Hector: Et autres pieces de circonstance, 1511-1513.(Epistre d' Hector an roy)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Epistre du roy a Hector et autres pieces de circonstance (1511-1513). By JEAN LEMAIRE DE BELGES. Epistre d' Hector an roy By JEAN D'AUTON. Ed. by ADRIAN ARMSTRONG and JENNIFER BRITNELL. Paris: Societe des Textes Frangais Modernes. 2000. 1xxxvi...

L'Etude de la Renaissance nunc et cras: actes du colloque de la Federation Internationale des Societes et Instituts d'Etude de la Renaissance (FISIER), Geneve, Septembre 2001.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... L'Etude de la Renaissance nunc et cras: actes du colloque de la FMerationInternationale des Societes et Instituts d'Etude de la Renaissance (FISIER), Geneve, septembre 2001. Ed. by MAx ENGAMMARE, MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD, AUGUSTIN REDONDO, and...

L'Exercice de l'ame vertueuse.(Cabinet des saines affections)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... L'Exercice de l'ame vertueuse. By MARIE LE GENDRE. Ed. by COLETTE H. WINN. (Textes de la Renaissance, 38) Paris: Champion. 2001. 197 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0460-7. Cabinet des saines affections. Attributed to MADELEINE DE L'AUBESPINE. Ed. by...

Selected Poems.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Selected Poems. By PIERRE DE RONSARD. Ed. and trans. by MALCOLM QUAINTON and ELIZABETH VINESTOCK. (Penguin Classics) London: Penguin. 2002. liv + 328 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-14-042424-5. Malcolm Quainton and Elizabeth Vinestock's...

Harmonie divine et subjectivite poetique chez Maurice Sceve.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Harmonie divine et subjectivite poetique chez Maurice Sceve. By JAMES HELGESON. (Travaux d' Humanisme et Renaissance, 349) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 153 pp. 57.15 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00486-6. James Helgeson's short book on the role of music in the...

Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Indiscernible Counterparts: The Invention of the Text in French Classical Drama. By CHRISTOPHER BRAIDER. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 275) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. 387 pp....

La Comedie de proverbes: piece comique d'aprs l'edition princeps de 1633.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... La Comedie de proverbes: piece comique d' aprs l'edition princeps de 1633. Ed. by MICHAEL KRAIVIER. (Textes litteraires frangais, 551) Geneva: Droz. 2003. 488 pp. SwF 104.40; 70.74 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00809-8. La Comedie de proverbes is a...

Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Silent Witness: Racine's Non-Verbal Annotations of Euripides By SUSANNA PHILLIPPO. Oxford: Legenda. 2003. xvi+214PP. 19.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-9007-5661-0. It is generally accepted that Racine, a confirmed Hellenist (unusually...

L'Encyclopdie: du reseau au livre et du livre au reseau.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... L'Encyclopdie: du reseau au livre et du livre au reseau. Ed. by ROBERT MORRISSEY and PHILIPPE ROGER. Paris: Champion. 2001. vi + 141 pp. 28.95 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0548-4 What would Diderot have made of the electronic version of his famous...

Cahiers Voltaire: revue annuelle de la Societe Voltaire.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Cahiers Voltaire: revue annuelle de la Societe Voltaire, Vol. I. Ed. by ULLA KOLVING. Ferney-Voltaire. 2002. 244 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 2-84559-016-4. This first livraison of the Societe Voltaire is a welcome addition to the field...

Candide, on l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760).(Fean-Franfois Marmontel: un intellectual exemplaire an siecle des Lumieres)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Candide, ou l'optimisme, seconde partie (1760) Ed. by EDOUARD LANGILLE. (Exeter Textes litteraires) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2003. xxiv + 89 pp. 15-99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85989-723-0. Fean-Franfois Marmontel: un...

Sade et les felons.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Sade et les felons. By MICHEL BRIX. Jaignes: La Chasse au Snark. 2003. 303 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-914015-31-3. Following his controversial essay attacking the nineteenth-century utopian Fourier and his latter-day disciples, Michel Brix...

Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature. By LISA DOWNING. Oxford: Legenda. 2003. x + 146 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-90075-565-3. At the hands of another, this topic might have lent itself to an...

Obermann: derniere version.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Obermann: derniere version. By ETIENNE DIVERT DE SENANCOUR. Ed. by BEATRICE DIDIER. (Textes de litterature moderne et contemporaine, 48) Paris: Champion. 2003. 489 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0451-8. Beatrice Didier, whose earliest contributions to...

Reflexions sur l'autorflexivite balzacienne.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Reflexions sur l'autorflexivite balzacienne. Ed. by ANDREW OLIVER and STEPHANE VACHON. Toronto: Centre d'etudes du xixe siecle Joseph Sable. 2002. 196 pp. $CAN29.95. ISBN 0-7727-8909-8 In order to substantiate the editors' claim that...

Baudelaire devant l'innombrable.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Baudelaire devant l'innombrable. By ANTOINE COMPAGNON. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 2003. 207 pp. 14 [euro]. ISBN 2-84050-263-1. Antoine Compagnon is a commentator who is sensitive to the nuances of language. For...

Stella.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Stella. By CAMILLE FLAMMARION. Ed. by DANIELLE CHAPERON. (Textes de Lltte rature Moderne et Contemporaine, 69) Paris: Champion. 2003. 288 pp. 40 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0814-9. This reissued edition will be of most interest to scholars of the...

Gide lecteur: la litterature au miroir de la lecture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Gide lecteur: la litterature au miroir de la lecture. By THOMAS CAZENTRE. Paris: Editions Kime. 2003. 408 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 2-84174-317-9. Thomas Cazentre shows that the immediacy with which Gide communed with Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare,...

Etudes bernanosiennes, vol. XXII: Autour de 'Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette,' 2.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Etudes bernanosiennes, vol. xxii: Autour de 'Nouvelle histoire de Mouchette,'2. Ed. by MICHELESTEVE. Paris: Minard. 2001. 265 pp. 24.54 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91025-3. Two of the most rewarding articles in this volume are hidden away in the...

Lecture de l'imaginaire des aeuvres dernieres de Antonin Artaud: la fabrique du corpsecriture.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Lecture de l'imaginaire des aeuvres dernieres de Antonin Artaud: la fabrique du corpsecriture. Lecture de l' imaginaire des wuvres derrriyes de Antonin Artaud: la fabrique du corpsecriture. By FRANCINEVIDIEu-LARRERE. Paris: Lettres Modernes...

Francis Ponge: lectures et methodes.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Francis Ponge: lectures et methodes. By TIENKE KINGMA-EIJGENDAAL and PAUL J. SMITH. (Collection Monographique Rodopi en Litterature Frangaise Contemporaine, 39) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2004. 121 pp. 30 [euro]; $39. ISBN 90-420-1178-5....

Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet. By PASCALE GAITET. London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 171 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-826-4. As its title suggests, and as its presentation on the inner leaves of...

Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Soundings in French Caribbean Writing since 1950: The Shock of Space and Time. By MARY GALLAGHER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+293 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] * ISBN 0-19-815982-x. Given the Caribbean region's tortured colonial...

Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Race and the Unconscious: Freudianism in French Caribbean Thought. By CELIA BRITTON. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 2002. 115 pp. ISBN 1900755-68-8. Psychoanalysis occupies a highly unstable and contradictory position in the...

Mariage de raison: Romands et Alemaniques, une histoire suisse.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Mariage de raison: Romands et Alemaniques, une histoire suisse. By CHRISTOPHE MTCHL Trans. by URSULA GAILLARD. Carouge-Geneve: Editions Zoe. 2001. 335 pp. SwF36. ISBN 2-88182-441-2. Though by a journalist, this is the work of a historian....

L' Imaginaire du corps amoureux.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... L' Imaginaire du corps amoureux. By MARIE-PIERRE ANDRON. Paris: L' Harmattan. 2002. 258 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-2901-0. In this study of the French Canadian writer Gabrielle Roy, Marie-Pierre Andron considers successively the body of the...

A Short History of French Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... A Short History of French Literature. By SARAH KAY, TERENCE CAVE, and MALCOLM BOWIE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. xii+344 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815931-5. So many dictionaries, surveys, and panoramas of French...

Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni. By MAURIZIO VITALE and VITTORE BRANCA. (Memorie dell' Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Classe di scienze morali, lettere ed arti, 100) Venice: Istituto Veneto. 2002. 2 vols: ix+...

Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Luigi Tansillo and Lyric Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Naples. By ERIKA MILBURN. (Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Dissertations, 57) Leeds: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2003. x + 227 pp. 35...

'Eufimia': An Italian Renaissance Tragedy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... 'Eufimia': An Italian Renaissance Tragedy. By G. B. GIRALDI. Ed., with introduction, notes, and glossary, by PHILIP HORNE. (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 21) Lewiston: Mellen. 2003. 69.95 [pounds sterling]. xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 0-7734-6833-1....

Leopardi e 'le ragioni della verita': scienze e filosofia della natura negli scritti leopardiani.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Leopardi e 'le ragioni della verita': scienze e filosofia della natura negli scritti leopardiani. By GASPARE POLIZZI. Preface by REMO BODEI. Rome: Carocci. 2003. xx + 290pp. 19.60 [euro]. ISBN 88-430-2818-9. Gaspare Polizzi, who is...

'This England is so Different ...': Italo Svevo's London Writings.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... 'This England is so Different...': Italo Svevo's London Writings. Ed., trans., and intro. by JOHN GATT-RUTTER and BRIAN MOLONEY. Market Harborough: Troubadour. 2003. x + 265 pp. 13.99[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-899293-59-0. For many years...

Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Benedetto Croce and Italian Fascism. By FABIO FERNANDO Rim. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. xii+321 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3762-3. The title of this biography does not do justice to the ground it covers;...

The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone. By ELIZABETH LEAKE. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. viii + 200 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8767-1. This study of Ignazio Silone's earliest fictional works,hiaggio a Parigi,...

Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature. By EUGENIO BOLONGARO. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. x + 239 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8763-9. At first glance Bolongaro's book seems to propose a critical analysis of...

Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Eco's Chaosmos: From the Middle Ages to Postmodernity. By CRISTINA FARRONATO. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. xiv + 246 pp. 32 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8020-8789-2 (pbk 0-8020-8586-5). For many...

Cultural Contexts/Female Voices.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Cultural Contexts/Female Voices. Ed. by LOUISE M. HAYWOOD. London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 2000. 78 pp. 7 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-90418-869-8. This collection of essays, part of the increasingly influential 'Papers of the...

Cartas sin lacrar: la novella epistolary y la Espana Ilustrada, 1789-1840.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Cartas sin lacrar: la novela epistolary la Espana Ilustrada, 1789-1840. By ANA RUEDA. Madrid: Iberoamericana. 2001. 524 pp. $44. ISBN 84-8489-018-x. Recent studies of the novel in eighteenth-century Spain have to some extent been...

Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Spain.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Borrowed Words: Translation, Imitation, and the Making of the Nineteenth-Century Novel in Spain. By ELISA MARTI-LOPEZ. London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 193 pp. 22.02 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5520-8. This book concerns two...

Between the Maternal Aeigis and the Abyss: Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalia de Castro.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Between the Maternal Aegis and the Abyss: Woman as Symbol in the Poetry of Rosalia de Castro. By MICHELLE C. GEOFFRION-VINCI. Madison, NJ: Fairlelgh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 161 pp. 24-95 [pounds...

Powers of Utterance: A Discourse Approach to Works of Lorca, Machado, and Valle-Inclan.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Powers of Utterance: A Discourse Approach to Works of Lorca, Machado, and Valle-Inclan. By ROBIN WARNER. (Bristol: University of Bristol Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Monographs, 2) Bristol: HiPLAM. 2003. 197 pp. 22 [pounds...

The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The German Language: A Linguistic Introduction. By JEAN BOASE-BEIER and KEN LODGE. Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. 254 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-631-23138-2 (pbk 0-631-23139-0). This book, intended for second-...

The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... The Gothic Language: Grammar, Genetic Provenance and Typology, Readings. By IRMENGARD RAUCH. (Berkeley Models of Grammar, 5) Bern, Berlin, and Brussels: Peter Lang. 2003. xxii+ 192pp. 39.40 [euro]. ISBN o-8204-3720-4. At first sight, this...

Notker der Deutsche von St. Gallen, Lateinischer Text und althochdeutsche Ubersetzung der Trostung der Philosophie ('De consolatione Philosophiae') von Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... NOTKER DER DEUTSCHE VON ST. GALLEN, Lateinischer Text und althochdeutsche Ubersetzung der Trostung der Philosophie ('De consolatione Philosophiae') von Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Diplomatische Textausgabe, Konkordanzen and Wortlisten...

Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters.(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters. Ed. by MANFRED KERN and ALFRED EBENBAUER, assisted by SILVIA KRAMER-SEIFERT. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2003. xcii+722 pp. 158 [euro]. ISBN 3-11-016257-1. The...

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April 1, 2005... Erzahlform im hofischen Roman: Studien zur Fokalisierung im 'Eneas', im 'Iwein' und im 'Tristan'. By GERT HUBNER. (Bibliotheca Germanica, 44) Tubingen and Basel: Francke. 2003. x+458 pp. 78 [euro]. ISBN 3-7720-2035-6. For a book of this...

Homo Viator, Katabasis, and Landscapes: A Comparison of Wolfram von Eschenbach's "Parzival" and Heinrich von dem Turlin's "Diu Crone".(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Homo Viator, Katabasis and Landscapes: A Comparison of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' and Heinrich von dem Turlin's 'Diu Crone'. By GARY C. SHOCKEY. (Goppinger Arbeitenzur Germanistik, 674) Goppingen: Kummerle. 2002. vi + 455 pp. 64...