The Modern Language Review articles from April 2006

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2006

The date of Thomas Combe's Fortunatus and its relation to Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus.
April 1, 2006... ABSTRACTS The Date of Thomas Combe's Fortunatus and its Relation to Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus by Michael Haldane This article presents the first detailed critical treatment of the relationship between the two Elizabethan/Jacobean...

'The obiect whereto all his actions tend': George Chapman's Ouids Banquet of Sence and the thrill of the chase.
April 1, 2006... ABSTRACT 'The obiect whereto all his actions tend': George Chapman's Ouids Banquet of Sence and the Thrill of the Chase by Martin Wheeler George Chapman's Ouids Banquet of Sence represents an original exegesis of a Neoplatonic...

Alias Laura: representations of the past in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Alias Laura: Representations of the Past in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin by Alan Robinson Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin, an intricately self-referential historical novel comprising two generically different...

'Cest cunte est mult divers': knowledge, difference, and authority in Thomas's Tristan.
April 1, 2006... ABSTRACT 'Cest cunte est mult divers': Knowledge, Difference, and Authority in Thomas's Tristan by Ben Ramm The Old French version of the Tristan legend attributed to Thomas of Britain demonstrates an obsession with imitation,...

Sketching social marginality in Second Empire Paris: Jules Valles and his Contemporaries.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Sketching Social Marginality in Second Empire Paris: Jules Valles and his Contemporaries by Miranda Gill This article examines a neglected body of texts produced in Second Empire Paris representing poor Bohemian characters,...

Navigating Non-lieux in contemporary fiction: Houellebecq, Darrieussecq, Echenoz, and Auge.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Navigating Non-lieux in Contemporary Fiction: Houellebecq, Darrieussecq, Echenoz, and Auge by Emer O'Beirne A sustained attention to ways in which individuals negotiate the topographies of today's built, electronic, and natural environments...

'S'io m'intuassi, come tu t'inmii' (Par., IX 81): patterns of collective being in Dante.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2006... 'S'io m'intuassi, come tu t'inmii' (Par., ix. 81): Patterns of Collective Being in Dante by John Took Dante's, in keeping with a certain kind of classicizing Christianity, is a sense of the soul's coming home to God in terms of an act of...

A tale of two identities: Spanish intercultural dialogue in Toledo.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2006... A Tale of Two Identities: Spanish Intercultural Dialogue in Toledo by Craig Patterson In Arredor de si (1930), the Galician writer Ramon Otero Pedrayo enables an intercultural dialogue between his own interpretation of Spanish cultural...

Reich, nation, Volk: early modern perspectives.
April 1, 2006... Reich, Nation, Volk: Early Modern Perspectives by Joachim Whaley The terms Reich, Nation, and Volk occupy an uneasy place in the historical-political vocabulary of the Germans. Each of them acquired a deeply ambivalent aura as a result of...

Americanizing the Holocaust: the case of Jakob the Liar.
April 1, 2006... Americanizing the Holocaust: The Case of Jakob the Liar by Pol O Dochartaigh This paper aims to investigate the cultural transformations that occurred in the process of converting Jurek Becker's 1969 novel Jakob der Lugner into the 1999 US...

A collective interior monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein's Joyce-inspired vision of cinema.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2006... A Collective Interior Monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein's Joyce-Inspired Vision of Cinema by Karla Oeler The interior monologues of James Joyce's Ulysses and Lev Vygotsky's work on inner speech profoundly impacted Sergei...

Magical realism and the legacy of German idealism.
April 1, 2006... Magical Realism and the Legacy of German Idealism by Christopher Warnes This article explores the relations between Novalis's idealism and modern literary magical realism. It demonstrates how the Latin American writers Miguel Angel...

Les Grandes Peurs. Vol. 1: Diable. Fleaux, etc.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Les Grandes Peurs. Vol. I: Diable. Fleaux, etc. Ed. by. (Travaux de Litterature, 16) Geneva: Droz. 2003. 476 pp. SwF 124. ISBN 2-9518403-1-4. The twenty-four contributors tackle instances of fear from the Middle Ages to the present day,...

The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Book Unbound: Editing and Reading Medieval Manuscripts and Texts. Ed. by Sian Echard and Stephen Partridge. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2004. xxi+236 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-8756-6. This collection of essays...

Printing the Classical Text.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Printing the Classical Text. By Howard Jones. (Bibliotheca humanistica & reformatorica, 62) 't Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf. 2004. x+225 pp.; II illus. 132.50 [euro]. ISBN 90-6194-279-9. Howard Jones sets out to chart the place of classical...

Poetry, Signs, and Magic.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Poetry, Signs, and Magic. By Thomas M. Greene. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2005. 327 pp. 37.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-880-9. Thomas M. Greene died in 2003, shortly after sending this...

Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Vergilius Redivivus: Studies in Joseph Addison's Latin Poetry. By Estelle Haan. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 2005. xix+210 pp. $24. ISBN 978-0-87169-952-7. The tradition of writing poetry in Latin, which had flourished in...

The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755: Representations and Reactions. Ed. by Theodore E.D. Braun and John B. Radner. (SVEC, 2005:02) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2005. xiv+342 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0857-4. It is an uncanny twist of...

Interpreting Colonialism.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Interpreting Colonialism. Ed. by Byron R. Wells and Philip Stewart. (SVEC, 2004:09) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2004. xii+421 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0845-0. In its introduction, this collection of essays sets itself the task...

Erzahltes Theater: Szenische Illusionen im europaischen Roman des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Erzahltes Theater: Szenische Illusionen im europaischen Roman des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts. By Markus Raith. (Communicatio, 32) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2004. 222 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-63032-9. Markus Raith has written a splendidly...

Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas. By Hent de Vries. Trans. by Geoffrey Hale. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xxxiv+719 pp. 43.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16.50 [pounds sterling])....

Holocaust Novelists.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Holocaust Novelists. Ed. by Efraim Sicher. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 299) Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman for Gale Thomson. 2004. xxi+501 pp. $215. ISBN 1-4144-0438-7. The boundaries separating Holocaust novelists from...

Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story. By Susan Lohafer. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. ix+191 pp. 31 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7398-3. Since the...

Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the 'South English Legendary'.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the 'South English Legendary'. By Anne B. Thompson. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. xii+224 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3293-8. The thirteenth-century South English...

New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry. Ed. by Robert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, with an introduction by Derek Brewer. (Chaucer Studies) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. vii+200 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $50. ISBN 0-85991-778-9. Selected from...

The Monstrous Middle Ages.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Monstrous Middle Ages. Ed. by Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. xiv+236 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1822-3. This is a collection of nine essays, preceded by an introduction by...

Literature and Satire and the Early Stuart State.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Literature and Satire and the Early Stuart State. By Andrew McRae. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2004. ix+250 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65. ISBN 0-521-814-952. The argument of this book is that, subject to...

Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama.(Looking for Sex in Shakes)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama. Ed. by Lucas Erne and Margaret Jane Kidnie. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xvi+229 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83095-8. Looking for Sex in...

"Full of All Knowledge": George Herbert's Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... 'Full of all knowledg': George Herbert's Early Modern Social Discourse. By. Ronald W. Cooley. (Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England) Toronto, Buffalo, New York, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2004. vii+238pp. $50; 32...

Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Shakespeare and Renaissance Europe. Ed. by Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond. (Arden Shakespeare Companions) London: Thompson Learning. 2004. xxix+ 314 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-90427-146-4. What was Shakespeare's attitude towards...

Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay. By John Richardson. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature, 2) London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xi+187 pp. 58 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-415-31286-8. When patriotic...

Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Lyric Generations: Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. By G. Gabrielle Starr. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. x+298 pp. 31 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7379-7. This dense and thoughtful...

Melville and Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Melville and Milton: An Edition and Analysis of Melville's Annotations on Milton. Ed. by G. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press. 2004. xxviii+210pp. $58. ISBN 0-8207-0352-4. In 1849 Herman Melville acquired a two-volume set of The...

Imagining London, 1770-1900.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Imagining London, 1770-1900. By Alan Robinson. Houndmills: Palgrave. 2004. xix+291 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-3289-1. 'Writing the history of a vast city like London is like writing a history of the ocean-the area is so vast, its...

Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction. By Peter K. Garrett. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2003. ix+232pp. $19.95. ISBNo-8014-4156-0. Peter K. Garrett's scholarly study is remarkable for its refusal to...

American Memory in Henry James: Void and Value.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... American Memory in Henry James: Void and Value. By William Righter. Ed. by Rosemary Righter. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004. xi+216pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3674-7. The announced foci of William Righter's dense, at...

The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry. By Edward Marx. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2004. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-879-9. Edward Marx's 'Modern' incorporates both the canonical high...

The Internationalization of English Literature, xiii: 1948-2000.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Internationalization of English Literature, xiii: 1948-2000. By Bruce King. (Oxford English Literary History) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. xiv+386 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818428-x. This book is...

Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Mother Tongues: Sexuality, Trials, Motherhood, Translation. By Barbara Johnson. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 2003. ix+204 pp. 25.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-674-01187-2. Barbara Johnson has throughout her career...

Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2004. xxii+262 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-10166-x. Austin Quigley's writing stresses order and balance, as in this sentence:...

Les Mecanismes linguistiques de l'evolution semantique en francais.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Les Mecanismes linguistiques de l'evolution semantiqueen francais. By JACQUES CHARLES LEMAIRE. Liege: Editions de l'Universitede Liege. 2004. 188 pp. 923. ISBN2-930322-76-4. This book is odd. When I was asked to review a book on 'the...

Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Linguistic Conflict and Language Laws: Understanding the Quebec Question. Ed. by PIERRE LARRIVEE. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. x+204 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96899-4. The essays in this edited volume address the...

The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. Ed. by Ullrich Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xvii+247 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-521-81953-4 (pbk 978-0-521-52556-5). The...

Renaissance de l'epopee: la poesie epique en France de 1572 a 1623.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Renaissance de l'epopee: la poesie epique en France de 1572 a 1623. By BRUNO MENIEL. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 389) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 555 pp. SwF 202. ISBN 2-600-00877-2. This revised doctoral thesis, prepared under the...

Pensees.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Pensees. By BLAISE PASCAL. Ed. and trans. by ROGER ARIEW. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett. 2005. xix+328 pp. $37.95 (pbk $11.95). ISBN 0-87220-718-8 (pbk 0-97220-717-x). When faced with the uneven length and open-endedness of the...

The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History and Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in Eighteenth-Century Art, History and Literature. Ed. by J. by JULIA V. DOUTHWAITE and MARY VIDAL. (SVEC, 2005:04) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2005. xxxiv+312pp. 65 [pounds...

The Nun.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Nun. By DENIS DIDEROT. Trans., with an introduction and notes, by RUSSELL GOULBOURNE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xliii + 189 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280430-8. The series to which this...

The Crimes of Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Crimes of Love. By the MARQUIS DE SADE. Selected and trans. with an introduction and notes by DAVID COWARD. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xlv+342 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280507-x. This...

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Adventures of Captain Hatteras. BY JULES VERNE. Trans., with an introduction and notes, by WILLIAM BUTCHER. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xlv+402 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280465-0. While...

New Approaches to Zola: Selected Papers from the 2002 Cambridge Centenary Colloquium.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... New Approaches to Zola: Selected Papers from the 2002 Cambridge Centenary Colloquium. Ed. By HANNAH THOMPSON. London: Emile Zola Society. 2003. 159 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-9525583-3-5. This commemorative volume on Zola fittingly...

Le Monstre, le singe et le faetus: teratogonie et decadence dans l'Europe fin-de-siecle.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Le Monstre, le singe et le faetus: teratogonie et decadence dans l'Europe fin-de-siecle. By EVANGHELIA STEAD. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 413). Geneva: Droz. 2004. 602 pp. SwF 80. ISBN 2-600-00921-3. In the mundus inversus...

The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Reda.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self: Subjectivity and Representation from Rimbaud to Reda. By SUSAN HARROW. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2004. viii + 269 pp. $55; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Saint-John Perse.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Saint-John Perse. By COLETTE CAMELIN and CATHERINE MAYAUX. (Bibliographie des ecrivains francais, 26) Paris and Rome: Memini. 2003. 340 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 88-86609-42-6. It was high time that a consolidated bibliography of work by and on...

Artaud et les avant-gardes theatrales.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Artaud et les avant-gardes theatrales. Ed. by OLIVER PENOT-LACASSAGNE. (Antonin Artaud, 2) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 192 pp. 13.36 [pounds sterling]; 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91079-2. Artaud et les avant-gardes theatrales...

Malraux et la diversite culturelle.(Andre Malraux: critique 1990-2002, vol. 1)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Malraux et la diversite culturelle. Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE LARRAT and DOMNICA RADULESCU. (Cahiers Malraux, 12) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 198 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91075-x. Andre Malraux: critique 1990-2002, vol. i. By...

Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities. By JEAN-PIERRE BOULE. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2005. 228 pp. 42 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-57181-742-5 (pbk 1-57181-743-3). This is an intrepid psychobiography of...

Writing Against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Writing against Death: The Autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir. By SUSAN BAIN-BRIGGE Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2005. 246 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $63. ISBN 90-420-1845-3. The subject of Susan Bainbrigge's book is clearly stated in...

Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices. By JACK I. ABECASSIS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. 245 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7982-5. Jack L. Abecassis devotes his prologue to what he rightly calls the Cohen paradox: he...

Annie Ernaux: une aeuvre de l'entre-deux.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Annie Ernaux: une oeuvre de l'entre-deux. Ed. by FABRICE THUMEREL. Arras: Artois Presses Universite. 2004. 276 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-84832-018-4. This collection of articles came out of an international colloquium that was held at the...

Jazz Adventures in French Culture (=Nottingham French Studies, 43.1 (Spring 2004)).(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Jazz Adventures in French Culture (=Nottingham French Studies, 43.1 (Spring 2004)). Ed. by JACQUELINE DUTTON and COLIN NETTELBECK. Nottingham: University of Nottingham. 2004. 167 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISSN 0029-4586. This collection of...

Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Dante and the Grammar of the Nursing Body. By GARY P. CESTARO. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2003. xiii+305 pp. $65 (pbk $29.95). ISBN 0-268-02553-3 (pbk 0-268-02554-1). One of the aims of the Devers Dante series is to...

The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. By PATRIZIA BETTELLA. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. viii+259 pp. $60. ISBN 0-8020-3926-x. The reader would be justified in...

Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance. Trans. and ed. by LAURA GIANNETTI and GUIDO RUGGIERO. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xlii+323 pp. 44.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8018-7257-x...

Gabriele d'Annunzio tra Italia e Inghilterra.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Gabriele d'Annunzio tra Italia e Inghilterra. By JOHN WOODHOUSE. Pescara: Centro Nazionale di Studi Dannunziani. 2003. 185 pp. 16 [euro]. This volume forms a welcome companion to John Woodhouse's admirable 1998 biography Gabriele...

Scritti scelti di Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello, 1906-1969.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Scritti scelti di Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello, 1906-1969. Ed. by ELENA DUNDOVICH and RUGGERO RANIERI. Florence: Olschki. 2004. xlviii+499pp. 52 [euro]. ISBN 88-222-5367-1. Uguccione was the second son of Ruggero Ranieri Bourbon del Monte,...

Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction. By SUSANNA SCARPARO. Leicester: Troubador. 2005. xv+189 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-904744-19-2. Susanna Scarparo's analysis of four biographical texts begins with some...

Beyond 'Life is Beautiful': Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Beyond 'Life is Beautiful': Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni. Ed. by GRACE RUSSO BULLARO. Leicester: Troubador. 2005. 324 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-904744-83-4. Comprising nine essays in English and three in...

Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Passing for Spain: Cervantes and the Fictions of Identity. By BARBARA FUCHS. (Hispanisms) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. xi+142 pp. $32.50. ISBN 0-252-02781-7. This is a New Historicist reading of works by Cervantes...

Coloquio entre un cristiano y un judio.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Coloquio entre un cristiano y un judio. Ed. by AITOR GARCIA MORENO. (Papers of The Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 40) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London. 2003. 169 pp. ISBN 0-904188-91-4. This is...

La idea del lenguaje en la poesia espanola: Crespo, Sanchez Robayna y Valente.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... La idea del lenguaje en la poesia espanola: Crespo, Sanchez Robayna y Valente. By ARTHUR TERRY. Santiago de Compostela: Servicio Publicaciones Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. 2002. 150 pp. 18.03 [euro]. ISBN 84-8121-974-6. This...

'Nada es como es, sino como se recuerda': Teatro de la Abadia.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... 'Nada es como es, sino como se recuerda': Teatro de la Abadia 1995-2005. Ed. by TEATRO DE LA ABADIA. Madrid: Teatro de la Abadia. 2005. 25 [euro]. ISBN 84-609-3670-8. Teatro de la Abadia has for the past ten years been the most promising...

Early Germanic Literature and Culture.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Early Germanic Literature and Culture. Ed. by BRIAN MURDOCH and MALCOLM READ. (Camden House History of German Literature, 1) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2004. x+334 pp. $85; 60 [euro]. ISBN 1-57113-199-x. German Literature of the Early...

Forschungen zur deutschen Literatur des Spatmittelalters: Festschrift fur Johannes Janota.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Forschungen zur deutschen Literatur des Spatmittelalters: Festschrift fur Johannes Janota. Ed. by HORST BRUNNER and WERNER WILLIAMS-KRAPP. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. viii+316 pp. 84[euro]. ISBN 3-484-10856-8. It is in the nature of...

Ich, Welt und Gott: Autobiographik im 17. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Ich, Welt und Gott: Autobiographik im 17. Jahrhundert. By EVA KORMANN. (Selbstzeugnisse der Neuzeit, 13) Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Bohlau. 2004. x+ 357 pp. 39.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-412-16903-x. This is a very important study, based on a...

In Mannerkleidern: Das verwegene Leben der Catharina Margaretha Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, hingerichtet 1721.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... In Mannerkleidern: Das verwegene Leben der Catharina Margaretha Linck alias Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel, hingerichtet 1721. Biographie und Dokumentation. By ANGELA STEIDELE. Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Buhlau. 2004. 250 pp. 22.90...

Emilia Galotti: Ein Trauerspiel in funf Aufzugen. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Emilia Galotti: Ein Trauerspiel in funf Aufzugen. Historisch-kritische Ausgabe. By GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING. Ed. by ELKE MONIKA BAUER. Tubingen:Niemeyer. 2004. xxvi+897 pp. 188 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-10848-7. With this monumental volume, the...

Schiller: Epoche-Werk-Wirkung.(A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Schiller: Epoche-Werk-Wirkung. By MICHAEL HOFMANN. (Arbeitsbucher zur Literaturgeschichte) Munich: Beck. 2003. 216 pp. 19.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-406-51010-8. A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller. Ed. by STEVEN D. MARTINSON. (Studies...

The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women, 1770-1914.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women, 1770-1914. By ff. R01685 (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2004. 224 pp. 53 [pounds sterling]; $80. ISBN 0-19-926754-5. This energetically written...

Geschichte und Epigonen: `19. Jahrhundert'/`Postmoderne', Stifter/Bernhard (Book review)
April 1, 2006... Geschichte und Epigonen: '19. Jahrhundert' / 'Postmoderne', Stifter / Bernhard. By MARCUS HAHN. (Rombach Wissenschaften, Reihe Cultura, 35) Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach. 2003. 508 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-7930-9367-x. This is an...

Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany's False Dawn.(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Friedrich Spielhagen: Novelist of Germany's False Dawn. By JEFFREY L. SAMMONS. (Untersuchungenzur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 117)Tubingen:Niemeyer. 2004. xviii+340 pp. 66 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-32117-2. There can be no doubt that Friedrich...

Ernst von Wildenbruchs historische Dramen.(Book review)
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