The Modern Language Review articles from April 2007

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2007

The secret life of the Della Cruscan sonnet: William Gifford's Baviad and Maeviad.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... In the past few decades, feminist critics have conveniently regarded the sonnet as a fundamentally masculine genre, as a bulwark of male subjectivity and a site of female objectification. This essay argues that the gendered allegiances of the...

Carlyle through Nietzsche: reading Sartor Resartus.(Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is given a new reading here in the light of Nietzsche's brief but suggestive comments on Carlyle and his dyspepsia. It is seen as a text fascinated by devouring and the fear of being devoured (as with The French...

'Laughing at the laugh': unhappy consciousness in Nathanael West's The Dream Life of Balso Snell.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... This article links the self-attacking black humour of Nathanael West's 1931 debut novel to the kind of internally divided mind Hegel describes in the 'unhappy consciousness' section of his Phenomenology of Mind. I argue that West's splitting of...

Synonymity and semantic variability in medieval French and Middle English.(Essay)
April 1, 2007... Texts in medieval French and English often string together two or even three (quasi-)synonyms carrying a wide range of senses, a feature commonly regarded by modern scholars as stylistic rather than semantic. However, while for the modern...

Unpicking female exemplarity; or, the usefulness of body stories: reassessing female communal identity in two early modern French texts.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... This article examines notions of exemplary conduct in two early modern female-authored French texts dealing with reproductive illness and addressing empathetic female reading communities. Abstract exemplary qualities of heroic purity and...

Ariosto the traveller.(Lodovico Ariosto)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Although Ludovico Ariosto always hated travelling, the Orlando furioso provides a compelling landscape of multiple locations, exotic place names, uncharted geographical spaces, and marvellous journeys. This essay examines what it might mean...

Paradigms of peripheral modernity in Lorca and Yeats.(W. B. Yeats, Federico Garcia Lorca)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... The aim of this essay is to explore the similarities between the work of W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca, with particular reference to their fascination with the supernatural, nurtured by their attachment to the land. The ghost functions...

In the Bard's shadow: Shakespearian affinities as an obstacle to the reception of Schiller's plays in Britain, 1945-2005.(Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Schiller's plays have become increasingly popular in Britain in the past two years. This is a remarkable development if one considers that reviewers of post-war productions rejected Schiller sweepingly, comparing him unfavourably with...

'Bloss aus Lemberg geburtig': Detlev Spinell, the Austrian Jewish aesthete in Thomas Mann's Tristan.(Critical essay)(Character overview)
April 1, 2007... Building on the recent work of Yahya Elsaghe, this examination of Detlev Spinell, the central figure in Thomas Mann's Tristan, a central text in the literature of European decadence, discusses Spinell in the context of his clearly delineated...

Russian orthodoxy: a user's manual. Church advice literature as a reflection of present-day reality.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2007... Russian Orthodox conduct manuals offer advice to those lacking knowledge of how to behave in church and how to incorporate Orthodoxy's traditions into their lives. The widespread existence of such user's manuals reveals uncertainties, but also...

The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Ed. by LISA PERFETTI. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. vii+222 pp. $65. ISBN 978-0-8130-2829-3. Lisa Perfetti deserves congratulation. She has...

Medieval Blood.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Medieval Blood. By BETTINA BILDHAUER. (Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2006. x+245 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-70831940-6. The dust-jacket image is well chosen: a fourteenth-century...

Guinevere, a Medieval Puzzle. Images of Arthur's Queen in the Medieval Literature of Britain and France.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Guinevere: A Medieval Puzzle. Images of Arthur's Queen in the Medieval Literature of Britain and France. By ULRIKE BETHLEHEM. (Anglistische Forschungen, 345) Heidelberg: Winter. 2005. x+441 pp. 59 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8253-5012-3. Ulrike...

The Genesis of Lachmann's Method.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Genesis of Lachmann's Method. By SEBASTIANO TIMPANARO. Ed. and trans. by GLENN W. MOST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2005. 252 pp. $47-504; 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-80405-7. La genesi del metodo del...

Ecrire l'animal aujourd'hui.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ecrire l'animal aujourd'hui. Ed. by LUCILE DESBLACHE. (Les Cahiers de Recherche du Centre de Recherches sur les Litteratures Modernes et Contemporaines) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2006. 287 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN...

Choices and Conflicts: Essays on Literature and Existentialism.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Choices and Conflicts: Essays on Literature and Existentialism. By HANS VAN STRALEN. (New Comparative Poetics, 16) Brussels: Peter Lang. 2005. 241 pp. 23.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-90-5201-273-5. This book draws extensively on Hans van...

Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern: The (Hi)Story of a Difficult Relationship from Romanticism to Postmodernism.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern: The (Hi)Story of a Difficult Relationship from Romanticism to Postmodernism. By WILL SLOCOMBE. London and New York: Routledge. 2006. xiv+214 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-97529-2. This is a...

What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images.(Iconotropism: Turning toward Pictures)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images. By W. J. T. MITCHELL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xxi+380 pp. 24.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-53245-5. Iconotropism: Turning toward Pictures. Ed. by...

European Cinema: Inside Out. Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... European Cinema: Inside and Out. Images of the Self and the Other in Postcolonial European Film. Ed. by GUIDO RINGS and RIKKI MORGAN-TAMOSUNAS. (Anglistische Forschungen, 322) Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. 262 pp. 938. ISBN 978-3-8253-1474-3. ...

Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder. Ed. by CAROL BRAUN PASTERNACK AND LISA M. WESTON. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 277) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance...

Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the 'Canterbury Tales'. By MARK MILLER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. x + 289 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-84236-5. The title of Mark Miller's book Philosophical...

Sources of the 'Boece'.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Sources of the 'Boece'. Ed. by TIM WILLIAM MACHAN with the assistance of A. J. MINNIS. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. xiv + 311 pp. $85. ISBN 978-0-8203-2760-0. Sources of the 'Boece' is a volume of the Chaucer Library, founded...

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Ed. by DEREK HUGHES and JANET TODD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xxii + 248 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-52720-0. The Cambridge Companions series continues to expand...

Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader. Ed. by EWAN FERNIE, RAMONA WRAY, MARK THORNTON BURNETT, and CLAIRE MCMANUS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xii + 436 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-926557-2. This...

The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Trouble with Ownership: Literary Property and Authorial Liability in England, 1660-1730. By JODY GREENE. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press. 2005. v+272 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-3862-4. This is an excellent book, which...

Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction .(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Cosmographical Glasses: Geographic Discourse, Gender and Elizabethan Fiction. By CONSTANCE C. RELIHAN. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. 2004. ix+ 148 pp. $29. ISBN 978-0-87338-811-9. Geography, in recent critical literature, has...

The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England. By D. BRUCE HINDMARSH. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. x+ 384 pp. 63 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-924575-8. Bruce Hindmarsh's first book, John...

Mutability and Division on Shakespeare's Stage.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Mutability and Division on Shakespeare's Stage. By YU JIN KO. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2004. 223 pp. $43.50. ISBN 978-0-87413-884-9. In Mutability and Division on Shakespeare's Stage Yu Jin Ko is preoccupied With the often...

The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden.(Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden. Ed. by STEVEN N. ZWICKER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xiv+300 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-53144-3. Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden. Ed. by JAYNE LEWIS and...

Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking: 1709-1791.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Samuel Johnson and the Art of Sinking 1709-1791. By FREYA JOHNSTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xvii+265pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-925182-7. Freya Johnston's subject, though the title might initially lead one to...

The Afterlife of Character: 1726-1825.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Afterlife of Character 1726-1825. By DAVID A. BREWER. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. 262 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978-0-8122-3864-8. Most academic readers of literature have been admonished, from a variety of critical...

Memoirs of Emma Courtney.(Memoirs of Emma Courtney)(Adeline Mowbray, or, The Mother and the Daughter)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Memoirs of Emma Courtney. By MARY HAYS. Adeline Mowbray; or, The Mother and the Daughter. By AMELIA ALDERSON OPIE. Ed. by MIRIAM L. WALLACE Glen Allen, VA: College Publishing. 2004. xiii+645 pp. $17.25. ISBN 978-0-9679121-9-6. College...

Shelley and Vitality.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Shelley and Vitality. By SHARON RUSTON. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. xiii+299 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-1824-6. Sharon Ruston's account of Shelley's engagement with the burgeoning contemporary debate about the...

Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Mock-Heroic from Butler to Cowper: An English Genre and Discourse. By RICHARD TERRY. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. viii+216 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-0623-9. It seemed to many writers during the eighteenth century that good is...

Alfred Tennyson.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Alfred Tennyson. By SEAMUS PERRY. Tavistock: Northcote House. 2005. xviii+ 191 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7463-0919-3. The 'Writers and their Work' series, published by the British Council, has come a long way since those...

Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement. By CLARK DAVIS. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. x+ 188 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8098-8. For his cover Davis chooses the...

Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. By MARTHA VICINUS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2004. xxxii+314pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-85563-9. Intimate Friends is that very rare thing: an academic...

Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real World Writing, Writing the Real World.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Willa Cather and Material Culture: Real World Writing, Writing the Real World. Ed. by JANIS P. STOUT. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. ix + 240 pp. $37.50. ISBN 978-0-8173-1436-1. A collection of essays on the role of material...

Rebound: The American Poetry Book.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Rebound: The American Poetry Book. Ed. by MICHAEL HINDS and STEPHEN MATTERSON. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2004. 208 pp. 43 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-1712-2. 'Do try to think of the book as a whole, not of individual words in it', Ezra...

The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Novel: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1900-2000. By DOROTHY J. HALE. Oxford: Blackwell. 2006. xiv+821 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-0774-7. 'Another damned thick, square book from Blackwell', one may perhaps be...

Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918. By JANE POTTER. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2005. xii+257 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927986-9. The First World War and its impact on literature...

Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Questions of Possibility: Contemporary Poetry and Poetic Form. By DAVID CAPLAN. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. ix+165 pp. 21.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-516957-7. The purpose of this book is a straightforward one which is,...

Anglo-Norman Dictionary, 2nd edn.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Anglo-Norman Dictionary, 2nd edn. Ed. by STEWART GREGORY, WILLIAM ROTHWELL, and DAVID TROTTER. (Publications of the MHRA, 17/1-2) London: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2005. Vol. I: A-C; vol. II: D-E. xlix+624...

De la langue au style.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... De la langue au style. Ed. by JEAN MICHEL GOUVARD. (Textes et Langue) Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. 2005. 442 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7297-0767-5. Jean Michel Gouvard's De la langue au style offers a comprehensive overview of...

Le Roman de Brut: The French Book of Brutus.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Roman de Brut: The French Book of Brutus. By WACE. Trans. and introd. by ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 279) Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2005. 434 pp. $48. ISBN...

Le Chant des chanz.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Chant des chanz. Ed. by TONY HUNT. (Anglo-Norman Texts, 61-62) London: Anglo-Norman Text Society. 2004. x+179 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-905474-44-1. This edition (DEAF: CantKiVotH) of an Anglo-Norman commentary on the Song of...

Antoine de La Sale: la fabrique de l'oeuvre et de l'ecrivain (suivi de l'edition critique du 'Traite des anciens et des nouveaux tournois').(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Antoine de La Sale: la fabrique de l'oeuvre et de l'ecrivain (suivi de l'edition critique du 'Traite des anciens et des nouveaux tournois'). By SYLVIE LEFEVRE. (Publications Romanes et Francaises, 238) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 456 pp. SwF 120. ISBN...

Le Dialogue a la Renaissance: histoire et poetique.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Dialogue a la Renaissance: histoire et poetique. By EVA KUSHNER. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 67) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 312 pp. SwF 48. ISBN-978-2-600-00906-5. This volume brings together a collection of articles written over a...

Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France. Ed. by DAVID COWLING. (Faux Titre, 281) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2006. 204 pp. 40 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-2006-1. The ten articles in this Festschrift for Keith Cameron predominantly constitute the...

Bernard Salomon: illustrateur lyonnais.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Bernard Salomon: illustrateur lyonnais. By PETER SHARRATT. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 400) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 534 pp. SwF 145. ISBN 978-2-600-01000-9. This informative study constitutes the first book-length discussion of...

Louise Labe 2005.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Louise Labe 2005. Ed. by BEATRICE ALONSO and ELIANE VIENNOT. (L'Ecole du genre, 1) Saint-Etienne: Universite de Saint-Etienne. 2004. 271 pp. 918. ISBN 978-2-86272-348-8. Louise Labe 2005 is a collection of nineteen essays dedicated to the...

'Cette belle besogne': etude sur le journal de voyage de Montaigne.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... 'Cette belle besogne': etude sur le journal de voyage de Montaigne. By CONCETTA CAVALINI. (Biblioteca della Ricerca, Cultura Straniera, 139) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 2005. 382 pp. 30 [EURO]. ISBN...

Descartes: dissimulation et ironie.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Descartes: dissimulation et ironie. By FERNAND HALLYN (Titre Courant, 33) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 214 pp. SwF 28. ISBN 978-2-600-00535-7. There are many references in Descartes's correspondence to his desire not to expose his philosophy fully...

Dialogues posthumes sur le quietisme.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dialogues posthumes sur le quietisme. By JEAN DE LA BRUYERE and LOUIS-ELLIES DU PIN Ed. by RICHARD PARISH. (Collection Atopia) Grenoble: Millon. 2005. 246 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84137-184-6. Previous editors of La Bruyere's works have...

Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenement.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenement. By LOUIS SALAMOLINS. Trans. and intro. by JOHN CONTEH-MORGAN. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. 2006. xxxvi+165 pp. $19.50. ISBN 978-0-8166-4389-9. While...

La Paysanne parvenue; ou, les Memoires de madame la Marquise de L** V**.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... La Paysanne parvenue; ou, les Memoires de madame la Marquise de L** V**. By CHARLES DE FIEUX, CHEVALIER DE MOUHY. Ed. by HENRI DURANTON. (Lire le Dix-Huitieme Siecle) Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Universite de Saint-Etienne. 2005. 395 pp....

Revolutionary Culture: Continuity and Change.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Revolutionary Culture: Continuity and Change. Ed. by MARK DARLOW (Nottingham French Studies, 45/1) Nottingham: University of Nottingham. 2006. 116 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85358-224-3. This issue of Nottingham French Studies...

Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Consumable Metaphors: Attitudes towards Animals and Vegetarianism in Nineteenth-Century France. By CERI CROSSLEY. (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 17) Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 322 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

L'Ecriture nervalienne du temps: l'experience de la temporalite dans l'oeuvre de Gerard de Nerval.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... L'Ecriture nervalienne du temps: l'experience de la temporalite dans l'oeuvre de Gerard de Nerval. By PHILIPPE DESTRUEL. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2004. 393 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7078-1276-6. This book is a belated publication of a these...

Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Jules Verne: Journeys in Writing. By TIMOTHY UNWIN. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2005. xii + 242 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85323-458-6. In 2005 Jules Verne aficionados from around the world commemorated the centenary...

Leon Bloy 6: Bloy critique.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Leon Bloy 6: Bloy critique. Ed. by PIERRE GLAUDES. (La Revuedes Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 275 pp. 926. ISBN 978-2-256-91094-4. Scholarship on Leon Bloy, the prophetic nineteenth-century forerunner of...

Marcel Proust 5: Proust au tournant des siecles 2.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Marcel Proust 5: Proust au tournant des siecles 2. Ed. by BERNARD BRUN and JULIETTE HASSINE. (La Revue des Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 299 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-256-91098-2. This collection...

Imaginaire et ecriture de la mort dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Imaginaire et ecriture de la mort dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Proust. By AUDE LE ROUX-KIEKEN. Paris: Champion. 2005. 496 pp. 975. ISBN 978-2-7453-1152-8. Since most discussions of death in Proust tend to focus on specific characters...

'Panim': visages de Proust.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... 'Panim': visages de Proust. By ANDRE BENHAM. Villeneuve: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion. 2006. 322 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-85939-929-0. This lively and original book focuses on the significance of the face in A la recherche du...

L'Imaginaire du feminin dans l'oeuvre de Renee Vivien.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... L'Imaginaire du feminin dans l'oeuvre de Renee Vivien. By MARIE-ANGE BARTHOLOMOT BESSOU. (Cahiers Romantiques, 10) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2004. 439 pp. 924. ISBN 978-2-84516-264-8. Renee Vivien died of a...

Les Langages de Larbaud.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Les Langages de Larbaud. Ed. by STEPHANIE CHAUDIER and FRANCOISE LIOURE. (Litteratures) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2006. 364 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84516-301-0. 'Langages' and not 'langues': Larbaud, with his...

Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present. By MICHAEL SHERINGHAM. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. 448 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927395-9. 'What happens every day and recurs every day: the...

Duras and Indochina: Postcolonial Perspectives.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Duras and Indochina: Postcolonial Perspectives. By JULIA WALTERS. (Critical Studies in Postcolonial Literature and Culture, 2) Liverpool: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies. 2006. 117 pp. ISBN 978-0-9541662-1-2. Appreciation of...

Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Frantz Fanon's 'Black Skin White Masks': New Interdisciplinary Essays. Ed. by MAX SILVERMAN. (Texts in Culture) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2006. 184 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-6448-7. In the renewed flow of...

French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... French Writers and the Politics of Complicity: Crises of Democracy in the 1940s and 1990s. By RICHARD J. GOLSAN. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. xii+198 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8258-6. Richard Golsan...

Uncertain Relations: Some Configurations of the 'Third Space' in Francophone Writings of the Americas and of Europe.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Uncertain Relations: Some Configurations of the 'Third Space' in Francophone Writings of the Americas and of Europe. Ed. by RACHEL KILLICK. (Modern French Identities, 31) Oxford: Peter Lang. 2005. 251 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Maurice Pialat.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Maurice Pialat. By MARJA WAREHIME. (French Film Directors) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2006. x+182 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-6822-5. Marja Warehime's Maurice Pialat is one of several additions to Manchester...

Jacques Ranciere: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Jacques Ranciere: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy. Ed. by MARK ROBSON. (Paragraph, 13/1) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2005. 115 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-2188-0. Though the essays in this special issue of...

Le Monde de Houellebecq.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Monde de Houellebecq. Ed. by GAVIN BOWD. Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2006. xviii+286 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85261-812-7. In October 2005 the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh hosted...

Le Reliquat scintillant: pour une renaissance de la critique litteraire.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Le Reliquat scintillant: pour une renaissance de la critique litteraire. By OLIVIER LARIZZA. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2005. 165 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7078-1287-2. Olivier Larizza's book falls into two major parts. The first one, headed...

Italian Culture: Interactions, Transpositions, Translations.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Italian Culture: Interactions, Transpositions, Translations. Ed. by CORMAC O CUILLEANAIN, CORINNA SALVADORI, and JOHN SCATTERGOOD. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2006. 264 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 978-1-84682-025-0. This collection of essays is the...

Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Semiotics of Re-Reading: Guido Gozzano, Aldo Palazzeschi, Italo Calvino. By ANTHONY JULIAN TANIBURRI. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 132 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... From Eugenio Montale to Amelia Rosselli: Italian Poetry in the Sixties and Seventies. Ed. by JOHN BUTCHER and MARIO MORONI. Leicester: Troubador. 2004. x+233 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904744-50-4. This book presents a...

Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936: Rivals or Collaborators?(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Theatre in Madrid and Barcelona, 1892-1936: Rivals or Collaborators? By DAVID GEORGE. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2002. xiv+235 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7083-1737-2. This elegant volume begins, quite logically, with a...

Del tren al aeroplano: ensayos sobre la vanguardia espanola.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Del tren al aeroplano: ensayos sobre la vanguardia espanola. By JOSE M. DEL PINO. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. 2004. 175 pp. $24. ISBN 978-0-89295-113-0. There is no doubt that the avant-garde Spanish...

Federico Garcia Lorca: analisis de una revolucion teatral.(Un Lorca desconocido: analisis de un teatro 'irrepresentable')(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Federico Garcia Lorca: analisis de una revolucion teatral. By MARIA ESTELA HARRETCHE. (Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica) Madrid: Gredos. 2000. 217 pp. 17 [euro]. ISBN 978-84-249-2252-8. Un Lorca desconocido: analisis de un teatro...

Juan Goytisolo: The Author as Dissident.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Juan Goytisolo: The Author as Dissident. By ALISON RIBEIRO DE MENEZES. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. xiii+205 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 978-1-85566-109-7. One of the most critiqued and studied of contemporary Spanish writers, Juan...

Francisco Nieva and Postmodernist Theatre.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Francisco Nieva and Postmodernist Theatre. By KOMLA AGGOR. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2006. 187 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7083-1961-1. In this excellent study we find a long-awaited discussion of postmodernism in modern...

La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela. By SILVIA BERMUDEZ. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta. 2005. 151 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-066-6. Though regarded as a major contemporary poet in Peru, Blanca Varela (b. 1926)...