The Modern Language Review articles from April 2008

The Modern Language Review archives from April 2008

Lucanic irony in Marlowe's Tamburlaine.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article shows how Marlowe departs from his primary historical sources (Mexia and Perondinus) in his retelling of the life of Tamburlaine. Marlowe employed the heavily ironic tone of Lucan's discussion of Julius Caesar's...

Jousting for the honour of Greece and 'a certain Miss Phrosyne': Baron Byron and Gally Knight clash over costume, correctness, and a princess.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article attempts to rescue Henry Gally Knight (1786-1846), architectural writer and antiquary, from the footnotes of literary history. Few Romantic writers of Oriental verse tales travelled to the East, and the work of this...

The ethics of anonymity.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article contributes to recent debates on anonymous publication, authorship, and attribution. Following early modern examples from Shakespeare, Erasmus, Montaigne, and others, I argue that central to debates on anonymity is...

The gift of the poem: Mallarme and Robert Duncan's Ground Work: before the war.(Stephane Mallarme, French symbolist)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Robert Duncan's poetry is conventionally read in the context of the Black Mountain school of poetry or the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s. However, his work is also deeply involved with that of the French symbolist...

Languages in conflict in Toulouse: las leys d'Amors.
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT The poetry competition founded in Toulouse in 1323 is a well-known instance of cultural resistance, thanks to its promotion and preservation of poetry in Occitan shortly after the county of Toulouse had become part of the French...

The fabric of society: textile and metatextual imitation in the Burgundian Cliges (1454).
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article discusses the mise en prose of Chretien de Troyes's Cliges for the mid-fifteenth-century court of Burgundy under Philip the Good. In particular it offers a close examination of a single textual moment in the 1454...

Erik Satie's poetry.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article is the first literary critical analysis of Satie's poetry. It starts from his Trois poemes d'amour, whose verse form and musical setting place exaggerated emphasis on the 'e muet' of feminine rhymes. The 'e muet' and...

Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi: a chaste novel and an erotic palimpsest.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT In I promessi sposi, Manzoni avoids love scenes, fearing that some readers might relive them with excessive intensity. This article focuses on twentieth-century writers and critics who introduced erotic elements in their rewriting...

Abstract and concrete: translating Coral Bracho.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT Translations by the English poet Katherine Pierpoint of the Mexican Coral Bracho test the terms abstract and concrete, popularized by Ezra Pound and T. E. Hulme. A comparative reading redefines the apparently concrete language of...

Reading beyond community: D. F. Strauss's Das Leben Jesu and Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.(David Friedrich Strauss, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT While Nietzsche's relationship to D. F. Strauss has generally been approached in terms of Nietzsche's attack on Strauss, this article presents a wider intellectual-historical perspective to show that both are part of the...

Revolution and redemption: Alfred Doblin's November 1918.(Critical essay)
April 1, 2008... ABSTRACT This article focuses on the heterogeneity of Doblin's November 1918, indicated on the one hand by this title and on the other by that given on the dust-jacket of Part iii in the 1950 edition: Karl und Rosa. Eine Geschichte...

Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity. Ed. by Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman. (The New Middle Ages) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. xii + 299 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-6602-5. ...

Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen Kontext.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Lancelot: Der mittelhochdeutsche Roman im europaischen Kontext. Ed. by Klaus rid- R02600 der and Christoph Huber. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2007. vi+317 pp. 986. ISBN 978-3-484-64036-8. This collection of essays on the prose Lancelot tradition...

Arthurian Literature vol. XXIII.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Arthurian Literature, vol. xxiii. Ed. by Keith bus by and Rogerdal Dalrymple. Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. viii+179 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISSN 0034-6551 (online 14716968). This edition of Arthurian Literature consists of a selection of...

A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... A Bibliography of Modern Arthuriana 1500-2000. By Ann F. Howey and Stephen R. Reimer. Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. ii+774 pp. 125 [pounds sterling]; $180. ISBN 978-184384-068-8. The scope of this bibliography is an excitingly and commendably...

Dante and Derrida: Face to Face.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Dante and Derrida: Face to Face. By Francis J. Ambrosio. Albany: State University of New York Press. 304 pp. $75. ISBN 978-0-7914-7005-3. There are few harder books on Dante than this, and not that many harder on Derrida. In part this is...

From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... From Many Gods to One: Divine Action in Renaissance Epic. By Tobias Gregory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xii+247 pp. $30; 19 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9780-226-30755-8. This elegantly written book discusses a fundamental...

Scotland in Europe.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Scotland in Europe. Ed. by Tom Hubbard and R. D. S. Jack. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 304 pp. 960; $81. ISBN 978-90-420-2100-6. This is a collection of perceptive and stimulating essays about various aspects of Scottish literature...

John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' 1728-2004: Adaptations and Re-Writings. Ed. by Uwe Boker, Ines Detmers, and Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 105) Amsterdam and...

La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction francaise du XIXe siecle (1812-1917): d'une image de l'autre a un univers imaginaire.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La Russie et les Russes dans la fiction francaise du XIXe siecle (1812-1917): d'une image de l'autre a un univers imaginaire. By Charlotte Krauss. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 108)...

Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Women in Europe between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Ed. by Angela Kershaw and Angela Kimyongur. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. xii+249 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5684-5. The aim of this interdisciplinary volume is to...

Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Haunted Subjects: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and the Return of the Dead. By Colin Davis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. 181 pp. 45[pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-230-50782-1. Ghosts and the undead appear ore frequently than ever...

Cain et Abel: rivalite responsabilite.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Cain et Abel. rivalite responsabilite. By Veronique Leonard-Roques. (Figures et Mythes) Monaco. Editions du Rocker. 2007. 285 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-268-06175-7 Just as most accidents happen in the home, so most violence is...

Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre. By Jack Zipes. London: Routledge. 2006. xx + 332 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-97780-7. Those who have followed Jack Zipes's prodigious publishing activities since...

Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain. By Stefan Collini. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. ix + 526 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929105-2. Stefan Collini sets out an argument questioning what he calls the 'absence...

Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Creation, Migration, and Conquest: Imaginary Geography and Sense of Space in Old English Literature. By Fabienne Michelet. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xiv + 297 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928671-3. The subject of...

Venus' Owne Clerk: Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... 'Venus' owne clerk': Chaucer's Debt to the 'Confessio amantis'. By Wim Lindeboom. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2007. 477 pp. 71 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-90-420-2150-1. The title of this sprawling book is a misnomer. Wim Lindeboom...

Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Marriage, Adultery and Inheritance in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. By Karen Cherewatuk. (Arthurian Studies, 67) Cambridge: Brewer. 2006. ii + 153 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $80. ISBN 978-1-84384-089-3. This book is a series of short studies on...

Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England. By Patricia Fumerton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xxvii + 237 pp. 13 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-26956-6. Apparently, this book...

Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Early Modern English Poetry. A Critical Companion. Ed. by Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xxiii + 342 pp. 21.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-515387-3. This is an...

The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson. By Mary Ellen Lamb. London: Routledge. 2006. x+271 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-415-28881-1. Popular culture has long excited early modern scholars. Over the last few years...

Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Echoing Texts: George Chapman's Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron. By Gunilla Florby. Stockholm: Lund University Press. 2005. 188 pp. 20.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-91-974023-8-5. Gunilla Florby's book represents a...

Milton and the Idea of the Fall.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Milton and the Idea of the Fall. By William Poole. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xi + 240 pp. [pounds sterling]48. ISBN 978-0-521-84763-6. Milton and the Idea of the Fall offers a radical rereading of Milton that takes...

The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-Century Circle of Acquaintance. By Temma Berg. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. x+295. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5599-2. I was won over by this book despite its clunkiness in places. It is a...

Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture. By Clare Brant. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. x+431 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-9482-0. In Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture Clare Brant has produced a...

The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century. By Cynthia Sundberg Wall. London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xiii + 318 pp. 22.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-87158-5. Cynthia Sundberg Wall's new...

Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction. Ed. By Mark Knight and Emma Mason. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. viii + 245 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927710-0. Mark Knight and Emma Mason have produced an...

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. By Michael Davis. (The Nineteenth Century Series) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. 224 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5172-7. As an analogue for George...

John Halifax, Gentleman.(victorian novels)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... John Halifax, Gentleman. By Dinah Mulock Craik. Ed. by Lynn M. Alexander. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press. 2005. 585 pp. 9.55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-55111-500-9. Villette. By Charlotte Bronte. Ed. by Kate Lawson. Peterborough,...

Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticism. By Cora Kaplan. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2007. viii+173 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-1146-1. Cora Kaplan offers Victoriana as both an example and a critique of a...

Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel. By Carolyn Lesjak. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2007. x+270 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8223-3888-8. Working Fictions explores the relationship between 'labour' and...

Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Bed: Modernism's Fairy Tales. By Ann Martin. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2006. ix+199 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8020-9086-7. The malleability of the fairy tale is, today, an...

The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. By John G. Peters. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. x+146pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-83972-3. This volume on Conrad is part of a new introductory series. The first...

Henry James Goes to Paris.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Henry James Goes to Paris. By Peter Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2007. 255 pp. $24.95; 15.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-691-12954-9. Or, perhaps, how Henry James learnt to stop worrying about the novel and came to love...

T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... T. S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922. By James E. Miller, Jr. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2005. xx+468 pp. 29.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-271-02681-7. A fortune-teller once told Eliot he was...

William Empson: Against the Christians.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... William Empson: Against the Christians. By John Haffenden. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xxii+797 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927660-8. John Haffenden's second volume sees William Empson in a series of wartime and...

The 'New Negro' in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The 'New Negro' in the Old World: Culture and Performance in James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Nella Larsen. By Lena Ahlin. (Lund Studies in English, 111) Stockholm: Department of English, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund...

La Disme de Penitanche.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La Disme de Penitanche. By Jehan de Journi. Ed. by Glynn Hesketh. (MHRA Critical Texts, 7) London: MHRA. 2006. 206 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-947623-71-5. The stated aim of this series is to make available lesser-known...

Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Le 'Policratique' de Jean de Salisbury (1372), Livre V. Trans. by Denis Foulechat. Ed. by Charles Brucker. (Publications Romanes et Francaises, 242) Geneva: Droz. 2006. 907 pp. SwF 152. ISBN 978-2-600-01072-6. John of Salisbury was a...

Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Book and Text in France, 1400-1600: Poetry on the Page. Ed. by Adrian Armstrong and Malcolm Quainton. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2007. 236 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5590-9. Several monographs and collections of essays discussing...

La Memoire des guerres de religion: la concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles).(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La Memoire des guerres de religion: la concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles). Ed. by Jacques Berchtold and Marie-Madeleine Fragonard. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 79) Geneva: Droz. 2007. 376 pp. SwF 40. ISBN...

La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poesie erotique et pornographique.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La Muse lascive: anthologie de la poesie erotique et pornographique. Ed. by Michel Jeanneret. Paris: Jose Corti. 2007. 384 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7143-0942-6. The book under review is not only an interesting anthology of witty and...

De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: metamorphoses de l'epopee dans la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle en France.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... De l'or de Virgile aux ors de Versailles: metamorphoses de l'epopee dans la seconde moitie du XVIIe siecle en France. By Ludivine Goupillaud. (Travaux du Grand Siecle, 25) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 394 pp. SwF 170. ISBN 978-2-600-00991-1. At the...

Jean Racine.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Jean Racine. By Georges Forestier. Paris: Gallimard. 2006. 942 pp. 935. ISBN 978-2-07-075529-5. Having provided one monument to Racinian scholarship with his 'Pleiade' edition of the tragedian's collected works, Georges Forestier now comes...

Interdisciplinarity. Qu'est-ce que les Lumieres? La Reconnaissanceau dix-huitieme siecle.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Interdisciplinarity. Qu'est-ce que les Lumieres? La Reconnaissance au dix-huitieme siecle. Ed. by Jonathan Mallinson. (SVEC, 2006:12) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. 400 pp. 75 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0886-8. With almost...

Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France. By Elena Russo. (Parallax Re-visions of Culture and Society) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2007. 346 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

L'Art de la preface au siecle des Lumieres.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... L'Art de la preface au siecle des Lumieres. Ed. by Ioana Galleron. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2007. 267 pp. 918. ISBN 978-2-7535-0383-0. Proceedings from a 2006 colloquium at the Universite de Bretagne Sud in Lorient...

Philosophical Letters; or, Letters regarding the English Nation.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Philosophical Letters; or, Letters regarding the English Nation. By Voltaire. Ed. by John Leigh, trans. by Prudence L. Steiner. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett. 2007. xxv+158 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-87220-881-0. This new...

Correspondance litteraire.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Correspondance litteraire. By Friedrich Melchior Grimm. Ed. by Ulla Kolving. Vol. I: 1753-1754, ed. by Ulla Kolving, Jean de Booy, and Christoph Frank, Preface by Roland Mortier; vol: II: 1755, ed. by Robert Granderoute. Fernay-Voltaire: Centre...

Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism. By Thomas Wynn. (SVEC, 2007:02) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2007. x+224 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0903-2. The text on the inside cover of this study begins with the remark:...

Nouvelles francaises du dix-neuvieme siecle: anthologie.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Nouvelles francaises du dix-neuvieme siecle: anthologie. Ed. by Allan H. Pasco. Charlottesville: Rookwood. 2006. 487 pp. $59.95. ISBN 978-1-886365-59-9. This substantial anthology comprises an introduction entitled 'Qu-est-ce que la...

Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Character and Meaning in the Novels of Victor Hugo. By Isabel Roche. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2007. ix+242 pp. $43.95. ISBN 978-1-55753-438-5. Goethe once described the characters of Notre-Dame de Paris as lifeless...

Hugo et Sainte-Beuve: vie et mort d'une amitie 'litteraire'.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Hugo et Sainte-Beuve: vie et mort d'une amitie 'litteraire'. By Michel Brix. Paris: Kime. 2007. 144 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84174-413-8. Literary friendships can be notoriously difficult, since talent and familiarity can make for a...

George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture: colloque international de Cerisy-la-Salle Ier-8 juillet 2004.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... George Sand, pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture: colloque international de Cerisy-la-Salle Ier-8 juillet 2004. Ed. by Brigitte Diaz and Isabelle Hoog Naginski. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 2006. 399 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN...

The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Forms. By Debarati Sanyal. (Parallax Re-visions of Culture and Society)Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. 276 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8308-8. ...

Jeux pragmatiques dans les 'Contes et Nouvelles' de Guy de Maupassant.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Jeux pragmatiques dans les 'Contes et Nouvelles' de Guy de Maupassant. By Floriane Place-Verghnes. (Romantisme et Modernites, 88) Paris: Champion. 2005. 335 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1153-5. If Maupassant's creative productivity ill...

Blaise Cendrars 6: Sous le signe de Moravagine.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Blaise Cendrars 6: Sous le signe de Moravagine. Ed. by Jean-Carlo Fluckiger and Claude Leroy. (La Revue des Lettres Modernes) Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2006. 274 pp. 915. ISBN 978-2-256-91105-7. This collection of essays is an...

After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy. Ed. by Leslie Hill, Brian Nelson, and Dimitris Vardoulakis. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2005. viii+277 pp. $30. ISBN 978-0-87413-946-4. Maurice Blanchot enjoyed celebrating his...

Provisionality and the Poem: Transition in the Work of Du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Provisionality and the Poem: Transition in the Work of Du Bouchet, Jaccottet and Noel. By Emma Wagstaff. (Faux Titre, 278) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 244 pp. 948. ISBN 978-90-420-1939-3. In his recently republished Eclisse,...

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature: Alexis, Depestre, Ollivier, Laferriere, Danticat. By Martin Munro. (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 7) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2007. viii+310 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Focalizing the Body in Contemporary Women's Writing and Filmmaking in France.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Focalizing the Body in Contemporary Women's Writing and Filmmaking in France. Ed. by Gill Rye and Carrie Tarr. (Nottingham French Studies, 45.3)Nottingham: The University of Nottingham. 2006. 138 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85358-229....

Beyond 'Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Beyond 'Ecriture feminine': Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard. By Cathy Helen Wardle. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 69) London: Maney. 2007. 145 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-63-7. Beyond...

Sens et presence du sujet poetique: la poesie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Sens et presence du sujet poetique: la poesie de la France et du monde francophone depuis 1980. Ed. by Michael Brophy and Mary Gallagher. (Faux Titre, 285)Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2006. 368 pp. 974. ISBN 978-90-420-2039-9. Sens et presence du...

Che fine fanno i neologismi? A cento anni dalla pubblicazione del 'Dizionario moderno' di Alfredo Panzini.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Che fine fanno i neologismi? A cento anni dalla pubblicazione del 'Dizionario moderno' di Alfredo Panzini. Ed. by Giovanni adamo. (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, 101) Florence: Olschki. 2006. x+128 pp. 916. ISBN 978-88-222-5530-3. This...

'Orlando furioso' secondo la princeps del 1516.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... 'Orlando furioso' secondo la princeps del 1516. Byludovicoariosto. Ed. by Marco Dorigatti. Florence: Olschki. 2006. clxxxii+1074 pp. 988. ISBN 978-88222-576-1. Ariosto's great chivalric epic achieved European fame in the forty-six-canto...

Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology. Ed. and trans. by Victoria Kirkham. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xxxii+493 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16 [pounds...

Italian Futurist Poetry.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Italian Futurist Poetry. Ed. and trans. by Willard Bohn. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2005. vii+310 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 20 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-8020-3948-4 (pbk 978-0-8020-3783-1). When...

Italian Novels of Peasant Crisis, 1930-1950: Bonfires in the Night.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Italian Novels of Peasant Crisis, 1930-1950: Bonfires in the Night. By Brian Moloney. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2005. 256 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN978-1-85182-880-7. This book brings history to literature and literature to history, a...

La speranza violenta: Alberto Moravia e il romanzo di formazione.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... La speranza violenta: Alberto Moravia e il romanzo di formazione. By Valentina Mascaretti. Bologna:Gedit. 2006. 534 pp. 924. ISBN 978-88-6027-001-6. A new stage in the critical reflection on Moravia's work was overdue. In the early 1960s...

Coppia d'arte: Dario Fo e Franca Rame. Con dipinti, testimonianze e dichiarazioni inedite.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Coppia d'arte: Dario Fo e Franca Rame. Con dipinti, testimonianze e dichiarazioni inedite. Ed. by Concetta d' Angeli and Simone Soriani. (Atti e sipari, 1) Pisa: Plus--Pisa University Press. 2006. 214 pp. 915. ISBN 978-88-8492-338-7. The...

The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... The Problem of Woman in Late-Medieval Hispanic Literature. By Robert Archer. (Monografias A, 214) Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. 227 pp. 46.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-85566-113-4. This book studies how women are problematized during the...

Adventures in Paradox: 'Don Quixote' and the Western Tradition.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Adventures in Paradox: 'Don Quixote' and the Western Tradition. By Charles d. Presberg. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2001. x+ 250 pp. $23.95. ISBN 978-0-271-02364-9. From the opening pages of Don Quixote, Cervantes...

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April 1, 2008... Actividad teatral en la region de Madrid segun los protocolos de Juan Garcia de Albertos, 1634-1660: estudio y documentos. By Charles Davis and J. E. Varey. 2 vols. (Fuentes para la historia del teatro en Espana, 35-36) London: Tamesis. 2003....

Imagenes de la Edad Media: la mirada del realismo.(Book review)
April 1, 2008... Imagenes de la Edad Media: la mirada del realismo. By rebeca sanmartin bastida. Prologue by Angel Gomez moreno. (Anejos de Revista de Literatura, 56) Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Instituto de la Lengua Espanola....