The Modern Language Review articles from January 2000

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2000

Sea voyages into time and space: Postmodern topographies in Umberto Eco's L'Isola Del Giorno Prima and Christoph Ransmayr's Die Schrecken Des Eises Und Der Finsternis.
January 1, 2000... Contemporary fiction shows a revived interest in the theme of the sea voyage of exploration. I need only point to Sten Nadolny's Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit (1983), Christoph Ransmayr's Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis (1984), John...

Three ways of going wrong: Kipling, Conrad, Coetzee.
January 1, 2000... It begins with a fall. A man stumbles at the threshold of a dark alley, deep in the native quarter of a colonial Indian city. This is Trejago, on his late-night and secret wanderings in search of knowledge, romance, and adventure, in Kipling's...

'The Rapture of Vertigo': Beckett's turning-point.
January 1, 2000... In interview, Samuel Beckett always evinced a sharp sense of the shape of his creative life. There had been a large shift and it had been relatively sudden, a recognizable turning-point: 'Molloy and the others came to me the day I became aware of...

Bodily peril: Sexuality and the subversion of order in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose.
January 1, 2000... One of the most celebrated and most controversial portions of Jean de Meun's continuation of the Roman de la Rose is the sermon preached by Nature's priest Genius to the troops of Love. (1) This remarkable passage is not Genius's first...

Medea, poison, and the epistemology of error in Phedre.
January 1, 2000... The critical effort to understand the death of Racine's Phedre as an allegory of the end of his production of profane theatre has by now a certain history. Most notably, in a study that originally appeared in 1980, Marc Fumaroli claimed that...

Banville and his three sonnets on the mythical amazons.
January 1, 2000... It was in 1843 that Banville first came into contact with a group of sculptors living on the Ile-Saint-Louis: (1) Barye, Moine, Preault (who was later to execute a medallion of Banville), (2) and Feuchere. Whereas the poet had been taken at a...

Towards a revival of Borghini scholarship: A review article.
January 1, 2000... For centuries the name of Vincenzio Borghini (1515-1580) has been tacitly accepted as one of the most important authorities in Italian Renaissance literary and textual criticism. (2) Vincenzio (he insisted on the -io ending, noting that only his...

Renaissance dialogue and narrative fiction: The Viaje de Turquia.
January 1, 2000... The untitled anonymous work called the Viaje de Turquia, composed probably in 1557, first appeared in print in 1905 when Manuel Serrano y Sanz included it in the volume of Autobiografias y memorias he edited for the Nueva Biblioteca de Autores...

'Eine Immerwahrende Umwandlung Der Ansichten': Narrators and their perspectives in the works of Adalbert Stifter.
January 1, 2000... In the 'Vorrede' to Bunte Steine, Stifter makes his preoccupation with perspectives, views, and interpretations plainly evident. Particularly striking is the way in which he posits a 'right' perspective from which humans will be able to make...

Anna Seghers, Friedrich Wolf, and the Austrian civil war of 1934.
January 1, 2000... Unlike the Anschluss of March 1938, which moved many prominent writers to an almost immediate reaction, Chancellor Dollfuss's crushing of the short but bloody Socialist counter-revolution of February 1934 went virtually unrecorded in Austrian...

Brothers in arms: The changing face of the soviet soldier in Stalinist cinema.
January 1, 2000... "The Russian will know no mercy in his just anger, but the blood he sheds will bring bitterness to his heart.' (Sergei Eisenstein) (1) In November 1934, an editorial appeared in Pravda that encapsulated the triumphal sloganeering...

After the Death of Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2000... After the Death of Literature. By RICHARD B. SCHWARTZ. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1997. ix + 181 pp. $29.95. Richard B. Schwartz is a Johnsonian scholar and academic administrator whose other main interest...

The Reign of Ideology.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Reign of Ideology. By EUGENE GOODHEART. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. x + 203 pp. $15.50; 12 [pounds sterling]. Columbia University Press has presumably brought out this volume because of its tribute to Lionel Trilling, Richard...

Heathen Gods in Old English Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Heathen Gods in Old English Literature. By RICHARD NORTH. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 22) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xvi + 374 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $69.95. The exercise Richard...

Piers Plowman: The C Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best. An Edition in the Form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, Corrected and Restored from the Known Evidence, with Variant Readings.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Piers Plowman: The C Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best. An Edition in the Form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, Corrected and Restored from the Known Evidence, with Variant Readings. Ed. by GEORGE RUSSELL...

William Langland's 'Piers Plowman': The C Version.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Piers Plowman: The C Version. Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-Well, Do-Better and Do-Best. An Edition in the Form of Huntington Library MS HM 143, Corrected and Restored from the Known Evidence, with Variant Readings. Ed. by GEORGE RUSSELL...

Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Studies in Middle English Saints' Legends. By MANFRED GORLACH. (Anglistische Forschungen, 257) Heidelberg: Winter. 1998. v + 173 pp. This volume is essentially a compilation, based on work published by Manfred Gorlach between the early 1970s...

Sex, Gender and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Sex, Gender, and Desire in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe. By SARA MUNSON DEATS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 296 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. Sara Munson Deats works at the...

Shylock and the Jewish Question.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Shylock and the Jewish Question. By MARTIN D. YAFFE. (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies) Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. X + 210 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, rather like his earlier...

In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1696-1622.(Review)
January 1, 2000... In Small Proportions: A Poetics of the English Ayre, 1596-1622. By DANIEL FISCHLIN. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1998. 404 pp. $39.95. The relationship between poetry and music has been the preoccupation of most critics of the...

Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England. By ACHSAH GUIBBORY. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiii + 275 pp. 40 [pounds...

Drama and Politics in the English Civil War.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. By SUSAN WISEMAN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xviii + 297 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $64.95. Since the publication in 1928 of Leslie Hotson's Commonwealth...

A Martyr for Sin:Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality,and Society.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society. By KIRK COMBE. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 186 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. This study of Rochester opens with...

Alexander Pope: World and Word.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Alexander Pope: World and Word. Ed. by HOWARD ERSKINE-HILL. (Proceedings of the British Academy, 91) Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 1998. x + 182 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays commemorates the...

Writing the Lives of Writers.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Writing the Lives of Writers. Ed. by WARWICK GOULD and THOMAS F. STALEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, in assn with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 1998. xvi + 328 pp. 47.50...

Charlotte Smith: A Critical Biography.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Writing the Lives of Writers. Ed. by WARWICK GOULD and THOMAS F. STALEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press, in assn with the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 1998. xvi + 328 pp. 47.50...

Reshaping the Sexes in 'Sense and Sensibility'.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Reshaping the Sexes in 'Sense and Sensibility'. By MORELAND PERKINS. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1998. xiv + 208 pp. $24.50. For Moreland Perkins, Sense and Sensibility is the novel in which 'Jane Austen most...

Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake. By NICHOLAS M. WILLIAMS. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 28) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xviii + 250 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. William...

The Revolutionary 'I': Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Revolutionary 'I': Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation. By ASHTON NICHOLS. (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xx + 187 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]....

Fatal Autonomy: Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Fatal Autonomy: Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency. By WILLIAM JEWETT. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xiv + 262 pp. $49.95. William Jewett explores what he calls an 'enduring moral puzzle' concerning the...

Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: Women, Work and Home. By MONICA F. COHEN. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 14) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xi + 216 pp. 35...

The Cambridge Companion to Henry James.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to Henry James. Ed. by JONATHAN FREEDMAN. (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xix + 256 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $17.95. 'Why, after a hundred...

Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism. By KATHY ALEXIS PSOMIADES. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. vii + 241 pp. 27.95 [pounds sterling]; $39.50. The title of this book sums up its witty, trenchant,...

A.C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life.(Review)
January 1, 2000... A. C. Swinburne: A Poet's Life. By RIKKY ROOKSBY. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot: Scolar; Brookfield, VT: Ashgate. 1997. xii + 322 pp. 29.95 [pounds sterling]; $49.95. Rikky Rooksby's elegant biography of Swinburne is the first study of...

Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art. By JULIA PREWITT BROWN. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. xx + 137 pp. $30. The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar...

The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar Wilde.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde's Philosophy of Art. By JULIA PREWITT BROWN. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1997. xx + 137 pp. $30. The Importance of Being Paradoxical: Maternal Presence in the Works of Oscar...

ReJoycing: New Readings of 'Dubliners'.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ReJoycing: New Readings of 'Dubliners'. Ed. by ROSA M. BOLLETTIERI BOSINELLI and HAROLD F. MOSHER, JR. (Irish Literature, History, and Culture) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. xi + 268 pp. $39.95 (paperbound $18). The Sensual...

The Sensual Philosophy: Joyce and the Aesthetics of Mysticism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... ReJoycing: New Readings of 'Dubliners'. Ed. by ROSA M. BOLLETTIERI BOSINELLI and HAROLD F. MOSHER, JR. (Irish Literature, History, and Culture) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. xi + 268 pp. $39.95 (paperbound $18). The Sensual...

Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rewriting the Thirties: Modernism and After. Ed. by KEITH WILLIAMS and STEVEN MATTHEWS. (Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) London and New York: Longman. 1997. x + 221 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]). In...

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider.(Review)
January 1, 2000... No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider. Ed. by MAURICE HARMON. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. xxi + 486 pp. 21.95 [pounds sterling]. In a letter to Mary Manning of July 1955...

Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Peter Shaffer: Theatre and Drama. By MADELEINE MACMURRAGH-KAVANAGH. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xiii + 208 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Sheridan Morley wrote that Peter Shaffer 'has always been able, even in the...

Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood. By ELAINE TUTTLE HANSEN. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1997. x + 283 pp. $45; 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $16.95; 13.95 [pounds...

The Scottish Invention of English Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Scottish Invention of English Literature. Ed. by ROBERT CRAWFORD. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xii + 259 pp. $59.95. It is not the thesis of The Scottish Invention of English Literature that Scots...

Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Conjuring Complexities: Essays on Flann O'Brien. Ed. by ANNE CLUNE and TESS HURSON. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University. 1997. xv + 233 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.50 [pounds sterling]). In Conjuring...

Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Ed. by JEANNE CAMPBELL REESMAN. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press. 1997. xxix + 312 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays has the widest of briefs, not representing...

La Coordination des propositions subordonnees en moyen francais.(Review)
January 1, 2000... La Coordination des propositions subordonnees en moyen francais. By STEPHANE MARCOTTE. (Publications romanes et francaises, 221) Geneve: Droz. 1997. 435 pp. 83.65 SwF. The term 'Middle French', which is sometimes taken to include the sixteenth...

La Stylistique francaise en mutation?(Review)
January 1, 2000... La Stylistique francaise en mutation? By MADELEINE FREDERIC. (Classe des Lettres) Bruxelles: Academie royale de Belgique. 1997. 183 pp. 850 BF. Madeleine Frederic, who continues the line of eminent stylisticians to have come out of Belgium,...

Troubadour Lyrics: A Bilingual Anthology.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Troubadour Lyrics: A Bilingual Anthology. Ed. and trans. by FREDE JENSEN. (Studies in the Humanities, 39) New York, Frankfurt a.M., and Paris: Lang. 1998. 593 pp. 44 [pounds sterling]. To select only ninety troubadour texts for show-case...

The Design of Rabelais's 'Quart Livre de Pantagruel'.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Design of Rabelais's 'Quart Livre de Pantagruel'. By EDWIN M. DUVAL. (Etudes rabelaisiennes, 36) Geneve: Droz. 1998. 156 pp. 53 SwF. This is the final volume of Edwin M. Duval's impressive and thoroughly revisionist exegetical trilogy....

Paradoxes.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Paradoxes. By CHARLES ESTIENNE. Ed. by Trevor Peach. (Textes litteraires Francais, 498) Geneve: Droz. 1998. 337 pp. 90 SwF. Trevor Peach indicated in his article 'Charles Estienne revu et augmente' (BHR, 57 (1995), 101-10) that he planned a...

Madeleine des Roches, and Catherine des Roches: Les Secondes.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Madeleine des Roches, and Catherine des Roches: Les Secondes Oeuvres. Ed. by ANNE R. LARSEN. (Textes litteraires francais, 497) Geneve: Droz. 1998. 408 pp. 62 SwF. This edition of Les Secondes Oeuvres follows that of Les Oeuvres (TLF, 428,...

Les Recherches de la France.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Les Recherches de la France. By ETIENNE PASQUIER. Ed. by MARIE-MADELEINE FRAGONARD and FRANCOIS ROUDAUT. Paris: Champion. 1996. 3 vols. 876 pp.; 632 pp.; 792 pp. 960 F the set. Etienne Pasquier was one of the most learned men of his generation....

Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials. Ed. by ROGER ARIEW, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xviii + 269 pp. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. This chronological compilation of translated...

Histoires et autobiographies spirituelles: Les Memoires de Fontaine, Lancelot et du Fosse.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Histoires et autobiographies spirituelles: Les Memoires de Fontaine, Lancelot et du Fosse. By FRANCIS MARINER. Tubingen: Narr. 1998. 182 pp. The problem of the author and his relation to text and public is particularly crucial for Port-Royal in...

La carriere de Moliere entre protecteurs et editeurs.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... La carriere de Moliere entre protecteurs et editeurs. By C. E. J. CALDICOTT. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. iii + 224 pp. Hfl. 75; $36.50. C. E. J. Caldicott's authoritative study of Moliere is principally devoted to the successive...

The 'Memoires secrets' and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The 'Memoires secrets' and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France. Ed. by JEREMY D. POPKIN and BERNADETTE FORT. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1998. 188 pp. Nowadays, intrusion into the intimate habits of public figures is...

Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture and Society.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture and Society. By MIRA MORGENSTERN. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1996. xviii + 270 pp. Although Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings resist any easy general...

Benjamin Constant: A Biography.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Benjamin Constant: A Biography. By DENNIS WOOD. London and New York: Routledge. 1993. xiii + 302 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Dennis Wood's impressive biography of Benjamin Constant begins with a chapter devoted to an investigation of Constant's...

Proust Among the Stars.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Proust Among the Stars. By MALCOLM BOWIE. London: HarperCollins. 1998. xix + 348 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. With its individual chapter-titles as unpretentious as 'Self', 'Time', 'Art', 'Politics', 'Morality', 'Sex', and 'Death', the...

Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valery, Breton.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Literary Polemics: Bataille, Sartre, Valery, Breton. By SUZANNE GUERLAC. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. 249 pp. After intellectual upheavals of a revolutionary nature, with the polemical claims to certain genealogies that they...

Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Surrealist Collage in Text and Image: Dissecting the Exquisite Corpse. By ELZA ADAMOWICZ. (Cambridge Studies in French, 56) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiv + 248 pp. This book admirably fulfils its author's aim 'of...

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader. Ed. by ELIZABETH FALLAIZE. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. 208 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Elizabeth Fallaize's book provides a survey of the development of...

Ecrire en peintre: Claude Simon et la peinture.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Ecrire en peintre: Claude Simon et la peinture. By BRIGITTE FERRATO-COMBE. Grenoble: Ellug. 1998. 256 pp. 125 F. Among the numerous critical works and edited volumes on Claude Simon that appeared in France in the course of the academic session...

Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French. Ed. by DOMINIQUE D. FISHER and LAWRENCE R. SCHEHR. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. xi + 294 pp. $19.95. The fifteen essays collected here deal in various ways...

The Crommelynck Mystery: The Life and Work of a Belgian Playwright.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The Crommelynck Mystery: The Life and Work of a Belgian Playwright. By ALAN PIETTE and BERT CARDULLO. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 150 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. A playwright, very...

Histoire de la litterature en Suisse romande.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Histoire de la litterature en Suisse romande. Vol. III. Ed. by ROGER FRANCILLON. Lausanne: Payot. 1998. 562 pp. All that I said about the handsome production, sober critical stance, and fine language in my review of Volume II (MLR, 94 (1999),...

Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini. By JILL M. RICKETTS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. x + 214 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. This very attractively produced volume deals...

Niccolo Machiavelli: Politico, storico, letterato. Atti del convegno di Losanna 27-30 settembre 1995.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Niccolo Machiavelli: politico, storico, letterato. Atti del convegno di Losanna 27-30 settembre 1995. Ed. by JEAN-JACQUES MARCHAND. (Biblioteca di filologia e critica, 4) Rome: Salerno. 1996. 469 pp. 65,000 lire. This hefty volume constitutes...

Ars dramatica. Studi sulla poetica di Luigi Pirandello, Atti del Simposio Internazionale sul Teatro Pirandelliono.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ars dramatica. Studi sulla poetica di Luigi Pirandello. Atti del Simposio Internazionale sul Teatro Pirandelliano (Boston College, 27-29 ottobre 1994). Ed. by RENA A. SYSKA-LAMPARSKA. New York and Bern: Lang. 1996. 232 pp. 23.00 [pounds...

Pirandello and his Muse: The Plays for Marta Abba.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Ars dramatica. Studi sulla poetica di Luigi Pirandello. Atti del Simposio Internazionale sul Teatro Pirandelliano (Boston College, 27-29 ottobre 1994). Ed. by RENA A. SYSKA-LAMPARSKA. New York and Bern: Lang. 1996. 232 pp. 23.00 [pounds...

'La primavera hitleriana' e altri saggi su Montale.(Review)
January 1, 2000... 'La primavera hitleriana' e altri saggi su Montale. By FRANCO CROCE. Genoa: Marietti. 1997. 192 pp. 32,000 lire. Concordanza del 'Diario postumo' di Eugenio Montale, Facsimile dei manoscritti, Testo, Concordanza. By GIUSEPPE SAVOCA. (Strumenti...

Concordanza del 'Diario postumo' di Eugenio Montale, Facsimile dei manoscritti, Testo, Concordanza.(Review)
January 1, 2000... 'La primavera hitleriana' e altri saggi su Montale. By FRANCO CROCE. Genoa: Marietti. 1997. 192 pp. 32,000 lire. Concordanza del 'Diario postumo' di Eugenio Montale, Facsimile dei manoscritti, Testo, Concordanza. By GIUSEPPE SAVOCA. (Strumenti...

The Ethical Muse of Franco Fortini.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Ethical Muse of Franco Fortini. By THOMAS E. PETERSON. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1997. 200 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. In spite of the fact that Thomas E. Peterson does not add much to the critical understanding of Franco...

One Man's Canon: Five Essays on Medieval Poetry for Stephen Reckert.(Review)
January 1, 2000... One Man's Canon: Five Essays on Medieval Poetry for Stephen Reckert. Ed. by ALAN DEYERMOND. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 16) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1998. 89 pp. 8 [pounds...

From the Resende Songbook.(Review)
January 1, 2000... One Man's Canon: Five Essays on Medieval Poetry for Stephen Reckert. Ed. by ALAN DEYERMOND. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 16) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1998. 89 pp. 8 [pounds...

Contra las mujeres: Poemas medievales de rechazo y vituperio.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Contra las mujeres: poemas medievales de rechazo y vituperio. Ed. by ROBERT ARCHER and ISABEL DE RIQUER. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema. 1998. 313 pp. 3,500 ptas. Misogyny, though it has its roots in the Bible and classical Latin poetry, is almost...

A Star-Crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A Star-Crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia. Ed. by FREDERICK A. DE ARMAS. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 247 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. This volume highlights Classical and...

Communicating Myths of the Golden Age 'Comedia'.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Communicating Myths of the Golden Age 'Comedia'. By DENISE M. DIPUCCIO. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 236 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. This seems to me an important book in that it combines...

The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Endless Text: Don Quixote and the Hermeneutics of Romance. By EDWARD DUDLEY. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1997. xii + 302 pp. $21.95. Edward Dudley's argument is as follows: 'Romance' is a form of story telling that...

The Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Challenges of Uncertainty: An Introduction to Seventeenth-Century Spanish Literature. By JEREMY ROBBINS. London: Duckworth. 1998. 160 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling]. Only a couple of decades ago British Hispanism was known internationally,...

Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity and Strategy in 'La Regenta'.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Dislocations of Desire: Gender, Identity and Strategy in 'La Regenta'. By ALISON SINCLAIR. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 255) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina. 1998. 229 pp. 21 [pounds sterling]....

Una relectura del 'Fin de siglo' en el marco de la literatura comparada: Teoria y praxis.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Una relectura del 'Fin de siglo' en el marco de la literatura comparada: teoria y praxis. By DOLORES ROMERO LOPEZ. (Perspectivas Hispanicas) Bern: Lang. 1998. 202 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. This work offers an inspired rereading of Spain's...

Buscando un lugar entre mujeres: Buceo en la Espana de Carmen Martin Gaite.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Buscando un lugar entre mujeres: Buceo en la Espana de Carmen Martin Gaite. By MERCEDES CARBAYO ABENGOZAR. (Atenea: Estudios sobre la mujer, Universidad de Malaga) Malaga: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Malaga, 1998. 195 pp. 9.25...

Contemporary Spanish Short Stories: Viajeros perdidos.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Contemporary Spanish Short Stories: Viajeros perdidos. Ed. by JEAN ANDREWS and MONTSERRAT LUNATI. (Spanish Texts Series) London: Bristol Classical Press. 1998. xxviii + 94 pp. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. The short story of the post-war period is a...