The Modern Language Review articles from January 2001

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2001

Truth so difficult: George Eliot and Georg Buchner, a shared time.
January 1, 2001... In Chapter 17 of Adam Bede (1), George Eliot makes a strong appeal for what, in speaking of art, she generally refers to as 'truth': it is what we now usually think of as realism. She opposes this truth to 'idealism'. Her arguments form a...

The crux in A Cure for A Cuckold: A cryptic message, a doubtful intention, and two dearest friends.
January 1, 2001... There is a major difficulty in the text of A Cure for a Cuckold (1661), the partly 'pleasant comedy' that John Webster wrote in collaboration with William Rowley and (probably) Thomas Heywood in the mid-1620s. Lessingham loves Clare, who declares...

'Autobiografiction': Problems with autobiographical fictions and fictional autobiographies. Mark Rutherford's Autobiography and Deliverance, and others.
January 1, 2001... In our lives we are always weaving novels. (1) Between 1881 and 1896 William Hale White in the name of Mark Rutherford published six interlinked fictions: (2) The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Minister, Mark Rutherford's...

Les Faux Miroirs: The good woman/bad woman dichotomy in Racine's tragedies.
January 1, 2001... To ascribe didactic intentions to a dramatist such as Racine is always dangerous: although he claims such a purpose in the Preface to Phedre, for example, his motivations are open to question: the Preface clearly states his desire to 'reconcilier...

Imagination and ideology: Ethical tensions in twentieth-century French writing.
January 1, 2001... Four prophetic presences could be taken to represent stages in the development of the French ethical imagination in the course of the twentieth century. Valery's Hamlet, questioning the very ground on which European intellectual identity stands...

Vittoria Colonna and the Virgin Mary.
January 1, 2001... Some time in 1540 or 1541, a bound manuscript copy of a selection of Vittoria Colonna's published and unpublished sonnets was sent to Marguerite d'Angouleme, Queen of Navarre, who had been requesting a copy of the poet's work via the French...

Poetic discourse patterning in the Cantar de Mio CID.
January 1, 2001... The reception of the greatest epic of Spanish mediaeval poetry has been conditioned during the twentieth century by the work of Ramon Menendez Pidal. His monumental edition published between 1908 and 1911 under the title Cantar de Mio Cid...

The double coding of desire: language conflict, nation building, and identity crashing in Juan Marse's El Amante Bilingue.
January 1, 2001... The most explicit literary intervention in Catalonia's contemporary language conflict is Juan Marse's El amante bilingue, published in 1990. Although essentially a pastiche of political figures and institutions of the first post-Franco Catalan...

Genius beyond gender: Novalis, women and the art of shapeshifting.
January 1, 2001... The literary canon of the eighteenth century has long been thought of as terrain dominated by men and largely inaccessible to women. On the one hand, works by male writers portrayed femininity in a manner that expressed the author's constructions...

Time travel in the forbidden realm: J.J. Slauerhoff's Het Verboden Rijk viewed as a modernist novel.
January 1, 2001... This essay on the Dutch writer J. J. Slauerhoff's novel Het verboden rijk (1931) analyses it as an experimental novel. I argue that the traditional view of Slauerhoff, which emphasizes the romanticism of his subject matter, fails to acknowledge...

Szymborska's two monkeys: The stammering poet and the chain of signs.
January 1, 2001... Like the hero of folktales, the speaker of 'Bruegel's Two Monkeys', by Wislawa Szymborska, is confronted by a test, an interrogation. She is taking her graduation exam, experiencing a rite of passage marking the transition from schooling to life,...

The Use and Abuse of Antiquity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity. Ed. by MARIA WYKE and MICHAEL BIDDISS. Bern, Berlin, and Bruxelles: Peter Lang. 1999. 281 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. 'Reception', once a gentlemanly hobby for the more broad-minded classicist, is now a la mode...

Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference. By CHRIS WEEDON. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 1999. x + 220 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $54.95 (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.95). There appears to be a paradox in the title of Chris...

Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By ROSS POSNOCK. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. x + 353 pp. 21.95 [pounds sterling]. The concept of the modern intellectual, in Ross...

How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. By N. KATHERINE HAYLES. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv + 350 pp. $49; 39.25 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18; 14.50 [pounds...

Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction. By MICHAEL CAESAR. (Key Contemporary Thinkers) Cambridge: Polity Press. 1999. x + 198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]). This is another in Polity's 'Key...

The Fantasy Literature of England.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Fantasy Literature of England. By COLIN MANLOVE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. vi + 222 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum. By BJORN SUNDMARK. (Lund Studies in English,...

Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Fantasy Literature of England. By COLIN MANLOVE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. vi + 222 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum. By BJORN SUNDMARK. (Lund Studies in English,...

The Practice of Reading.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Practice of Reading. By DENIS DONOGHUE. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 1998. x + 307 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. To keep our subjective imaginations active, an inner logic in Denis Donoghue's fifteen essays develops...

Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. By JAMES OLNEY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi + 430 pp. 27.95 [pounds sterling]. James Olney has written an attractive and often persuasive study of what he now calls...

Reading Old English Texts.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reading Old English Texts. Ed. by KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 231 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $18.95). New Approaches to...

New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reading Old English Texts. Ed. by KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 231 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $18.95). New Approaches to...

New Medieval Literatures. Volume I.(Review)
January 1, 2001... New Medieval Literatures. Volume 1. Ed. by WENDY SCASE, RITA COPELAND, and DAVID LAWTON. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. vii + 278 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. One important effect of the appearance of this new series is to provide an...

Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies. Ed. by HUW PRYCE. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 33) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiii + 297 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. The aim of this...

The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle. By LISTER M. MATHESON. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180) Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies. 1998. xxxvi + 388 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]; $30. This...

The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. By CHRISTOPHER CANNON. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature), Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xiii + 435 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $69.95. Part I of...

The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality. Ed. by MICHELE MARRAPODI. Associate ed. A. J. HOENSELAARS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 370 pp....

Italian Studies in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality. Ed. by MICHELE MARRAPODI. Associate ed. A. J. HOENSELAARS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 370 pp....

Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal. By JEFFREY KAHAN. Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 271 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. In John Nixon's satirical print of 1796, The Oaken...

Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Ed. by MARTIN BUTLER. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xii + 255 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This collection, ably introduced by...

Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660. By DAVID NORBROOK. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xiii + 509 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]; $24.95. This study of 'republican' writing...

From 'Academia' to 'Amicitia': Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies.(Review)
January 1, 2001... From 'Academia' to 'Amicitia': Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies. By ESTELLE HAAN. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 88, Part 6) Philadelphia: American...

Blake in the Nineties.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Blake in the Nineties. Ed. by STEVE CLARK and DAVID WORRALL. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xiii + 240 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. William Blake and the Myths of Britain. By JASON WHITTAKER. Basingstoke: Macmillan;...

William Blake and the Myths of Britain.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Blake in the Nineties. Ed. by STEVE CLARK and DAVID WORRALL. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xiii + 240 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. William Blake and the Myths of Britain. By JASON WHITTAKER. Basingstoke: Macmillan;...

England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling]. Romantic Imperialism: Universal...

Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity.(Review)
January 1, 2001... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling]. Romantic Imperialism: Universal...

Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830.(Review)
January 1, 2001... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling]. Romantic Imperialism: Universal...

Conrad and Women.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Conrad and Women. By SUSAN JONES. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. viii + 252 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This original book purports to give a new reading of the relation between Conrad and women mainly by making use of...

Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. by MICHAEL BELL and PETER POELLNER. (Text: Studies in Comparative Literature, 16) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. vii + 260 pp. Hfl....

New Larkins for Old: Critical Essays.(Review)
January 1, 2001... New Larkins for Old: Critical Essays. Ed. by JAMES BOOTH. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xi + 247 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. New Larkins for Old is a collection of fifteen essays, fourteen of which were originally...

King Arthur in America.(Review)
January 1, 2001... King Arthur in America. By ALAN LUPACK and BARBARA TEPA LUPACK. (Arthurian Studies, 41) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xiii + 382 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. Of the two terms yoked in the title of Alan and Barbara Tepa Lupack's King Arthur in...

Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism. By LEON SURRETTE. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. xii + 314 pp. $39.95. How does it come about that we can enjoy the poetry of a fascist? Why is it that...

The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable. Ed. by ANDREW LEAK and GEORGE PAIZIS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press in assoc. with The Institute for Romance Studies and The Institute for English Studies, School of...

Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics. By STEVEN MAILLOUX. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv + 206 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]; $42.50 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $15.95)....

The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values. By JAMES ENGELL. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. x + 198 pp. $32.50. The type of 'commitment' meant by James Engell becomes clear in his attempts to stake a claim...

Le Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise et la lexicographie institutionnelle europeene. Actes due colloque international 17, 18 et 19 novembre 1994.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Le Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise et la lexicographie institutionnelle europeenne. Actes du colloque international 17, 18 et 19 novembre 1994. Ed. by BERNARD QUEMADA and JEAN PRUVOST. (Lexica: Mots et Dictionnaires, 2) Paris: Champion....

Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise. Ed. by GIOVANNI DOTOLI and FULVIA FIORINO. (Biblioteca della Ricerca, Linguistica 5) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier. 1998. 430 pp. 45,000 lire. A...

La tragedie due sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'.(Review)
January 1, 2001... La tragedie du sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'. By VOLKER SCHRODER. (Collection Biblio 17, 119) Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 1999. 327 pp. This study of Britannicus and its textual sources makes an eloquent...

Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. By CLAUDE JAECKLE-PLUNIAN and SEAN A. MCMEEKIN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 373) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. vi + 371 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. This volume of...

Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel. By JENNY MANDER. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 366) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. viii + 232 pp. One of the constant problems with theory is...

Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel 1730-1830.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel 1730-1830. By PATRICK COLEMAN. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 370) Geneve: Droz. 1998. 159 pp. This is quite a short book on a very ambitious subject, and as a result...

Stendhal: Interieurs.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Stendhal: Interieurs. By MARIELLA DI MAIO. Fasano: Schena. 1999. 250 pp. 30,000 lire. This collection of essays on Stendhal is aimed at the specialist reader. Some of them are already familiar, as they were published separately, and they are...

Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique. Ed. by STEPHANE VACHON. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 1999. 560 pp. 199 F. Given the recent bicentenary of Balzac's birth and the 150th anniversary of his death, it is appropriate...

Critical Fictions: Nerval's 'Les Illumines'.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Critical Fictions: Nerval's 'Les Illumines'. By MERYL TYERS. (Legenda: Research Monographs in French Studies, 3) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 1998. xvi + 122 pp. Of all Gerard de Nerval's major publications, Les Illumines has...

Arthur Rimbaud:.(Euvres completes 1: Poesies)(Review)
January 1, 2001... Arthur Rimbaud: CEuvres completes 1: Poesies. Ed. by STEVE MURPHY. (Textes de litterature moderne et contemporaine, 36) Paris: Champion. 1999. 944 pp. 580 F. Steve Murphy, who has worked so impressively in Rimbaldian studies in recent years,...

L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck.(Review)
January 1, 2001... L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. Paris: Corti. 1996. 364 pp. 150F. Maurice Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. (Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francais, 14) Paris and Rome: Memini. 1998....

Maurice Maeterlinck.(Review)
January 1, 2001... L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. Paris: Corti. 1996. 364 pp. 150F. Maurice Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. (Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francais, 14) Paris and Rome: Memini. 1998....

Proust, the Body and Literary Form.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Proust, the Body and Literary Form. By MICHAEL R. FINN. (Cambridge Studies in French, 59) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 207 pp. Proust as fastidious valetudinarian and his Narrator's excessively nervous disposition have...

Traversees de Pierre Klossowski.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Traversees de Pierre Klossowski. Ed. by LAURENT JENNY and ANDREAS PFERSMANN. (Recherches et Rencontres, 11) Geneve, Droz: 1999. 184 pp. This volume brings together sixteen selected papers from the international Klossowski colloquia in Vienna...

Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony. By URSULA TIDD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xii + 250 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. This book represents an important and original contribution to the field of Beauvoir studies. It...

Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable. By ANNE-MARIE SMITH. London and Stirling, Virginia: Pluto Press. 1998. vii + 110 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 10.99 [pounds sterling]). Over the past decade Kristeva has had her fair share of...

Countering the Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort.(Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Countering the Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort. By MARGARET-ANNE HUTTON. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1998. 277 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). It is something of a shock to discover, on the...

CEuvres de chair: Figures due discours erotique.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Oeuvres de chair: figures du discours erotique. By GAETAN BRULOTTE. Quebec: L'Harmattan. 1998. 509 pp. Gaetan Brulotte's impressive study of the figures of erotic discourse clearly owes much in approach to Roland Barthes's Fragments d'un...

The French Exception: Still So Special?(Review)
January 1, 2001... The French Exception: Still So Special? By ANDREW JACK. London: Profile Books. 1999. 298 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. Andrew Jack's assessment of the state of la specificite francaise will inevitably be compared to John Ardagh's frequently...

La Versification.(Review)
January 1, 2001... La Versification. By JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD. (Collection Premier Cycle) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1999. x + 305 pp. 99F. This book is one of a series aimed at Premier Cycle students in French universities and its aim is to present...

Daedaleum iter: Studi sulla poesia e la poetica di Angelo Poliziano.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Daedaleum iter: Studi sulla poesia e la poetica di Angelo Poliziano. By ATTILIO BETTINZOLI. (Biblioteca di Lettere italiane, 51) Florence: Olschki. 1995. 414 pp. 79,000 lire. Silvae. By ANGELO POLIZIANO. Ed. and trans. by FRANCESCO BAUSI....

Silvae.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Daedaleum iter: Studi sulla poesia e la poetica di Angelo Poliziano. By ATTILIO BETTINZOLI. (Biblioteca di Lettere italiane, 51) Florence: Olschki. 1995. 414 pp. 79,000 lire. Silvae. By ANGELO POLIZIANO. Ed. and trans. by FRANCESCO BAUSI....

Poesie volgari.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Daedaleum iter: Studi sulla poesia e la poetica di Angelo Poliziano. By ATTILIO BETTINZOLI. (Biblioteca di Lettere italiane, 51) Florence: Olschki. 1995. 414 pp. 79,000 lire. Silvae. By ANGELO POLIZIANO. Ed. and trans. by FRANCESCO BAUSI....

Epizia: A Renaissance Tragedy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Epizia: A Renaissance Tragedy. By G. B. GIRALDI. Ed. by PHILIP HORNE. (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 14) Lewiston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. 1996. xlix + 174 pp. $89.95. Gli Eudaimoni: An Italian Renaissance Comedy. By G. B. GIRALDI....

Gli Eduaimoni: An Italian Renaissance Comedy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Epizia: A Renaissance Tragedy. By G. B. GIRALDI. Ed. by PHILIP HORNE. (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 14) Lewiston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. 1996. xlix + 174 pp. $89.95. Gli Eudaimoni: An Italian Renaissance Comedy. By G. B. GIRALDI....

Selene: An Italian Renaissance Tragedy.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Epizia: A Renaissance Tragedy. By G. B. GIRALDI. Ed. by PHILIP HORNE. (Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 14) Lewiston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press. 1996. xlix + 174 pp. $89.95. Gli Eudaimoni: An Italian Renaissance Comedy. By G. B. GIRALDI....

Naturalismo e verismo.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Naturalismo e verismo. By PIERLUIGI PELLINI. Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1998. 175 pp. 15,000 lire. Pierluigi Pellini here attempts the first systematic comparison of French Naturalist and Italian verista narrative since Mario Pomilio's...

Verdi's Theater. Creating Drama Through Music.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama Through Music. By GILLES DE VAN. Transl. by Gilda Roberts. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 1998. 424 pp. 47.95 [pounds sterling] (19.95 [pounds sterling] paperbound). Verdi's Theater is the...

Italo Calvino.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Italo Calvino. By MARTIN MCLAUGHLIN. (Writers of Italy) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 1998. xvi + 190 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.95 [pounds sterling]). In a famous letter to Guido Fink, one of his reviewers, Calvino...

A Lifetime's Reading: Hispanic Essays for Patrick Gallagher.(Review)
January 1, 2001... A Lifetime's Reading: Hispanic Essays for Patrick Gallagher. Ed. by DON W. CRUICKSHANK. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 1999. x + 229 pp. 28.95 [pounds sterling]. Readers of this book are faced with a wide variety of texts, ranging...

Pigmalion y Galatea: refracciones modernas de un mito.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Pigmalion y Galatea: Refracciones modernas de un mito. By ANA RUEDA. (Espiral Hispano-Americana, 35) Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos. 1998. 460 pp. 2,880 ptas. Pygmalion, according to Greek legend, was King of Cyprus who made a statue of a woman...

The Heterotextual Body of the Mora Morilla.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The heterotextual body of the Mora Morilla. By LOUISE O. VASVARI. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 12). London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1999. 115 pp. 9 [pounds sterling]; $14.50; 2,100 ptas. Literatura cetrera de la...

Literatura cetrera de la edad media y el renacinimiento espanol.(Review)
January 1, 2001... The heterotextual body of the Mora Morilla. By LOUISE O. VASVARI. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 12). London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1999. 115 pp. 9 [pounds sterling]; $14.50; 2,100 ptas. Literatura cetrera de la...

La comedia espanola y el teatra europeo del siglo XVII.(Review)
January 1, 2001... La comedia espanola y el teatro europeo del siglo XVII. Ed. by HENRY W. SULLIVAN, RAUL A. GALOPPE and MAHLON L. STOUTZ. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 164) London: Tamesis; Madrid: Editorial Tamesis. 1999. x + 193 pp. 35.00 [pounds...

Texto e imagen en Calderon: Undecimo, Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderon. St Andrews, Esocia, 17-20 de julio de 1996.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Texto e imagen en Calderon: Undecimo Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderon. St Andrews; Escocia, 17-20 de julio de 1996. Ed. by MANFRED TIETZ. (Archivum Calderonianum, Tomo 8) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 1998. 335 pp. DM/SwF136; 993 Sch. The...

Political Revolution and Literary Experiment in the spanish Romantic Period.(1830-1850)(Review)
January 1, 2001... Political Revolution and Literary Experiment in the Spanish Romantic Period (1830-1850). By ANDREW QINGER. (Hispanic Literature Series, Volume 47) Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press. 1999. 406 pp. $109.95. Ever since the...

Homenaje a Maria Zambrano: estudios y correspondencia.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Homenaje a Maria Zambrano: estudios y correspondencia. Ed. by JAMES VALENDER, CARLOS BLANCO and ARTURO SOUTO ALABARCE. (Serie literatura del exilio espanol, 4). Mexico: El Colegio de Mexico. 1998. 313 pp. $14. This book is the result of a...

Spanish Cinema: The Auterist Tradition.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Spanish Cinema: The Auteurist Tradition. Ed. by PETER WILLIAM EVANS. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. xxii + 350 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This volume brings together twenty excellent...

Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen. By SUSAN MARTIN-MARQUEZ. (Oxford Hispanic Studies) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. 322 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Although it concentrates on a limited number of films and...