The Modern Language Review articles from January 2003

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2003

The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Anglo-Saxon Warrior Ethic: Reconstructing Lordship in Early English Literature. By JOHN M. HILL. Gainsville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2000. ix+174 pp. $55. ISBN 0-8130-1769-6. In a recent review of Jos...

Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues. By CHRISTINE RAUER. Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. x+230 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-592-1. In Chapter 1, 'Source Study and Beowulf', Rauer distinguishes between analogues and sources,...

The Old English Poem 'Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of 'De die iudicii' and Hatton 113 Homily 'Be domes daege.'(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Old English Poem 'Judgement Day II': A Critical Edition with Editions of 'De die iudicii' and Hatton 113 Homily 'Be domes doege'. By GRAHAM D. CAIE. (Anglo-Saxon Texts, 2) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. xvi+161 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $72. ISBN...

The Transmission of Old English Poetry.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Transmission of Old English Poetry. By PETER ORTON. (Westfield Publications in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 12) Turnhout: Brepols. 2000. xvii+223 pp. 2017 BF. ISBN 2-503-51072-8. Peter Orton's The Transmission of Old English Poetry...

The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlists 13-16.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Index of Middle English Prose, Handlist xiii: Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library. By O. S. PICKERING and V. M. O'MARA. (The Index of Middle English Prose) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xxviii+133 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN...

Medieval Women and the Law.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Medieval Women and the Law. Ed. by NOEL JAMES MENUGE. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2000. xiii + 169 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85115-775-0. In this collection of essays, the primary concern of the authors is variously with history or...

Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages. Ed. by J. A. BURROW and IAN P. WEI. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2000. xiv+188 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 0-85115-779-3. Quite apart from the quality of the individual...

Fathers and Daughters in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Fathers and Daughters in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis': Authority, Family, State, and Writing. By MARIA BULLON-FERNANDEZ. (Publications of the John Gower Society) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. viii+241 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 0-85991-578-6....

Chaucer and War.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Chaucer and War. By JOHN H. PRATT. Lanham, MD, New York, and Oxford: University Press of America. 2000. xvi+259 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-7618-1588-0. Through ten clearly paced, sensibly written chapters--in themselves a methodical campaign--John...

New Medieval Literatures, vol. 3.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... New Medieval Literatures, Vol. 3. Ed. by DAVID LAWTON, WENDY SCASE, and RITA COPELAND. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. vii+334 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818680-0. The statement of purpose that prefaces New Medieval Literatures does...

Medievalism and the Academy, vol. 2, Cultural Studies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Medievalism and the Academy, Vol. II: Cultural Studies. Ed. by DAVID METZER. (Studies in Medievalism, 10, 1998) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. 246 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-85991-567-0. By design, this volume conflates academic medieval...

Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Author's Pen and Actor's Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare's Theatre. By ROBERT WEIMANN, ed. by HELEN HIGBEE and WILLIAM WEST. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xiii + 298 pp. 40.00 [pounds sterling];...

Hamlet in His Modern Guises.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Hamlet in his Modern Guises. By ALEXANDER WELSH. Princeton, NJ, and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2001. xii+178 pp. $32; 21.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-691-05093-7. Alexander Welsh has written a locally illuminating study of...

Lies Like the Truth: Shakespeare, 'Macbeth' and the Cultural Moment.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Lies like Truth: Shakespeare, 'Macbeth' and the Cultural Moment. By ARTHUR F. KINNEY. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2001. 341 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8143-2965-9. In this book Arthur Kinney adds to the growing number of recent studies...

Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Shakespeare and the Hunt: A Cultural and Social Study. By EDWARD BERRY. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+253 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-521-80070-6. Literary books about hunting are rarely...

Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from His Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life. By KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES. (The Arden Shakespeare) London: Thomson Learning. 2001. xiv+322 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-903436-26-5. There seems to be no end to the making of biographies of...

Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship. Portraiture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture. By MICHAEL KEEVAK. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2001. 175 pp. $39.95 (pbk $19.95). ISBN 0-814-32953-5 (pbk 0-814-32975-6). Michael Keevak sorts through often obscure and...

Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. By MICHAEL TAYLOR. (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. x+ 278 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-19-871185-9 (pbk...

Performing Shakespeare in Japan.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Performing Shakespeare in Japan. Ed. by MINAMI RYUTA, IAN CARRUTHERS, and JOHN GILLIES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xiii+259 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $74.95. ISBN 0-521-78244-9. In his 'Afterword' to...

Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640..(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640. By REBECCA ANN BACH. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2000. xiv+290 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-23099-0. Few would now challenge the claim...

Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Between Theater and Philosophy: Skepticism in the Major City Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton. By MATHEW R. MARTIN. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 191 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]....

Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Penitent Brothellers: Grace, Sexuality, and Genre in Thomas Middleton's City Comedies. By HERBERT JACK HELLER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 223 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $43.50. ISBN...

Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland & Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland: A Repertory of Sources and Documents from the Earliest Times Until c. 1642.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Drama, Performance, and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland. By ALAN J. FLETCHER. Cork: Cork University Press. 2000. xvi+520 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85918-245-3. Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland: A Repertory of...

Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama: The Work of a Forgotten Writer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama: The Work of a Forgotten Writer. By JOHN MCVEAGH. (Studies in Early Modern English Literature). Aldershot, Burlington, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2000. vii+220 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0253-2....

The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm & Theater in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm & Theater in Early Modern England. By MICHAEL O'CONNELL. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. ix+198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-513205-X. In this learned and well-argued study Michael...

Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne Centlivre.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Women, Writing, and the Theater in the Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn and Suzanne Centlivre. By ANNETTE KREIS-SCHINCK. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 273 pp. 36.50...

Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture. Ed. by. CHRIS MOUNSEY (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 301 pp. 40...

Crossing Boundaries: Attending to Early Modern Women.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Crossing Boundaries: Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. by JANE DONAWERTH and ADELE SEEFF. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 332 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-745-4. I was eager...

Sappho n Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714. By HARRIETTE ANDREADIS. (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xiii + 254 pp. $45; 28.50 [pounds...

Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays..(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Mandeville and Augustan Ideas: New Essays. Ed. by CHARLES W. A. PRIOR. (English Literary Studies Monograph Series, 82) Victoria, BC: University of Victoria Press. 2000. 144 pp. $15.50. ISBN 0-920604-73-0. Charles Prior manages to appear both...

The Medieval World and the Modern Mind.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Medieval World and the Modern Mind. Ed. by MICHAEL BROWN and STEPHEN H. HARRISON. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2000. 201 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85182-539-8. This book of essays originated in a conference of graduate students at...

'Deep Play': John Gay and the Invention of Modernity.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... 'Deep Play': John Gay and the Invention of Modernity. By DIANNE DUGAW. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 322 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-731-4. The cover note to Dianne Dugaw's...

The Realms of Verse, 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Realms of Verse, 1830-1870: English Poetry in a Time of Nation-Building. By MATTHEW REYNOLDS. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii+300 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818712-2. Reynolds's incisive study of the ways...

Reading Digital Culture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Reading Digital Culture. Ed. by DAVID TREND. (Keyworks in Cultural Studies) Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2001. viii+374 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $64.95 (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]; $29.95). ISBN 0-631-22301-0 (pbk 0-631-22302-9)....

Creolization of Language and Culture.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Creolization of Language and Culture. By ROBERT CHAUDENSON. Revised in collaboration with SALIKOKO S. MUFWENE. Trans. by SHERI PARGMAN, SALIKOKO S. MUFWENE, and MICHELLE AUCOIN. London and New York: Routledge. 2001. xiii+340 pp. 60 [pounds...

French and Creole in Louisiana.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... French and Creole in Louisiana. Ed. by ALBERT VALDMAN. New York and London: Plenum Press. 1997. xiii+359 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-306-45464-5. This collection provides a welcome and scholarly exploration of the state and status of French-based...

Jehan et Blonde, Poems and Songs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Jehan et Blonde, Poems and Songs. By PHILIPPE DE REMI. Ed. by BARBARA N. SARGENT-BAUR. (Faux Titre, 201) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 2001. ii+586 pp. $127.50. ISBN 90-420-1504-7. This very substantial volume completes Barbara...

Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Le Jeu du Prince des Sotz et de Mere Sotte. By PIERRE GRINGORE. Ed. by ALAN HINDLEY. (La Renaissance Francaise, Editions et Monographies, 9) Paris: Champion, 2000. 213 pp. 250 F. ISBN 2-7453-0475-5. Pierre Gringore's play--in fact three related...

La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... La Deffence et illustration de la langue francoyse (1549). By JOACHIM DU BELLAY. Ed. with dossiers critiques by JEAN-CHARLES MONFERRAN (Textes Litteraires Francais, 543) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 414 pp. 53.25 SwF; 36.07 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00647-8....

Savoir et economie dans l'oeuvre de Moliere.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Savoir et economie dans l'oeuvre de Moliere. By RICHARD SORMAN. (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Romanica Upsaliensia, 62) Uppsala: Uppsala University Library. 2001. 196 pp. ISBN 91-554-4978-6. Richard Sorman's learned volume studies the...

Pour une histoire critique de la philosophie: choix d'articles philosophiques du 'Dictionnaire historique et critique.'(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Pour une histoire critique de la philosophie: choix d'articles philosophiques du 'Dictionnaire historique et critique'. By PIERRE BAYLE. Ed. by JEAN-MICHEL GROS with the collaboration of JACQUES CHOMARAT. (Vie des Huguenots, ed. by Antony...

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, vol. 2, Novembre 1674-novembre 1677: lettres 66-146.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Ed. by ELISABETH LABROUSSE and others. Vol. II: Novembre 1674-novembre 1677: lettres 66-146. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2001. xx+529 pp. ISBN 0-7294-0731-4. This, the second of twelve volumes of correspondence...

Dissertation sur la formation du monde (1738); Dissertation sur la resurrection de la chair (1743): manuscrits du recueil 1168 de la Bibliotheque Mazarine de Paris.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Dissertation sur la formation du monde (1738); Dissertation sur la resurrection de la chair (1743): manuscrits du recueil 1168 de la Bibliotheque Mazarine de Paris. Ed. with commentary by CLAUDIA STANCATI. Paris: Champion. 2001. 231 pp. ISBN...

La Critique musicale au temps des Encyclopedistes, 1750-1774.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... La Critique musicale au temps des Encyclopedistes 1750-1774. By RAPHAELLE CORONAT-FAURE. Paris: Champion. 2001. 351 pp. 380 F. ISBN 2-7453-0370-8. For some time, scholars have been aware of the need for a study of French musical criticism in...

La Theorie du langage de Pierre-Simon Ballanche: Contribution a l'etude de la philosophie linguistique du romantisme. Avec des extraits des ouvrages de Ballanche.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... La Theorie du langage de Pierre-Simon Ballanche: contribution a l'etude de la philosophie linguistique du romantisme. Avec des extraits des ouvrages de Ballanche. By ALAN J. L. BUSST. (Studies in the History of Philosophy, 59) Lewiston,...

Approaches to Teaching Balzac's 'Old Goriot.'(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Approaches to Teaching Balzac's 'Old Goriot'. Ed. by MICHAL PELED GINSBURG. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2000. xi+203 pp. ISBN 0-87352-759-3 (pbk 0-87352-760-7). HONORE DE BALZAC, Le Pere Goriot. By RICHARD BOLSTER....

Honore de Balzac, Le Pere Goriot.(Critical Guides to French Texts)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Approaches to Teaching Balzac's 'Old Goriot'. Ed. by MICHAL PELED GINSBURG. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2000. xi+203 pp. ISBN 0-87352-759-3 (pbk 0-87352-760-7). HONORE DE BALZAC, Le Pere Goriot. By RICHARD BOLSTER....

L'Annee balzacienne, 2000.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... L'Annee balzacienne, 2000. Ed. by MICHEL LICHTLE. (Troisieme Serie, 1) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2001. 452 pp. 41 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-052450-8. This volume includes fifteen papers from one of the recent major anniversary...

Gender in the Fiction of George Sand.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Gender in the Fiction of George Sand. By FRANCOISE MASSARDIER-KENNEY. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1999. 197 pp. 22 [pounds sterling]; $44. ISBN 90-420-0707-9. George Sand's 'Nouvelles': Reflections, Perceptions and the Self. By LISA. M. BLAIR. New...

George Sand's 'Nouvelles': Reflections, Perceptions and the Self.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Gender in the Fiction of George Sand. By FRANCOISE MASSARDIER-KENNEY. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 1999. 197 pp. 22 [pounds sterling]; $44. ISBN 90-420-0707-9. George Sand's 'Nouvelles': Reflections, Perceptions and the Self. By LISA. M. BLAIR. New...

Richard et Cosima Wagner/Arthur Gobineau: correspondance, 1880-1882.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Richard et Cosima Wagner/Arthur Gobineau: correspondance 1880-1882. Ed. By ERIC EUGENE. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2000. 241 pp. 180 F. ISBN 2-7078-1258-7. The late friendship which Arthur Gobineau struck up with Richard and Cosima Wagner in...

Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Guillaume Apollinaire 21: Apollinaire et le portrait. Ed. by MICHEL DECAUDIN. Paris: Revue des Lettres Modernes/Minard. 2001. 273 pp. ISBN 2-256-91026-1. Fourteen papers (plus a concluding tribute from Georges-Emmanuel Clancier), delivered at...

Defis du recit scenique: formes et enjeux du mode narratif dans le theatre de Beckett et de Duras.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Defis du recit scenique: formes et enjeux du mode narratif dans le theatre de Beckett et de Duras. By MATTHIJS ENGELBERTS. Geneva: Droz. 2001. 415 pp. 49.25 SwF; 33.29 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00602-8. This looks at first like an interesting but...

L'Ecrivain editeur, vol. 1, Du Moyen Age a la fin du XVIIIe siecle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... L'Ecrivain editeur, Vol. I: Du Moyen Age a la fin du XVIIIe siecle. Ed. by FRANCOIS BESSIRE. (Travaux de Litterature publies par l'Adirel, 14) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 402 pp. 94.21 SwF; 61.40 [euro]. ISBN 2-9507341-9-7. Readers familiar with the...

Writing Realism: Representations in French Fiction.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Writing Realism: Representations in French Fiction. By ARMINE KOTIN MORTIMER. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xii+254 pp. ISBN 0-8018-6478-X. This excellent and closely argued study, which readily avows its debt to...

Francophone Literatures: A Literary and Linguistic Companion.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Francophone Literatures: A Literary and Linguistic Companion. By MALCOLM OFFORD, LAILA IBNLFASSI, NICKI HITCHCOTT, SAM HAIGH, and ROSEMARY CHAPMAN. London and New York: Routledge. 2001. ix+283 pp. 60 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18.99 [pounds...

A Tempest.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A Tempest. By AIME CESAIRE. Trans. by PHILIP CRISPIN. London: Oberon. 2000. 64 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84002-143-8. The African independences of the late 1950s and 1960s were intensely experienced by Cesaire. The great poet of...

Jean-Jacques Beineix.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Jean-Jacques Beineix. By PHIL POWRIE. (French Film Directors) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2001. xiii+240 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling] (pbk). ISBN 0-7190-5533-4. Manchester's series on French film directors is in full...

'Chiosar con altro testo': leggere Dante nel Trecento.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... 'Chiosar con altro testo': leggere Dante nel Trecento. By ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI. (I Saggi di 'Letteratura Italiana Antica', 2) Fiesole (Florence): Cadmo. 2001. 184 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 88-7923-233-9. Dante prima della Commedia. By GUGLIELMO...

Dante prima della Commedia.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... 'Chiosar con altro testo': leggere Dante nel Trecento. By ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI. (I Saggi di 'Letteratura Italiana Antica', 2) Fiesole (Florence): Cadmo. 2001. 184 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 88-7923-233-9. Dante prima della Commedia. By GUGLIELMO...

La creazione del vero: il maggior teatro di Pirandello.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... La creazione del vero: il maggior teatro di Pirandello. By UMBERTO MARIANI. Florence: Cadmo. 2001. 191 pp. 13 [euro]. ISBN 88-7923-229-0. Umberto Mariani's monograph on Pirandello's major plays announces itself as being aimed at both the...

Piave, Boito, Pirandello: From Romantic Realism to Modernism.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Piave, Boito, Pirandello: From Romantic Realism to Modernism. By DEIRDRE O'GRADY. (Studies in Italian Literature, 10) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2000. xviii+134 pp. $69.95. ISBN 0-7734-7703-9. Deirdre O'Grady's ambitious study...

Italian Pulp Fiction: The New Narrative of the 'Giovani Cannibali' Writers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Italian Pulp Fiction: The New Narrative of the 'Giovani Cannibali' Writers. Ed. and trans. by STEFANIA LUCAMANTE. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 219 pp. 30 [pounds...

Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy. Ed. by LORI REPETTI. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 212) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2000. x+301 pp. 94 [euro]. This volume is an important contribution to Italian phonology...

Two Spanish Songbooks: The 'Cancionero Capitular de la Colombina' (SV2) and the 'Cancionero de Egerton' (LB3).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Two Spanish Songbooks: The 'Cancionero Capitular de la Colombina' (SV2) and the 'Cancionero de Egerton' (LB3). Ed. by DOROTHY SHERMAN SEVERIN; editorial assistant FIONA MAGUIRE. (Hispanic Studies TRAC, 11) Liverpool and Seville: Liverpool...

Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Vicente Aleixandre's Stream of Lyric Consciousness. By. DANIEL MURPHY. Lewisburg and London: Bucknell University Press for the Associated University Presses. 2001. 263 pp. $43.50. ISBN 0-8387-5464-3. Daniel Murphy's study of the poetry of...

Hacia una poetica de la mirada: Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Marse, Elena Garro, Juan Goytisolo.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Hacia una poetica de la mirada: Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Marse, Elena Garro, Juan Goytisolo. By MARIA SILVINA PERSINO. Buenos Aires: Corregidor. 1999. 189 pp. ISBN 950-05-1244-0. Over the past ten to fifteen years humanities departments in the...

A New Reference Grammar of Spanish, 3d ed. & Practising Spanish Grammar: A Workbook.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... A New Reference Grammar of Spanish. By JOHN BUTT and CARMEN BENJAMIN. 3rd edn. London: Arnold. 2000. xii + 572 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7340-71951-6. Practising Spanish Grammar: A Workbook. By CHRISTOPHER J. POUNTAIN and TERESA DE...

Spain and Its Literature: Essays in Memory of E. Allison Peers.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Spain and its Literature: Essays in Memory of E. Allison Peers. Ed. by ANN L. MACLENZIE. (Hispanic Studies TRAC, 15) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and the Modern Humanities Research Association. 1997. 379 pp. 25.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk...

Multicultural Iberia: Language, Literature and Music.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Multicultural Iberia: Language, Literature and Music. Ed. by DRU DOUGHERTY and MILTON M. AZEVEDO. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. vii + 258 pp. $26.50. ISBN 0-87725-003-0. The title of this extremely varied collection of essays...

Germanistische Mediavistik.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Germanistische Mediavistik. Ed. by VOLKER HONEMANN and TOMAS TOMASEK. 2nd edn. (Munsteraner Einfuhrungen: Germanistik, 4) Munster, Hamburg, and London: LIT Verlag. 2000. xiv+370 pp. 25.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-8258-2269-9 (pbk). This collaborative...

Siegender Cupido oder Triumphierende Keuschheit: Deutsche Schaferspiele des 17. Jahrhunderts dargestellt in einzelnen Untersuchungen.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Siegender Cupidooder Triumphierende Keuschheit: Deutsche Schaferspieledes 17. Jahrhunderts dargestellt in einzelnen Untersuchungen. By CHRISTIANE CAEMMERER. (Arbeiten und Editionen zur Mittleren Deutschen Literatur, n.s. 2) Stuttgart and Bad...

The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Rhetorical Feminine: Gender and Orient on the German Stage, 1647-1742. By SARAH COLVIN. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. x+332 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818636-3 (hbk). The...

Briefe: Gesamtausgabe 1763-1803, vol. 11, Kommentar zu den Banden 1-3.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Briefe: Gesamtausgabe 1763-1803. By JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER. Ed. by GUNTER ARNOLD for the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik. Vol. XI: Kommentar zu den Banden 1-3. Weimar: Bohlau. 2001. 664 pp. 99.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-7400-1178-5. This latest volume in...

Narrating Community After Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Holderlin.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Narrating Community after Kant: Schiller, Goethe, and Holderlin. By KARIN SCHUTJER. (Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies) Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 2001. 280 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8143-2968-3 (hbk). According to Karin...

The Enigma of Parsifal.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Enigma of Parsifal. Ed. by BRIAN COGHLAN and RALPH MIDDENWAY. Adelaide, South Australia: The Richard Wagner Society of South Australia Inc. 2001. vii + 214 pp. A$31. ISBN 0-9579159-0-x (pbk). This collection of somewhat disparate essays on...

Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism. By JANET STEWART. London and New York: Routledge. 2000. xii + 220 pp. 60 [pounds sterling] (pbk 19.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-415-22176-5 (pbk 0-415-22177-3). The Viennese architect Adolf...

Collegheft 1894-1895.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Collegheft 1894-1895. By THOMAS MANN. Ed. by YVONNE SCHMIDLIN and THOMAS SPRECHER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 24) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2001. 217 pp. 10 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03137-7 (hbk). 'Tief', famously, 'ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit';...

Der Eutiner Dichterkreis und der Nationalsozialismus 1936-1945: Eine Dokumentation.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Der Eutiner Dichterkreisund der National sozialismus 1936-1945: Eine Dokumentation. By LAWRENCE D. STOKES. (Quellen und Forschungenzur Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins, 111) Neumunster: Wachholtz. 2001. 470 pp. 36 [euro]. ISBN 3-529-02211-x (pbk)....

German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933-1950: Biographies and Bibliographies.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933-1950: Biographies and Bibliographies. By ZLATA FUSS PHILLIPS. Munich: Saur. 2001. 318 pp. 110 [euro]. ISBN 3-598-11569-5. In the last few years there have been two major exhibitions devoted...

Am sturzenden Pfad: Gesammelte Gedichte.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Am sturzenden Pfad: Gesammelte Gedichte. By FRANZ BAERMANN. Ed. by JEREMY ADLER. (Veroffentlichungen der Deutschen Akademie fur Sprache und Dichtung Darmstadt, 76) Gottingen: Wallstein. 2000. 493 pp. 935. ISBN 3-89244-411-0 (hbk). The poetry...

Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti's and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah. By MICHAEL MACK. (Conditio Judaica, 34) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2001. vii + 230 pp. 52 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-65134-2 (pbk). Michael Mack has done a...

Zur Poetik Paul Celans: Gedicht und Mensch - die Arbeit am Sinn.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Trans. by JOHN FELSTINER. New York and London: Norton. 2001. xxxvi + 426 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-393-04999-x. Paul Celan has been attracting ever-increasing interest across Europe and North America. In...

Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Zur Poetik Paul Celans: Gedicht und Mensch--die Arbeit am Sinn. By MARKO PAJEVIC. (Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte, 177) Heidelberg: Winter. 2000. 310 pp. 946. ISBN 3-8253-1050-7 (pbk). Paul Celan has been attracting ever-increasing...