The Modern Language Review articles from January 2004

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2004

Pater as polemicist in 'Prosper Merimee'.
January 1, 2004... And still I wonder how much you may be losing, both for yourself and for your writings, by what, in spite of its gaiety and good-nature and genuine sense of the beauty of many things, I must still call a cynical, and therefore exclusive, way of...

Nabokov's Ada and Sidney's Arcadia: the regeneration of a Phoenix.
January 1, 2004... Sir Philip Sidney in the description of his mistresse excellently well handled this figure of resemblaunce by imagerie, as ye may see in his booke of Archadia. (George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (1589)) The portrait...

Mme De Graffigny's story.
January 1, 2004... The two works which made Mme de Graffigny famous in her own time are very different. The Lettres d'une Peruvienne (1747, revised edn 1752) is a novel consisting of letters composed by a fictional Inca princess. Cenie (1750) is a theatrical...

Contemplating Apollinaire's Bestiaire.(Guillaume Apollinaire; Le Bestiaire ou cortege d'Orphe)
January 1, 2004... In 1911 Guillaume Apollinaire published a collection of poems entitled Le Bestiaire ou cortege d'Orphe, (1) which, as Anne Hyde Greet and others have shown, was modelled on earlier collections of animal fables and myths. (2) Faithful to the...

Encounters with Matisse: space, art, and intertextuality in A. S. Byatt's The Matisse Stories and Marie Redonnet's Villa Rosa.
January 1, 2004... This article takes as its focus two texts written by contemporary European women writers and published in the mid-1990s, which draw upon the work of the French modernist artist Henri Matisse (1869-1954). These are: A. S. Byatt's The Matisse...

The cooked and the raw: zoomorphic symbolism in Dario Fo's Giullarate.
January 1, 2004... Il gioco antropomorfico e zoomorfico alternato e una costante della storia del teatro, e pith in generale di ogni rappresentazione, dal rito allo spettacolo. (Dario Fo) (1) Dario Fo's theatrical career began in the early 1950s and...

Nestor Perlongher and mysticism: towards a critical reappraisal.
January 1, 2004... The apparent change in the poetry of Argentine writer and anthropologist Nestor Perlongher (1949-92) after the publication of his anthropological thesis on male prostitution (1987) and the emergence of AIDS in Brazil, whereby he turned his...

Here Frowe: case, number, and rank in Walther von der Vogelweide's 'Lindenlied': in memory of David R. McLintock.
January 1, 2004... In his survey of approaches to Walther von der Vogelweide's most celebrated love-lyric, Manfred Gunter Scholz calls for a moratorium: 'Es gibt Gedichte, die eine Ruhepause verdient hatten, damit sie nicht tot interpretiert werden, "Wanderers...

Kleist, Arndt, and the Swedish Monarchy.
January 1, 2004... 'Call not the royal Swede unfortunate,' wrote William Wordsworth after Gustav IV was deposed in 1509. That king was, he proclaimed, a 'great Servant of a righteous cause', therefore to be venerated rather than pitied: wherever...

Towards a critical patriotism: the challenge to traditional notions of national identity posed by the Dutch historical novel in the 1930s.
January 1, 2004... In the decade preceding the Second World War, the historical novel in the Netherlands functions as a site for contesting aspects of Dutch identity. This challenge to traditional notions of Dutchness cannot be separated from issues of...

The shortest path to the truth: indirection in Fazil' Iskander.
January 1, 2004... OBITUARY NOTICE This essay was completed by Marina Kanevskaya a few weeks before her tragic death at the age of forty-seven. She was hit by a truck on a dark street of Missoula, Montana, where she lived and worked as professor of Russian...

Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen. By PETER ROBINSON. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. vii+208 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925113-4. As the subtitle indicates, it is from W. H. Auden's remark that...

The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments and the Shaping of Stories.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Tested Woman Plot: Women's Choices, Men's Judgments and the Shaping of Stories. By LOIS E. BUERLER. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2001. viii+312pp. $50. ISBN 0-8142-0872-x. In this study Lois Bueler argues for the existence and...

The Heege Manuscript: a Facsimile of National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.3.1.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Heege Manuscript: A Facsimile of National Library of Scotland MS Advocates 19.3.1. Intro. by PHILLIPA HARDMAN. (Leeds Texts and Monographs, New Series 16) Leeds: Leeds Studies in English. 2000. lvii+436 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. By ELIZABETH EDWARDS. (Arthurian Studies) Cambridge: Brewer. 2001. x+201 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-596-4. Elizabeth Edwards's book laudably addresses that perennial...

Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Green Thoughts, Green Shades: Essays by Contemporary Poets on the Early Modern Lyric. Ed. by JONATHAN F. S. POST. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 2002. xv+300 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (pbk [pounds sterling]...

Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690. Ed. by GORDON MCMULLAN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xxiii+263 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-67666-1. Gender and Heroism in Early Modern English Literature....

Write or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Write or be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints. Ed. by BARBARA SMITH and URSULA APPELT. Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2001. xxiii+281 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84014-288-x. Dramatic...

Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion. By PATRICIA PALMER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+254 pp. 40 [pounds sterling];...

Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada. By ALAN SHEPARD. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2002. viii+248 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0229-x. Amid his sequence of leather-gloved homicides for...

Shakespeare Studies.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 28. Ed. by J. LEEDS BARROLL, book review editor SUSAN ZIMMERMAN. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 374 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3871-6. ...

On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays. By JOHN KERRIGAN. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. ix+ 266 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924851-6. A book of occasional essays called 'on Shakespeare' etc. does...

King Richard III.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... King Richard III. By GILMAN DAY. (Shakespeare at Stratford, published by The Arden Shakespeare in association with The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust) London: Thomson Learning. 2002. xiii+ 259 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-903436-12-5. ...

Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Shakespeare's Tudor History: A Study of 'Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2'. By TOM MCALINDON. Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2002. x + 225 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0468-3. Shakespeare's Arguments with History. By...

The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... The Party of Humanity: Writing Moral Psychology in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By BLAKEY VERMEULE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xii + 250 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-80186-459-3. 'The premise of...

Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating marriage on the London Stage.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Female Playwrights and Eighteenth-Century Comedy: Negotiating Marriage on the London Stage. By MISTY G. ANDERSON. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. X+ 262 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-23938. Misty Anderson offers close...

An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Raising the Novel. By JOHN SKINNER. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xi + 317 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-77625-9. In his preface to An Introduction to Eighteenth-Century...

Christopher Smart: Clown of God.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Christopher Smart: Clown of God. By CHRIS MOUNSEY. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 342 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Designing the 'Life of Johnson'.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Designing the 'Life of Johnson'. By BRUCE REDFORD. (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xv + 181 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818739-4. Samuel Johnson in Historical Context. Ed....

Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth Century Culture.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in Nineteenth Century Culture. By LUCY HARTLEY. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 29) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xii+242pp. 35...

John Clare: A Literary Life.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... John Clare: A Literary Life. By ROGER SALES. (Literary Lives) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. xviii + 195 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-65271-1. Wordsworth: An Inner Life. By DUNCAN WU. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell....

Beckett and Philosophy.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Beckett and Philosophy. Ed. by RICHARD LANE. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. x + 184 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-91879-7. In true Beckettian fashion the contributors to this collection of essays have difficulty in...

Beckett's Eighteenth Century.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Beckett's Eighteenth Century. By FREDERICK N. SMITH. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. x + 219 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-92539-4. Yeats wrote in the preface to Words upon the Window Pane, 'Swift haunts me; he is always...

Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. By PETER BUSE. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2001. xi + 204 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 11.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7190-5721-3 (pbk 0-7190-5722-1). ...

In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde. By WILLIAM WATKIN. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 314 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5476-8. 'The...

Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries. By LOSS PEQUENO GLAZIER. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 2002. xii + 213 pp. $54.95 (pbk $24.95). ISBN 0-8173-1074-6 (pbk 0-8173-1075-4). ...

We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics. Ed. by LAURA HINTON and CYNTHIA HOGUE. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2002. xii + 376 pp. $60.00 (pbk $24.95). ISBN 0-8173-1094-0 (pbk 0-8173-1095-9)....

Devis d'amitie: melanges en l'honneur de Nicole Cazauran.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Devis d'amitie: melanges en l'honneur de Nicole Cazauran. Ed. by JEAN LECOINTE, CATHERINE MAGNIEN, ISABELLE PANTIN, and MARIE-CLAIRE THOMINE. (Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance, 28) Paris: Champion. 2002. 965 pp. ISBN...

Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. By JODY ENDERS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xxx + 432 pp. 24.50 [pounds sterling]; $35. ISBN 0-226-20787-0 In 1549 in the town of Tournai a remarkable event...

Pre-histoires II: langues etrangeres et troubles economiques au XV[I.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pre-histoires II: langues etrangeres et troubles economiques au XV[I.sup.e] siecle. By TERENCE CAVE. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 61: Les seuils de la modernite, 5) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 212 pp. 36.76 [euro]; SwF 54.30. ISBN...

Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Vol. 40: Le Cinquiesme Livre: Actes du Colloque International de Rome (16-19 octobre 1998).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Etudes Rabelaisiennes, Vol. 40: Le Cinquiesme Livre: Actes du Colloque International de Rome (16-19 octobre 1998). Ed. by FRANCO GIACONE. (Travaux d'Humanismeet Renaissance, 354) Geneva: Droz. 2001. 635 pp. 159.52 [euro]; SwF 235.52. ISBN...

Rabelais, Mode d'emploi: avec le plan du 'Pantagruel' suivant les jours de la semaine et les saints Sacrements de l'Eglise.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Rabelais, Mode d'emploi: avec le plan du 'Pantagruel' suivant les jours de la semaine et les saints Sacrements de l'Eglise. By DANIEL MARTIN. Tours: Nizet. 2002. 232 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1267-6. As many others have done, Daniel...

Les Arts du spectacle au theatre (1550-1700).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Les Arts du spectacle au theatre (1550-1700). Ed. by MARIE-FRANCE WAGNER and CLAIRE LE BRUN-GOUANVIC. (Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance, 23) Paris: Champion. 2001. 273 pp. FF 290. ISBN 2-7453-0462-3 Of the ten essays...

CEuvres completes, Vol. I: Euvres en rime, premiere partie: Neuf Livres des Poemes.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... CEuvres completes, Vol. I: Euvres en rime, premiere partie: Neuf Livres des Poemes. By JEAN-ANTOINE DE BAIF. Ed. by JEAN VIGNES, GUY DEMERSON, PERRINE GALAND-HALLYN, ANNE-PASCALE POUEY-MOUNOU, and DANIEL MENAGER. (Textes de la Renaissance, 54)...

Cornelie: tragedie.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Cornelie: tragedie. By ROBERT GARNIER. Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE TERNAUX. (Theatre complet, V: Textes de la Renaissance, 53) Paris: Champion. 2002. 178 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0675-8. This, the latest in Champion's complete edition of Garnier's plays, is...

Orientalism in French Classical Drama.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... Orientalism in French Classical Drama. By MICHELE LONGINO. (Cambridge Studies in French) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii+275pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-80721-2. The key word in this title is 'classical', and its...

Le Refuge huguenot: assimilation et culture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Le Refuge huguenot: assimilation et culture. By MYRIAM YARDENI. Paris: Champion. 2002. 232 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0537-9. La Diaspora des Huguenots: les Refugies protestants de France et leur dispersion dans le monde (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles). Ed. by...

La Musique au temps des Encyclopedistes.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2004... La Musique au temps des Encyclopedistes. By CLAUDE DAUPHIN. Ferney-Voltaire: Centre international d'etude du XVII[I.sup.e] siecle. 2001. 148 pp.; 4 b&w ills. 930. ISBN 2-84559-010-5. Though it is not explicit in the title, this book roughly...

Transformations du genre romanesque au XVII[I.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Transformations du genre romanesque au XVII[I.sup.e] siecle. Ed. by ENGLISH SHOWALTER. (Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 13.2-3 (January-April 2001)) Toronto: University of Toronto Press for McMaster University. 499 pp. $30. ISSN 0840-6286. ...

Nouvelles du XVII[I.sup.e] siecle.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Nouvelles du XVII[I.sup.e] siecle. Ed. by HENRI COULET. (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) Paris: Gallimard. 2002. lxi+1551 pp. 959.90. ISBN 2-07-011405-8. This anthology demonstrates once more Henri Coulet's unrivalled knowledge of...

Les Bons Contes et les bons mots de 'Gil Blas'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Les Bons Contes et les bons mots de 'Gil Blas'. By HUBERT DE PHALESE. (Collection Cap' Agreg 14) [Paris]: Nizet. 2002. 158 pp. 17 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1271-4. This title forms part of a series designed for advanced university students,...

Le Temps de Montesquieu: Actes du college international de Geneve (28-31 octobre 1998).(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Le Temps de Montesquieu: Actes du college international de Geneve (28-31 octobre 1998). Ed. by MICHEL PORRET and CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER. Geneva: Droz. 2002. 418 pp. 43 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00626-5. This anthology is the result of a...

Claire d'Albe.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Claire d'Albe. By SOPHIE COTTIN. The original French text, ed. by. MARGARET COHEN. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association of America. 2002. xxviii+158 pp. $9.95. ISBN 0-87352-925-1. Claire d'Albe. By SOPHIE...

Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Maternal Echoes: The Poetry of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and Alphonse de Lamartine. By AIMEE BOUTIN. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 246 pp. $42.50. ISBN 0-87413-727-6. In her...

Balzac: La Litterature reflechie. Discours et autorepresentations.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Balzac: La Litterature reflechie. Discours et autorepresentations. By FRANCOISE VAN ROSSUM-GUYON. Montreal: Universite de Montreal, Departement d'Etudes francaises. 2002. xix+206 pp. $25. ISBN 2-921447-13-4. While the surge of activity...

Balzac, romancier du regard.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Balzac, romancier du regard. By TAKAO KASHIWAGI. Tours: Nizet. 2002. 166 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1268-4. The power of observation was an integral part of Balzac's character. As a young man, he would emerge from his garret in the Rue...

Victor Hugo: romancier de l'abime.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Victor Hugo: romancier de l'abime. Ed. by J. A. HIDDLESTON. Oxford: Legenda. 2002. xii+222 pp. ISBN 1-900755-58-0. Recent reappraisal of Hugo's oeuvre is well represented in this volume, comprising essays on his fiction by many leading as...

Baudelaire and the Art of Memory.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Baudelaire and the Art of Memory. By J. A. HIDDLESTON. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xiv+304 pp. 59.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815932-3. Scholars of Baudelaire and other nineteenth-century specialists are familiar with the...

Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Saints of the Impossible: Bataille, Weil, and the Politics of the Sacred. By ALEXANDER IRWIN. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2002. xxviii+258 pp. 16.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8166-3903-5. Bataille and Weil might seem...

Les Ecrits de Paul Nizan (1905-1940): portrait d'une epoque. Bibliographie commentee suivie de textes retrouves.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Les Ecrits de Paul Nizan (1905-1940): portrait d'une epoque. Bibliographie commentee suivie de textes retrouves. By ROBERT S. THORNBERRY. (Histoire du livre et des bibliotheques, 6) Paris: Champion. 2001. 751 pp. FF 720. ISBN 2-7453-0287-6. ...

L'Orient dans la pensee du jeune Camus: 'L'Etranger', un nouvel evangile?(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... L'Orient dans la pensee du jeune Camus: 'L'Etranger', un nouvel evangile? By JACQUELINE BAISHANSKI. (Situation, 56) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, 2002. 308 pp. 925. ISBN 2-256-91036-9. Camus's interest in oriental thought...

Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Michel Tournier and the Metaphor of Fiction. By DAVID PLATTEN. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1999. xi+250 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]; $51.20 (pbk 15.95 [pounds sterling]; $25.52). ISBN 0-85323-843-x (pbk 0-85323-853-7). This is the...

Mon cher grand fou ...: lettres a Marcel Carbotte 1947-79.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Mon cher grand fou...: lettres a Marcel Carbotte 1947-79. By GABRIELLE ROY. Ed. by SOPHIE MARCOTTE in collaboration with FRANCOIS RICHARD and JANE EVERETT. Montreal: Boreal. 2001. 826 pp. C$34.95. ISBN 2-7646-0123-9. When Gabrielle Roy...

For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity. By FRANCOISE MELTZER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. x+248 pp. 14 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-51982-1. Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American...

L'Hospitalite dans les contes.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... L'Hospitalite dans les contes. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2001. 405 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 2-84516-130-1. Claude Levi-Strauss accused Vladimir Propp's formalism of destroying its object of...

Dynamique d'une expansion culturelle: Petrarque en Europe XI[V.sup.e]-X[X.sup.e] siecle. Actes du XXV[I.sup.e] congres international du CEFI, Turin et Chambery, 11-15 decembre 1995.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Dynamique d'une expansion culturelle: Petrarque en Europe XI[V.sup.e]-X[X.sup.e] siecle. Actes du XXV[I.sup.e] congres international du CEFI, Turin et Chambery, 11-15 decembre 1995. Ed. by PIERRE BLANC. Paris: Champion. 2001. 767 pp. SwF 200....

Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's 'Novellino'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's 'Novellino'. By MICHAEL PAPIO. New York: Peter Lang. 2000. 192 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8204-4405-7. Michael Papio's avowed task in this volume...

Fra Satire e Rime ariostesche (Gargnano del Garda 14-16 ottobre 1999).(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Fra Satire e Rime ariostesche (Gargnano del Garda 14-16 ottobre 1999). Ed. by CLAUDIA BERRA. (Quaderni di Acme, 43) Milan: Cisalpino (Istituto Editoriale Universitario--Monduzzo Editore). 2000. 591 pp. 31 [euro]. ISBN 88-323-4593-3. This...

Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni. By MAGGIE GUNSBERG. Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2001. viii+274 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-902653-24-6. Maggie Gunsberg's book is a significant addition to Goldoni studies and to...

With a Pen in her Hand: Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... With a Pen in her Hand: Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Edited by VERINA R. JONES and ANNA LAURA LEPSCHY. (Society for Italian Studies, Occasional Papers, 5) Leeds: Society for Italian Studies. 2000. x+120 pp....

The Legacy of Benedetto Croce: Contemporary Critical Views.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Legacy of Benedetto Croce : Contemporary Critical Views. Ed. by JACK D'AMICO, DAIN A. TRAFTON, and MASSIMO VERDICCHIO. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1999. xiv+ 244 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4484-0....

Pasolini: Old and New.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Pasolini: Old and New. Ed. ZYGMUNT G. BARANSKI. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1999. 420 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85182-436-7. In an appendix to his essay 'La fine dell'avanguardia' (1966, in Empirismo eretico (Milan: Garzanti, 1972),...

Fragments of 'impegno': Interpretation of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative, 1980-2000.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Fragments of 'impegno': Interpretation of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative, 1980-2000. By JENNIFER BURNS. Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2001. vi+204pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-902653-37-8. For the generation of...

A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... A City in Search of an Author: The Literary Identity of Trieste. By KATIA PIZZI. London and New York: Sheffield Academic Press. 2001. 218 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]; $98.95. ISBN 1-841 27-284-1. In this handsomely produced volume Katia Pizzi...

Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Translating Travel: Contemporary Italian Travel Writing in English Translation. By LOREDANA POLEZZI. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2001. vii+246 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0273-7. This volume examines the transformations which Italian...

Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. By STEPHANIE MERRIM. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1999. xliv+323 pp. 17.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85323-784-0. This is a very important contribution to Women's Writing...

Encounters across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Encounters across Borders: The Changing Visions of Spanish Modernism, 1890-1930. By MARY LEE BRETZ. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 608 pp. $52.50. ISBN 0-8387-5484-8. Literary movements...

The Companion to Hispanic Studies.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Companion to Hispanic Studies. Ed. by CATHERINE DAVIES. London: Arnold. 2002. viii+198 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-7629-8 (pbk). With the removal of languages from the core curriculum in schools, and the general public...

Spanish Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Spanish Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary. Ed. by BARRY JORDAN. London: Arnold. 2002. xix+255 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-76342-6. This volume offers a compact and comprehensive compendium of information about...

Lorca, Bunuel, Dali: Art and Theory.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Lorca, Bunuel, Dali: Art and Theory. Ed. by MANUEL DELGADO MORALES and ALICE J. POUST. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses. 2001. 206 pp. 16.79 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8383-5508-9. ...

Territorio Reverte: ensayos sobre la obra de Arturo Perez-Reverte.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Territorio Reverte: ensayos sobre la obra de Arturo Perez-Reverte. Ed. By JOSE MANUEL and LOPEZ DE ABIADA and AUGUSTA LOPEZ BERNASOCCHI. Madrid: Verbum. 2000. 500 pp. 16.29 [Euro]. ISBN 84-7962-154-0. Arturo Perez-Reverte is Spain's...

Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature. By ROBERTO IGNACIO DIAZ. Lewisburgh: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 248 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5489-9. Cultural...

Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Marginalities: Diamela Eltit and the Subversion of Mainstream Literature in Chile. By GISELA NORAT. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 264 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-761-6. This...

Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Wortatlas der deutschen Umgangssprachen, Vol. IV. By JURGEN EICHHOFF. Bern and Munich: Saur. 2000. 41 pp.; 80 maps; 12 pp. index; folding list of places. 954. ISBN 3-907820-55-x (hbk). This volume completes what has become the standard work...