The Modern Language Review articles from January 2005

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2005

Lemuel self-translated; or, being an ass in Houyhnhnmland.
January 1, 2005... Lemuel Self-Translated; or, Being an Ass in Houyhnhnmland by Michael J. Franklin. This article addresses Part Iv of Gulliver's Travels as a critique of representation, exploring Gulliverian and Houyhnhnm theories of classification...

Reading and writing in persuasion.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Reading and Writing in Persuasion by John Pikoulis. Persuasion belongs to the ferment of change that created a reading revolution at the end of the eighteenth century The novel encodes the secular, heuristic mode it nurtured in specific...

Reading (and) the late poems of Sylvia Plath.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Reading (and) the Late Poems of Sylvia Plath by Paul Mitchell. This article offers a reading of Sylvia Plath's late poems by utilizing the psycholinguistic paradigms of Julia Kristeva and Jacques Lacan. It explores the methods by which the...

'Un grand coup de pied dans le chateau de cubes': formal experimentation in Marie Darrieussecq's Bref sejour chez les vivants.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'Un grand coup de pied dans le chateau de cubes': Formal Experimentation in Marie Darrieussecq's Bref sejour chez les vivants by Shirley Jordan The article examine's Marie Darrieussecq's novel Bref sejour chez les vivants as an...

From romance to L'Amour, roman: Camille Lauren's rewriting of the family novel.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... From Romance to L'Amour, roman: Camille Laurens's Rewriting of the Family Novel by Sarah Capitanio. Transmission, textual and sexual, is central to Camille Laurens's work, both in the kaleidoscope of literary quotations and...

An unknown episode of Burchiello's reception in the early Cinquecento: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 2725, Fols [80.sup.r]-[131.sup.v].(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... An Unknown Episode of Burchiello's Reception in the Early Cinquecento: Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MN 2725, fois [80.sup.r]-[131.sup.v] by Michelangelo Zaccarello. In presenting an unknown manuscript collection of early sixteenth...

Chimeras of progress, mirages of modernity: Abel Posse's el inquietante dia de la vida.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Chimeras of Progress, Mirages of Modernity: Abel Posse's El inquietante dia de la vida by Kerstin Bowsher. This article interprets Posse's novel as an interrogation of notions of progress associated with the European project of modernity...

Josep Maria Junoy's four- and five-line poems in El Dia: a meditation on the Haiku.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2005... Josep Maria Junoy's Four- and Five-Line Poems in El Dia: A Meditation on the Haiku by Jordi Mas Lopez. In 1920, a Catalan poet who had become well known because of his Cubist calligrammes, Josep Maria Junoy, published Amour et paysage, a...

Schiller and the Mannheim National Theatre.
January 1, 2005... Schiller and the Mannheim National Theatre by Lesley Sharpe. This article analyses Friedrich Sehiller's unhappy relationship with the Mannheim National Theatre from 1783 to 1784. It investigates the influences on and the development of the...

Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches and the Moscow 'realism' controversy.
January 1, 2005... Bertolt Brecht's Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches and the Moscow 'Realism' Controversy by John J. White. This article offers a detailed analysis of individual scenes in Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches by Brecht, considered in the context...

The poetics of legend: the paradigmatic approach to legend in Danilo Kis's A Tomb for Boris Davidovich.
January 1, 2005... The Poetics of Legend: The Paradigmatic Approach to Legend in Danilo Kis's A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Vladimir Zoric. This article discusses the structural role of legendary paradigms in three of the stories in Danilo Kis's collection A...

Figures du parasite.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Figures du parasite. By MYRIAM ROMAN, ANNE TOMICHE, and others Clermont Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal 2001. 292 pp. 21.34 [euro]. ISBN 2-84516-168-9. This volume is a subsection of a series on hospitality in its plural...

Medieval Virginities.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Medieval Virginities. Ed by ANKE BERNAU, RUTH EVANS, and SARAH SALIH. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003 xiv + 296 pp.; 9 plates. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7083-1763-4 (pbk 0-7083-172-6). As Anke...

Langages mystiques et avenement de la modernite.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Langages mystiques et avenement de la modernite. DOMINIQUE DE COURCELLES. Paris: Champion 2003. 322 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0813-0. This book examines concepts of language and expression in the works of seven late medieval and early modern writers:...

Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry. By YASMIN HASKELL Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 x+353 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-19-726284-8. The foundation of the Jesuit Order in the sixteenth century,...

Literature on the Move.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Literature on the Move. By OTTMAR ETTE. Trans by KATHARINA VESTER (IFAVL, 68) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi 2003. 316 pp. 62 [euro]. ISBN 90-420-1155-6. The title of this work might suggest a number of possible themes--the study of travel...

La Cathedrale.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... La Cathedrale. Ed by JOELLE PRUNGNAUD. (Collection UL3: Travaux et Recherches) Lille: Universite Charles-de-Gaulle. 2001. 304 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-84467-034-2. Ichabod? Cathedrals cast long shadows, and even if readers are occasionally...

Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing. By GUNNTHORUNN GUDMUNDSDOTTIR Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi 2003 viii + 294 pp. 60 [euro]; $71. ISBN 90-420-1145-9. This study, often insightful, locates and investigates...

European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Ed by PATRICK CHENEY and FREDERICK A. DE ARMAS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press 2002. x+366 pp. $65; 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Hamlet' and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'Hamlet' and the Visual Arts, 1709-1900. BY ALAN YOUNG. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses 2002. 405 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-87413-794-2. 'Hamlet' and the Visual Arts sets out to...

'The Merchant of Venice'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'The Merchant of Venice'. Ed by CHARLES EDELMAN. (Shakespeare in Production) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xxii+293 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; $65 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $23). ISBN 0-521-77429-2...

'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's 'Funerall Elegye'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare: Evidence, Authorship, and John Ford's 'Funerall Elegye'. By BRIAN VICKERS. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 2002. xxviii+568 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-521-77243-5. In...

Jonson versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Jonson versus Bakhtin: Carnival and the Grotesque. By Rocco Coronato. (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, 41) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2003. viii + 267 pp. $64. ISBN 90-420-1174-2. Rocco Coronato's first chapter, 'Carnival...

John Donne's Professional Lives.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... John Donne's Professional Lives. Ed. By DAVID COLCLOUGH. (Studies in Renaissance Literature) Cambridge: Brewer 2003 xiii + 272 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75 ISBN 0-85991-1775-4. The professional poet, making a living only from his writing,...

William Blake's Comic Vision.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... William Blake's Comic Vision. By NICK RAWLINSON. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003 xiii + 292 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-74565-5. It is true of Blake, as of Dostoevsky, that his intensity and scale of vision...

Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804. By GURION TAUSSIG. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003 376 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-87413-741-1 A recurring theme in Taussig's...

National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth Century England.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth Century England. By JENNIFER SCHACKER. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2003. vi + 198 pp. $3995;28 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-8122-3697-1 It is not sensational nowadays...

Hannah More: The First Victorian.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Hannah More: The First Victorian. By ANNE STOTT Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2003, xxiii + 384 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-19-924532-0 When that shrewd party animal, Hester Thrale, drew up a list of characteristics of...

Dickens and the Dream of Cinema.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dickens and the Dream of Cinema. By GRAHAME SMITH Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press 2003. x + 206 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]) ISBN 0-7190-5562-(pbk 0-7190-5563-6). Rereading the City, Rereading...

Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Civil Wars: American Novelists and Manners, 1880-1940. By SUSAN GOODMAN. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press 2003 xvii + 198 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-8018-6824-6. When Henry James was touring parts of the...

History of William Marshall, vol 1: Text and Translation (ll. 1-10031).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... History of William Marshall, vol 1: Text and Translation (II. 1-10031). Ed by A. J. HOLDEN, with English translation by S. GREGORY and historical notes by D. CROUCH London: Anglo Norman Text Society 2002 vi+509 pp. 49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

La vye de seynt Fraunceys d' Assise (MS Paris. BNF, Fonds Francais 13505).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... La vye de seynt Fraunceys d' Assise (MS Paris. BNF, Fonds Francais 13505). Ed. by D. W. RUSSELL and others (Anglo Norman Text Society, 59-60) London: Birkbeck College 2002 x + 338 pp 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-905474-43-0. This...

Archives nationales: documents du Minutier Central des notaires de Paris. Le theatre professionnel a Paris 1600-1649.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Archives nationales: documents du Minutier Central des notaires de Paris. Le theatre professionnel a Paris 1600-1649. Etude par ALAN HOWE Documents analyses par MADELEINE JURGENS et ALAN HOWE. Transcriptions par ANDREE CHAULEUR et PIERRE YVES...

Six discours sur les miracles de Notre Sauveur: deux traductions manuscrites du XVIIIe siecle dont une de Mme Du Chatelet.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Six discours sur les miracles de Notre Sauveur: deux traductions manuscrites du XVIIIe siecle dont une de Mme Du Chatelet. By THOMAS WOOLSTON. Ed. by WILLIAM TRAPNELL. Paris: Champion 2001. 394 PP. 63[euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0504-2. This volume...

Trauma and its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post Revolutionary France.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Trauma and its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post Revolutionary France. By DEBORAH JENSON. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2001. x+294 pp. $46. ISBN 0-8018-6723-1. In this original and wide ranging study, Deborah...

Les Jardins de Zola: psyehanalyse et paysage mythique dans "Les Rougon-Macquart".(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Les Jardins de Zola: psyehanalyse et paysage mythique dans 'Les Rougon-Macquart'. By OLIVIER GOT. (Critiques Litteraires) Paris: L'Harmattan. 2002. 255 PP. 22[euro]. ISBN 2-7475-3159-7. This book examines, from a resolutely Freudian...

Preraphaelisme et symbolisme: peinture litteraire et image poetique.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Preraphaelisme et symbolisme: peinture litteraire et image poetique. By LAURENCE BROGNIEZ. (Romantismeet modernites, 63) Paris: Champion 2003. 403 pp.; 30 plates. 70 [euro]. ISBN 2-453-729-0. This authoritative study offers us a richly...

Arthur Rimbaud, Oeuvres completes, Fac-similes: vol. 4.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... ARTHUR RIMBAUD, CEuvres completes, vol. IV: Fac-similes. By STEVE MURPHY. Paris: Champion. 2002. iv + 694 pp. 140 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-072-5. With this volume we have another impressive achievement by Steve Murphy in the field of Rimbaldian...

Etudes sur les 'Illuminations' de Rimbaud.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Etudes sur les 'Illuminations' de Rimbaud. By SERGIO SACCHI. Ed. by OLIVIER BIVORT, ANDRE GUYAUX, and MARIO MATUCCI. Paris: Presses de l'Univer site de Paris-Sorbonne 2002. vi + 266 pp. 29[euro]. ISBN 2-84050-247-X. In this anthology of...

Palimpseste et merveilleux dans l'oeuvre de Marcel Schwob.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Palimpseste et merveilleux dans l'aeuvre de Marcel Schwob. By AGNES LHERMITTE. Paris: Champion 2002. 565 pp. 88[euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0602-2. A standard criticism of Schwob is that he lacks an individual voice: Paul Leautaud's judgement on...

Persephone Unbound: Dionysian Aesthetic's in the Works of Anna de Noailles.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Persephone Unbound: Dionysian Aesthetic's in the Works of Anna de Noailles. By CATHERINE PERRY. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 455 pp. $75. ISBN 0-8387-5499-6. Anna de Noailles, as...

The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowski. By ELEANOR KAUFMAN Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xii + 224 pp. 26[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6513-1. What happens when a write--a...

Andre Malraux II: Malraux lecteur.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Andre Malraux II: Malraux lecteur. Ed. by CHRISTIANE MOATTI and JULIEN DIEUDONE. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2001. 246 pp. 21[euro]. 34. ISBN 2-256-91029-6. This volume provides both an authoritative scrutiny of a central...

Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative, and Performance.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Telling Performances: Essays on Gender, Narrative, and Performance. Ed. by BRIAN NELSON, ANNE FREADMAN, and PHILIP ANDERSON. London: Associated Presses 2001. 270 pp. ISBN 0-87413-707-1. This collection of essays, a tribute to the work of...

Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Robert Antelme: Humanity, Community, Testimony. By MARTIN CROWLEY. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 15) Oxford: Legenda. 2003. xii + 111 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling. ISBN 1-900755-80-7. Martin Crowley's study offers a sensitive and...

The 'Roman Noir' in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The 'Roman Noir' in Post-War French Culture: Dark Fictions. By CLAIRE GORRARA. (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. vi+136 pp. 30. [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-19-924609-2. In...

Blaise Cendrars 5: portraits de l'artiste.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Blaise Cendrars 5: portraits de l'artiste. Ed. by CLAUDE LEROY. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. iv+250 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91052-0. In his brief introduction, Claude Leroy states that the aim of this collection is to...

Francophone Post-Colonial Cultures: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Francophone Post_Colonial Cultures: Critical Essays. Ed. by KAMAL SALHI. (After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France) Lanham: Lexington Books. 2003. xiv+471 pp. $90 (pbk$40) ISBN 0-7391-0567-1 (pbk-0-7391-0568-X). ...

Le Realisme africain: le roman francophone en Afrique subsaharienne.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Le Realisme africain: le roman francophone en Afrique subsaharienne. By CLAIRE L. DEHON. Paris: L'Harmattan. 2002. 412 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN2 2-7475-1843-4. As Buropeans we must accept the difficulty of navigating between comparing the...

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. By AIME CESAIRE. Trans. and ed. by CLAYTON ESHLEM AN and ANNETE SMITH. With an Introduction by ANDRE BRETON Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 2001. xx+66 pp. $15.95. ISBN 0-8195-6452-4. ...

The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World. Ed. by DAVID P. GEGGUS. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2001. xviii+261 pp. $34.95. ISBN 1-57003-416-8. The year 2004 marked the bicentenary of the proclamation of...

The Sounds of Contemporary French: Articulation and Diversity.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Sounds of Contemporary French: Articulation and Diversity. By AIDAN COVENEY. Exeter: Elm Bank Publications. x+214 pp. 19.99. [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-902454-02-2. The stated aim of this volume is to define a part of what it means to be...

Thinking French Translation: A Course in Translation Method. French to English.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Thinking French Translation: A Course in Translation Method. French to English. By SANDOR HERVEY and IAN HIGGINS. Second Edition. London and New York: Routledge. 2002. xvi+287 pp. 65 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... An Introduction to Twentieth-Century French Literature. By VICTORIA BEST. London: Duckworth. 2002. 159 pp. 12.99. [pounds sterling] ISBN 07-156-3166-7. This book is, as its title says, an introduction Its six main chapters deal with first...

Multilingualism in Italy Past and Present.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Multilingualism in Italy Past and Present. Ed. by ANNA LAURA LEPSCHY and ARTURO TOSI. Oxford: Legenda. 2002. x+ 220 pp. 35. [pounds sterling] ISBN I-900755-78-5. This interesting collection of articles derives from papers delivered at the...

Metaphor in Dante.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Metaphor in Dante. By DAVID GIBBONS. Oxford: Legenda. 2002 xii+206 pp. 35.[pounds sterling] ISBN 1-900755-63-7. David Gibbons's book is a fascinating and subtle investigation of Dante's dazzling and experimental use of metaphors in the...

Hermes' Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Hermes' Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella. By SHERRY ROUSH. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. ix+249 pp. 32.[pounds sterling] ISBN 0-8020-3712-7. This book examines six authors who, as poets,...

Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Discourse to Lady Lavinia his Daughter. By ANNIBAL GUASCO. Ed. and trans. by PEGGY OSBORN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2003. xxiv + 145 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 13 [pounds sterling]) ISBN 0-226-31053-1 (pbk 0-226-31055-8). ...

Moderata Fonte, Women and Life in Sixteenth Century Venice.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Moderata Fonte, Women and Life in Sixteenth Century Venice. By PAOLA MALPEZZI PRICE. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 175 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-399-4. ...

Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo. By PAOLO BARTOLONI. Market Harborough: Troubador 2003. xviii+108 pp. 10.99. [pounds sterling] ISBN 1-899293-183 Interstitial Writing proposes to discuss and interpret the works of...

Masters of Two Arts: Re-Creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Masters of Two Arts: Re-Creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema. By CARLO TESTA. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. viii+366 pp. 42 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8020-3640 (pbk 0-8020-8475-3). The...

The Great Chiasmus: Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Great Chiasmus: Word and Flesh in the Novels of Unamuno. By PAUL R. OLSON. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press 2003. vii+264 pp. $54.95 (pbk $24.95). ISBN 1-55753-341-5 (pbk 1-55753-261-3). In the last quarter of the twentieth...

Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in 'Don Quixote I'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Women of the Prologue: Imitation, Myth, and Magic in 'Don Quixote I'. By CAROLYN A. NADEAU Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 188 pp. 30 [pounds sterling] ISBN 0-83875510-0. The portrayal of...

Carmen de Burgos 'Colombine' y la novela corta.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Carmen de Burgos 'Colombine' y la novela corta. By RITA CATRINA IMBODEN. (Perspectivas Hispanicas) Bern: Peter Lang. 2001. 300 pp. $32.95 ISBN 3-90676700-00. It is a common feature of most studies and articles on Carmen de Eurgos that they...

Cesar Vallejo: A Critical Bibliography of Research.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Cesar Vallejo: A Critical Bibliography of Research. By STEPHEN M. HART. (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series, I) London: Tamesis. 2002. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85566-081-4. This is an invaluable research tool for airy...

Cabrera Infante's 'Tres tristes tigres': The Trapping Effect of the Signifier over Subject and Text.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Cabrera Infante's 'Tres tristes tigres': The Trapping Effect of the Signifier over Subject and Text. By CARMEN TERESA HARTMAN (Caribbean Studies, 10) New York: Peter Lang 2003. viii+139 pp. $54.95. ISBN 0-8204-6212-8. Cabrera Infante...

Ludwigslied, De Heinrico Annolied: Die deutschen Zeitdichtungen des fruhen Mittelalters im Spiegel der wissenchaftlichen Rezeption und Erforschung.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Ludwigslied, De Heinrico Annolied: Die deutschen Zeitdichtungen des fruhen Mittelalters im Spiegel der wissenchaftlichen Rezeption und Erforschung. By MATHIAS HERWEG. (Imagines Medii Aevi, 13) Wiesbaden: Reichert. 2002 xii + 584 pp. 58 [euro]...

Schnittpunkte: Deutsch-Niederlandische Literaturbeziehungen im spaten Mittelalter.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Schnittpunkte: Deutsch-Niederlandische Literaturbeziehungen im spaten Mittelalter. Ed. by ANGELIKA LEHMANN-BENZ, ULRIKE ZELLMANN, and URBAN KUSTERS. (Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur Nordwesteuropas, 5) Munster, New York, and Munich: Waxmann....

Kleine Schriften zur Literatur des 16. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Kleine Schriften zur Literatur des 16. Jahrhunderts. By HANS-GERT ROLOFF. Ed. by CHRISTIANE CAEMMERER, WALTER DELABAR, JORG JUNG MAYR, and WOLFGANG NEUBER. (Chloe: Beiheftezum Daphnis, 35) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2003. 434 pp. 100...

Briefe der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft und Beilagen: Die Zeit Furst Ludwigs von Anhalt-Kothen, 1617-1650, vol. 3.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Briefe der Fruchtbringenden Gesellschaft und Beilagen: Die Zeit Furst Ludwigs von Anhalt-Kothen. 1617-1650, series IA (Kothen), vol. III. Bd by KLAUS CONERMANN with GABRIELE BALL and ANDREAS HERZ. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. 753 pp. 118 [euro]....

'Der Teutsche Merkur': Die erste deutsrhe Kulturzeitschrift?(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'Der Teutsche Merkur': Die erste deutsrhe Kulturzeitschrift? Ed. by ANDREA HEINZ (Asthetische Forschungen, 2) Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. 302 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1497-9. The years immediately following the Seven Years War were to...

Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Body Dialectics in the Age of Goethe. Ed by MARIANNE HENN and HOLGER A. PAUSCH. (Amsterdamer Beitragesur neueren Germanistik, 55) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi 2003. 437 pp. 95 [euro]; $113. ISBN 90-420-1076-2. Among the many consequences...

Gluckskonzeptionen im deutschen Roman von Wielands 'Agathon' bis Goethes 'Wahlver wandtschaften'.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gluckskonzeptionen im deutschen Roman von Wielands 'Agathon' bis Goethes 'Wahlver wandtschaften'. By ALAN CORKHILL (Saarbrucker Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft, 78) St. Ingbert: Rohrig 2003. 251 pp. 24 [euro] ISBN 3-86110-340-0. The...

Geschichte der deutschen Tischgesellschaft.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Geschichte der deutschen Tischgesellschaft. By STEFAN NIENHAUS (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 115) Tubingen: Niemeyer 2003. 405 pp. 68 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-32115-6. This is an excellent study of an important social and...

Sappho in the Shadows: Essays on the Work of German Women Poets of the Age of Goethe (1749-1832).(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Sappho in the Shadows : Essays on the Work of German Women Poets of the Age of Goethe (1749-1832). Ed. by ANTHONY J. HARPER and MARGARET C. IVES. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 19) Bern, Berlin, and Brussels:...

Studien zur Idee des 'Gesamtkunstwerks' in der Fruhromantik: Zur Utopie einer Musikanschauung von Wackenroder bis Schopenhauer.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Studien zur Idee des 'Gesamtkunstwerks' in der Fruhromantik: Zur Utopie einer Musikanschauung von Wackenroder bis Schopenhauer. By CHUNG-SUN KWON (Europfaische Hochschulschrifren: Musikwissenschaft, 229) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Peter...

A Study of the Major Novellas of E. T. A. Hoffmann.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Study of the Major Novellas of E. T. A. Hoffmann. By BIRGIT RODER. Rochester, NY Camden House. 2003. xii+193 pp. 40 [pounds sterling];$60 ISBN 1-57113-271-6. Birgit Roder studies a series of Kunstlernovellen by Hoffmann, discussing the...

Theodor Storm: Das Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Glauben und Aberglauben in seinen Novellen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Theodor Storm: Das Spannungsverhaltnis zwischen Glauben und Aberglauben in seinen Novellen. By CHRISTINE GEFFERS BROWNE (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 30) New York, Washington, Baltimore, Bern, Frankfurt a.M.,...

A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Companion to the Works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Ed. by THOMAS A. KOVACH (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY Cam den House 2003 xvii+265 pp. 50 [pound sterling];$75 ISBN 1-57113-215-5. Research on Hugo...

Hofmannsthal: Ein moderner Dichter unter den Philologen.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Hofmannsthal: Ein moderner Dichter unter den Philologen By CHRISTOPH KONIG. (Marbacher Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2) Gottingen: Wallstein. 2001. 500 pp. 39. [euro] ISBN 3-9244-484-6. There is a very great deal of secondary literature on...

'Fern im danischen Norden ein Bruder': Thomas Mann und Hermann Bang. Eine lite rarische Spurensuche.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... 'Fern im danischen Norden ein Bruder': Thomas Mann und Hermann Bang. Eine lite rarische Spurensuche. By CLAUDIA GREMLER. (Palaestra, 320) Gottingen: Van denhoeck & Ruprecht. 2003. 366 pp. 69 [euro]. ISBN 3-525-20593-7. Literary influences...

Tucholsky and France.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Tucholsky and France. By STEPHANIE BURROWS (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 55; Bithell Series of Dissertations, 25) London: Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of...

Sentiment und Sachlichkeit: Der Roman der Neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Sentiment und Sachlichkeit: Der Roman der Neuen Frau in der Weimarer Republik. By KERSTIN BARNDT. (Literatur--Kultur--Geschlecht, Grosse Reihe, 19) Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Bohlau. 2003. ix+229 pp. 34.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-412-09701-2. In...

Und ich brauch doch so schrecklich Freude: Tagebuch 1924/1925.(Anna Seghers: Eine Biographie. 1947-1983)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Und ich brauch doch so schrecklich Freude: Tagebuch 1924/1925. Die Legende von der Reue des Bischofs Jehan d'Aigremont von St. Anne in Rouen. By ANNA SEGHERS. Ed. by CHRISTIANE ZEHL ROMERO Berlin: Aufbau. 2003. III pp; 4 facsimiles 15.90 [euro]...