The Modern Language Review articles from January 2006

The Modern Language Review archives from January 2006

The teleological element in Richard Rolle's Contra amatores mundi.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACTS The Contra amatores mundi of Richard Rolle (1300?-1349) is usually regarded either as an outright failure or as an intermediate work on the way to the later Latin Melos amoris or English epistles. By considering the teleological...

Early modern printers and the standardization of English spelling.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Modern linguists do not explain convincingly how English spelling advanced to its present mainly standardized form. They suggest various influences, principally the writings of sixteenth-century spelling reformers, grammarians,...

Genius loci: placing place in Gerard Manley Hopkins.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Genius loci: Placing Place in Gerard Manley Hopkins by Malcolm Hardman Key to Hopkins is his precise sense of place--including landscape, speech patterns, and the origins of poetic vocabulary. He shares a sense of cosmic geography...

Criminal naivety: blind resistance and the pain of knowing in Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal recounts the tale of Perceval, an atypical hero divided between maternal spiritual education and paternal chivalric law. Perceval commits an initial crime, whose nature he does not understand,...

Alexis Piron's ha-ha: shifting identities in La Metromanie.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Piron's La Metromanie has its roots in a hoax involving Voltaire, who saw the play as an attack on him. This article examines the extent to which he can be identified in various aspects of the characters, but also how they can be...

Francis Ponge and Andre Du Bouchet on Giacometti: art criticism as testimony.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT French writing inspired by Giacometti's art is not straightforwardly critical or ekphrastic. Texts by Ponge and du Bouchet considered here can be said to testify to his works, based on Ricaeur's notions of testimony. They offer...

Lost in the art(ifice) of male language: finding the female author in Paola Capriolo's Il doppio regno.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT With its self-conscious intertextuality and thirty-year-old female narrator, Capriolo's Il doppio regno invites interpretation as a form of '.ctitious autobiography'. This reading emphasizes the novel's importance as an...

Journeys of cultural transference: Calixto Bieito's multilingual Shakespeares.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT While best known for his revisionist work in opera, the Catalan director Calixto Bieito (b. 1963) crucially forged his aesthetic through Shakespeare's work. In focusing on his eight stagings of Shakespearian plays between 1989 and...

Realism and sentimentalism in Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach's Unsuhnbar.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Unsuhnbar (1890) is a realist novel of female adultery, through which Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach criticizes contemporary society. She highlights the inequality of the double standard of sexual morality, and examines women's...

W. G. Sebald's painters: the function of fine art in his prose works.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT While a growing body of literature deals with W. G. Sebald's use of photography, this article focuses on his treatment of fine art in his prose writings, arguing that Sebald makes an epistemologically as well as aesthetically...

Eisenstein's two projects for a film about Moscow.
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Eisenstein twice embarked on films about Moscow, though neither project was fully scripted, let alone shot: Moscow (Moskva, 1933-34), and the anniversary film Moscow 800 (Moskva 800, 1946-47). Both were commissioned to promote a...

Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow: Stalinist kitsch and ethical decadence.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Andrei Platonov's Happy Moscow: Stalinist Kitsch and Ethical Decadence by Philip Ross Bullock This article considers Andrei Platonov's novel Happy Moscow in the context of the reconstruction of the Soviet capital under Stalin....

Language Policy Evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Language Policy Evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. By FcG. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. 55[pounds sterling]. xii+ 281 pp. ISBN 1-4039-0032-9. After an introductory section that considers the...

The Arrow of Love: Optics, Gender, and Subjectivity in Medieval Love Poetry.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Arrow of Love: Optics, Gender, and Subjectivity in Medieval Love Poetry. By DANA STERWART. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 186 pp. 25.50[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5480-5. This...

La Bibliotheque, 1 (=Babel, revue de litterature francaise, generale et comparee, 6 (2002)).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... La Bibliotheque, 1 (=Babel, revue de litterature francaise, generale et comparee, 6 (2002)). Ed. by JAMES DAUPHINE and MICHEL MESTRE Universite de Toulon et du Var, Faculte des Lettres et Sciences humaines. 2002. 270 pp. 912. Each of the...

A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927.(Bohemia in London: The Sofficial Scene of Early Modernism)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion, 1884-1927. By GEORGE C. SCHOOOLFIELD. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. xvi+ 415 pp. 30[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-04714-2. Bohemia in London: The Sofficial Scene of...

Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Colonial Odysseys: Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel. By. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. xi+249 pp. $45; 27.50[pounds sterling] (pbk $19.95; 11.95[pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-8014-4161-7 (pbk 0-8014-8886-9). Georg...

A Companion to 'Anncrene Wisse'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Companion to 'Ancrene Wisse '. Ed. by YOKO WADA. Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. xii+258 pp. 60[pounds sterling]; $110. ISBN 0-85991-762-2. Initially studied for its philological importance, Ancrene Wisse, an early thirteenth century Middle...

Shadows of Mary: Reading the Virgin Mary in Medieval Texts.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shadows of Mary: Reading the VirginMary in Medieval Texts. By TERESA P. REED. (Religion and Culture in the Middles Ages) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. xi+171 pp. 35[pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99[pounds sterling])....

The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. By RALUCA L. RADULESCU. (Arthurian Studies, 55) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. viii+165 pp. 45[pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-785-1. The first attested use of gentleman as a termimplyingsocial...

Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of the East, 1576-1626. By RICHMOND BARBOUR. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+238 pp. 45[pounds sterling];...

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England. Ed. by KEVIN SHARPE and STEVEN N. ZWICKER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. ix+363 pp. 50[pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 0-521-82434-6. Kevin Sharpe...

The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature. Ed. by DAVID LOEWENSTEIN and JANEL MUELLER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xi+1038 pp. 100[pounds sterling]; $140. ISBN 0-521-63156-4. In this...

John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit. By JEANNE SHAMI. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 13) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+318 pp. 50[pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-789-4. The author of this magnificent book,...

Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. By LUKAS ERNE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne:CambridgeUniversityPress. 2003. xii+287pp. 45[pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0- 521-82255-6. This book, by a young Swiss scholar with an Oxford D.Phil.,...

Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shakespearean Tragedy as Chivalric Romance: Rethinking 'Macbeth', 'Hamlet', 'Othello',' KingLear'. By MICHAEL L. HAYS. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 12) Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+225 pp. 45[pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-788-6....

Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance. By W.B. WORTHEN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. vii+274 pp. 42.50[pounds sterling]; $58 (pbk 15.95[pounds sterling]; $21). ISBN 0-521-81030-2 (pbk...

The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Scriptures of Charles Dickens: Novels of Ideology, Novels of the Self. By VINCENT NEWEY. (Nineteenth Century Series) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004. xii+315 pp. 47.50[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85928-434-5. Vincent Newey...

Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Black Victorians/Black Victoriana. Ed. by HOLDBROK GERZINA. New R01555 Brunswick,NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press. 2003. vii+222 pp. $62 (pbk $24). ISBN 0-8135-3214-0 (pbk 0-8135-3215-9). The eleven essays collected in this volume...

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860. By ANNA JOHNSTON. (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+262pp. 45[pounds sterling]; $65....

Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Paternalism Incorporated: Fables of American Fatherhood, 1865-1940. By DAVID LE- VERENZ. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. x+254 pp. $39.95; 23.95[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8014-4167-6. In his first book since the...

Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays in Ideological Conflict and Complicity. Ed. by LOIS A CUDDY and CLAIRE M. ROCHE. and .. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses....

Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940. By PETER STONELY. (Cam- bridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. x+167 pp. 40[pounds sterling]; $55. ISBN 0-...

Social Transformation in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Social Transformation in Hardy's Tragic Novels: Megamachines and Phantasms. By David Musselwhite. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+225 pp. 45[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-1662-4. Those who admired David Mussel...

H.D.'s Poetry: 'The meanings that words hide'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... H.D.'s Poetry: 'The meanings that words hide'. Ed. by Marina Camboni. New York: AMS Press. 2003. xix+208 pp. $74.50. ISBN 0-404-61594-5. H.D.'s poetry and prose continue to generate a broad range of critical interest. H.D.'s Poetry: 'The...

On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... On the Outside Looking In(dian): Indian Women Writers at Home and Abroad. By Phillipa Kafka. New York, Bern, and Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang. 2003. xii+ 223 pp. $29.95 ISBN 0-8204-5812-0. Phillipa Kafka's On the Outside Looking In(dian)...

The Serpent's Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Serpent's Part: Narrating the Self in Canadian Literature. By David Lucking. Bern, Berlin, and Brussels: Peter Lang. 2003. 211 pp. 26[pounds sterling]. ISBN 3-03910- 039-4. David Lucking is concerned with 'the manner in which selfhood...

Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000.(Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000. By Faye Hammill. (Cross/Cultures, 63) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2003. xxiv+245 pp. 954; $64 (pbk 928; $33). ISBN 90-420-0915-2 (pbk 90-420-0905-5). Carol Shields, Narrative...

Le Cynisme a la Renaissance: d'Erasme a Montaigne suivi de 'Les Epistres de Diogenes'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Le Cynisme a la Renaissance d'Erasme a Montaigne suivi de 'Les Epistres de Diogenes' (1546). By Michele Clement. (Les Seuils de la modernite, 9) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 288 pp. SwF 84; 956.90. ISBN 2-600-00972-8. This is the first book-length...

Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. Introduction by Michel Jeanneret; postface by Frederic Elsig. Geneva: Droz. 2004. 200 pp. SwF 24.60;15.07[euro]. ISBN 2- 600-00533-1. First publishedin 1565, this work is a collection of 120...

Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a l'aube de la Renaissance.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Clement Marot et les metamorphoses de l'auteur a l'aube de la Renaissance. By Florian Preisig. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 71) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 192 pp. SwF 49.10; 933.29. ISBN 2-600-00919-1. The project of this book is to chart...

Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Post-modern Thought.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Post- modern Thought. By Claudia Moscovici. Lanham, Boulder, New York, and Oxford: Rowman @ Littlefield. 2002. viii+169 pp. ISBN 0-7425-1368-8. This work examines...

The City in French Writing: The Eighteenth-Century Experience/Ecrire la ville au dix- huitieme siecle.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The City in French Writing: The Eighteenth-Century Experience/Ecrire la ville au dixhuitieme siecle. Ed. by Siofra Pierse. Dublin: University College Dublin Press. 2004. xii+195 pp. 29.95[pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-904558-08-9. This volume...

Montesquieu, historien de Rome: un tournant pour la reflexion sur le statut de l'histoire au XVIIIe siecle.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Montesquieu, historien de Rome: un tournant pour la reflexion sur le statut de l'histoire au XVIIIe siecle. By Vanessa de Senarclens. (Bibliotheque des lumieres, 62) Geneva: Droz. 2003. 292 pp. SwF 60. ISBN 2-600-00856-x. The title of this...

Montesquieu: memoire de la critique.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Montesquieu: memoire de la critique. Ed. by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger. Paris: Presses de l'Universitede Paris-Sorbonne. 2003. 600 pp. 944. ISBN 2-84050-230-5. This collection gives the reader a fair taste of the reception given (almost...

LesCEuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Les Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by Nicholas Cronk and others. Vol. iiia: Writings of 1723-1728, pt. i. Ed. by Roger J.V. Cotte, Nicholas Cronk, Jean Dagen, John Dunkley, Paul Gibbard and Russell Goulbourne. Oxford: The Voltaire...

Les CEuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Les Aeuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed.by Nicholas Cronk. Vol. xxxb: Writings of 1746-1748, pt. ii. Ed.by Michael Cardy, Haydn T. Mason, and Katherine Astbury. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2004. xxiv+279 pp.; 7 plates. 90[pounds sterling]....

Manon Lescaut (The story of the Chevalier Des Grieux and Manon Lescaut).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Manon Lescaut (The Story of the ChevalierDes Grieux and Manon Lescaut). By Abbe Prevost. Trans., with an introductionand notes, by Angela Scholar (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xl+155 pp. 7.99[pounds sterling]....

Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Real Time: Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola. By David F. Bell. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. viii+157 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-2520-2872-4. The first half of the nineteenth century was an age of rapid,...

Flower Poetics in the Works of Gustave Flaubert.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Flower Poetics in the Works of Gustave Flaubert. By Paul Andrew Tipper. (Studies in French Literature, 63) Lampeter, Lewiston, NY, and Queenston, Ont.: Mellen. 2003. vi+371 pp. 74.95 [pounds sterling]; $119.95. ISBN 0-7734-6728-9. In this...

The Child.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Child. By Julies Valles. Trans. with an introduction and notes by Douglas Parmee. New York: New York Review Books. 2005. xxvi+343 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-59017-117-9. L'Enfant, the first volume of Jules Valles's 'Jacques...

Anarchie, langue, societe: 'L'Etna chez soi' de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Anarchie, langue, societe: 'L'Etna chez soi' de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. By Paola. Salerni. (Biblioteca della Ricerca: Mentalita e Scrittura, 21) Fasano: Schena Editore; Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 2004. 346 pp. 925. ISBN...

Zola: 'Nana'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Zola: 'Nana'. By Roger Clark. London: Grant & Cutler. 2004. 94 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0442-6. Roger Clark's Zola: 'Nana' represents an accessible and, on the whole, well-written introduction to Zola's relentless,...

The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.-K. Huysmans. By Robert Ziegler. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2004. 385 pp. $62.50. ISBN 0-87413-873-6. Although the image of the mirror, both as a literal and a metaphorical...

Temoignage et fiction: les recits de rescapes dans la litterature de langue francaise (1945-2000).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Temoignage et fiction: les recits de rescapes dans la litterature de langue francaise (1945-R01585 2000). By Marie Bornand. Geneva: Droz. 2004. 256 pp. SwF 49.15; 33.29 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00951-5. In the latter half of the twentieth...

Genet.(Genet: 'Journal du voleur')(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Genet. Ed. by Mairead Hanrahan. (=Paragraph, 27.2 (July 2004)) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2004. 145 pp. 24 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-2188-1. Genet: 'Journal du voleur'. By David Houston Jones. (Glasgow Introductory Guides...

Tremblay: 'Les Belles-saeurs' and 'A toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Tremblay: 'Les Belles-saeurs' and 'A toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou'. By Michael Cardy. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 136) London: Grant & Cutler. 2004. 84 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0443-4. Michael Cardy's perceptive...

Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Dante Metamorphoses: Episodes in a Literary Afterlife. Ed. By Eric G. Haywood. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2003. 252 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN 1-85182-662-9. This is the sixth collection of Dante studies brought out by the UCD Foundation for...

Castiglione e il mito di Urbino: studi sull'elaborazione del 'Cortegiano'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Castiglione e il mito di Urbino: studi sull'elaborazione del 'Cortegiano'. By Uberto Motta. Milan: Vita e Pensiero. 2003. x+490 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 88-343-0967-7. Uberto Motta's rich and complex volume is divided into two major parts,...

Manzoni e Bossuet.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Manzoni e Bossuet. By Luciano Parisi. (Saggi e testi di letteratura italiana, 7) Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso. 2003. 153 pp. 15 [euro]. ISBN 88-7694-673-x. Luciano Parisi's philosophical study of Manzoni (1785-1873) and Bossuet...

... all'ombra dell'ilice nera, sive Reminiscenze classiche nella 'Capinera' di Verga.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... ... all'ombra dell'ilice nera, sive Reminiscenze classiche nella 'Capinera' di Verga. By Rodney Lokaj. (Quaderni della 'Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale', 7) Rome: Ateneo. 2004. 131 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 88-8476-035-6. Should your...

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel. Ed. by Peter Bondanella and Andrea Ciccarelli: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xix+243 pp. 48 [pounds sterling] (pbk 17 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-521-66018-1 (pbk 0-521-66962-6). ...

The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition and English Translation from Barcelona, Archivo de laCorona de Aragon, Cartas Reales, MS 3344.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Catalan Rule of the Templars: A Critical Edition and English Translation from Barcelona, Archivo de laCorona de Aragon, Cartas Reales, MS 3344. Ed. by Judi Upton-Ward. (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 19) Woodbridge: Boydell....

A History of the German Language through Texts.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A History of the German Language through Texts. By Christopher Young and Thomas Gloning. London: Routledge. 2004. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-415-18331-6. Teaching the history of German has become rare in the British Isles, and those...

Mittelhochdeutsche Studiengrammatik: Eine Pilgerreise.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Mittelhochdeutsche Studiengrammatik: Eine Pilgerreise. By Michael Graf. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. 304 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-64022-7. This book has been written for German university students making their first contact with Middle High...

Erec.(Gregorius and Der Arme Heinrich)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Erec. By Hartmann von Aue. Ed. by Manfred Gunter Scholz . (Bibliothek des R01595 Mittelalters, 5) Frankfurt a.M.: Deutscher Klassiker Verlag. 2004. 1068 pp. 76 [euro]. ISBN 3-618-66050-2. Gregorius.Armer Heinrich.Iwein. By Hartmann von Aue....

Die Anfange des weltlichen deutschen Schauspiels 1370-1530: Untersuchung und Dokumentation.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Die Anfange des weltlichen deutschen Schauspiels 1370-1530:Untersuchung und Dokumentation. By Eckehard Simon. (Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschenLiteratur desMittelalters,124) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. xi+492+ [12] pp. 58 [euro]....

Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Women and Family Life in Early Modern German Literature. By Elizabeth Waghall Nivre. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2004. xi+221 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-197-3. Women and Family Life is a study of the discourse of gender in...

Literature of the Sturm und Drang.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Literature of the Sturm und Drang. Ed. by Davif Hill. (Camden House History of German Literature, 6) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. xii+377 pp. $85; 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-174-4. This lively and informative collection of...

'Das furchtbar-schone Gorgonenhaupt des Klassischen': Deutsche Antikenbilder (1755-1875).(Book review)
January 1, 2006... 'Das furchtbar-schone Gorgonenhaupt des Klassischen': Deutsche Antikenbilder (1755-1875). By Lorella Bosvo. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2004. 400 pp. 949.50. ISBN 3-8260-2730-2. This very long book, originally a doctoral dissertation...

Goethes Musiktheater: Singspiele, Opern, Festspiele, 'Faust'.(Faust: Mythos und Musik)(Im Auftrieb: Grenzuberschreitungenmit Goethes 'Faust' in Inszenierungender neunziger Jahre)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Goethes Musiktheater: Singspiele, Opern, Festspiele, 'Faust'. By Tina Hartmann. (Hermaea, 105) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2004. viii+568 pp. 86 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-15105-6. Faust: Mythos und Musik. By Hans Joachim Kreutzer. Munich: Beck. 2003. 187...

Gepanzerte Empfindsamkeit: Helden in Frauengestaltum 1800.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Gepanzerte Empfindsamkeit: Helden in Frauengestaltum 1800. By Anett Kollmann. (Probleme der Dichtung, 34) Heidelberg: Winter. 2004. 241 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1539-8. In view of the title, one might reasonably expect a literary history...

Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany. By Theodore Ziolkowski. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. xii+215 pp. $35; 20.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8014-4202-8. Clio the Romantic Muse completes...

Eichendorff: Der Dichter in seiner Zeit. Eine Biographie.(Dichter und ihre Gesellen)(Formelsuche: Untersuchungen zu Eichendorffs lyrischem Werk)(Eichendorffs 'Taugenichts': Quellen und Beziehungshintergrund. Untersuchungen zum poetischen Verfahren Eichendorffs)(Eichendorffs Erzahlungen 'Das Schloss Durande' und 'Die Entfuhrung' als Beitrage zur Literaturkritik: Untersuchungen zum poetischen Verfahren Eichendorffs II)(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Eichendorff: Der Dichter in seiner Zeit. Eine Biographie. By Gunter Schiwy. Munich: Beck. 2000. 760 pp. 101.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-406-46673-7. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. By Joseph von Eichendorff. Ed. by Volkmar Stein. (Historisch-kritische...

A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... A Companion to German Realism 1848-1900. Ed. by Todd Kontje. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2002. vii+412 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-322-4. What does a literary companion...

The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel. Ed. by Graham Bartram. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xxiii+294pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-521-48253-4 (pbk 0-521-48392-1). 'Cambridge...

Bildungsburger auf Abwegen: Naturwissenschaft im Werk Thomas Manns.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Bildungsburger auf Abwegen: Naturwissenschaft im Werk Thomas Manns. By Malte Herwig. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 32) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2004. ix+394 pp. 59 [euro]. ISBN 3-465-03352-3. This magnificent study, lavishly illustrated by...

Franz Kafkas Sprachen: '... in einem Stockwerk des babylonischen Turmes ...'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Franz Kafkas Sprachen: '... in einem Stockwerk des babylonischen Turmes...' By Marek Nekula. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. xiii+397 pp. 98 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-73061-7. Many ordinary readers imagine that Kafka, coming from Prague, must have...

Expressionist Film: New Perspectives.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Expressionist Film: New Perspectives. Ed. by Dietrich Scheunemann. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. xiv+302 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-068-3. It is hard to...

Literarisierter Tagtraum: Einheitskonstruktionen in Hermann Brochs 'Tierkreis-Erzahlungen'.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Literarisierter Tagtraum: Einheitskonstruktionen in Hermann Brochs 'Tierkreis-Erzahlungen'. By Judith Sidler. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2003. 228 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-2571-7. In 1933 Hermann Broch wrote five short stories...

Der Schmerz des Vermissens: Essays.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Der Schmerz des Vermissens: Essays. By Gerhard Nebel. Ed. by Gerald Zschorsch. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta. 2000. 286 pp. 21.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-608-93458-8. Briefe 1938-1974. By Ernst Junger and Gerhard Nebel. Ed. by Ulrich Froschle And Michael...

Trauma and Guilt: Literature of Wartime Bombing in Germany.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Trauma and Guilt: Literature of Wartime Bombing in Germany. By Susanne Vees-Gulani. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2003. vii+217 pp. 78 [euro]. ISBN 3-11-017808-7. Susanne Vees-Gulani's study is the first in English to explore German...

Theater ohne Grenzen: Festschrift fur Hans-Peter Bayerdorfer zum 65. Geburtstag.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Theater ohne Grenzen: Festschrift fur Hans-Peter Bayerdorfer zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. by Katharina Keim, Peter M. Boenisch, and Robert Braunmuller. (Munchner Universitatsschriften: Theaterwissenschaft, I) Munich: Utz. 2003. 504 pp. 39 [euro]....

Literatur und Journalismus: Theorie, Kontexte, Fallstudien.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Literatur und Journalismus: Theorie, Kontexte, Fallstudien. Ed. by Bernd Blobaum And Stefan Neuhaus. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag. 2003. 341 pp. 34.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-531-13850-2. This attempt to tackle grey areas between social science...