The Modern Language Review articles from July 1999

The Modern Language Review archives from July 1999

Ethics and revolution: Lukacs's responses to Dostoevsky.
July 1, 1999... For Georg Lukacs (1885-1971), Dostoevsky was a life-long preoccupation. By considering the originality of Dostoevsky's novels, Lukacs arrived at questions that implicitly or explicitly addressed various aspects of the interaction between...

Boundlessness beyond boundlessness: The sea, drink, and form in Malcolm Lowry's fiction.
July 1, 1999... Alcoholic I died so many times when drunk That sober I became Like water where a ship was sunk That never knew its name. Old barnacles upon my sides Ringed round with pitch and toss Were given me by...

Bunting's 'Briggflatts': A Quaker masterpiece.(Basil Bunting)
July 1, 1999... Briggflatts (1966), which Bunting subtitled 'An Autobiography', describes a growth in consciousness, the evolution of a vision glimpsed in adolescence, rejected in adulthood, and then partially recovered in old age. (1) Some of its most obvious...

Sugar and spice and all things nice: From Oriental Bazar to English cloister in Anglo-French.
July 1, 1999... In May of 1436 the George of Seaton came into the port of Southampton: its entry was logged in French. In the same month a boat came in from Portugal: it too was logged in French. (1) These were just two out of many vessels, some from British...

Proustian metamorphosis: The art of distortion in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.
July 1, 1999... The much commented upon opening pages of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu centre on radical transformations of identity experienced by the narrator as he moves between the world of consciousness and that of dream. His belief that he is the...

Music and memory in Natalia Ginzburg's 'Lessico Famigliare'.
July 1, 1999... Lessico famigliare (1) has often been described by critics as Natalia Ginzburg's finest narrative work but at the same time the one most unlike all her other output and the most unusual, too, in terms of genre and expression. (2) Only relatively...

Heroes, survivors, and history: Edgardo Rodriguez Julia and Puerto Rico's 1898.
July 1, 1999... La llegada de los 'americanos' [...] casi suena a turistas con maletas en una oficina de aduanas; en nuestra cultura popular, los unicos otros que 'llegan' son los Reyes Magos. (Fernando Pico) (1) ANDREA Unhappy the...

Was Garcia Lorca dyslexic (like W.B.Yeats)?.
July 1, 1999... To my knowledge, the suggestion that Federico Garcia Lorca was dyslexic has never been made before. I first suspected that he might have had some kind of reading and writing disability when I was working with a set of original autograph...

From taboos to transgressions: Textual strategies in woman-authored Spanish erotic fiction.
July 1, 1999... The two decades following the end of the Franco regime, marked by the transition to democracy, have seen astonishing social, legal, political, and moral upheavals in Spanish society. It is no exaggeration to say that in the space of a single...

Internalization and death: A reinterpretation of Rilke's 'Duineser Elegien'.
July 1, 1999... The seventy-five years of exegesis that have followed upon the publication of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duineser Elegien (1923) have brought a great variety of comments on textual parallels, influences, individual poems, or particular facets of the...

Images of alterity: Second-generation Turks in the Federal Republic.
July 1, 1999... In the literary and filmic representations of first-generation Turks in Germany (those who came to the Federal Republic as recruited labourers, mainly from the mid-1960s until the Anwerbestopp of 1973, plus their spouses who joined them in the...

Stanislaw Lem: Socio-political sci-fi.
July 1, 1999... The existing criteria of value have been falsified and distorted. The force brought to bear against consciousness must, sooner or later, develop into physical force. To take note of this and to give warning is the role of...

Chaucerian Tragedy.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Chaucerian Tragedy. By HENRY ANSGAR KELLY. Cambridge and New York: Brewer. 1997. xi + 297 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $78. That definitions of tragedy are fraught with difficulty is a truth universally acknowledged; the problem is more acute in...

Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, 8.2 (Winter 1994); 9.1 No. 2: (Summer 1995). Ed. by PETER M. DALY, DANIEL S. RUSSELL, and JOHN MANNING. New York: AMS Press. 1997. viii + 201-391 pp.; viii + 238 pp. $79.50 (for 2...

The Case for Women in Medieval Culture.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Case for Women in Medieval Culture. By ALCUIN BLAMIRES. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. viii + 279 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This book is a welcome presentation and analysis of the medieval textual tradition purporting to defend the good...

Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300. By NEIL CARTLIDGE. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. xii + 250 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]; $69. Literary representations of marriage in early medieval England, Neil Cartlidge proposes, demonstrate a...

Writing East: The 'Travels' of Sir John Mandeville.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Writing East: The 'Travels' of Sir John Mandeville. By IAIN MACLEOD HIGGINS. (The Middle Ages Series) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. xi + 335 pp. $49.95. The fictional travels of Sir John Mandeville have long attracted...

Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography. Ed. by JUDITH H. ANDERSON, DONALD CHENEY, and DAVID A. RICHARDSON. (Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture) Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1997. xiv + 215 pp. $37.50. The 'vexing...

The Norton Shakespeare Based on the Oxford Edition.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Norton Shakespeare Based on the Oxford Edition. Ed. by STEPHEN GREENBLATT and others, with an essay on the Shakespearean stage by ANDREW GURR. New York and London: Norton. 1997. xvii + 3420 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 18.95 [pounds...

Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories. By JEAN E. HOWARD and PHYLLIS RACKIN. (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) London and New York: Routledge. 1997. xviii + 248 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99...

Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Roman Shakespeare: Warriors, Wounds, and Women. By COPPELIA KAHN. (Feminist Readings of Shakespeare) London and New York: Routledge. 1997. xviii + 190 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]). This excellent book is the...

A New History of Early English Drama.(Review)
July 1, 1999... A New History of Early English Drama. Ed. by JOHN D. COX and DAVID SCOTT KASTAN. Foreword by STEPHEN J. GREENBLATT. New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. xiv + 565 pp. $57; 39.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $29; 19.95 [pounds sterling])....

Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England. By HOUSTON DIEHL. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xv + 238 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage...

Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Issues of Death: Mortality and Identity in English Renaissance Tragedy. By MICHAEL NEILL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. xiii + 404 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. What Michael Neill adds to this decade's spate of books on death in the Renaissance...

Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature. By R. S. WHITE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xx + 285 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. Speaking of natural law as pure hypothesis, Montaigne defies...

Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading. By ROBERT DEMARIA, JR. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. xviii + 270 pp. 33 [pounds ssterling]. 'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr....

Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail. By SUZANNE J. STARK. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. 1996. ix + 205 pp. $26.95. Fans of Jane Austen will remember Mrs Croft, intrepid wife of Admiral Croft in Persuasion. Having travelled...

Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Crisis in Representation: Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution. By STEVEN BLAKEMORE. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997....

Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry, and Spectatorship. By JUDITH PASCOE. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. xvii + 251 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. These days, terms such as 'theatricality' and 'performative' have...

Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Private Property: Charles Brockden Brown's Gendered Economics of Virtue. By ELIZABETH JANE WALL HINDS. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 190 pp. 28.50 [pounds sterling]. Although he died...

Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Print Politics: The Press and Radical Opposition in Early Nineteenth-Century England. By KEVIN GILMARTIN. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. xiv + 274 pp. 35 [pounds sterling];...

Victorian Science in Context.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Victorian Science in Context. Ed. by BERNARD LIGHTMAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. viii + 489 pp. $70; 55.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $22.50; 17.95 [pounds sterling]). 'Monster discovered by the Orang Outangs'...

Dickens and the Politics of the Family.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Dickens and the Politics of the Family. By CATHERINE WATERS. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 233 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. Catherine Waters's Dickens and the Politics of the Family proposes an...

Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Yeats's Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness. By MARJORIE HOWES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1996. ix + 240 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. This illuminating and original study starts from Yeats's...

Lesbian Configurations.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Lesbian Configurations. By renee c. hoogland. (Between Men--Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) New York: Columbia University Press. 1997. viii + 168 pp. $52; 36 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $19; 12.95 [pounds sterling]). Through the...

The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study. By J. R. WATSON. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. x + 552 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. For nearly three hundred years the commonest and most sustained poetic experience of English people, and their...

The Encyclopaedia of Fanstasy.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Encyclopedia of Fantasy. Ed. by JOHN CLUTE and JOHN GRANT. London: Orbit. 1997. xvi + 1049 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1993), edited by John Clute and Peter Nichols, declares that 'there is no definition...

Households of the Soul.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Households of the Soul. By VINCENT P. PECORA. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1997. xi + 337 pp. 41.50 [pounds sterling]. The first thing to say about this book is that it is amazingly fluent and reads not...

The Division of Literature: Or, the University in Deconstruction.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Division of Literature: Or, The University in Deconstruction. By PEGGY KAMUF. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1997. vii + 259 pp. $42; 33.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $16.95; 13.50 [pounds sterling]). In Peggy Kamuf's...

Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions. By MARSHALL BROWN. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. xiv + 344 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.95 [pounds sterling]). This book is introduced as a counter to...

The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Complicity of Imagination: The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture. By ROBIN GREY. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge...

A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature.(Review)
July 1, 1999... A Wider View of the Universe: Henry Thoreau's Study of Nature. By ROBERT KUHN MCGREGOR. (The Environment and the Human Condition) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1997. xiv + 247 pp. $29.95 (paperbound $16.95). This book is a...

American Drama: The Bastard Act.(Review)
July 1, 1999... American Drama: The Bastard Art. By SUSAN HARRIS SMITH. (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. vi + 248 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $49.95. The American Stage and...

The American Stage and the Great Depression: A Cultural History of the Grotesque.(Review)
July 1, 1999... American Drama: The Bastard Art. By SUSAN HARRIS SMITH. (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. vi + 248 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $49.95. The American Stage and...

Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Inscrutable Houses: Metaphors of the Body in the Poems of Elizabeth Bishop. By ANNE COLWELL. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1997. viii + 245 pp. $39.95 (paperbound $19.95). Anne Colwell's perceptive and accessible study is...

Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War. By MARK W. VAN WIENEN. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiv + 311 pp. 40...

Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Tilting at Mortality: Narrative Strategies in Joseph Heller's Fiction. By DAVID M. CRAIG. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1998. 330 pp. $34.95; 31.50 [pounds sterling]. With Catch-22 established as a modern classic and its title...

Variability in Spoken French: A Sociolinguistic Study of Interrogation and Negation.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Variability in Spoken French: A Sociolinguistic Study of Interrogation and Negation. By AIDAN COVENEY. Exeter: Elm Bank. 1996. v + 271 pp. 24.99 [pounds sterling]. This book, arising from a doctoral dissertation (University of Newcastle,...

The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Vocabulary of Modern French: Origins, Structure and Function. By HILARY WISE. London and New York: Routledge. 1997. xiii + 256 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). French lexis has been rather neglected by...

Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Erotic Dawn-Songs of the Middle Ages: Voicing the Lyric Lady. By GALE SIGAL. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 1996. xii + 241 pp. Compared to the amount of critical ink that has been spilt on the troubadour canso in recent years, the...

'La Chanson de sainte Foi': Texte occitan du XIe siecle.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... 'La Chanson de sainte Foi': Texte occitan du XIe siecle. Ed. and trans. by ROBERT LAFONT. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 490. Geneve: Droz. 1998. 185 pp. 36.75 SwF. Previous editors of the Chanson de sainte Foi have seen the importance of this...

Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Two Medieval Outlaws: Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn. Trans. and ed. by GLYN S. BURGESS. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. x + 210 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $61. The Romance of Eustace the Monk is a translation of a short verse romance in...

Agrippa d'Aubigne.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Agrippa d'Aubigne. By MADELEINE LAZARD. Paris: Fayard. 1998. 567 pp. 160F. This biography of d'Aubigne belongs to a scholarly series of lives of Renaissance writers, aimed at a wide readership, to which Madeleine Lazard has already contributed...

Conscience et conviction: Etudes sur le XVIIe siecle.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Conscience et conviction: Etudes sur le XVIIe siecle. By ELISABETH LABROUSSE. Paris: Universitas; Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. 299 pp. De l'Humanisme aux Lumieres: Bayle et le Protestantisme: Melanges en l'honneur d'Elisabeth...

De L'Humanisme aux Lumieres: Bayle et le Protestantisme: Melanges en l'honneur d'Elisabeth Labrousse.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Conscience et conviction: Etudes sur le XVIIe siecle. By ELISABETH LABROUSSE. Paris: Universitas; Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. 299 pp. De l'Humanisme aux Lumieres: Bayle et le Protestantisme: Melanges en l'honneur d'Elisabeth...

Descartes and Augustine.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Descartes and Augustine. By STEPHEN MENN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvi + 415 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. Stephen Menn, author of Plato on God as Nous, lends his considerable expertise in Greek philosophy to...

Le Marc-Antoine ou la Cleopatre: Tragedie.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Le Marc-Antoine ou La Cleopatre: Tragedie. By JEAN MAIRET. Ed. by PHILIP TOMLINSON. (Durham Modern Language Series, 5) Durham: University of Durham. 1997. 199 pp. An important work in the early development of Roman tragedy in the mid-1630s, Le...

Le Contrat et la seduction: Essai sur la subjectivite amoureuse dans le roman des Lumieres.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Le Contrat et la seduction: Essai sur la subjectivite amoureuse dans le roman des Lumieres. By PIERRE HARTMANN. (Les Dix-huitiemes Siecles, 14) Paris: Champion. 1998. 470 pp. Students of the eighteenth-century novel sometimes wonder whether...

The Complete Works of Voltaire (Euvres completes de Voltaire).(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... The Complete Works of Voltaire/OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by ULLA KOLVING and others. Vol. XIX: Anti-Machiavel. Ed. by WERNER BAHNER and HELGA BERGMANN. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. xxiii + 523 pp. 80 [pounds sterling]. This...

Le chant de l'origine: La Memoire et le temps dans les 'Confessions' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Le Chant de l'origine: la memoire et le temps dans les 'Confessions' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. By JEAN-FRANCOIS PERRIN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 339) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. x + 250 pp. Jean-Francois...

Painting and History during the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Painting and History during the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past. By BETH WRIGHT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 269 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Conflicting interpretations and representations of both the recent and...

Lamiel: Fille du feu: Essai sur Stendhal et l'energie.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Lamiel: Fille du Feu: Essai sur Stendhal et l'energie. By C. W. THOMPSON. Paris and Montreal: L'Harmattan. 1997. 158 pp. 90 F. This study represents a major contribution not only to an understanding of Lamiel ('cet etrange livre imparfait', in...

Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Baudelaire: Individualism, Dandyism and the Philosophy of History. By BERNARD HOWELLS. (Legenda) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 1996. 207 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. Since 1983 Bernard Howells has published a series of articles,...

Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France, 1850-1900.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France, 1850-1900. Ed. by RICHARD HOBBS. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1998. x + 214 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. The distinguished contributors to this attractive...

Zola: 'La Curee'.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Zola: 'La Curee'. By Susan Harrow. (University of Glasgow French and German Publications) Glasgow: University of Glasgow. 1998. 90 pp. 3.95 [pounds sterling]. The third Rougon-Macquart to get the Glasgow treatment, La Curee is, as Susan Harrow...

Francis Ponge and the Nature of Things: From Ancient Atomism to a Modern Poetics.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 1999... Francis Ponge and the Nature of Things: From Ancient Atomism to a Modern Poetics. By PATRICK MEADOWS. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 172 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. Arguing that Ponge...

Theatres of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second World War to the Cold War.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Theatres of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second World War to the Cold War. By TED FREEMAN. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1998. v + 235 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Sartre made a mistake when he said in Qu'est-ce que la...

Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995. Ed. by OWEN HEATHCOTE, ALEX HUGHES, and JAMES S. WILLIAMS. (French Studies series) Oxford and New York: Berg. 1998. x + 227 pp. 34.99 [pounds sterling] (paperbound...

Georges Rodenbach: Critical Essays.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Georges Rodenbach: Critical Essays. Ed. by PHILIP MOSLEY. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1996. 206 pp. 26.50 [pounds sterling]. The name Rodenbach immediately summons up a location:...

Histoire de la litterature en Suisse romande.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Histoire de la litterature en Suisse romande. Ed. by ROGER FRANCILLON. Lausanne: Payot. 1997. 536 pp. Alongside Nicollier and Dahlem's Dictionnaire des ecrivains suisses d'expression francaise, Christophe Calame's anthology Sept cents ans de...

The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel, from 1800 to the Present.(Review)
July 1, 1999... The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel, from 1800 to the Present. Ed. by TIMOTHY UNWIN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xxiii + 281 pp. It is not certain that such a thing as an identifiable literary...

Half-Serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Half-Serious Rhymes: The Narrative Poetry of Luigi Pulci. By MARK DAVIE. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. 1998. 199 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. Mark Davie's Half-Serious Rhymes is the first monograph study of the poetry of Luigi Pulci by a...

Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters. By RONNIE H. TERPENING. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1997. 310 pp. $55; 41 [pounds sterling]. This monograph attempts to reinstate Dolce's broad literary activity as an epitome of...

Torquato Tasso e l'Universita.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Torquato Tasso e l'Universita. Ed. by WALTER MORETTI and LUIGI PEPE. Florence: Olschki. 1997. xvi + 536 pp. 98,000 lire. This volume comprises thirty papers read at the International Conference held in Ferrara in December 1995 to mark the...

Leopardi filosofo anti-filosofo.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Leopardi filosofo anti-filosofo. By GHAN SHYAM SINGH. Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali. 1997. 184 pp. The fourteen essays collected here (six of which have been published before to my knowledge, although there is...

Il Duca di Sant'Aquila, Infanzia e giovinezza di Gadda.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Il Duca di Sant'Aquila, Infanzia e giovinezza di Gadda. By GIAN CARLO ROSCIONI. Milan: Mondadori. 1997. 352 pp. 13 [pounds sterling]. Memento mori. As the pages act out a life, they also consume it: biography, linearity's obliging servant, must...

Da Boccaccio a Pirandello: Scritti e ricerche. Con un saggio su letteratura e cristianesimo.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Da Boccaccio a Pirandello: Scritti e ricerche. Con un saggio su letteratura e cristianesimo. By ANTONIO ILLIANO. Intr. by Giorgio Luti. Naples: Federico & Ardia. 1997. 162 pp. 28,500 lire. This book, as the cumulative title suggests, proposes a...

Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights: The Language of Surrealism in Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and Aleixandre.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Metal Butterflies and Poisonous Lights: The Language of Surrealism in Lorca, Alberti, Cernuda and Aleixandre. By DEREK HARRIS. Anstruther, Fife: La Sirena. 1998. 246 pp. 24.95 [pounds sterling] (14.95 [pounds sterling] paperbound). Few critics...

Spanish Women's Writing 1849-1996.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Spanish Women's Writing 1849-1996. By CATHERINE DAVIES. (Women in Context Series: Women's Writing 1850-1990, 5) London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press. 1998. ix + 334 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. In the introduction, the author...

Rainy Days/Dias de Lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Rainy Days/Dias de lluvia: Short Stories by Contemporary Spanish Women Writers. Ed. by MONTSERRAT LUNATI. Trans. by MARILYN MYERSCOUGH. (Hispanic Classics) Warminster: Aris & Phillips. 1997. 253 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $49.95 (paperbound 12.95...

Novel into Film: The Case of 'La familia de Pascual Duarte'and 'Los santos inocentes'.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Novel into Film: The Case of 'La familia de Pascual Duarte" and 'Los santos inocentes'. By PATRICIA J. SANTORO. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1996. 216 pp. $28. Two of the most powerful texts...

Poetas de la palabra hablada: Un estudio de la poesia hispanoamericana contemporanea.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Poetas de la palabra hablada: un estudio de la poesia hispanoamericana contemporanea. By ROSA SARABIA. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias 162) London: Tamesis. 1998. 166 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $52. As Rosa Sarabia states in her...

Building a Nation: The Case of Echeverria.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Building a Nation: The Case of Echeverria. By JUAN CARLOS MERCADO. Lanham, MD, New York, and London: University Press of America. 1996. vi + 244 pp. $39. In the introduction to this volume, Juan Carlos Mercado sets out an eminently reasonable...

Convention and Transgression: The Theatre of Emilio Carballido.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Convention and Transgression: The Theatre of Emilio Carballido. By JACQUELINE E. BIXLER. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 256 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. In this study, which the author...