The Modern Language Review articles from July 2000

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2000

The controversial plot: Declamation and the concept of the 'problem play'.
July 1, 2000... Whatever happened to the problem play, that supposedly discrete category of Shakespeare text recognized by critics for much of the twentieth century? No concerted critical assault was mounted on the term, as in the case of the 'Elizabethan world...

Defending the self: Pope and his Horatian poems.
July 1, 2000... The Pope of the late poems, particularly those with a Horatian background and collected in the Twickenham edition as Imitations of Horace, is not an easy poet to live with. The explicit self-presentations are too frequent, too favourable, and...

Evangelicalism in 'Ruth'.
July 1, 2000... In Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth, the plot of the fallen woman makes an appeal similar to attempts by Evangelicals to rescue prostitutes. The fall of an innocent and pure girl, followed by her rehabilitation, is the typical scenario of the magdalenist...

'Dans le temps ou nous nous aimons, car je crois que c'etait de l'amour, j'etais heureuse; et vous, vicomte?: The pre-history of a dangerous liaison.
July 1, 2000... What is known, and what can be surmised, about the nature of the original relationship between the chief protagonists in Les Liaisons dangereuses? No critic, as far as I am aware, has assembled and systematically examined in one piece the various...

Bourget's debt to Herbert Spencer: 'Le Disciple' and the self-adjusting watch.
July 1, 2000... 'Ah! si le mecanisme pouvait de lui-meme modifier ses rouages et leur marche?' Le Disciple, p. 269 Readers familiar with Paul Bourget's seminal novel of 1889, Le Disciple, will recall that its opening sequence is devoted to a...

Mallarme at the Millennium.
July 1, 2000... The Gare Saint Lazare on a sweltering late summer morning, swirling groups of travellers coming to a disconsolate stop before the barriers as they wait for the details of their train to be flashed on the big screens above them, with small...

From scribal publication to print publication: Pietro Bembo's 'Rime', 1529-1535.
July 1, 2000... The Venetian patrician Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) is recognized today as the crucial figure in the Petrarchan lyric poetry of sixteenth-century Italy: not the most gifted poet of the century, but the one who by his example set the standard for the...

Florentine cultural journalism under fascism 'Il Bargello'.
July 1, 2000... The Bargello was the weekly newspaper of the Fascist party in Florence. In the course of its history, a remarkable number of important intellectuals and writers who were active in Florence in the 1930s contributed to it, ranging from leftish...

Lorca's 'Casa'.
July 1, 2000... As an anthropologist of Andalusia, I am struck by the social and cultural accuracy of Lorca's La casa de Bernarda Alba, its almost ethnographic quality. Lorca, noted for being expressly and incurably Andalusian, resisted the intellectual current...

Towards a Foucauldian Exegesis of Act V of Garcia Lorca's 'El Publico'.
July 1, 2000... Of all of Federico Garcia Lorca's works, El publico is the one that has suffered the greatest adversities. The fact that the play is the first text by Lorca, and also the first in modern theatre, that deals with homosexuality directly, without...

'Siner tugende anegenge sagen': The re-writing of Arthurian (hi)story in 'Diu Crone'.
July 1, 2000... Towards the beginning of his 30000-line Arthurian opus, Diu Crone (c. 1230), (1) the somewhat shadowy Heinrich von dem Turlin (2) employs a form of 'stage direction' that modern readers, by analogy with some riddling words in Daniel von dem...

Border negotiations in the works of Wolfgang Koeppen.
July 1, 2000... In an interview given after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolfgang Koeppen asserted, 'Ich bin uberhaupt gegen Grenzen'. (1) By examining border situations from three distinct periods of Koeppen's literary production, this article demonstrates how,...

Russian emigre literature in the context of French modernism: The case of Iurii Fel'zen.
July 1, 2000... This article explores the artistic interpretation of exile by those writers who left Russia in the wake of the Bolshevik coup of 1917. I focus particularly on the 'younger' or 'second' generation of Russian emigre writers, who by virtue of their...

Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Anglo-Saxonism and the Construction of Social Identity. Ed. by ALLEN J. FRANTZEN and JOHN D. NILES. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1997. vii + 242 pp. The occasion for this volume of nine essays was a conference organized by John...

Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson. Ed. by PETER S. BAKER and NICHOLAS HOWE. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1998. x + 310 pp. 40 [pounds sterling];...

Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic poetry.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Death and Purgatory in Middle English Didactic Poetry. By TAKAMI MATSUDA. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. x + 278 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $63. There have been many studies of penitential genres and the theme of death in medieval literature, and Le...

Chaucer and his English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tales in 'The Canterbury Tales'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Chaucer and his English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tales in 'The Canterbury Tales'. By W. A. DAVENPORT. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. x + 245 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). This book...

Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England. By JANETTE DILLON. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xv + 272 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. In letters as in life, the question of which language to...

Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Playing Robin Hood: The Legend as Performance in Five Centuries. Ed. by LOIS POTTER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 254 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. This book is a collection of ten essays...

Proportional Form in the Sonnet of Sidney Circle: Loving in Truth.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle: Loving in Truth. By TOM W. N. PARKER. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. vii + 259 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. The argument of Tom Parker's book is straightforward and...

Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England. By ELIZABETH HANSON. (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xii + 190 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95....

Russian Essays on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Russian Essays on Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Ed. by ALEXANDR PARFENOV and JOSEPH G. PRICE. (International Studies in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries) Cranbury NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses....

Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Stages of Play: Shakespeare's Theatrical Energies in Elizabethan Performance. By MICHAEL W. SHURGOT. Cranbury NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 268 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Michael W. Shurgot's...

Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind. By ANNA BATTIGELLI. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1998. xii + 180 pp. $32. We are well informed of the life-history of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), thanks to her...

The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning. By DEIDRE SHAUNA LYNCH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xiii + 317 pp. $45; 35.95 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18; 14.50 [pounds...

Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Disowned By Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s. By DAVID BROMWICH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xi + 186 pp. $25; 19.95 [pounds sterling]. In some ways this book invites an unlikely pairing with Kenneth...

Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2000... Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author. By SONIA HOFKOSH. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 29) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1988. xi + 188 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $54.95. Sonia Hofkosh's intention is to...

Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Byromania: Portraits of the Artist in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Culture. Ed. by FRANCES WILSON. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xii + 234 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. In Tom Stoppard's Arcadia Byron dominates...

The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in Nineteenth-Century English Literature.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. By MATTHEW C. BRENNAN. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1998. x + 169 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $55. Matthew Brennan's book begins with familiar territory,...

Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology. By ANTONY W. HARRISON. (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 1998. ix + 189 pp. $32.50. The tendency to regard the...

Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production. By DOUGLAS MAO. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1998. xii + 308 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]; $45. If the history of Modernism, in part at least, is a history of fresh...

The Tayloring Shop: Essays on the Poetry of Edward Taylor in Honor of Thomas M. and Virginia L. Davis.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Tayloring Shop: Essays on the Poetry of Edward Taylor in Honor of Thomas M. and Virginia L. Davis. Ed. by MICHAEL SCHULDINER. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 222 pp. 30 [pounds...

The Turn of the Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Turn of the Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James. By ADRE MARSHALL. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 280 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Henry James's Last Romance:...

Henry James's Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Turn of the Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James. By ADRE MARSHALL. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 280 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Henry James's Last Romance:...

Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, and Ethics.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Turn of the Mind: Constituting Consciousness in Henry James. By ADRE MARSHALL. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 280 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Henry James's Last Romance:...

The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. By CHRISTOPHE DEN TANDT. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998. xiv + 288 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $18.95). Holding to Burke's definition of the sublime as 'whatever is fitted...

Man from Babel.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Man From Babel. By EUGENE JOLAS. Ed. by ANDREAS KRAMER and RANIER RUMOLD. (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity) New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 1998. xxxix + 326 pp. $30. Eugene Jolas, best known to scholars and...

Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Sylvia Plath: The Shaping of Shadows. By AL STRANGEWAYS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 221 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. Although the thesis of this book is never satisfactorily...

The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis. By STEPHEN J. BOTTOMS. (Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xii + 301 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.95...

Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. Ed. by CHRISTOPHER BEACH. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1998. xi + 354 pp. $44.95 (paperbound $19.95). The essays collected in...

Contemporary African American Fiction: The Open Journey.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Contemporary African American Fiction: The Open Journey. By ROBERT BUTLER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 163 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]. Robert Butler's argument starts from the...

Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Post-Colonial Literatures in English: History, Language, Theory. By DENNIS WALDER. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 1998. xii + 232 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $54.95 (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.95). At the outset, Post-Colonial...

Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in 'New Canadian' Narratives.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Masculine Migrations: Reading the Postcolonial Male in 'New Canadian' Narratives. By DANIEL COLEMAN. (Theory/Culture) Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1998. xvii + 201 pp. $40; 26 [pounds sterling] (paperbound...

Introduction to Old Occitan.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Introduction to Old Occitan. By WILLIAM D. PADEN. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 1998. xxvi + 610 pp., with Audio CD. $35. This hefty and scholarly book is very welcome and deserves a place in every university library. It...

Orality and Performance in Early French Romance.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Orality and Performance in Early French Romance. By EVELYN BIRGE VITZ. Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: Brewer. 1999. ix + 314 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. The starting-point of this book is the notion that early French romance is characterized by a...

Recueil de farces (1450-1550): textes etablis, annotes et commentes: Vol XII: Les Deux Savetiers; Les Brus; Le Savetier Audin; Martin de Cambrai; La Pipee.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Recueil de farces (1450-1550): textes etablis, annotes et commentes. Vol. XII: Les Deux Savetiers; Les Brus; Le Savetier Audin; Martin de Cambrai; La Pipee. Ed. by ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 495) Geneva: Droz. 1998. 404 pp....

Etudes rabelasiennes.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Etudes rabelaisiennes, 35. Geneva: Droz. 1998. 193 pp. 94 SwF. As often with this series, the volume does not purport to treat any particular theme, but is simply a rich miscellany. Francois Cornilliat, 'On Words and Meaning in Rabelais...

Le Mecemat et l'influence des Guises: Actes du Colloque organise par le Centre de Recherche sur la Litterature de la Renaissance de l'universite de Reims et tenu a Joinville de 31 mai au 4 juin 1994.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Le Mecenat et l'influence des Guises: Actes du Colloque organise par le Centre de Recherche sur la Litterature de la Renaissance de l'Universite de Reims et tenu a Joinville du 31 mai au 4 juin 1994. Ed. by YVONNE BELLENGER. (Colloques, congres...

Vertu du discours de la vertu: Litterature et philosophie morale au XVIe siecle en France.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Vertu du discours, discours de la vertu: Litterature et philosophie morale au XVIe siecle en France. By ULRICH LANGER. (Les seuils de la modernite: Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 55) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 203 pp. 40.95 SwF. This is a subtle...

Litteratures no 18: L'ecriture des femmes a la Renaissance francaise.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Litteratures no 18: l'ecriture des femmes a la Renaissance francaise. Ed. by DIANE DESROSIERS-BONIN. Montreal: Publications du Departement de langue et litterature francaises, Universite McGill. 1998. 257 pp. $15. Like many studies of women's...

The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan. Ed. by BARBARA K. ALTMANN. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1998. vi + 294 pp. Barbara Altmann's critical edition of the Livre du Debat de deux amans (DA), the Livre des Trois jugemens (TJ),...

Reading Undercover: Audience and Authority in Jean de la Fontaine.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Reading Undercover: Audience and Authority in Jean de La Fontaine. By ANNE L. BIRBERICK. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 160 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. Anne Birberick approaches La Fontaine...

Les Ceremonies de la parole: L'eloquence d'apparat en France dans le dernier quart du XVIIe siecle.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Les Ceremonies de la parole: L'eloquence d'apparat en France dans le dernier quart du XVIIe siecle. By PIERRE ZOBERMAN. (Lumiere Classique, 16) Paris: Champion. 1998. 720 pp. 600 F. This series continues to publish substantial scholarly...

Strategies de romancieres: De 'Clelie' a 'La Princesse de Cleves'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Strategies de romancieres: De 'Clelie' a 'La Princesse de Cleves'. By NICOLE GRANDE. (Lumiere Classique, 20) Paris: Champion. 1999. 497 pp. 430 F. This weighty thesis is one of an steadily increasing number of works that seek to show that La...

Scarron: 'Le Roman comique'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Scarron: 'Le Roman comique'. By RICHARD PARISH. (Critical Guides to French Texts 119), Valencia: Grant & Cutler. 1998. 115 pp. 5.95 [pounds sterling]. Scarron's Roman comique is as intriguing, entertaining, and brimming with raw creative...

Les 'Pensees' de Pascal. Geologie et stratigraphie.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Les 'Pensees' de Pascal. Geologie et stratigraphie. By POL ERNST. Paris: Universitas; Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1996. viii + 479 pp. 600 F. Pol Ernst's thesis, now published in book form, is a signal example of the kind of precise...

Journal: Du Voyage des Indes Orientales et Relation: De ce qui est arrive dans le royaume de Siam en 1688.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Journal: Du Voyage des Indes Orientales et Relation: De ce qui est arrive dans le royaume de Siam en 1688. By ROBERT CHALLE. Textes inedits publies d'apres le manuscrit holographe par JACQUES POPIN et FREDERIC DELOFFRE. Geneve: Droz. 1998. 477...

Les Romanciers du plaisir.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Les Romanciers du plaisir. By CATHERINE CUSSET. Paris: Champion. 1998. 144 pp. 215 F. The key to eighteenth-century morality, as revealed in this slim but provocative volume, could be paraphrased as 'le corps a ses raisons que la raison ne...

L'Erreur des desirs. Romans sensibles au XVIIIe siecle.(Review)
July 1, 2000... L'Erreur des desirs. Romans sensibles au XVIIIe siecle. By CLAIRE JAQUIER. Lausanne: Payot. 1998. 240 pp. 139 FF. The basic concept this study seeks to explore is that of the dichotomy of sensuality and sentiment as it was expressed in...

Prevost: 'Manon Lescaut'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Prevost: 'Manon Lescaut'. Ed. by PATRICK BYRNE. London: Bristol Classical Press. 1999. xxviii + 182 pp. There is no shortage of student editions of Manon Lescaut, or of student handbooks devoted to it, but the present volume is the first new...

Politique et revolution chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Politique et revolution chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ed. by Equipe Rousseau (U.R.A. 96 de l'Universite de Paris IV), under the direction of TANGUY L'AMINOT. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 324) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation....

Jean-Jacques Rousseau au jour le jour: Chronologie.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Politique et revolution chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Ed. by Equipe Rousseau (U.R.A. 96 de l'Universite de Paris IV), under the direction of TANGUY L'AMINOT. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 324) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation....

Sade: A Biographical Essay.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Sade: A Biographical Essay. By LAURENCE L. BONGIE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xii + 36 pp. 23.25 [pounds sterling]. 'Put a pen in Satan's claw [...] and he could do no worse', wrote the celebrated author,...

Balzac ou la fureur d'ecrire.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Balzac ou la fureur d'ecrire. By NADINE SATIAT. Paris: Hachette Litteratures. 1999. 640 pp. 180 F. This volume is described by the publisher as 'la premiere biographie qui laisse la parole a` Balzac lui-meme'. Where other recent biographers of...

Prosper Merimee: ecrivain, archeologue, historien.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Prosper Merimee: ecrivain, archeologue, historien. Ed. by ANTONIA FONYI. Geneva: Droz. 1999. xii + 266 pp. Antonia Fonyi's introduction notes that Merimee's diverse achievements have been neglected by researchers since the completion of...

Lorenzaccio.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Lorenzaccio. By ALFRED DE MUSSET. Ed. by DEREK F. CONNON. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. 1998. xlvi + 144 pp. 8.95 [pounds sterling]. One of the first problems facing an editor of Lorenzaccio is that of presenting the large amount of...

Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Processes of Literary Creation: Flaubert and Proust. By MARION SCHMID. Oxford: Legenda. 1998. 218 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. Marion Schmid's genetic study of L'Education sentimentale and A la recherche du temps perdu comprises three sections:...

Proust: Questions d'identite.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Proust: Questions d'identite. By JULIA KRISTEVA. (Legenda Special Lecture Series, 1) Oxford: Legenda. 1998. 29 pp. 'En etre, ou ne pas en etre': that is the question. Belonging, Julia Kristeva argues in this transcript of a lecture given at...

Oeuvres romanesques completes.(Review)
July 1, 2000... OEuvres romanesques completes. By MARCEL AYME. Vol. II. Ed. by MICHEL LECUREUR. (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) Paris: Gallimard. 1998. xxv + 1498 pp. Since the first volume appeared in 1989 (see MLR, 86 (1991), 477-78), editorial responsibility...

Short French Fiction: Essays on the Short Story in France in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Short French Fiction: Essays on the Short Story in France in the Twentieth Century. Ed. by J. E. FLOWER. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1998. 182 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. This volume provides evidence of the renewed interest in the...

The Life of Celine.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Life of Celine: A Critical Biography. By NICHOLAS HEWITT. (Critical Biographies) Oxford: Blackwell. 1999. 360 pp. Claude Rawson, the editor of this new series of Blackwell's Critical Biographies, has shown originality as well as good taste...

Beckett before Godot.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Beckett before Godot. By JOHN PILLING. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii + 277 pp. As John Pilling is well aware, the works before Godot, with the exception of Murphy, scarcely deserve study for their intrinsic interest as...

Beckett a la lettre: 'En attendant Godot', 'Fin de partie'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Beckett a la lettre: 'En attendant Godot', 'Fin de partie'. By HUBERT DE PHALESE. Paris: Nizet. 1998. 156 pp. This is a high level student guide aimed at candidates for the agregation. The enterprise is a collective one under a pseudonym that...

Francoise Sagan: 'Bonjour tristesse'.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Francoise Sagan: 'Bonjour tristesse'. By NATHALIE MORELLO. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 122) London: Grant & Cutler. 1998. 92 pp. 4.95 [pounds sterling]; $8.16. Nearly fifty years after the publication of Bonjour tristesse, is Francoise...

Diane Kurys.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Diane Kurys. By Carrie Tarr. (French Film Directors) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1999. ix + 162 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. Carrie Tarr's volume on Diane Kurys is the fifth in this very welcome series on French film directors that...

Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Pluie et vent sur Telumee Miracle. By SIMONE SCHWARZ-BART. Ed. by ALFRED FRALIN and CHRISTIANE SZEPS. Bristol: Bristol Classical Press. 1998. xxiii + 163 pp. As Alfred Fralin and Christiane Szeps themselves point out, Simone Schwarz-Bart's...

Miroirs de textes: recits de voyage et intertextualite.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Miroirs de textes: Recits de voyage et intertextualite. Ed. by SOPHIE LINON-CHIPON, VERONIQUE MAGRI-MOURGUES, and SARGA MOUSSA. (Publications de la Faculte des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines de Nice: New Series, 49) Nice: Faculte des Lettres,...

Le Demon de la theorie: Litterature et sens commun.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Le Demon de la theorie: Litterature et sens commun. By ANTOINE COMPAGNON. Paris: Seuil. 1998. 311 pp. 130 F. Antoine Compagnon wonders 's'il existe une histoire de la critique litteraire, comme il existe une histoire de la philosophie ou de la...

The Mitterand Years: Legacy and Evaluation.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Mitterrand Years: Legacy and Evaluation. Ed. by MAIRI MACLEAN. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. xv + 336 pp. When Peguy wrote that 'tout commence en mystique et tout finit en politique', he meant it as a criticism. The...

Le scritura degli 'Asolani' di Pietro Bembo.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Le scrittura degli 'Asolani' di Pietro Bembo. By CLAUDIA BERRA. Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1996. ix + 357 pp. 52,000 lire. New critical perspectives on Pietro Bembo's least studied vernacular work, the Asolani, were to be expected following the...

The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice.(Review)
July 1, 2000... The Epic Rhetoric of Tasso: Theory and Practice. By MAGGIE GUNSBERG. Oxford: Legenda. 1998. xii + 242 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. Maggie Gunsberg's book is a revised version of a doctoral dissertation presented at Reading University in 1985...

Italo Svevo narratore: lezione triestine.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Italo Svevo narratore: lezioni triestine. By BRIAN MOLONEY. (I leggeri) Gorizia: Libreria Editrice Goriziana. 1998. 197 pp. 24,000 lire. Svevo scholarship is indebted to Brian Moloney for some penetrating studies and for the discovery of...

Sintaxis funcional basica del espanol: Estratos, propiedades y operaciones.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Sintaxis funcional basica del espanol: Estratos, propiedades y operaciones. By MANUEL MARTIN CID. Seville: University of Seville. 1998. 181 pp. 1800 ptas. This book consists of eight chapters, including an introduction, and is divided into...

Un texto inedito sobre la caballeria del Renacimiento espanol: 'Doctrina del arte de la caballeria' de Juan Quijada de Reayo.(Review)
July 1, 2000... Un texto inedito sobre la caballeria del Renacimiento espanol: 'Doctrina del arte de la caballeria', de Juan Quijada de Reayo. By NOEL FALLOWS. (Hispanic Studies Textual Research and Criticism, 14) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 1996....