The Modern Language Review articles from July 2001

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2001

Falstaff: subjectivity between the carnival and the aesthetic.
July 1, 2001... The Many Layers of Sir John The new historicism and cultural materialism have not been kind to Falstaff. In fact, in many ways they have been scandalously unresponsive to the great complexity of this singular Shakespearean creation. Such...

The 'all-attoning name': the word patriot in seventeenth-century England.
July 1, 2001... Reigning words are many times of such force as to influence us considerably in our apprehension of things. (Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury) John Dryden's 'All-attoning Name' is the word patriot, which he accorded to the...

"Dead many times': Cathleen ni Houlihan, Yeats, two old women, and a vampire.(W.B. Yeats)
July 1, 2001... The figure of Cathleen ni Houlihan as an Old Woman representing Ireland now seems familiar, virtually a national revolutionary icon, for better or for worse; (1) however, the figure was effectively invented in the play W. B. Yeats and Augusta...

'Speak again': the politics of rewriting in "A Thousand Acres".
July 1, 2001... Jane Smiley's Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, is a work both very much of its time and part of a venerable tradition. (1) In its treatment of sexual abuse within the family and ecological issues (the chief revelations of the novel...

Divorce and political scandal in Edouard Rod's "Michel Teissier" novels.
July 1, 2001... Edouard Rod (1857-1910) has long since fallen into the gap between, on the one hand, a pedagogical reliance on the novelistic canon and, on the other, the critical excavation of cultural margins. The canon has been underwritten by the values of...

Autodidacticism and criminality in Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Nausee" and Edith Thomas's "L'Homme Criminel".
July 1, 2001... Jean-Paul Sartre needs no introduction; the name of Edith Thomas is very much less well-known. (1) Born in 1909, thus close in age to both Sartre (born in 1905) and to Beauvoir (born in 1908), Thomas produced four novels during the 1930s,...

Alimentary metaphors in Dante's "Paradiso".
July 1, 2001... One of the most celebrated features of Dante's presentation of the afterlife in the Commedia is its realism. The concreteness of the poet's imagination is self-evident in the Inferno and the Purgatorio, where damnation and purgation are...

Quintilla usage in Antonio Enriquez Gomez: more evidence against his authorship of "La Hija Del Aire".
July 1, 2001... In a previous study I undertook to refute each of the points on which Constance Rose bases her claim that Antonio Enriquez Gomez wrote the Second Part of La hija del aire. (1) I concluded that Rose's evidence rests solely on the chronological...

The city of words: Eduardo Mendoza's "La Chiudad De Los Prodigios".
July 1, 2001... the city must never be confused with the words that describe it (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities) (1) The publication of Eduardo Mendoza's fourth novel La ciudad de los prodigios reopened a literary debate that began in early...

The sincerest form of flattery: a note on Bruce Chatwin's "The Estate of Maximilian Tod" as an imitation of Borges.(author Jorge Luis Borges)
July 1, 2001... In Bruce Chatwin's Anatomy of Restlessness, an anthology of previously uncollected essays, stories and reviews, there is a tale which resounds with echoes of the narrative art of Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian maestro. The story in question,...

Politics and the playwright: J.M.R. Lenz and "Die Soldaten".
July 1, 2001... Hier, Hierophant! in Deinen heiligen Handen das Stuck, das mein halbes Dasein mitnimmt. Es ist wahr und wird bleiben, mogen auch Jahrhunderte uber meinen Schadel verachtungsvoll fortschreiten. Amen. (Lenz to Herder,...

Tieck's Juvenila: Ossianic attributions.(poet Ludwig Tieck)
July 1, 2001... Unlike, say, Klopstock, Herder, Stolberg or Goethe, Ludwig Tieck is not a name that is readily associated with Macpherson's Ossian. In itself this need not mean very much. There are other major German writers whose names are not readily...

Marina Tsvetaeva: the concrete and the metaphoric discourse of exile.
July 1, 2001... In exile studies the distinction between emigres, whose departure is voluntary, and exiles, forcibly expelled from the homeland, tends to persist. Thus the mass exodus from Russia after the Revolution is generally referred to as emigration. (1)...

English Stage Comedy 1490-1990: Five Centuries of a Genre.(Review)
July 1, 2001... English Stage Comedy 1490-1990. Five Centuries of a Genre. By ALEXANDER LEGGATT. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. x + 182 pp. 14.99. Drawing on over a hundred plays, Alexander Leggatt combines an examination of genre with a historical...

The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens. Ed. by JAMES J. PAXSON, LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER, and SYLVIA TOMASCH. Cambridge: Brewer. 1998. ix + 198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $81. James...

Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Preaching, Politics and Poetry in Late-Medieval England. By ALAN J. FLETCHER. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1998. 320 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays gathers together ten previously published articles spanning the decade 1986...

The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature. By JAMES M. DEAN. (Medieval Academy Books, 101) Cambridge, MA: Medieval Academy of America. 1997. xi + 379 pp. $50. The world grown old is a recurring theme in medieval literature: through the...

Arthurian Literature XVI.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Arthurian Literature XVI. Ed. by JAMES P. CARLEY and FELICITY RIDDY. Cambridge: Brewer. 1998. 211 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. The latest volume in this now well-established series contains an eclectic mix of edition, translation, indexes,...

Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of 'De spermate'.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Medieval Embryology in the Vernacular: The Case of 'De spermate'. By PAIVI PAHTA. (Memoires de la Societe Neophilologique de Helsinki, LIII) Helsinki: Societe Neophilologique. 1998. xii + 328 pp. $45. The fifteenth-century manuscript, Trinity...

The English Emblem Tradition: Vol. IV: William Camden: "Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine"; H.G.: "The Mirrour of Maiestie"; Otto van Veen: "Amorum Emblemata".(Review)
July 1, 2001... The English Emblem Tradition. Vol. IV: William Camden: 'Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine'; H. G.: 'The Mirrour of Maiestie'; Otto van Veen: 'Amorum Emblemata'. Ed. by PETER M. DALY with LESLIE T. DUER and MARY V. SILCOX. Co-Ed. for...

The English Emblem Tradition: Vol. V: Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books.(Review)
July 1, 2001... The English Emblem Tradition. Vol. V: Henry Peacham's Manuscript Emblem Books. Ed. by ALAN R. YOUNG with BEERT VERSTRAETE. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1998. xxx + 332 pp. $120; 85 [pounds sterling]. The...

Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Emblematica: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Emblem Studies, 9.2. (Winter, 1995). Ed. by PETER M. DALY, DANIEL S. RUSSELL, and JOHN MANNING. New York: AMS Press. 1998. 211 pp. $89.50 (for 2 yearly issues) The sub-series of the Index...

Malory: Texts and Sources.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Malory: Texts and Sources. By P. J. C. FIELD. (Arthurian Studies, 40) Cambridge: Brewer. 1998. x + 313 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $90. P. J. C. Field is the most experienced of Malory scholars and this collection of his articles on the texts and...

A Guide to English Illustrated Books: 1536-1603.(Review)
July 1, 2001... A Guide to English Illustrated Books: 1536-1603. By RUTH SAMSON LUBORSKY and ELIZABETH MORLEY INGRAM. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 166) Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. 1998. 2 vols. Vol. I: xxxi + 754 pp.; Vol. II:...

Jean Marie Le Prince de Beaumont: Contes et autres ecrits.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont: Contes et autres ecrits. Ed. by BARBARA KALTZ. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. xxiii + 192 pp. 14.90 [pounds sterling]; 149 F. From a modest Rouennais background, the remarkable Mme de Beaumont shed...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Imagination, Illusions, Chimeres.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Imagination, illusions, chimeres. By PAOLA SOSSO. Paris: Champion. 1999. 269 pp. This is an important topic. In Rousseau the desire for the ideal (love, fictions, the good political order, original plenitude, 'l'autre...

Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Sedaine, Greuze and the Boundaries of Genre. By MARK LEDBURY. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 380) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. xi + 355 pp. 69 [pounds sterling]. This is a very welcome addition to modern studies on...

Les Interpretations de Condorcet: symbols et concepts 1794-1894.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Les Interpretations de Condorcet: symboles et concepts (1794-1894). By JEAN-PIERRE SCHANDELER. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 2000: 03) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. 334 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Jean-Pierre...

X, ou le divin dans la poesie de Victor Hugo a partir de l'exil.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... X, ou le divin dans la poesie de Victor Hugo a partir de l'exil. By CLAUDE RETAT. Paris: CNRS. 1999. 222 pp. Claude Retat's project in this book is to define the divine in Hugo's oeuvre. She argues that the divine is both perceived and...

Victor Hugo: Choix de textes.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Victor Hugo: Choix de textes. By THEOPHILE GAUTIER. Introduction and notes by FRANCOISE COURT-PEREZ. (Textes de litterature moderne et contemporaine, 38). Paris: Champion. 2000. 264 pp. 290 F. Francoise Court-Perez has usefully assembled the...

The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Artificial Self: The Psychology of Hippolyte Taine. By HILARY NIAS. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre, MHRA. 1999. 259 pp. Given the relative dearth of serious work on the writers who formed the philosophical backbone to...

Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Poignant Relations: Three Modern French Women. By JAMES SMITH ALLEN. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xiii + 270 pp. This is a study of the life and (largely unpublished) writings of three nineteenth-century French women, each...

George Sand and Autobiography.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... George Sand and Autobiography. By JANET HIDDLESTON. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 5). Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre. 1999. 107 pp. Sand's stock stood markedly higher in her own century than it has until...

Madame Bovary: Representations of the Masculine.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Madame Bovary: Representations of the Masculine. By MARY ORR. (Romanticism and After in France, 3) Bern: Peter Lang. 1999. 229 pp. 23 [pounds sterling]. In this book Mary Orr claims to 'demonstrate how Madame Bovary has much to say about...

Trois contes ou plus.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Trois contes ou plus. By MARIE THERESE JACQUET. (Cultura Staniera, 91) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier. 1999. 229 pp. 28,000 lire. Few short stories have attracted as much critical attention as Flaubert's Trois Contes, and Marie Therese Jacquet's...

Baudelaire: At the Limits and Beyond.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Baudelaire: At the Limits and Beyond. By NICOLAE BABUTS. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1997. 182 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. Nicolae Babuts's book presents itself as 'an attempt to define the...

Dieu, la chair et les livres: Une approche de la decadence.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Dieu, la chair et les livres: Une approche de la decadence. Ed. by SYLVIE THOREL-CAILLETEAU. (Romantisme et modernites, 37) Paris: Champion. 2000. 672 pp. + 12 plates. 430 F. While this is not a rigorous thematic exploration of the fin de...

Construction de la scene d'enonciation dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Construction de la scene d'enonciation dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. By MERVI HELKKULA-LUKKARINEN. (Memoires de la Societe Neophilologique de Helsinki, 57). Helsinki: Societe Neophilologique. 1999. x + 283 pp. The reader working...

Science and Structure in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Science and Structure in Proust's 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. By NICOLA LUCKHURST. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. 262 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. A la recherche du temps perdu is a notoriously hybrid text: like other modern classics of the...

Leon-Paul Fargue.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Leon-Paul Fargue. By BARBARA PASCAREL. (Bibliographie des ecrivains francais, 21). Paris and Rome: Editions Memini. 2000. 212 pp. 300 F. This promises to be a series of about 500 titles, each taking a single author or group of texts....

Romain Rolland.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Romain Rolland. By R. A. FRANCIS. Oxford: Berg. 1999. 285 PP. 42.99 [pounds sterling]. At a time when more recent figures such as Sartre are beginning to appear of another age from our own, one might be forgiven for assuming that an unstated...

Reading Nathalie Sarraute: Dialogue and Distance.(Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Reading Nathalie Sarraute: Dialogue and Distance. By EMER O'BEIRNE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. vi + 259 pp. On the cover of Emer O'Beirne's book is a sepia photograph of Nathalie Sarraute gazing quizzically at the reader from her garden....

Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference. By ANN JEFFERSON. (Cambridge Studies in French, 64) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xiii + 214 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Ann Jefferson here follows up her excellent...

Reading Diversity/Lectures du Divers.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Reading Diversity/Lectures du Divers. Ed. by CHARLES FORSDICK and SUSAN MARSON. (University of Glasgow French and German Publications) Glasgow: University of Glasgow. 2000. 172 pp. These essays, edited from papers given at a conference held in...

L'Auteur en souffrance: Essai sur la position et la representation de l'auteur dans le roman antillais contemporain (1981-1992).(Review)
July 1, 2001... L'Auteur en souffrance: Essai sur la position et la representation de l'auteur dans le roman antillais contemporain (1981-1992). By DOMINIQUE CHANCE. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2000. 224 pp. 138 F. The writers of the French...

La Nouvelle Alliance: influences francophones sur la litterature ecossaise moderne.(Review)
July 1, 2001... La Nouvelle Alliance: influences francophones sur la litterature ecossaise moderne. Ed. by DAVID KINLOCH AND RICHARD PRICE. Grenoble: ELLUG. 2000. 264 pp. 140 F. Despite its official conclusion by the Act of Union in 1707, the 'Auld Alliance'...

Traveling Theory: France and the United States.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Traveling Theory: France and the United States. Ed. by IEME VAN DER POEL and SOPHIE BERTHO. Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 177 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. The...

Heterographies: Sexual Difference in French Autobiography.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Heterographies: Sexual Difference in French Autobiography. By ALEX HUGHES. Oxford and New York: Berg. 1999. vii + 186 pp. 42.99 [pounds sterling]. Alex Hughes's new monograph incorporates some of her previously published work, but also...

Ecrire la danse.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Ecrire la danse. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. Clermont Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 1999. 286 pp. 150 FF. Writing about writing on dance is in fashion. The Mallarme centenary conferences of 1999 doubtless had something to do with...

Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Making Connections: Essays in French Culture and Society in Honour of Philip Thody. Ed. by JAMES DOLAMORE. Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Paris: Peter Lang. 1999. 283 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. This collection of studies was designed as a tribute...

Bibliografia testuale o filologia dei testi a stampa? Definizioni metodologiche e prospettive future: convegno di studiin onore di Conor Fahy (Udine 24-25-26 febbraio 1997).(Review)
July 1, 2001... Bibliografia testuale o filologia dei testi a stampa? Definizioni metodologiche e prospettive future. Convegno di studi in onore di Conor Fahy (Udine 24-25-26 febbraio 1997). Ed. by NEIL HARRIS. Udine: Forum. 1999. 363 pp. 50,000 lire. A...

Edizione Nazionale ed Europea delle opere di Alessandro Manzoni.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Edizione Nazionale ed Europea delle opere di Alessandro Manzoni. Ed. by Giancarlo Vigorelli. 36 vols. Milan: Centro Nazionale Studi Manzoniani. 2000. Vol. XXVII: Carteggio Alessandro Manzoni-Claude Fauriel. Ed. by IRENE BOTTA. Foreword by EZIO...

Il Novecento inglese e italiano. Saggi critici e comparativi. Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Mario Luzi, Sergio Solmi, F.R. Leavis, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Stephen Spender e Philip Larkin.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Il Novecento inglese e italiano. Saggi critici e comparativi. Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Mario Luzi, Sergio Solmi, F. R. Leavis, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore, Stephen Spender e Philip Larkin. By G....

Lettere londinesi (1968-1995).(Review)
July 1, 2001... Lettere londinesi (1968-1995). By CARLO DIONISOTTI. Ed. by GIUSEPPE ANCESCHI. Florence: Olschki. 2000. 111 pp. 25,000 lire. The volume reproduces fifty-one letters written by Dionisotti to Anceschi between 1968 and 1995. About a third of the...

Lirica moderna e contemporanea.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Lirica moderna e contemporanea. By ERMANNO KRUMM. (Biblioteca, 5) Florence: La Nuova Italia. 1997. viii + 178 pp. 15,000 lire. It is no easy task to understand the complexities of modern Italian poetry. Ermanno Krumm, a poet himself and an...

DELI: Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana.(Review)
July 1, 2001... DELI: Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana. By MANLIO CORTELAZZO and PAOLO ZOLLI. Second edition in one volume ed. by MANLIO CORTELAZZO and MICHELE A. CORTELAZZO. Bologna: Zanichelli. 1999. 1856 pp. 168,000 lire. The Dizionario...

El Libro del conoscimiento de todos los reinos (The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms).(Review)
July 1, 2001... El Libro del conoscimiento de todos los reinos (The Book of Knowledge of All Kingdoms). Ed. and trans. by NANCY F. MARINO. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 198) Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies....

El tema del reconocimiento en el teatro espanol del siglo.(Review)
July 1, 2001... El tema del reconocimiento en el teatro espanol del siglo XVI. By PATRICIA GARRIDO CAMACHO. Madrid: Tamesis. 1999. x + 124 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Based on the author's University of Michigan PhD thesis, this short study traces the changing...

Actividad teatral en Cordoba y arrendamientos de la casa de las comedias: 1602-1737. Estudio y documentos.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Actividad teatral en Cordoba y arrendamientos de la casa de las comedias: 1602-1737. Estudio y documentos. By ANGEL MARIA GARCIA GOMEZ. (Fuentes para la historia del teatro en Espana, 34) London: Tamesis. 1999. 439 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]....

La poesia de Joan Maragall.(Review)
July 1, 2001... La poesia de Joan Maragall. By ARTHUR TERRY. 2nd edn. Barcelona: Quaderns Crema. 1999. 267 pp. 2,500ptas. On its appearance in 1963, Arthur Terry's study of the poetry of Joan Maragall made its mark in several ways. It was seen as the very...

Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca. Ed. by SEBASTIAN DOGGART and MICHAEL THOMPSON. (Durham Modern Language Series) Durham: University of Durham. 1999. 282 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]. 'El teatro es la poesia que se levanta...

Spanish Cinema: Calling the Shots.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Spanish Cinema: Calling the Shots. Ed. by ROB RIX and ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ-SAONA. (Leeds Iberian Papers). Leeds: Trinity and All Saints. 1999. x + 153 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]. This volume gathers very different readings of contemporary Spanish...

Mario de Andrade: The Creative Works.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Mario de Andrade: The Creative Works. By JOSE I. SUAREZ and JACK E. TOMLINS. Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 195 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. The title of this first English-language monograph...

Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages from 1500 to 1800.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Images of Language: Six Essays on German Attitudes to European Languages from 1500 to 1800. By WILLIAM JERVIS JONES. (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 89) Amsterdam: Benjamins. 1999. x + 297 pp. Hfl 150; $75. In Images of...

Die Geschichte der Medien. Vol. 1: Das Medium als Kult. Von den Anfangen bis zur Spatantike (8. Jahrhundert).(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die Geschichte der Medien. By WERNER FAULSTICH. Vol. I: Das Medium als Kult. Von den Anfangen bis zur Spatantike (8. Jahrhundert); Vol. II: Medien und Offentlichkeiten im Mittelalter 800-1400. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1997; 1996. 327...

Die Geschichte der Medien. Vol. II: Medien und Offentlichkeiten im Mittelalter 800-1400.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die Geschichte der Medien. By WERNER FAULSTICH. Vol. I: Das Medium als Kult. Von den Anfangen bis zur Spatantike (8. Jahrhundert); Vol. II: Medien und Offentlichkeiten im Mittelalter 800-1400. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 1997; 1996. 327...

Die Liebeskonzeption der mittelalterlichen Tristanromane. Zur Erzahllogik der Werke Berouls, Eilharts, Thomas' und Gottfrieds.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die Liebeskonzeption der mittelalterlichen Tristanromane. Zur Erzahllogik der Werke Berouls, Eilharts, Thomas' und Gottfrieds. By ANNA KECK. (Beihefte zu Poetica, 22) Munchen: Fink. 1998. 239 pp. DM 68. Erzahlwelten in der Tristangeschichte im...

Erzahlwelten in der Tristangeschichte im hohen Mittelalter. Untersuchungen zu den deutschsprachigen Tristanfassungen des 12, und 13. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die Liebeskonzeption der mittelalterlichen Tristanromane. Zur Erzahllogik der Werke Berouls, Eilharts, Thomas' und Gottfrieds. By ANNA KECK. (Beihefte zu Poetica, 22) Munchen: Fink. 1998. 239 pp. DM 68. Erzahlwelten in der Tristangeschichte im...

Erahlstrukturen der Artusliteratur. Forschungsgeschichte und neue Ansatze.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Erzahlstrukturen der Artusliteratur. Forschungsgeschichte und neue Ansatze. Ed. by Friedrich Wolfzettel with PETER IHRING. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1999. xi + 366 pp. DM 142. This volume, the proceedings of a symposium of the German section of the...

A Companion to Wolfram's 'Parzival'.(Review)
July 1, 2001... A Companion to Wolfram's 'Parzival'. Ed. by WILL HASTY. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1999. xx + 295 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. This volume assembles twelve contributions, all except one...

Die 'Minneburg'. Beitrage zu einer Funktionsgeschichte der Allegorie im spaten Mittelalter.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die 'Minneburg'. Beitrage zu einer Funktionsgeschichte der Allegorie im spaten Mittelalter. By ANJA SOMMER. (Mikrokosmos: Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, 52) Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Vienna: Peter Lang. 1999. 312...

Das Strassburger Eulenspiegelbuch: Studien zu entstehungsgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen der altesten Druckuberlieferung.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Das Strassburger Eulenspiegelbuch: Studien zu entstehungsgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen der altesten Druckuberlieferung. By JURGEN SCHULZ-GROBERT. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1999. x + 424 pp. DM 108. Uncovering the origins and authorship of the...

Die Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Die Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Ed. by ALBERT MEIER. (Hansers Sozialgeschichte der Deutschen Literatur, 2) Munchen: Hanser. 1999. 776 pp. DM 42. One of the most pertinent observations in this book is made by its editor in his essay on the...

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): Leben und Werk.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): Leben und Werk. By LOTHAR NOACK. (Fruhe Neuzeit, 51) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1999. xiv + 542 pp. DM 184. Hoffmannswaldau has always been something of a problem. Viewed askance in periods which...

Briefgesprache. Uber den Briefwechsel zwischen Anna Louisa Karsch und Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim. Mit einem Anhang bislang ungerdruckter Briefe aus der Korrespondenz zwischen Gleim und Caroline Luise von Klencke.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Briefgesprache. Uber den Briefwechsel zwischen Anna Louisa Karsch und Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim. Mit einem Anhang bislang ungedruckter Briefe aus der Korrespondenz zwischen Gleim und Caroline Luise von Klencke. By UTE POTT. Gottingen:...

Unpopular Virtues: The Critical Reception of J.M.R. Lenz.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Unpopular Virtues: The Critical Reception of J. M. R. Lenz. By ALAN C. LEIDNER and KARIN A. WURST. (Literary Criticism in Perspective) Columbia: Camden House. 1999. xvi + 167 pp. $55. Writing to Herder in 1775, Lenz describes himself as being...

Der junge Goethe in seiner Zeit. Samtliche Werke, Briefe, Tagebucher und Schriften bis 1775.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Der junge Goethe in seiner Zeit. Samtliche Werke, Briefe, Tagebucher und Schriften bis 1775. Ed. by KARL EIBL, FOTIS JANNIDIS and MARIANNE WILLEMS. Frankfurt a.M. and Leipzig: Insel. 1998. 706 + 773 pp. + CD-ROM. DM 88. Several applications of...

Der Weimarer Musenhof: Literatur, Musik und Tanz, Gartenkunst, Geselligkeit, Malerei.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Der Weimarer Musenhof: Literatur, Musik und Tanz, Gartenkunst, Geselligkeit, Malerei. By GABRIELE BUSCH-SALMEN, WALTER SALMEN and CHRISTOPHER MICHEL. Stuttgart and Weimar: Metzler. 1998. viii + 237 pp. DM 78. This is a beautifully presented...

Schiller-Handbuch.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Schiller-Handbuch. Ed. by HELMUT KOOPMANN. Stuttgart: Kroner. 1998. xviii + 966 pp. DM 74. This volume is aimed at a broad readership: advanced undergraduates, specialists and the informed general reader. It offers compact surveys of...

Holderlin and the Dynamics of Translation.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Holderlin and the Dynamics of Translation. By CHARLIE LOUTH. (Legenda, Studies in Comparative Literature 2) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, in association with the British Comparative Literature Association. 1998. x + 270 pp. 27.50...

Antisemitismus und Judentum bei Clemens Brentano.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Antisemitismus und Judentum bei Clemens Brentano. By MARTINA VORDERMAYER. (Forschungen zum Junghegelianismus, 4) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern: Lang. 1999. 300 pp. DM 89. This formidable study, originally a Munich thesis, is not for beginners....

Zwischen Tranen und Kommerz: Das Ruhrtheater Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffers (1800-1868) in seiner kunstlerischen und kommerziellen Verwertung. Quellenforschung am Handschriften-Nachlass.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Zwischen Tranen und Kommerz: Das Ruhrtheater Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffers (1800-1868) in seiner kunstlerischen und kommerziellen Verwertung. Quellenforschung am Handschriften-Nachlass. By BIRGIT PARGNER. Bielefeld: Aisthesis. 1998. 512 pp. DM 98....

Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (1800-1868). Eine Frau beherrscht die Buhne.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Zwischen Tranen und Kommerz: Das Ruhrtheater Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffers (1800-1868) in seiner kunstlerischen und kommerziellen Verwertung. Quellenforschung am Handschriften-Nachlass. By BIRGIT PARGNER. Bielefeld: Aisthesis. 1998. 512 pp. DM 98....

Deutschsprachige Schriftstellerinnen des Fin de siecle.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Deutschsprachige Schriftstellerinnen des Fin de siecle. Ed. by Karin Tebben. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 1999. vii + 350 pp. DM 58. Publication timing (December 1999) was outstanding, choice of subjects, despite the omission...