The Modern Language Review articles from July 2002

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2002

Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Charismatic Authority in Early Modern English Tragedy. By RAPHAEL FALCO. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. x + 243 pp. 31 [pounds sterling]. Raphael Falco's interdisciplinary monograph applies Max Weber's sociological...

Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe and Bacon.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe and Bacon. By GRAHAM L. HAMMILL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xi + 219 pp. + 4 colour pls. $30; 19.00 [pounds sterling]. Recent literary critics and historians working on...

Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of Truth in English Renaissance Culture.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of Truth in English Renaissance Culture. By DIANA B. ALTEGOER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 210 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]....

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Shakespeare and his Contemporaries in Performance. By EDWARD J. ESCHE. Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 2000. xii + 364 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. The systematic study of performance history is a comparatively new phenomenon...

Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A. Foakes.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R. A. Foakes. Ed. by GRACE IOPPOLO. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 315 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. This elegant volume of essays is a fitting...

Shakespeare's Reading.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Shakespeare's Reading. By ROBERT S. MIOLA. (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xii + 186 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time. By MARTIN WIGGINS. (Oxford...

Shakespeare and the Drama of His Time.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Shakespeare's Reading. By ROBERT S. MIOLA. (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xii + 186 pp. 25 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time. By MARTIN WIGGINS. (Oxford...

Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and the Controversies of Self.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Shakespeare's 'Hamlet" and the Controversies of Self By JOHN LEE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. xi + 266 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. 'Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?' Hamlet's argument with Guildenstern after the...

'The Tempest' and Its Travels.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... 'The Tempest" and Its Travels. Ed. by PETER HULME and WILLIAM H. SHERMAN. London: Reaktion. 2000. xiv + 319 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. Shakespeare's The Tempest provides the starting-point for this collection of nineteen specially...

Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in 'Paradise Lost.' .(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in 'Paradise Losf. By JOHN N. KING. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xx + 227 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. Much recent scholarship has sought to...

The Poems of John Dryden, vol. III: 1686-1693; vol. IV: 1693-1696.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV: 1693-1696. Ed. by PAUL HAMMOND and DAVID HOPKINS. (Longman Annotated English Poets. Gen. Ed. John Barnard). Harlow: Pearson Education. 2000. xxv + 456 pp.; xxiv + 374 pp. 95 [pounds...

John Dryden: Tercentary Essays.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV: 1693-1696. Ed. by PAUL HAMMOND and DAVID HOPKINS. (Longman Annotated English Poets. Gen. Ed. John Barnard). Harlow: Pearson Education. 2000. xxv + 456 pp.; xxiv + 374 pp. 95 [pounds...

John Dryden's 'Aeneis': A Hero in Enlightenment Mode.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Poems of John Dryden. Vol. III: 1686-1693; Vol. IV: 1693-1696. Ed. by PAUL HAMMOND and DAVID HOPKINS. (Longman Annotated English Poets. Gen. Ed. John Barnard). Harlow: Pearson Education. 2000. xxv + 456 pp.; xxiv + 374 pp. 95 [pounds...

Time to Begin Anew: Dryden's 'Georgics' and 'Aeneis.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Time to Begin Anew: Dryden's 'Georgics' and 'Aeneis'. By TANYA CALDWELL. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ; Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 263 pp. 35 [pounds...

'More Solid Learning': New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's 'Dunciad.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... 'More Solid Learning': New Perspectives on Alexander Pope's 'Dunciad'. Ed. by CATHERINE INGRASSIA and CLAUDIA N. THOMAS. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 254 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. The...

British Women Writers and the Writing of History: 1670-1820.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... British Women Writers and the Writing of History: 1670-1820. By DEVONEY LOOSER. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xi + 272 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Lucy Hutchinson: Order and Disorder. Ed. by DAVID NORBROOK....

Lucy Hutchinson: Order and Disorder.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... British Women Writers and the Writing of History: 1670-1820. By DEVONEY LOOSER. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2001. xi + 272 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Lucy Hutchinson: Order and Disorder. Ed. by DAVID NORBROOK....

Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture, 1750-1820.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Psychosocial Spaces: Verbal and Visual Readings of British Culture. 1750-1820. By STEPHEN J. GORES. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 2000. 223 pp. $39.95 Against the Foucauldian thesis that Power occupies the subject's mental and...

Romanticism at the End of History.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Romanticism at the End of History. By JEROME CHRISTENSEN. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xi + 236 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. There is an intriguing idea at work in this book, hinted at in the title. The 'End of...

The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Problem of Poetry in the Romantic Period. By MARK STOREY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2000. xi + 197 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Mark Storey rightly argues that Romantic poets' questions about the nature and value of poetry get...

Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Revisionary Gleam: De Quincey, Coleridge, and the High Romantic Argument. By DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS. (Liverpool English Texts and Studies) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. xxi + 311 pp. 34 [pounds sterling] (pbk 16.99 [pounds...

Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corekli and Late-Victorian Literary Culture. By ANNETTE R. FEDERICO (Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia. 2000. ix + 201 pp. $30. Idol of Suburbia is a welcome...

In Darkest James: Reviewing Impressionism, 1900-1905.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... In Darkest James: Reviewing Impressionism, 1900-1905. By ROBIN HOOPLE. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 299 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. In Darkest James is organized chronologically,...

Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature and Other Arts.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature and Other Arts. By DANIEL ALBRIGHT. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xiv + 395 pp. $70; 44.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $25; 16 [pounds sterling]). The fear that...

A Route to Modernism: Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... A Route to Modernism: Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf. By ROSEMARY SUMNER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xiv + 208 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Rosemary Sumner argues that the cosmos is important in Hardy, Lawrence, and...

Joyce's Comic Portrait.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Joyce's Comic Portrait. By ROY GOTTFRIED. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainsville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2000. xi + 188 pp. $49.95. My Home Was Simply a Middle-Class Affair: Joyce's Dublin Family. By KEN...

My Home Was Simply a Middle-Class Affair: Joyce's Dublin Family.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Joyce's Comic Portrait. By ROY GOTTFRIED. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainsville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2000. xi + 188 pp. $49.95. My Home Was Simply a Middle-Class Affair: Joyce's Dublin Family. By KEN...

Joyce and Hagiography: Saints Above!(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Joyce's Comic Portrait. By ROY GOTTFRIED. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainsville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2000. xi + 188 pp. $49.95. My Home Was Simply a Middle-Class Affair: Joyce's Dublin Family. By KEN...

British Writing of the Second World War.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... British Writing of the Second World War. By MARK RAWLINSON. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. viii + 247 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. I have been locked in combat with this book for some months; it is compelling and...

Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanisim.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanism. By PAUL DAVIES. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2000. ix + 239 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Paul Davies aims to relate literary work to the discourse, currently unfashionable in academia, of the...

Teaching the Literatures of Early America.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Teaching the Literatures of Early America. Ed. by CARLA MULFORD. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 1999. xii + 402 pp. $40 (pbk $22). This, the fifteenth volume in the Modern Language Association's 'Options for Learning' series...

Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America. By CHRISTOPHER P. WILSON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xii + 281 pp. $42; 29.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $16; 11.50 [pounds sterling])....

'A Wind is Rising': The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neil.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... 'A Wind is Rising': The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neill. Ed. by WILLIAM DAVIES KING. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 328 pp. $49.50; 39.50 [pounds sterling]....

George Jean Nathan and the Making of Modern American Drama Criticism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... 'A Wind is Rising': The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O'Neill. Ed. by WILLIAM DAVIES KING. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 328 pp. $49.50; 39.50 [pounds sterling]....

Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. by MONIKA M. ELBERT. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 2000. x + 307 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. Monika Elbert's declared purpose in this...

H.D. and Poets After.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... H.D. and Poets After. Ed. by DONNA KROLIK HOLLENBERG. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 2000. xxii + 309 pp. $39.95 (pbk $19.95). The work of modernist poet H.D. has encouraged a disruption of the categorical boundaries separating literary...

Oxford French Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Oxford French Cartoon-strip Vocabulary Builder. Ed. by MARIE-HELENE CORREARD. Illus. by CLAIRE BRETECHER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. 80 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. Fans of Claire Bretecher's Agrippine cartoon strips will no doubt...

The French Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Sources.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The French Emblem: Bibliography of Secondary Sources. By LAURENCE GROVE and DANIEL RUSSELL (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 342) Geneve: Droz. 2000. xx + 239 pp. 84 SwF; 91.55 [euro]. The last twenty years have seen a remarkable growth in...

The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France. By MARGARET MCGOWAN. Newhaven and London: Yale University Press. 2000. xiv + 461 pp. $50. This book is a joy to read. The text is fascinating, but it is also interspersed with innumerable...

Confidential Strategies: The Evolving Role of the 'Confident' in French Tragic Drama (1635-1677).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Confidential Strategies: The Evolving Role of the 'Confident' in French Tragic Drama (1635-1677). By VALERIE WORTH-STYLIANOU. (Travaux du Grand Siecle, 12) Geneve: Droz. 1999. xi + 247 pp. 61.40 SwF. With a few notable exceptions (Narcisse,...

The Craft of La Fontaine.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Craft of La Fontaine. By MAYA SLATER. London: Athlone Press. 2000. xiii + 235 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. Maya Slater opens this work, the first UK publication exclusively on La Fontaine for many years, by describing it as 'a defence of...

Academies et societes savantes en Europe (1650-1800).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Academies et societes savantes en Europe (1650-1800). Ed. by DANIEL-ODON HUREL and GERARD LAUDIN. Paris: Champion. 2000. 512 pp. 550F. This volume of conference proceedings extends the lines of enquiry already mapped out by two...

Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique. By PIERRE BOUTIN. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles, 38). Paris: Champion. 1999. 249 pp. Jean-Theophile Desaguliers (1683-1744) left La Rochelle for England at an early age...

Etudes sur 'Le Fils naturel' et les 'Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel' de Diderot.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Etudes sur 'Le Fils 'naturel' et les 'Entretiens sur Le Fils naturel' de Diderot. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. x + 325 pp. This collection appears in the wake of renewed interest in Diderot's contribution to...

Diderot: La Religieuse.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Diderot: La Religieuse. Ed. by HEATHER LLOYD. London: Bristol Classical Press. 2000. xlv + 173 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. This volume constitutes a useful addition to the series of edited texts intended for undergraduate students. Though the...

Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1914. Ed. by ROSEMARY LLOYD and BRIAN NELSON. (Monash Romance Studies, 6) Melbourne: Monash Romance Studies. 2000. 286 pp. 18 [pounds sterling]. This volume arises from the i999 conference of the same name...

La Notion d'artiste chez les Goncourt (1852-1870).(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... La Notion d'artiste chez les Goncourt (1852-1870). By STEPHANIE CHAMPEAU. (Romantisme et Modernites, 33) Paris: Champion. 2000. 557 pp. 56.95 [pounds sterling]. Stephanie Champeau's topic is a great deal more ambitious than her title suggests,...

Oeuvres poetiques completes.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Oeuvres poetiques completes. By THEODORE DE BANVILLE. Ed. by PETER J. EDWARDS. Preface by EDGARD PICH. 8 vols. Paris: Champion. 1994-2001. Vol. I: Les Cariatides. Ed. by PETER S. HAMBLY. Preface by EDGARD PICH. 2000. xvi + 595 pp., 18...

Napoleon III and his Regime: An Extravaganza.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Napoleon III and his Regime: An Extravaganza. By DAVID BAGULEY. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2000. xxiv + 425 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. David Baguley has given to his learned work a subtitle not directly translatable into...

Verlaine a la loupe: colloque de Cerisy, 11-18 juillet 1996.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Verlaine a la loupe: colloque de Cerisy, 11-18 juillet 1996. Ed. by JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD and STEVE MURPHY. Paris: Champion. 2000. 500 pp. 380 F. This substantial volume is a landmark in Verlaine scholarship. Recent work, mainly by French...

Bel-Ami.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Bel-Ami. By GUY DE MAUPASSANT. Trans. by MARGARET MAULDON, with an introduction and notes by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. lvi + 303 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. This well-packaged and...

Rimbaud poete et aventurier.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Rimbaud poete et aventurier. By PIERRE BRUNEL. Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier Erudition. 2000. 32 pp. This is the text of a lecture presented by Pierre Brunel in 1999 at the University of Bari; it is published in the spin-off 'Conferences'...

The Cambridge Companion to Proust.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Cambridge Companion to Proust. Ed. by RICHARD BALES. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. xxi + 243 pp. This handsome collection of essays is presented with a cover photograph of Vermeer's 'View of Delft' and a photograph of Proust...

Antonin Artaud I: Modernites d'Antonin Artaud.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Antonin Artaud 1: Modernites d'Antonin Artaud. Ed. by OLIVIER PENOT-LACASSAGNE. Paris: Lettres modernes Minard. 2000. 203 pp. 130 F. A number of important new studies of the work of Antonin Artaud have appeared in recent years, testifying to an...

Camus: 'La Peste.'(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Camus: 'La Peste'. By JAMES S. WILLIAMS. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 128) London: Grant & Cutler. 2000. 79 pp. 5.95 [pounds sterling]. Critically acclaimed with over four million copies sold worldwide, La Peste is a hardy annual on the...

Critical Essays on Roland Barthes.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Critical Essays on Roland Barthes. Ed. By DIANA KNIGHT. (Critical Essays on World Literature) New York: G. K. Hall. 2000. 315 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. These are mixed times for the name of Roland Barthes. The recently announced 'Institut...

Duras, Writing, and the Ethical: Making the Broken Whole.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Duras; Writing, and the Ethical: Making the Broken Whole. By MARTIN CROWLEY. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs.) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. xi + 323 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. The subject of this excellent study is the...

Intersexual Rivalry: A 'Reading in Pairs' of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Intersexual Rivalry: A 'Reading in Pairs' of Marguerite Duras and Alain Robbe-Grillet. By JULIA WATERS. (Modern French Identities 2, ed. by Peter Collier) Bern, Bruxelles, and Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 2000. 228 pp. Julia Waters's study of...

Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Understanding Alain Robbe-Grillet. By ROCH C. SMITH. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press. 2000. 193 pp. Roch Smith's aim in this volume is to provide an introduction to the novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet that is as accessible to...

French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire. By COLIN DAVIS and ELIZABETH FALLAIZE, (Oxford Studies in Modern French Culture) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. 160 pp. Students have become accustomed to the type of...

La Suisse et la Savoie de Valery Larbaud.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... La Suisse et la Savoie de Valery Larbaud. By BERNARD-DOMINIQUE BAJON. Geneve: Slatkine. 1999. 486 pp. 34.76 [euro]. Titles on Valery Larbaud typically contain the conjunction 'et'. This 1999 study bags for research one of the few countries not...

Sont-ils bons? Sont-ils mechants? Usages des stereotypes.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Sont-ils bons? Sont-ils mechants? Usages des stereotypes. Ed. by CHRISTIAN GARAUD. Paris: Champion. 2001. 249 pp. 250 F. This volume's range embraces literature, film, cultural studies, education, psycho-sociology, and racism. Ruth Amossy, on...

Le Vers francais: Histoire, theorie, esthetique.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Le Vers francais: Histoire, theorie, esthetique. Ed. by MICHEL MURAT. (Metrique francaise comparee, 2) Paris: Champion. 2000. 411 pp. 450 F. Metrics is characteristically beset by two anxieties: the need to constitute itself as a unified and...

Vincent Cardarelli and his Contempories: Fascist Politics and Literary Culture.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Vincenzo Cardarelli and his Contemporaries: Fascist Politics and Literary Culture. By CHARLES BURDETT. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. 228 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This book investigates the...

Montale e il canone poetico del Novecento.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Montale e il canone poetico del Novecento. Ed. by MARIA ANTONIETTA GRIGNANI and ROMANO LUPERINI. Rome and Bari: Laterza. 1998. 453 pp. Lire 78,000. Dislocazioni: Epifanie e metamorfosi in Montale. By MARIA ANTONIETTA GRIGNANI. Lecce: Piero...

Dislocazioni: Epifanie e metamorfosi in Montale.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Montale e il canone poetico del Novecento. Ed. by MARIA ANTONIETTA GRIGNANI and ROMANO LUPERINI. Rome and Bari: Laterza. 1998. 453 pp. Lire 78,000. Dislocazioni: Epifanie e metamorfosi in Montale. By MARIA ANTONIETTA GRIGNANI. Lecce: Piero...

Pagina pellicola pratica: Studi sul cinema italiano.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Pagina pellicola pratica: Studi sul cinema italiano. Ed. by REBECCA WEST. Ravenna: Longo. 2000. 232 pp. 18.08 [euro]. In this interesting collection of essays, Gian Piero Brunetta's splendid reflection on the identity of Italian cinema provides...

Reportorio de los tiempos.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Reportorio de los tiempos. By ANDRES DE LI. Ed. by LAURA DELBRUGGE. (Coleccion Tamesis, A. 180) London: Tamesis. 1999. x + 157 pp. Andres de Li's Reportorio de los tiempos is a fascinating expansion of the Catalan Bernat de Granollach's Lunari...

Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Language, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia. By KATHRYN CRAMERI. Oxford: Legenda, European Humanities Research Centre. 2000. 210 pp. $49.50. After the death of the dictator, Catalan nationalists needed to project...

Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Assuming the Light: The Parisian Literary Apprenticeship of Miguel Angel Asturias. By STEPHEN HENIGHAN. Oxford: Legenda. 1999. 217 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. In his 1993 study of the work Miguel Angel Asturias, Rene Prieto asserts that 'much...

Berceo's 'Vida de Santa Oria': Text, Translation and Commentary.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Berceo's 'Vida de Santa Orla':" Text, Translation and Commentary. By ANTHONY LAPPIN. Oxford: Legenda. 2000. xi + 313 pp. $49.50. Anthony Lappin's book is an indispensable, and possibly controversial contribution to Berceo studies. Begun as a...

La Segunda version de 'La vida es sueno,' de Calderon.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... La segunda version de 'La vida es sueno; de Calderon. Ed. by GERMAN VEGA GARCIA-LUENGOS, DON W. GRUICKSHANK, and J. M. RUANO DE LA HAZA. (Hispanic Studies TRAC (Textual Research and Criticism, 19) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. 362...

La Linguistica de Pompeu Fabra.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... La Linguistica de Pompeu Fabra. Ed. By JORDI GINEBRA, RAUL-DAVID MARTINEZ GILI, and MIQUEL ANGEL PRADILLA. 2 vols. (Symposia Philologica, 3) Alacant: Institut interuniversitari de filologia valenciana and Universitat Rovira i Virgili. 2000. 342...

Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in 'Celestina.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Vision, the Gaze, and the Function of the Senses in 'Celestina'. By JAMES F. BURKE. (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures) Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. 139 pp. $34. Making a significantly innovative...

The Novels of Fernando del Paso.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Novels of Fernando del Paso. By ROBIN W. FIDDIAN. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2000. viii + 184 pp. $55. Robin Fiddian introduces del Paso's work as exemplifying many major trends in Mexican and Spanish-American fiction, before...

Die gotische Bibel.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Die gotische Bibel. Ed. by WILHELM STREITBERG[dagger]. Vol. I: Der gotische Text und seine griechische Vorlage. Mit Einleitung, Lesarten und Quellennachweisen sowie den kleineren Denkmalern als Anhang. Mit einem Nachtrag von PIERGIUSEPPE...

Blutezeit. Festschrift fur L. Peter Johnson zum 70. Geburtstag.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Blutezeit. Festschrift fur L. Peter Johnson zum 70. Geburtstag. Ed. by MARK CHINCA, JOACHIM HEINZLE, and CHRISTOPHER YOUNG. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. ix + 488 pp. + 2 illustrations. DM 196. Twenty-six friends and colleagues have contributed...

Die Alexandergeschichte in der Version des 'Pfaffen' Lambrecht. Die Fruhmittelhochdeutsche Bearbeitung der Alexanderdichtung des Alberich von Bisinzo und die Anfange weltlicher Schriftepik in deutscher Sprache.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Die Alexandergeschichte in der Version des 'Pfaffen' Lambrecht. Die fruhmittelhochdeutsche Bearbeitung der Alexanderdichtung des Alberich von Bisinzo und die Anfange weltlicher Schriftepik in deutscher Sprache. By CHRISTOPH MACKERT. (Beihefte zu...

Das grobe Herz der Erzahlung. Studien zu Narration und Interdiskursivitat im 'Prosa-Lancelot.'(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Das grosse Herz der Erzahlung. Studien zu Narration und Interdiskursivitat im 'Prosa-Lancelot'. By MICHAEL WALTENBERGER. (Mikrokosmos. Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, 51) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Lang. 1999....

Dynastengeschichte und Verwandtschaftsbilder: Die Adelsfamilie in der volkssprachigen Literature des Mittelalters.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Dynastengeschichte und Verwandtschaftsbilder: Die Adelsfamilie in der volkssprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters. By URSULA PETERS. (Hermaea. Germanistische Forschungen. Neue Folge, 85) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1999. x + 376 pp. DM 98. Although...

Liebe und Verfall. Familiengeschichten un Liebesdiskurse in Realismus and Spatrealismus.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Liebe und Verfall. Familiengeschichten und Liebesdiskurse in Realismus und Spatrealismus. By INGRID SPORK. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2000. 271 pp. DM 68. Karlheinz Rossbacher's magisterial study of the literature and culture of the...

Arthur Schnitzler, Tagebuch 1931. Gesamtverzeichnisse 1879-1931.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Arthur Schnitzler, Tagebuch 1931. Gesamtverzeichnisse 1879-1931. Ed. by WERNER WELZIG and others. Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2000. 637 pp. 490 Sch. As Werner Welzig reminds us in his afterword to this final...

The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... The Poetry of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and French Symbolism. By ROBERT VILAIN. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2000. xi + 376 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. The influence of French Symbolism on...

Lebeswege un Lekturen. Osterreichische NS-Vertriebene in den USA und Kanada.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Lebenzswege und Lekturen. Osterreichische NS-Vertriebene in den USA und Kanada. Ed. by BEATRIX MULLER-KAMPEL. (Conditio Judaica, 30) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2000. vi + 352 pp. DM 88. The title of this book conceals rather than reveals its true...