The Modern Language Review articles from July 2004

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2004

Fanny's gaze and the construction of feminine space in Mansfield Park.(Fanny Price, Jane Austen )
July 1, 2004... This article re-evaluates the protagonist of Mansfield Park through the lens of gaze theory, asserting that Fanny Price withstands the gaze of the male characters while imposing her own powerful gaze, which encompasses views, tastes, morality,...

Anthropomorphism and other figures of speech in James Joyce's Ulysses.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... This close reading from 'Proteus' shows how Stephen, the would-be writer, projects his mind onto the Dublin landscape. Analysing his anthropomorphism helps explain subjective transformations of the objective world in the modern hero's mind....

Cynic shamelessness in late sixteenth-century French texts.
July 1, 2004... This article examines the diverse responses elicited by ancient Cynicism's sexual shamelessness in a wide range of sixteenth-century French texts. The outrageous performance of the Cynics, including public sex and masturbation, was always...

Bodily detours: Sarah Kofman's narratives of childhood trauma.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... Although psychological trauma has repeatedly been described in terms of the body, the relation between traumatic loss, narrative, and the body requires further elucidation. This article explores how Sarah Kofman's autobiographical texts--Rue...

Decorum and indecorum in the Seconda redazione of Baldassare Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano.
July 1, 2004... Between the Seconda redazione (1520-21) and the third manuscript (i524, published 1528) Castiglione rewrote almost half of the Libro del Cortegiano. Where others have examined changes in socio-political and cultural references, this study...

Transition relevance places and overlapping in (Spanish-English) conversational etiquette.
July 1, 2004... Present-day pragmaticists regard Henk Haverkate's work on conversational etiquette as a momentous insight into politeness studies. In spite of recent endeavours to highlight the socio-pragmatic disparities between Spanish and British politeness...

A cinema of contradiction: Picazo's La tia Tula (1964) and the Nuevo Cine Espanol.(Miguel Picazo)(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... This article argues that the contradictions of the historical context of the apertura, and the industrial context of the government's promotion of art cinema, were encoded in the films of the Nuevo Cine Espanol, focusing on Miguel Picazo's La...

Heine's Aristophanes complex and the ambivalence of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... This article re-examines the 'new song' from Canto 1 of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen in the light of the reference to Aristophanes' Birds in Canto 27. From here it explores a series of statements by Heine in which he proposes that this play...

Rilke and the modern portrait.(Ranier Maria Rilke )(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... In his 'Briefe uber Cezanne' (October 1907) Rilke expresses a particular fascination with Cezanne's portraits, since the human subject represents the ultimate challenge for ah aesthetic based on objectivity and the autonomy of colour. Reading...

From chudak to mudak? Village prose and the absurdist ethics of Evgenii Popov.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... The genealogy of the chudak character type in the shorter fiction of Evgenii Popov is considered. In Shukshin and Village Prose the function of the chudak is found to be paradoxical, expressing both conformist and nonconformist views. Popov's...

Mouseion: the counter-institutional agent of the literary utopias of Ricardo Piglia and Dimitris Kalokyris.(Critical Essay)
July 1, 2004... This article focuses on the function of the topos of the 'museum' in the work of Ricardo Piglia and Dimitris Kalokyris, who have both been greatly influenced by the aesthetic principles of Jorge Luis Borges. In the case of Piglia, the 'museum'...

Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography. Ed. by PETER FRANCE and WILLIAM ST CLAIR. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2002. x+350 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-726269-4. This book might have been more...

The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages. By BRIAN MURDOCH. Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+209 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-776-2 (hbk). It was Beryl Smalley who in 1941 first shook the academic...

Der gelehrte Narr: Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklarung.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Der gelehrte Narr: Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklarung. By ALEXANDER KOSENINA. Gottingen: Wallstein. 2003. 487 pp. 949. ISBN 3-89244-531-1 (hbk). The philosopher or scholar has been a figure of fun for as long as philosophy and scholarship...

Der erotische Film: Zur medialen Codierung von Asthetik, Sexualitat und Gewalt.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Der erotische Film: Zur medialen Codierung von Asthetik, Sexualitat und Gewalt. Ed. by OLIVER JAHRAUS and STEFAN NEUHAUS. (Film--Medium--Diskurs, 1) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2003. 240 pp. 919.80. ISBN 3-8260-2582-2 (pbk). The...

A Critical Companion to "Beowulf".(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'. By ANDY ORCHARD. Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. xix+396 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-766-5. Scholarship on Beowulf is a robust growth industry, yet the list of indispensable works remains short:...

The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance. Ed. by PHILLIPA HARDMAN. Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. xi+165 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-761-4. These essays were originally presented as papers at the seventh conference on Romance...

Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts. Ed. by ELAINE TREHARNE for the English Association. (Essays and Studies, 55) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. x+142 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $50. ISBN...

Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image. Ed. by JEREMY DIMMICK, JAMES SIMPSON, and NICOLETTE ZEEMAN. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiii+250 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature. By JOSHUA SCODEL. (Literature in History) Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2002. viii+ 367 pp. 37.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-691-09028-9. In this rich, precise...

Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers. By SIDNEY L. SONDERGARD. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 188 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI. By SARAH M. DUNNIGAN. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. x+219 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-91875-4. The series in which...

Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts. By LAUREN SHANNON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xiii+240 pp. $49 (pbk $19). ISBN 0-226-74966-5 (pbk 0-226-74967-3). In Sovereign Amity, Laurie...

The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Ed. byLISA S. STARKS and COURTNEY LEHMANN. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 298 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-83386-3939-9....

Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice. By BARBARA A. MURRAY. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses in conjunction with Modern Humanities Research Association. 2001. 306 pp. 35 [pounds...

Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'. By LEON HAROLD CRAIG. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xi+406 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3571-x....

Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man. By ANN CLINE KELLY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+244 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-23959-9. This highly entertaining and enjoyable book is one that I...

Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution.(Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance. Frances Burney to Jane Austen)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. By DEBORAH KENNEDY. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 276 pp. 40 [pounds...

In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat.(The Historical Austen)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat. By MONA SCHEUERMANN. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. xiv+ 255 pp. $36. ISBN 0-8131-2222-8. The Historical Austen. By WILLIAM H. GALPERIN....

Romanticism and Millenarianism.(William Blake and the Body)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed. by TIM FULFORD. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. xvii+248 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-24011-2. William Blake and the Body. By TRISTANNE J. CONNOLLY. New York and Basingstoke:...

Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination. By PHILIP SHAW. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+260 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-99435-3. Written and visual representations of the Battle of Waterloo are such obvious (and...

Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language. By STUART PETERFREUND. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. xiii+406 pp. 38.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6751-7. Stuart...

Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology. By LYNDA PALAZZO. (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+165 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79469-9. Although important articles by, for example,...

Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'. By G. GLEN WICKENS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xix+255 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4864-1. G....

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. By CLIVE BLOOM. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+292 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-333-68742-6 (pbk 0-333-68743-4). Clive Bloom's new book meets a...

W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry. By PETER FIRCHOW. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 274 pp. 36 [pounds sterling. ISBN 0-87413-766-7. This book, the author tells us, has been in the...

The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers. By MARGARET M. JENSEN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+235 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-132-29353-4. Margaret Jensen's book falls somewhere in...

Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction. Ed. By MARTIN MCQUILLAN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+245 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79414-1. As Martin McQuillan suggests, a theoretical approach to Muriel...

On Modern British Fiction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... On Modern British Fiction. Ed. By ZACHARY LEADER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+319 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924932-6. Zachary Leader offers for our perusal an eclectic, engaging, if uneven...

Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.(Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. By PAUL BRESLIN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. ix+333 pp. $50 (pbk $20). ISBN 0-226-07426-9 (pbk 0-226-07427-7). Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. By PAULA BURNETT....

The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Ed. with an introduction by LANA A. WHITED. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. 2002. x+408 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8262-1443-6. This...

The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era. By DAVID FINKELSTEIN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. viii + 199 pp. $55. ISBN 0-271-02179-9. Founded in 1804, the Edinburgh publishing...

American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. By MEREDITH L. MCGILL. (MaterialTexts) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. viii+364 pp. $39.95; 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3698-X. In American...

Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. By TRUDIER HARRIS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. vi+218 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-29303-8. Trudier Harris is the author of five previous...

'La Cort d'Amor': A Critical Edition.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... 'La Cort d'Amor': A Critical Edition. Ed. by MATTHEW BARDELL. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 11). Oxford: Legenda. 2002. x+169 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling]; $29.50. ISBN 1-900755-66-1. Matthew Bardell's critical edition of La Cort...

Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu: travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Menager.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu: travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Menager. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 623 pp. ISBN 2-600-00824-1. It is a testimony to the scholarship, popularity, and respect enjoyed by the...

Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honour of Ronald W. Tobin.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honour of Ronald W. Tobin. Ed. by CLAIRE M. CARLIN and KATHLEEN WINE. (EMF Critiques) Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2003. 280 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0729-0. This disciplined and wide-ranging volume consists of a brief...

'Moral Maxims' by the Duke de la Rochefoucault. Translated from the French With notes. [London: A. Millar, 1749].(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... 'Moral Maxims' by the Duke de la Rochefoucault. Translated from the French. With notes. [London: A. Millar, 1749]. A dual-language edition with introduction and further notes by IRWIN PRIMER. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London:...

Racine: trois siecles de theatre.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Racine: trois siecles de theatre. By ANDRE BLANC. Paris: Fayard. 2003. 733 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN 2-213-61549-7. It is difficult accurately to summarize the scope and focus of this undeniably substantial bipartite study, and certainly the...

Roman et religion en France (1713-1866).(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Roman et religion en France (1713-1866). Ed. by JACQUES WAGNER. Paris: Champion. 2002. 286 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0594-8. This is a volume of revised conference papers. Under the Ancien Regime, religion and the novel were two...

OEuvres completes de Montesquieu, vol. VIII: OEuvres et ecrits divers I.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Oeuvres completes de Montesquieu, vol. VIII: Oeuvres et ecrits divers I, ed. by PIERRE RETAT. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation; Naples: Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici. 2003. xlvi+644 pp. 110 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0775-6. ...

The Complete Works of Voltaire/Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prohete, ed. by Christopher Todd; De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet, ed. by Ahmad Gunny )(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Complete Works of Voltaire Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. XXB: Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prohete, ed. By CHRISTOPHER TODD; De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet, ed. by AHMAD GUNNY. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation....

Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. By CHRISTOPHER KELLY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. x+216 pp. $19. ISBN 0-226-43024-3. Always one to shuncat-and-mouse games with the censors, Rousseau...

'Emile' ou les figures de la fiction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... 'Emile' ou les figures de la fiction. By LAURENCE MALL (SVEC 2002:04) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. x+334 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0793-4. In a footnote at one point in her long study of Rousseau's Emile, Laurence Mall...

Itineraires du XIXe siecle.(Itineraires du XIXe siecle, vol. 2)(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Itineraires du XIXe siecle, vol. II. Ed. by RLAND LE HY+UENEN and STEPHANE VACHON. (A la recherche du XIXe siecle, 6) Toronto: Centre d'etudes du XIXe siecle Joseph Sable. 2001. 199 pp. 19.65 [pounds sterling]; $28.49. ISBN 0-7727-8909-6. ...

Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Stendhal: 'La Chartreuse de Parme'. By ANN JEFFERSON. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 135) London: Grant & Cutler. 2003. 87 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0440-x. Stendhal's Italian novel is a welcome, long overdue addition to...

L'Annee balzacienne.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... L'Annee balzacienne, 2002. Ed. by MICHEL LICHTLE. (Troisieme Serie, 3) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2003. 432 pp. 943 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-053342-6. Despite Andre Vanoncini's claim that '[l]e texte balzacien ne se prete que tres...

Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'. Ed. by CLAUDE MILLET. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 218 pp. 922 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91040-7. Claude Millet has put together a pleasingly symmetrical and compelling set of articles on...

Five Comedies.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Five Comedies. By GEORGE SAND. Trans., with an introduction, by E. H. BLACKMORE, A. M. BLACKMORE, and F. GIGUERE. (Women Writers in Translation) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. 272 pp. $22.95. ISBN 0-7914-5712-5. The five...

Edouard Charton et l'invention du 'Magasin pittoresque' (1833-1870).(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Edouard Charton et l'invention du 'Magasin pittoresque' (1833-1870). By MARIE-LAURE AURENCHE. Paris: Champion. 2002. xii+534 pp. 106 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0664-2. Marie-Laure Aurenche's study of the Magasin pittoresque and of its founder...

Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie. Ed. by CHRISTIAN CHELEBOURG. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. 236 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91054-7. The first seven of the valued Minard Jules Verne series appeared between 1978 and...

Proust: la traduction du sensible.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Proust: la traduction du sensible. By NATHALIE AUBERT. Oxford: Legenda (European Humanities Research Centre). 2002. ix+147 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-79-3. Towards the end of 'Combray' Proust uses an expression in regard to...

Giraudoux: 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Giraudoux: 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'. By VICTORIA KORZENIOWSKA. London: Grant and Cutler. 2003. 71 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0434-5. The question to be asked of student guides is simply, 'Do they do the job?' In...

Chercheurs d'absolu: Mauriac et de Gaulle.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Chercheurs d'absolu: Mauriac et de Gaulle. Chroniques et discours 1945-1948. By MALCOLM SCOTT. Paris: L'Esprit du temps. 2002. 344 pp. 923. ISBN 2-84795-000-1. This volume follows on from Malcolm Scott's earlier work Mauriac et de Gaulle...

Malraux: 'L'Espoir'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Malraux: 'L'Espoir'. By DENIS BOAK. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 131) London: Grant & Cutler, 2003. 87 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0439-6. Although it is Malraux's 'most ambitious novel' (p 7), L'Espoir has attracted...

Marguerite Duras.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Marguerite Duras. By RENATE GUNTHER. (French Film Directors) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. xi+146 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (pbk 11.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-7190-5756-6 (pbk 0-7190-5757-4). Renate...

Ecrire, reecrire: bilan critique de l'ouvre de Marguerite Duras.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Ecrire, reecrire: bilan critique de l'ouvre de Marguerite Duras. Ed. by BERNARD ALAZET. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 183 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91042-3. As Bernard Alazet states in his preface, this collection of essays...

Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History. By AMY HOLLYWOOD. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xvi+320 pp. $19. ISBN 0-226-34952-7. In this engaging and original analysis of works by Bataille,...

A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions. By AKANE KAWAKAMI. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. 166 pp. 32.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.95). ISBN 0-85323-526-0 (pbk 0-85323-536-8). The picture of Modiano to...

Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Lesbian Desire in Post-1968 French Literature. By LUCILLE CAIRNS. (Studies in French Literature, 56) Lampeter: Mellen. 2002. x+484 pp. 84.95 [pounds sterling]; $139.95. ISBN 0-7734-7110-3. This is a ground-breaking study which will prove an...

Joffo: 'Un sac de billes' and Other Writings.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Joffo: 'Un sac de billes' and Other Writings. By TONY SIMONS. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 46) London: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2002. iv+84 pp. 4 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-85261-696-1. ...

The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Francophone Caribbean Today: Literature, Language, Culture. Ed. by GERTRUD AUB-BUSCHER and BEVERLEY ORMEROD NOAKES. Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago: University of the West Indies Press. 2003. xxiv + 191 pp. $25. ISBN...

Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Maryse Conde et le theatre antillais. By MELISSA L. MCKAY. (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, 36) New York: Peter Lang. 2002. $48.95. xii+ 142 pp. ISBN 0-8204-5262-9. Research in the area of Francophone and Creolophone theatres of the...

The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature. Ed. by PETER HAINSWORTH and DAVID ROBEY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xlv+644pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818332-1. It needs to be stated that now there is an Oxford Companion to...

Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: 'Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ'.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land: 'Itinerary to the Sepulcher of Our Lord Jesus Christ'. Ed. and trans, by THEODORE J. CACHEY, JR. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 2002. x+235pp. $37.50. ISBN 0-2568-03873-2. This elegant...

Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian Humanists. By SUSANNE SAYGIN. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 105) Leiden: Brill. 2002. xiv+ 307 pp. 83 [euro]. ISBN 90-04-12015-7. Do not be misled by the title: this...

Le cinquecentine della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Le cinquecentine della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze. Ed. by SARA CENTI. (Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali. Indici e Cataloghi, nuova serie, XIV) Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato. 2002. 2 vols. xxxvi +733...

Urania.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Urania. By GIULIA BIGOLINA. Ed. by VALERIA FINUCCI. Rome: Bulzoni. 2002. 196 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 88-8319-705-4. Giulia Bigolina, the first known female author of a prose romance in Italy, provides yet another instance of a woman whose...

Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Convent Theatre in Early Modern Italy: Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. By ELISSA B. WEAVER. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiii + 304 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-55082-3. Elissa Weaver's pioneering study is a...

La figura della donna nel teatro di Eduardo De Filippo.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... La figura della donna nel teatro di Eduardo De Filippo. By BARBARA DE MIRO D'AJETA. Naples: Liguori. 2002. 109 pp. 11.50 [euro]. ISBN 88-207-3446-x. Reperes culturels dans le theaetre d'Eduardo De Filippo. By EDOARDO ESPOSITO. Toulouse:...

Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Broken Time, Fragmented Space: A Cultural Map for Postwar Italy. By ANNA MARIA TORRIGLIA. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xxii+239 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3604-x. Anna Maria Torriglia's book presents the reader...

Apparizione e visione: vita e opere di Anna Maria Ortese.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Apparizione e visione: vita e opere di Anna Maria Ortese. By LUCA CLERICI. Milan: Mondadori. 2002. 732 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN 88-04-48937-5. Anna Maria Ortese's first book, Angelici dolori, was published by Bompiani of Milan in 1937, under the...

Il felice vanverare: ironia e parodia nell'opera narrativa di Giorgio Manganelli.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Il felice vanverare: ironia e parodia nell'opera narrativa di Giorgio Manganelli. By GRAZIA MENECHELLA. Ravenna: Longo. 2002. 258 pp. 18.50 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-318-x. Over a decade after his death, Giorgio Manganelli continues to stand...

!Exacto!: A Practical Guide to Spanish Grammar.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... !Exacto!: A Practical Guide to Spanish Grammar. By ANE ORTEGA, TITA BEAVEN, CECILIA GARRIDO, and SEAN SCRIVENER. London: Arnold. 2002. xix+260 pp. [pounds sterling]12.99 (pbk). ISBN 9-340-76309-4. The title of this grammar book, written by...