The Modern Language Review articles from July 2006

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2006

Anglo-Scandinavian trade or paganism? OE haeden in the first Cleopatra glossary.(Old English)
July 1, 2006... , which glosses L mastruca 'garment made of skins' in the First Cleopatra Glossary, has been identified as an Old Norse loanword (cf. ON hedinn). This etymological explanation may be supported by the significant role played by Scandinavians in...

Resisting 'the spirit of innovation': the other historical novel and Jane Porter.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... Reviewing Joanna Baillie's Metrical Legends (1821), Thomas Carlyle remarks that 'The Fate of Wallace has been singularly bad, both in life and after it', his fame left 'to a vulgar rhymer': We wish all this were remedied. Why does not the...

'A new and exceedingly brilliant star': L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, and Mary Miles Minter.
July 1, 2006... Following the success of Anne of Green Gables (1908), and of the first film version (1919), both L. M. Montgomery and the actress Mary Miles Minter found themselves being reinvented in Anne's image. The relationship between author, heroine, and...

Sick humour, healthy laughter: the use of medicine in Rabelais's jokes.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... This article considers how medicine and humour interact in three specific ways in Rabelais's works. First the description of injuries using precise anatomical detail is discussed with reference to Henri Bergson's theory of indifference and...

A marriage made in heaven? 'Racine' and 'Love'.(Jean Racine)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... Commentators have traditionally stressed the importance accorded to love in Racine's tragedies, often viewing it in general as some blind, irrational force that deprives characters of the will to act. This article seeks to question this easy...

The orateur in seventeenth-century French theatre companies.
July 1, 2006... Although offering a description of duties substantially similar to that in the published text, the 1673 manuscript of Samuel Chappuzeau's Le Theatre francois is more confident about the orateur's central role in a theatre company. In...

Poetic improvisation in the nineteenth century: Giuseppe Regaldi and Giannina Milli.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... Italy's reputation as the home of virtuosic improvised poetry continues well beyond the eighteenth century. A vivid traveller's description of a performance by Bartolomeo Sestini acts as an introduction to two of the most accomplished and...

Rivers, roads, and technical considerations: the travel books of Julio Llamazares.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... During the 1990s, the Spanish novelist and poet Julio Llamazares published three travel books. Two of these, El rio del olvido and Cuaderno del Duero, are works in which the author sets out, for very different reasons, to follow two northern...

Colonial tropes and postcolonial tricks: rewriting the tropics in the novela de la selva.
July 1, 2006... Divina Poesia, [...] tiempo es que dejes ya la culta Europa, que tu nativa rustiquez desama, y dirijas el vuelo adonde te abre el mundo de Colon su grande escena. (1) The novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation...

The boundaries of Mitleidsdramaturgie: some clarifications concerning lessing's concept of 'mitleid'.(Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
July 1, 2006... This article outlines the key features of Mitleidsdramaturgie. For the benefit of clarity they are presented by way of contrast. A juxtaposition of pity and empathy reveals that Lessing draws on the former to explain tragedy's effect while...

'Der schein ist gegen sie': physiognomy and honour in Schiller's Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre.(Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller )
July 1, 2006... In Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre, Schiller espouses an understanding of honour as an inner attribute and reveals the dangers of denying honour to individuals on the basis of external, physical attributes. At the same time, Schiller's text...

The answer job did not give: Dostoevsky's Brat'ia Karamazovy and Camus's la Peste.(Fyodor Dostoevsky )(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... In the light of this continuous inquiry about the existent cause of our human reality and other experienced things, it can then be validly armed that the realistic inference establishes the truth about the existence of the living, just and good...

Ossianism in the Bohemian Lands.
July 1, 2006... This article outlines the various stages of thinking about Ossian in both the Czech and the German branches of literary studies in the Bohemian Lands from the appearance of 'Ossian's' poems there to the present day. It also aims to demonstrate...

Heine's ambiguous barbarism: translation and the rejuvenation of French culture.(Heinrich Heine)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... Heinrich Heine's preface to Reisebilder. Tableaux de voyage (1834) is juxtaposed with a range of contemporary French references to barbarism and discourse on translation to show that Heine's call for faithful translation and allusion to his...

The EmLit Project: European Minority Literatures in Translation.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The EmLit Project: European Minority Literatures in Translation. Ed. by PR01731 London: Brunel University Press. 2003. xx+503 pp.; CD. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-902316-36-3. The title of this volume refers to European minority...

La Renaissance et la nuit.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... La Renaissance et la nuit. By Daniel Menager (Les Seuils de la Modernite, 10) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 270 pp. SwF 80. ISBN 2-600-00990-6. The Renaissance, in Daniel Menager's account, has been commonly conceived as a sun-worshipping culture:...

Poetik des Dialogs: Aktuelle Theorie und rinascimentales Selbstverstandnis.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Poetik des Dialogs: Aktuelle Theorie und rinascimentales Selbstverstandnis. Ed. by KLAUS W. HEMPFER. (Text und Kontext, 21) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2004. 191 pp. 34 [euro]. ISBN 3-515-08576-9. The last decade has seen a very welcome...

Jacques Derrida: Critical Thought.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Jacques Derrida: Critical Thought. Ed. by Ian Maclachlan. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. xii+166 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0806-9. This volume is a collection of essays by divers hands, drawn from a broad spectrum of work on...

Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting. By Harald Weinrich. Trans. by Steven Rendall. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2004. vi+254 pp. $35. ISBN 0-8014-4193-5. This is an oddly compelling, if at times confusing, book. Its...

Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis. Ed. by Carla Dente, George Fergozoco, Miriam Gill, and Marina Spunta. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 26) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. xvi+289 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3957-6. ...

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature. By Hannibal Hamlin. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xi+ 289 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-521-83270-5. This is a good-natured but scarcely...

The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720. By Gerald Maclean. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. xxii+267 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97364-x. Early in this remarkable book,...

Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670. By Elizabeth Spiller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xi+214 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83086-9. Using Sidney's definition of the...

The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual, vol. 15.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Age of Johnson, vol. xv. Ed. by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch. New York: AMS. 2004. xvii+493 pp. $144.50. ISBN 0-404-62765-x. The fifteenth volume of The Age of Johnson is a handsome, substantial book, impressively wide-ranging within...

Shakespeare and the Language of Translation.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Shakespeare and the Language of Translation. Ed. by Ton Hoenselaars. (The Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Language) London: Thomson Learning. 2004. xiv+346 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-90427-145-6. In his exemplary introduction to...

Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture.(Shakespeare and the Origins of English)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. By Carlo Thomas Neely. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2004. xiii+ 244 pp. $21.95. ISBN 0-8014-8924-5. Shakespeare and the Origins of English. By Neil...

English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702. By Harold Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. vi+431 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925561-x. Harold Love's interest in the clandestine satire that flourished between 1660 and 1700 began...

Plays, vol. 1.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Plays, vol. 1: 1728-1731. By Henry Fielding. Ed. by Thomas Lockwood. (The Wesleyan Edition of the Works of Henry Fielding) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2004. xxviii+780 pp. 125 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925789-2. Fielding was no Henry...

Imagining the Sciences: Expressions of New Knowledge in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Imagining the Sciences: Expressions of New Knowledge in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century. Ed. by Robert C. Leitz III and Kevin L. Cope. New York: AMS. 2004. xvi+ 361 pp.; 23 ills. $91.50. ISBN 0-404-63543-1. There is an exuberance about this...

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life. By Caroline Franklin. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. xix+240 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-97251-1. In line with the aims of the publisher's Literary Lives series, this...

Writings of the Luddites.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Writings of the Luddites. Ed. by KEVIN BINFIELD. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. xxx+279 pp. 35.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7612-5. This very welcome book provides an introduction to Midlands, Northwestern, and...

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period. By WILLIAM ST CLAIR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xxix+765pp. 90 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-81006-x. This is an astonishing book, or rather it is several books in one. First,...

Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era. By TIM FULFORD, DEBBIE LEE, and PETER J. KITSON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xvii+324 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-82919-4. Soho Square nowadays is better...

Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Imagining Inclusive Society in Nineteenth-Century Novels: The Code of Sincerity in the Public Sphere. By PAM MORRIS. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. xii+261 pp. $44.95. ISBN 0-8018-7911-6. In contrast to other nations,...

Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Ed. by FRANCIS O'GORMAN. Oxford: Blackwell. 2004. xxxviii+697 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-631-23435-7. In the introduction to this new annotated anthology, Francis O'Gorman writes that 'the...

John Ruskin: Selected Writings.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... John Ruskin: Selected Writings. Ed. by DINAH BIRCH Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. xxxviii+324 pp. 8.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-280262-3. The last twenty years have been kind to John Ruskin. Revisionist approaches to Victorian...

Postcolonialism Revisited.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Postcolonialism Revisited. By KIRSTI BOHATA. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2004. xii+209 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1892-4. As its ambitious title suggests, Kirsti Bohata's study seeks to offer an innovative vantage on...

Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture 1890-1930.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture 1890-1930. By MORAG SHIACH. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. x+291 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65. ISBN 0-521-83459-7. This study will interest...

The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and Twentieth-Century American Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Modernist Nation: Generation, Renaissance and Twentieth-Century American Literature. By MICHAEL SOTTO. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. x+228 pp. $39.95. ISBN 0-8173-1392-3. Michael Soto's point of departure is an attempt...

A Hundred Years of Fiction.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... A Hundred Years of Fiction. By STEPHEN KNIGHT. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2004. xviii+217 pp. 30 [pounds sterling] (pbk [pounds sterling] 15.99). ISBN 0-7083-1847-9 (pbk 0-7083-1846-0). Stephen Knight's book has succeeded in...

Le Moyen francais: evolution de la langue.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Le Moyen francais: evolution de la langue. By PETER A. MACHONIS. New Orleans: Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde. 2005. 205 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1-931948-09-7. This is a well-thought-out and highly accessible textbook aimed at a student...

Les Dictionnaires Larousse: genese et evolution.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Les Dictionnaires Larousse: genese et evolution. Ed. by MONIQUE C. CORMIER and ALINE FRANCOEUR. (Parametres) Quebec: Presses de l'Universite de Montreal. 2005. 330 pp. $24.95. ISBN 2-7606-1991-5. First of all, the title is misleading; as...

'Doon' and 'Tyolet': Two Old French Narrative Lays.('Melion' and 'Biclarel': Two Old French Werwolf Lays)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... 'Doon' and 'Tyolet': Two Old French Narrative Lays. Ed. and trans. by GLEN BURGESS and LESLIE C. BROOK. (Liverpool Online Series: Critical Editions of French Texts, 9) Liverpool: University of Liverpool. 2005. 115 pp. ISBN 0-9533816-8-4. ...

La Mort le roi Artu.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... 'La Mort le roi Artu'. By KAREN PRATT. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 137) London: Grant & Cutler. 2004. 112 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0444-2. Readers and students of La Mort le roi Artu encounter a text with a split...

'Le Roman de Gliglois': recit arthurien du XIIIe siecle.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... 'Le Roman de Gliglois': recit arthurien du XIIIe siecle. Ed. by JACQUES CHARLES LEMAIRE. Liege: Editions de l'Universite de Liege. 2005. 231 pp. 923. ISBN 2-930322-96-9. Jacques Lemaire offers here an edition and modern French translation...

Les Exposicions sur Verite mal prise. Le Dit de Verite.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Les Exposicions sur Verite mal prise. Le Dit de Verite. By GEORGES CHASTELLAIN Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE DELCLOS. (Textes de la Renaissance, 90) Paris: Champion. 2005. 271 pp. 954. ISBN 2-7453-1139-5. Jean-Claude Delclos's edition of these two,...

Lettres de femmes: textes inedits et oublies du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lettres de femmes: textes inedits et oublies du XVIe au XVIIIe siecle. Ed. By ELIZABETH C. GOLDSMITH and H. WINN. (Textes de la Renaissance, 89) Paris: Champion. 2005. xlii+448 pp. 983. ISBN 2-7453-1123-9. Common sense dictates that when...

L'OEuvre libertine de Bonaventure de Fourcroy.(Brief article)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... L'OEuvre libertine de Bonaventure de Fourcroy. Ed. by MIGUEL BENITEZ. (Libre pensee et litterature clandestine, 27) Paris: Champion. 2005. 673 pp. 85 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1262-6. Miguel Benitez here provides scholars of libertine and...

Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire, vol. 16 (Book review)
July 1, 2006... Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. XVI: Writings of 1736. Ed. by THEODORE E. D. BRAUN, JOHN DUNKLEY, CHRISTIANE MERVAUD, RUSSELL GOULBOURNE, H.T. MASON, FRANCOIS MOUREAU, and RALPH Oxford: Voltaire...

Francoise de Graffigny: Her Life and Works.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Francoise de Graffigny: Her Life and Works. By ENGLISH SHOWALTER. (SVEC, 2004:11) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2004. xix+374 pp. 69 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0847-7. The modern rehabilitation,which began over two decades ago, of...

Les Marges des Lumieres francaises (1750-1789).(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Les Marges des Lumieres francaises (1750-1789). Ed. by DIDIER MASSEAU. (Bibliotheque des Lumieres, 64) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 284 pp. SwF 62. ISBN 2-600-00961-2. This book is remarkable, not just as a collection of contributions to a...

Le Siecle des Lumieres: bibliographie chronologique.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Le Siecle des Lumieres: bibliographie chronologique. By PIERRE M. CONLON. Vol. XXIII: 1788. (Histoire des Idees et Critique Litteraire, 419) Geneva: Droz. 2005. xxvii+456 pp. SwF 132. ISBN 2-600-01031-9. Pierre Conlon has almost completed...

Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France. By LARS O. ERICKSON. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 278) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. 196 pp. $32.50. ISBN 0-8078-9282-3....

Vivre libre et ecrire: anthologie des romancieres de la periode revolutionnaire (1789-1800).(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Vivre libre et ecrire: anthologie des romancieres de la periode revolutionnaire (1789-1800). Ed. by HUGUETTE KRIEF. Preface by HENRI COULET. (Vif) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2005. x+303 pp. 16 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 2-84050-383-2. This...

De la lettre a l'esprit: pour lire 'Illuminations'.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... De la lettre a l'esprit: pour lire 'Illuminations'. By ANTOINE FONGARO. (Colloques, congres et conferences. Epoque moderne et contemporaine, 14) Paris: Champion. 2004. 446 pp. 65 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1120-4. This volume offers an organic...

Strategies de Rimbaud.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Strategies de Rimbaud. By STEVE MURPHY. (Romantisme et Modernites, 86) Paris: Champion. 2004. 629 pp. 75 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1122-0. Steve Murphy's book sets out to explore Rimbaud's aesthetics as manifested in the period 1870-75. To this...

Rimbaud, l'Italie, les Italiens: le geographe visionnaire.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Rimbaud, l'Italie, les Italiens: le geographe visionnaire. By GIOVANNI DOTOLI. (Biblioteca della ricera: cultura straniera, 136) Fasano: Schena editore; Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 2004. 253 pp.; 64 plates. 25 [euro]. ISBN...

Dictionnaire Marcel Proust.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Dictionnaire Marcel Proust. Ed. by ANNICK BOUILLAGUET and BRIAN G. ROGERS. Preface by ANTOINE COMPAGNON. Paris: Champion. 2004. 1099 pp. 100 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0956-0. A reference work of this type could give the impression of containing...

Marcel Proust 4: Proust au tournant des siecles, vol. I.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Marcel Proust 4: Proust au tournant des siecles, vol. I. Ed. By BERNARD BRUN and JULIETTE HASSINE. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 292 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91068-7. This collection of essays consists largely but not...

Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Diversity. By CHARLES FORDSDICK. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xxiii+255 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-925829-1. This ground-breaking volume...

Essays in Aesthetics.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Essays in Aesthetics. By GERARD GENETTE. Trans. by DORRIT COHN. (Stages, 20) Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2005. ix+238 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-7110-7. The eighteen essays which form this volume are...

Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Semiologies of Travel: From Gautier to Baudrillard. By DAVID SCOTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. ix+235 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83853-3. Semiological commentaries on travel writing have tended to concentrate on...

Understanding Dante.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Understanding Dante. By JOHN A. SCOTT. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. xxxii+467 pp. $75 (pbk $35). ISBN 0-268-04450-3 (pbk 0-268-04451-1). The result of 'fifty years of studying Dante and forty of teaching and writing...

Studia Albertiana: lectures et lecteurs de L. B. Alberti.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Studia Albertiana: lectures et lecteurs de L. B. Alberti. By FRANCESCO FURLAN. Turin: Aragno; Paris: Vrin. 2003. 334 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN 2-7116-1614-2. This welcome and substantial collection of essays on Leon Battista Alberti amounts to...

Retorica della diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso. Letteratura e scena cortigiana.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Retorica della diffrazione: Bembo, Aretino, Giulio Romano e Tasso. Letteratura e scena cortigiana. By Fabio Finotti. (Biblioteca di 'Lettere Italiane', Studi e testi, 63) Florence: Olschki. 2004. 466 pp.; 20 plates. 46 [euro]. ISBN...

The Sixteenth-Century Italian 'Impresa' in Theory and Practice.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Sixteenth-Century Italian 'Impresa' in Theory and Practice. By Dorigen Caldwell. New York: AMS. 2004. xviii+320 pp. $87.50. ISBN 0-404-63717-5. Modern students of emblems have often been alerted to the importance of the Italian impresa...

The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy. By Maria Gaetana Agnesi and others. Ed. and trans. by Rebecca Messbarger and Paula Findlen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xxxi+181 pp. $45 (pbk...

Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life. By Martha King. Leicester: Troubador. 2005. x+235 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-904744-67-2. At last a biography of Grazia Deledda written in English! This is doubtless in part a result of the renewed...

La narrativa di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: una risposta alla crisi letteraria e di valori del primo '900.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... La narrativa di Giuseppe Antonio Borgese: una risposta alla crisi letteraria e di valori del primo '900. By Gian Paolo Giudicetti. Florence: Cesati. 2005. 259 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 88-7667-191-9. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese (1882-1952)was a key...

Tradurre per il doppiaggio: la trasposizione linguistica dell'audiovisivo. Teoria e pratica di un'arte imperfetta.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Tradurre per il doppiaggio: la trasposizione linguistica dell'audiovisivo. Teoria e pratica di un'arte imperfetta. By Mario Paolinelli and Eleonora Di Fortunato. Milan: Hoepli. 2005. 163 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 88-203-3385-6. Tradurre per il...

A Companion to the 'Libro de buen amor'.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... A Companion to the 'Libro de buen amor'. Ed. by Louise M. Haywood and Louise O. Vasvari. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 209) London: Tamesis. 2004. viii+231 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85566-094-6. The good thing about this...

The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Plays of Juan Ruiz de Alarcon. By Jules Whicker. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 200) Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2003. viii+212pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85566-093-8. This timely contribution to Alarcon studies is focused on...

Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Crossing Fields in Modern Spanish Culture. Ed. by Federico Bonaddio and Xon de Ros. Oxford: Legenda. 2003. xvi+202 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-87-4. Federico Bonaddio and Xon de Ros have put together a very useful series of...

A New History of German Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... A New History of German Literature. Ed. by David E. Wellbery, Judith Ryan, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Anton Kaes, Joseph Leo Koerner, and Dorothea E. von Mucke. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 2004. xxv+1004 pp. 29.95 [pounds...

Wirnt von Gravenberg's 'Wigalois': Intertextuality and Interpretation.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Wirnt von Gravenberg's 'Wigalois': Intertextuality and Interpretation. By Neil Thomas. (Arthurian Studies, 62) Cambridge: Brewer. 2005. viii+167 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $80. ISBN 1-84384-038-3. Recent decades have seen substantial...

Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature. By John D. Martin. (Studies in German Jewish History, 5) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2004. 253 pp. 29; SwF 65; 44.30 [euro]. ISBN 3-03910-068-8. This monograph...

Das 'weiblich Werck' in der Residenzstadt Altenburg (1672-1720): Gedichte und Briefe von Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch und Frauen aus ihrem Umkreis.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Das 'weiblich Werck' in der Residenzstadt Altenburg (1672-1720): Gedichte und Briefe von Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch und Frauen aus ihrem Umkreis. Ed. by Anna Carrdus. Hildesheim and Zurich: Olms. 2004. 470 pp. 968. ISBN 3-487-12531-5. ...

Love and Death in Goethe: 'One and Double'.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Love and Death in Goethe: 'One and Double'. By Ellis Dye. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2004. xiv+ 333 pp. $75; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57113-300-3. Against a backdrop of...

'Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!' Der junge Mann Schiller.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... 'Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!' Der junge Mann Schiller. By Friedrich Dieckmann. Frankfurt a.M. and Leipzig: Insel. 2005. 450pp. 22.90 [euro]. ISBN3-458-17244-0. This biographical study paints a colourful picture of Schiller's early career,...

Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Die Wallenstein-Trilogie von Friedrich Schiller: Walter Buttler in Geschichte und Drama. By Florian Krobb. (Literatur und Medienwissenschaft, 99) Oldenburg: Igel. 2005. 117 pp. 928. ISBN 3-89621-203-6. Walter Butler has been a familiar...

Heinrich von Kleist: Geschlecht- Erkenntnis- Wirklichkeit.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Heinrich von Kleist: Geschlecht--Erkenntnis--Wirklichkeit. By Erika Berroth. (Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 58) New York and Bern: Peter Lang. 2003. 154 pp. $53.95. ISBN 0-8204-4958-x. Erika Berroth's study aims at the point...

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and the German Romantics.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg and the German Romantics. By Eleoma Joshua. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 36) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 206 pp. 939.70. ISBN 3-03910-257-5. In the only other study...

Kunst-Zigeuner: Konstruktionen des 'Zigeuners' in der deutschen Literatur der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Kunst-Zigeuner: Konstruktionen des 'Zigeuners' in der deutschen Literatur der ersten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. By Stefani Kugler. (Literatur--Imagination--Realitat, 34) Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. 2004. 380 pp. 32.50 [euro]. ISBN...

Das verschlafene 19: Jahrhundert? Zur deutschen Literatur zwischen Klassik und Moderne.(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Das verschlafene 19. Jahrhundert? Zur deutschen Literatur zwischen Klassik und Moderne. Ed. by Hans-Jorg Knobloch and Helmut Koopmann. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2005. 205 pp. 24.30 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-2897-x. An uneasiness about...