The Modern Language Review articles from July 2007

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2007

Philosophical sleaze? The 'strok of thought' in the Miller's Tale and Chaucerian fabliau.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... Did Chaucer drop his philosophical interests in writing fabliaux? Critics often deny them serious implication, yet these tales share with Troilus and the Knight's Tale a core structuring concept expressing Boethian ideas on chance and...

Disposable elements? Indications of genre in early modern titles.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... The marks of elite forms such as the ode or the tragedy are retained when a title is cited. Historians of the book have considered every marginal element of the early modern title-page: typeface and compositors' marks; printers' scrollwork and...

'Ad ferrum [...] ab auro': degenerative and regenerative patterning in the final books of Paradise Lost.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... In the final books of Paradise Lost Milton exploits the rhetorical possibilities of typology to organize his survey of human history and propel his narrative forward through time to eternity. This typological framework may prove to extend...

'Niera-t-on le pouvoir des arts?' Revisiting Jacques-Louis David at the 1846 exhibition in the Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... The first exhibition of the Association des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et graveurs, held in the Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle in January-March 1846, is best known for Baudelaire's review 'Le musee classique du Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle',...

Valery: the poetics and phenomenology of night.(Paul Valery)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... The thematic of night engages many of Valery's mythical poetic figurations, such as Teste, the Parque, and Narcissus. This article examines the nocturnal experience, focusing particularly on the poetico-ontological and phenomenological...

From aquarium to anatomist's table: Les Yeux Chimeres and the early poetics of Bernard Noel.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... In the years before Extraits du Corps (1958), Bernard Noel experimented with three very different types of writing. Les Veux Chimeres, poems from 1955 never republished before the present article, was a one-off encounter with the ethos and...

Tabucchi's brutal empires.(Antonio Tabucchi)
July 1, 2007... This article charts the dramatic shift in Antonio Tabucchi's representation of Portuguese empire, from a romanticized, Eurocentric depiction of imperialism in the 1984 text Notturno indiano to a portrayal of a brutal and repressive empire in...

Forged testimonies: fabricating the nation in Sergio Ramirez's Sombras nada mas.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... This article explores the erosion of the Latin American novel's power to forge a national identity by examining the fiction of the Nicaraguan novelist and politician Sergio Ramirez. In Ramirez's novel Sombras nada mas techniques stemming from...

Unamuno and Bergson: notes on a shared methodology.(Miguel de Unamuno, Henri Bergson)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... Both Henri Bergson and Miguel de Unamuno shared a common methodological emphasis. Like Unamuno's use of contradiction and paradox, Bergson's insistence on the 'composite' acknowledges the limitations of a simplistic dualism and posits a more...

Figures of repetition: continuity and discontinuity in Karl Kraus's satire.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... Karl Kraus's undaunted campaign to halt the rotary mechanism of the press determined that his own work and his self-reflection as a satirist were bound by structures of continuity and repetition and their rhetorical expression. A crisis...

Voicing the drowned girl: poems by Hilde Domin, Ulla Hahn, Sarah Kirsch, and Barbara Kohler in the German tradition of representing Ophelia.(Critical essay)(Character overview)
July 1, 2007... The literary reception of Shakespeare's Ophelia figure from Hamlet has a long history. In German, it is predominantly a twentieth-century phenomenon, which extends from the drowned girls of the Expressionist era into contemporary poetry. No...

Reading between the lines: '... a ia molchu, Akhmatova's silent-speaking elegy.(Anna Akhmatova)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2007... The subject of this article stems from research conducted for a larger study of Anna Akhmatova, which attempted to provide a more coherent framework than formerly existed for understanding the differences between her early period and her later...

Translation and Technology.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Translation and Technology. By C. K. Qunx. (Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2o06. xix+221 pp. 18.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-1832-1. With increasing numbers of students...

Schriftkultur: Eine Geschichtedes Schreibens und Lesens.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Schriftkultur: Eine Geschichtedes Schreibens und Lesens. By PETER STEIN. Darmstadt: Primus. 2006. 349 PP. 34-90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-89678-564-0. By Schriftkultur Peter Stein means very much more than the history of script and writing...

A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. By M. A. R. HABIB. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. ix+838 pp. 95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-23200-1. At over half a million words, the question arises: why was this book written?...

Vieillir en exil.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Viedlir en exil. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON and PHILIPPE PITAUD. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal; Centre de Recherches sur les Litteratures Modernes et Contemporaines. 2006. 287 pp. 15 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-84516-317-1. ...

Krieg and Gedachtnis: Ein Ausnahmezustand im Spannungsfeld kultureller Sinnkonstruktionen.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Krieg and Gedachtnis: Ein Ausnahmezustand im Spannungsfeld kultureller Sinnkonstruktionen. Ed. by WALTRAUD WARA 'WENDE' Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2005. 427 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8260-3142-7. Conflict resolution through...

The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions. Ed. by GLYN S. BURGESS and CLARA STRIJBOSCH. (The Northern World, 24) Leiden: Brill. 2006. vi+398 pp. 116 [euro]; $151. ISBN 978-9004152-47-2. The Brendan Legend is volume 24 in the Northern World...

The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Text in the Community: Essays on Medieval Works, Manuscripts, Authors, and Readers. Ed. by JILL MANN and MAURA NOLAN. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xvi+296 pp. $37. ISBN 978-o-268-03496-2. This is a collection of...

The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation. By MICHAEL WYATT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xiv+371 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 978-0-521-84896-1. This book studies the sixteenth- and...

Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice. By MASSIMILIANO MORINI. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. xi+151 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5240-3. Massimiliano Morini's new book is an ambitious attempt to provide 'a comprehensive study...

'Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... 'Who the devil taught thee so much Italian?': Italian Language Learning and Literary Imitation in Early Modern England. By JASON LAWRENCE. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2005. viii + 244PP. 47-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Antonio Possevino S.I. bibliografo della Controriforma e diffusione della sua opera in area anglicana.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Antonio Possevino S.I. bibliografo della Controriforma e diffusione della sua opera in area anglicana. By LUIGI BALSAMO. Florence: Olschki. 2006. 225 pp. 24 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-88-222-5569-3. The first part of Luigi Balsamo's study...

From Pilgrimage to History: The Renaissance and Global Historicism.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... From Pilgrimage to History: The Renaissance and Global Historicism. By JOHN G. DEMARAY. (AMS Studies in the Renaissance, 41) New York: AMS. 2006. xvi+ 250 pp. $82.50. ISBN 978-0-404-62341-8. The main purpose of John G. Demaray's book is to...

'Macbeth' Multiplied: Negotiating Historical and Medial Difference between Shakespeare and Verdi.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... 'Macbeth' Multiplied: Negotiating Historical and Medial Difference between Shakespeare and Verdi. By CHRISTOPH CLAUSEN. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen and Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 93) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi....

Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000. Ed. by MARK KNIGHT and THOMAS WOODMAN. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. xi+170 pp. [pound]45. ISBN 978-0-7546-5117-8. The editors of this volume refer in their acknowledgements (p. ix) to the picture on...

A Companion to European Romanticism.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... A Companion to European Romanticism. Ed. by MICHAEL FERBER. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, 38) Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. xiv+586 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-1039-6. Attempts to confine definitions of the...

The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Triumph of Imperfection: The Silver Age of Sociocultural Moderation in Europe, 1815-1848. By VIRGIL NEMOIANU. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2006. xiv+258 pp. $39-95. ISBN 978-1-57003-593-7 In this thought-provoking and...

Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. By JACK ZIPES. New York and Oxford: Routledge. 2005. xvii+171 pp. $85. ISBN 978-0-415-97432-5 The subtitle of Jack Zipes'...

Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity Secularization and Cultural Criticism: Religion, Nation, and Modernity. By VINCENT P. PECORA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2o06. x+242 pp. $21. ISBN...

Benjamin's 'Arcades': An UnGuided Tour.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Benjamin's 'Arcades': An UnGuided Tour. By PETER BUSE, KEN HIRSCHKOP, SCOTT MCCRACKEN, and BERTRAND TAITHE. (Encounters) Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2005. xii+205 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7190-6989-5. Walter...

The Essential Wayne Booth.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Essential Wayne Booth. Ed. with an introduction by Walter Jost. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 2006. vi + 375 pp. 22.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-065922. Wayne Booth (1921-2005) taught at Chicago in the atmosphere of an...

Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History/Literature Debate.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Tropes for the Past: Hayden White and the History/Literature Debate. Ed. by KUISIVIA KORHONEN. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen and Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 96) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 175 pp. 35 [euro];...

Word Origins ... and How We Know Them.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Word Origins... and How We Know Them. By ANATOLY LIBERMAN. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. vii + 312pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]; $25. ISBN 978-0-19-516147-2. To summarize this book is to diminish it in more than the obvious way-the...

The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, Vol. III: 1660-1790. Ed. by STUART GILLESPIE and DAVID HOPKINS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xi + 572 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-924622-9. This book is the first...

Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales.'.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales.' By LAURA F. HODGES. Cambridge: Brewer. 2005. xiv+ 316 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-184384-033-2. Chaucer himself draws attention...

Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics. By A. C. SPEARING. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. viii+273 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $95. ISBN 978-0-19-818724-0. Textual Subjectivity does not...

Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Voices of the English Reformation: A Sourcebook. Ed. by JOHN N. KING. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. xvi+394 pp. 16.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8122-2877-8. John N. King's Voices of the English Reformation is an...

Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate 'The Advancement of Learning', 1605-2005.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Francis Bacon and the Refiguring of Early Modern Thought: Essays to Commemorate 'The Advancement of Learning', 1605-2005. Ed. by JULIE ROBIN SALOMON and CATHERINE GIMELLI MARTIN. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. x111+257 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]....

Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Speaking for Nature: Women and Ecologies of Early Modern England. By SYLVIA BOWERBANK. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004. xii+287 pp. 33-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-7872-5. Sylvia Bowerbank's study is...

The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading. Ed. by HELEN REGUEIRO ELAM and FRANCES FERGUSON. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. vii+374 pp. 36-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8187-9. The...

The Victorian Novel.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Victorian Novel. By Louis JAMES. Oxford: Blackwell. 2006. xix+249 PP. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-22628-4. Louis James's new study of Victorian fiction, primarily aimed, we are told, at undergraduates and postgraduates,...

Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Quixotic Fictions of the USA 1792-1815. By SARAH F. Wood. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xvii+295 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927315-7. On 17 September 1787, the very afternoon on which delegates signed the US...

Voice and the Victorian Storyteller.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Voice and the Victorian Storyteller. By IVAN KREILKAMP. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. viii+252 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-85193-0. 'This book', writes Ivan Kreilkamp, 'questions and hopes to trouble a...

An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... An Imaginary England: Nation, Landscape and Literature, 1840-1920. By ROGER EBBATSON. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. viii+232 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5092-8. In the introduction to An Imaginary England Roger Ebbatson declares...

Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and its Discontents. By ELAINE SHOWALTER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. vii+166 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928332-3 Elaine Showalter's study focuses on what is...

William Empson: Among the Mandarins.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... William Empson: Among the Mandarins. By JOHN HAFFENDEN. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xxi+695 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927659-2. John Haffenden tells us that in the eyes of the Chinese William Empson was an...

The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work. By ANDREW HOBEREK. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2005. x+158pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-691-12146-8. Andrew Hoberek's new study is designed to...

Writings in General Linguistics.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Writings in General Linguistics. By FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE. Ed. by SIMON BOUQUET, RUDOLF ENGLER, and ANTOINETTE WEIL. Trans. by CAROL SANDERS, MATTHEW PIRES, and PETER FIGUEROA. Intro. by CAROL SANDERS. Bibliography by MATTHEW PIRES and CAROL...

La Langue, le style, le sens: etudes offertes a Anne-Marie Garagnon.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... La Langue, le style, le sens: etudes offertes a Anne-Marie Garagnon. By CLAIRE BADIOU-MONFERRAN, FREDERIC GALAS, JULIEN PIAT, and CHRISTELLE REGGIANI. Paris: L'Improviste. 2005. 383 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-913764-27-9. The title of the...

Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: 'Translatio', Kinship, and Metaphor.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: 'Translatio', Kinship, and Metaphor. By ZRINKA STAHULJAK. Gainesville and Tallahassee: University Press of Florida. 2005. xi+243 pp. $65. ISBN 978-0-8130-2862-0. This dense and stimulating...

Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. By ZAHI ZALLOUA. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2005. 191 pp. $39-95. ISBN 978-1-886365-56-8. This densely written study covers a wide range of Montaigne scholarship. Zahi Zalloua's stated aim is...

Zayde: A Spanish Romance.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Zayde: A Spanish Romance. By MARIE-MADELEINE PIOCHE DE LA VERGNE, COMTESSE DE LAFAYETTE. Ed. and trans. by NICHOLAS D. PAIGE. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. 248 pp. $18. ISBN...

La Bruyere: de l'enfer au paradis. Un guide des 'Caracteres'.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... La Bruyere: de l'enfer au paradis. Un guide des 'Caracteres'. By FLAVIO LUONI. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2004. 253 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7078-1275-9. The slightly mystifying subtitle to Flavio Luoni's book on La Bruyere turns out to be an...

Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. LXIIIC: L'Ingenu. Ed. by RICHARD A. FRANCIS. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. xvi+346 pp. 95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0824-0. While doubtless not so well...

L'Image a la lettre.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... L'Image a la lettre. Ed. by NATHALIE PREISS and JOELLE RAINEAU. (Les Rencontres de la Maison de Balzac) Paris: Paris-Musees. 2005. 314 pp. 49 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-87900-882-0. This carefully edited book will be particularly useful for...

Documents Stephane Mallarme: nouvelle serie IV.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Documents Stephane Mallarme: nouvelle serie IV. Ed. by GORDON MILLAN. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2005. 290 pp. 45 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7078-1279-7. This volume contains Mallarme's five unfinished works from 1869 to the 1890s, also gathered in...

Jean Giono 8: 'Que ma joie demeure'--ecrire-guerir?(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Jean Giono 8: 'Que ma joie demeure'--ecrire-guerir? Ed. by LAURENT FOURCAUT. (La Revue des Lettres Modernes) Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2006. 294 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-256-91106-4. The eighth thematic volume in the Revue des Lettres...

Blanche et Noir.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Blanche et Noir. By LOUISE FAURE-FAVIER. Ed. by ROGER LITTLE and LAURENT DE FREITAS. (Collection Autrement Memes) Paris: L'Harmattan. 2006. xxxv + 159 pp. 17.50 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-296-0192-5. This re-edition of Louise Faure-Favier's 1928...

Curiosites de Raymond Queneau: de 'l'Encyclopedie des Sciences inexactes' aux jeux de la creation romanesque.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Curiosites de Raymond Queneau: de 'l' Encyclopedie des Sciences inexactes' aux jeux de la creation romanesque. By EVERT VAN DER STARRE. Ed. by YVETTE WENT-DAOUST, LEO VAN MARIS, and PAUL J. SMITH. Geneva: Droz. 2006. 158 pp. SwF 28. ISBN...

Patterns in Dante: Nine Literary Essays.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Patterns in Dante: Nine Literary Essays. Ed. by CORMAC O CUILLEANAIN and JENNIFER PETRIE. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2005. 213 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN 978-1-85182-542-4. It is all but impossible to read Dante--especially the Dante of the...

Tra Cinque e Seicento: tradizione e anticlassicismo nella sintassi della prosa letteraria.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Tra Cinque e Seicento: tradizione e anticlassicismo nella sintassi della prosa letteraria. By SERGIO BOZZOLA. Florence: Olschki. 2004. viii + 168pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-222-5344-6. This book deals with the traditional opposition between...

Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland, 1929-44.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Ignazio Silone in Exile: Writing and Antifascism in Switzerland, 1929-44. By DEBORAH HOLMES. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. 213 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-3522-1. Accepted as a patient in a Davos sanatorium and then as a political...

Studies on Ibero-Romance Linguistics Dedicated to Ralph Penny.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Studies on Ibero-Romance Linguistics Dedicated to Ralph Penny. Ed. by ROGER WRIGHT and PETER RICKETTS. (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs) Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2005. 467 pp. $28.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-072-7. This volume celebrates...

Nuevas cartas de la ultima prision de Quevedo.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Nuevas cartas de la ultima prision de Quevedo. Ed. by JAMES O. CROSBY. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. 496 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-85566-112-7. Over a period of almost fifty years, James O. Crosby has been publishing, in critical...

The Cervantes Encyclopedia.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Cervantes Encyclopedia. By HOWARD MANCING. Westport, CT: Greenwood. 2004. 2 vols; 863 pp. $149.95. ISBN 978-0-313-30695-2. This encyclopaedia is a monumental achievement. While it will be dwarfed by the Spanish multi-volume project,...

Galdos beyond Realism: Reading and the Creation of Magical Worlds.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Galdos beyond Realism: Reading and the Creation of Magical Worlds. By TIMOTHY MCGOVERN. (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs) Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2004. 220 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-063-5. Timothy McGovern's study, framed by an...

La poesia escenica de Joan Brossa.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... La poesia escenica de Joan Brossa. By EDUARDO PLANAS. (El Pla de les Comedies, 1) Barcelona: Associacio d'Investigacio i Experimentacio Teatral. 2002. 390 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 978-84-607-5294-3. Joan Brossa (1919-98) occupies an important...

That Strange Territory: The Representation of Childhood in Texts of Three Latin American Women.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... That Strange Territory: The Representation of Childhood in Texts of Three Latin American Women. By MARTA LOPEZ-LUACES. Trans. by LEA FLETCHER. (Juan de la Cuesta Hispanic Monographs) Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2004. 176 pp. $16.95. ISBN...

Eca de Queiroz.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Eca de Queiroz. By MARIA FILOMENA MONICA. Trans. by ALISON AIKEN, with a Foreword by SIR RAYMOND CARR. Woodbridge: Tamesis. 2005. 544 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-85566-115-8. In contrast to the UK, biography is not a popular genre...

Althochdeutsches Worterbuch.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Althochdeutsches Worterbuch, 6th edn. By RUDOLF SCHUTZEICHEL. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2006. 444 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-484-64031-3. Since its first appearance in 1969, Schutzeichel' Althochdeutsches Worterbuch has established itself as an...

Sprachen der Bildung: Bildung durch Sprachen im Deutschland des 18. und 19. Fahrhunderts.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Sprachen der Bildung: Bildung durch Sprachen im Deutschlanddes 18. and 19. Fahrhunderts. Ed. by WERNER HU LLEN and FRIEDERIKE KLIPPEL. (Wolfenbutteler Forschungen, 107) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2005. 316 pp. 64 [euro]. ISBN 9783-447-05264-1....

Lessings Skandale.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Lessings Skandale. Ed. by JURGEN STENZEL and ROMAN LACH. (Wolfenbutteler Studien zur Aufklarung, 29) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2005. ix + 237 pp. 64 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-484-17529-7. The young Lessing scandalized his parents by his all-too-worldly...

Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany. By H. C. ERIK MIDELFORT. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2005. xiii + 219pp. $35; 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 987-0-300-10669-5 ...

Zwischen Naturgeschichte und Anthropologie: Lichtenberg im Kontext der Aufklarung.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Zwischen Naturgeschichte und Anthropologie: Lichtenberg im Kontext der Aufklarung. By CARL NIEKERK. (Studienzur deutschen Literatur, 176) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2005. viii + 395 pp. 64 [euro]. ISBN 987-3-484-18176-1. Lichtenberg read widely...

Goethe und die Bibel.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Goethe und die Bibel. Ed. by JOHANNES ANDEREGG and EDITH ANNA KUNZ. (Arbeiten zur Geschichte and Wirkung der Bibel, 6) Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. 2005. 344 pp. 48 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-438-06256-7. This volume successfully throws...

Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination.(Schiller's 'On Grace and Dignity' in its Cultural Context: Essays and a New Translation)(Schiller and die Tradition des Erhabenen)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination. By FREDERICK BEISER. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2005. xiii+283 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928282-1. Schiller's 'On Grace and Dignity' in its Cultural Context: Essays and a New...

Halfte des Lebens': Versuch uber Holderlins Poetik.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Halfte des Lebens': Versuch uber Holderlins Poetik. By WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS. Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp. 2005. 143 pp. 16.80 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-518-41717-1. Winfried Menninghaus says that 'Holderlins dichterische Leistung sehr viel mehr an...

Rethinking the Uncanny in Hoffmann and Tieck.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Rethinking the Uncanny in Hoffmann and Tieck. By MARC FALKENBERG. (Studies in Modern German Literature, 100) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2005. 258 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; SwF 67; 45.80 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-03910-284-6. Staatsgespenster:...

Eduard Morike: Asthetik and Geselligkeit.(Die Schonheit des Verganglichen: Erinnerung and asthetische Erfahrung bei Eduard Morike)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Eduard Morike: Asthetik and Geselligkeit. Ed. by WOLFGANG BRAUNGART and RALF SIMON. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2004. 270 pp. 52 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-484-10864-6. Die Schonheit des Verganglichen: Erinnerung and asthetische Erfahrung bei Eduard...

Einfuhrung in die Literatur des Vormarz.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Einfuhrung in die Literatur des Vormarz. By NORBERT OTTO EKE. (Einfuhrungen in die Germanistik) Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. 2005. 167 pp. 14.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-534-15892-8. 'Als interdiszipliBre Forschung ist die...

Mediating the Past: Gustav Freytag, Progress and German Historical Identity, 1848-1871.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Mediating the Past: Gustav Freytag, Progress and German Historical Identity, 1848-1871. By ALYSSA A. LONNER. (North American Studies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature, 36) New York: Peter Lang. 2005. 255 pp. $56-70; 31.50 [pounds...

Das ganze Schlachtfeld--ein zauberhaftes Schauspiel: Theodor Fontane als Kriegsberichterstatter.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Das ganze Schlachtfeld--ein zauberhaftes Schauspiel: Theodor Fontane als Kriegsberichterstatter. By JAN PACHOLSKI. (Dissertationes Inaugurales Selectae, 14) Wroclaw and Gorlitz: Neisse Verlag. 2005. 332 pp. 16 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-93403847-9 ...

Theodor Fontane und die Technik.(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Theodor Fontane und die Technik. By PHILIPP FRANK. (Epistemata Literaturwissenschaft, 526) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2005. 265 pp. 36 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8260-2965-3. Black Devil and Iron Angel: The Railway in Nineteenth-Century...