The Modern Language Review articles from July 2008

The Modern Language Review archives from July 2008

A Lover's Complaint Cymbeline, and the Shakespeare canon: interpreting shared vocabulary.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... A Lover's Complaint was published in the 1609 Quarto of Shakespeare's Sonnet and was given its own ascription to 'William Shakespeare', but in recent years several specialists in attribution have questioned its authenticity. Brian Vickers has...

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: epistemology and fiction in Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year.(Daniel Defoe)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article considers Defoe's use of statistical data in his historical novel A Journal of the Plague Year, a device generally considered as a means of supplying a work of fiction with verisimilitude. Re-evaluating Defoe's attitude to the...

George Eliot and racism: how should one read 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!'?(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... A number of recent critics have accused George Eliot of racism and even anti-Semitism. Her essay 'The Modern Hep! Hep! Hep!' has been widely cited to support these claims. Critics have tended to take passages from it as straightforward...

Parisian literary fields: James Joyce and Pierre Reverdy's theory of the image.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article examines Joyce's Parisian works through the lens of Reverdy's aesthetic of the image, which was symptomatic of the intricate tensions between innovative ideas and the rivalries surrounding avant-garde practices, thus showing...

The epistemology of the mantelpiece: subversive ornaments in the novels of Guy de Maupassant.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article examines episodes from three novels by Guy de Maupassant, Notre Coeur (1890), Bel-Ami (1885), and Pierre et Jean (1888), and analyses how mantelpieces and ornaments become a privileged topos for the fictional investigation of...

Exile, language, and trauma in recent autobiographical writing by Jorge Semprun.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article traces a link between Jorge Semprun's autobiographical representation of exile and loss in Adieu, vive clarte... (1998) and his recent Holocaust-related texts, L'Ecriture ou la vie (1994) and Le Mort qu'il faut (2001), arguing...

Subject and space in Catherine Millet's La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article departs from the prevailing focus in critical interpretations of La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. on the textual display of female sexuality, and seeks to explore instead the neglected subject of space in Millet's text. The analysis...

A D'Annunzian Donnafugata? A possible mantuan intertext for a key section of Il Gattopardo.(Gabriele D'Annunzio's 'Forse che si forse che no')(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... A central episode in Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo describes how the lovers Tancredi and Angelica explore the neglected parts of the family palace of Donnafugata. This study suggests an intertext for Lampedusa's text in Gabriele...

Unamuno, the reader, and the hermeneutical gap.(Miguel de Unamuno)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... Unamuno's work is full of apostrophes to the reader, and in his novels we find fictional readers as well. Using a number of well-known novels as illustration, this article considers how Unamuno places the reader centre stage and how this...

Performativity in Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.(Luis Bunuel)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... The theory of performativity, as proposed by Judith Butler in Bodies That Matter, offers the analytical framework that elucidates Surrealism's undermining of intelligibility. The present analysis studies Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the...

But is it gay? Kissing, friendship, and 'pre-homosexual' discourses in eighteenth-century Germany.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... Many queer studies scholars have been too ready to read past cultures through the lens of homosexuality in its modern configurations. Taking as an example the correspondence between Gleim and Jacobi published in 1768, this article uses kissing...

Constructing women's love of women: Sappho and Queen Christina of Sweden in the letters and work of the Viennese poet Marie von Najmajer.(Critical essay)
July 1, 2008... This article analyses how the Hungarian-Viennese poet Marie von Najmajer (1844-1904) constructs her sexual identity in letters and poetry of the 1870s. Her correspondence with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is a rare private commentary...

Recent critical approaches to the work Of Isaac Bashevis Singer: a review article.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The early twenty-first century has been very productive in terms of scholarship on the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prizewinner Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-91). This review article discusses two major anthologies of Bashevis criticism, two...

Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: 'Peace', 'Birds', and 'Frogs'.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: 'Peace', 'Birds', and 'Frogs'. Ed. by EDITH HALL and AMANDA WRIGLEY. London: Legenda. 2007. xix+390 pp. 48 [pounds sterling]; $69. ISBN 978-1-904350-61-3. This volume, produced under the auspices...

Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and their Legacy.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Love and Conflict in Medieval Drama: The Plays and their Legacy. By LYNETTE R. MUIR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. xvi+294 PP. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-82756-0. In The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe (Cambridge:...

Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image: The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Joannes Sambucus and the Learned Image: The Use of the Emblem in Late-Renaissance Humanism. By A. S. Q. VISSER. (Studies in Intellectual History, 128) Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2005. xxx+296 pp. 99 [euro]; $129. ISBN 978-90-04-13866-7. The...

Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Phrase and Subject: Studies in Literature and Music. Ed. by DELIA DA SOUSA CORREA. London: Legenda. 2006. xii+2i2pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $69. ISBN 978-1-904713-07-4. This collection, despite its enigmatic title, is largely devoted to...

Theatre of Estrangement: Theatre, Practice, Ideology.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Theatre of Estrangement: Theatre, Practice, Ideology. By SILVIJA JESTROVIC. (German and European Studies) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. ix + 181 pp. $55; 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8020-9068-3. Theatre of Estrangement...

Die Rezeption Maurice Maeterlincks in den deutschsprachigen Landern (1891-1914).(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Die Rezeption Maurice Maeterlincks in den deutschsprachigen Landern (1891-1914). By DIRK STROHMANN. (Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe I: Deutsche Sprache and Literatur, 1926) Bern: Peter Lang. 2006. 806 pp. 100 [euro]; 65.50 [pounds...

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism.(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism. By PERICLES LEWIS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2007. 298 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]; $24-99. ISBN 978-0-52153527-4 It is a central objective of Pericles Lewis's Cambridge Introduction to...

Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition. Ed. by JOEL KUORTTI and Jopi NYMAN. (Studies in Comparative Literature, 51) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2007. x+330 pp. 70 [euro]; $95. ISBN 978-90-420-2141-9. This collection of...

Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece. By DIMITRIS PAPANIKOLAOU. (Studies in Comparative Literature, II) London: Legenda. 2007. xiv + 182 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-62-0. This volume traces a...

Journeys of Remembrance: Memories of the Second World War in French and German Literature, 1960-1980.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Journeys of Remembrance: Memories of the Second World War in French and German Literature, 1960-1980. By KATHRYN N. JONES. London: Legenda. 2007. 160 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-66-8. Kathryn Jones's book starts from the...

Nuovo planetario italiano: geografia e antologia della letteratura della migrazione in Italia e in Europa.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Nuovo planetario italiano: geografia e antologia della letteratura della migrazione in Italia e in Europa. Ed. by ARMANDO GNISCI. Troina (EN): Citta Aperta Edizioni. 2006. 537 pp. 27 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-8137-260-7. While still far from...

The Polyphony of Jewish Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Polyphony of Jewish Culture. By BENJAMIN HARSHAV. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2007. viii+288 pp. $6o. ISBN 978-0-8047-5512-2. Using 'polyphony' as its unifying thematic thread, this book addresses the dynamic cultural...

Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. Ed. by GAETAN BRULOTTE and JOHN PHILLIPS. New York and London: Routledge. 2006. 2 vols: xli + 104 [index] + 1468 pp. $375; 225 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-57958-441-2 (set). In our era of acute interest...

Biography: A Brief History.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Biography: A Brief History. By NIGEL HAMILTON. Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press. 2007. xv+345 PP. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-674-02466-3. This book comes plastered with accolades: 'profound', 'insightful and...

The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Towneley Cycle: Unity and Diversity. By PETER HAPPE. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2007. xiv+290 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7083-2048-8. The Towneley plays, one of the four cycles of medieval English drama, are linked...

Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Sacred Players: The Politics of Response in the Middle English Religious Drama. By HEATHER HILL-VASQUEZ. Washington: Catholic University of America Press. 2007. vii+229 pp. $59-95. ISBN 978-0-8132-1497-9. The performance context and...

This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now. By DAVID BEVINGTON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2007. xi+242 pp. 12.20 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-04478-1. Released in 2007 to coincide...

An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island - and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (Book)
July 1, 2008... An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island; and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli. By JAMES BOSWELL. Ed. with introduction and notes by JAMES T. BOULTON and T. O. MCLOUGHLIN. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. lii+ 250 pp. 52 [pounds...

Edmund Curll, Bookseller.(Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Edmund Curll: Bookseller. By PAUL BAINES and PAT ROGERS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. x+388 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927898-5. Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. By JAN FERGUS. Oxford: Oxford University...

The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England. By EMMA J. CLERY. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. x+234 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-333-77731-2. This is a very original book, both intelligent and informed; showing a...

Romanticism's Debatable Lands.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Ed. by CLAIRE LAMONT and MICHAEL ROSSINGTON. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. xi+251 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-230-50785-2. Romanticism's Debatable Lands collects papers from the 2005...

Natural Rights and the Rise of Romanticism in the 1790s.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Natural Rights and the Rise of Romanticism in the 1790s. By R. S. WHITE. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. 277 pp. 52 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-I-4039-9478-3. The 'natural rights' in the title of this interesting new book by R. S....

Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts.(Critical Interventions Series)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Heidegger's Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts. By ROGER EBBATSON. (Critical Interventions Series) Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. 2006. viii + 172 PP. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-8451-9105-4. In the introduction to this...

The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. By ERIC CARL LINK. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. x+ 167 pp. 23 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8173-1385-2. Eric Carl Link's book...

Identifying the Remains: George Eliot's Death in the London Religious Press.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Identifying the Remains: George Eliot's Death in the London Religious Press. By K. K. COLLINS. Victoria, BC: ELS Editions. 2006. 119 pp. $18. ISBN 978-0920604-94-6. This compact but well-researched study of the contemporary responses to...

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell.(The Pickering Masters)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Ed. by JOANNE SHATTOCK, DEIRDRE D'ALBERTIS, JOSIE BILLINGTON, LINDA HUGHES, LINDA PETERSON, ELISABETH JAY, CHARLOTTE MITCHELL, MARION SHAW, and ALAN SHELSTON. (The Pickering Masters) London: Pickering and Chatto....

The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Oxford Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry. Ed. by TIM KENDALL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xvi+754PP. 85 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-928266-1. Tim Kendall's rich and wide-ranging edited collection assembles...

Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature. By ROBERT MACFARLANE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. xii+244 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929650-7. This perceptive study investigates a...

On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. By ANGELA LEIGHTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007. viii+288 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929060-4. Good form requires dexterity as well as discipline, and one of...

Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Anglo-American Modernity and the Mediterranean. Ed. by CAROLINE PATEY, GIOVANNI CIANCI, and FRANCESCA CUOJATI. Milan: Cisalpino. 2006. 399 PP. 32 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-323-6062-2. The volume comprises seventeen essays occasioned by a...

The Letters of A. E. Housman.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Letters of A. E. Housman. Ed. by ARCHIE BURNETT. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2007. liv+1128pp. 080. ISBN 978-0-19-818496-6. 'But what in the world should you be buying letters of mine for?', Housman asked his publisher in 1930 (II,...

The Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Family Ideology and Narrative Form.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Nineteenth-Century English Novel: Family Ideology and Narrative Form. By JAMES F. KILROY. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. 222 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-7646-8. This work begins by drawing our attention to the...

A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... A Study in Greene: Graham Greene and the Art of the Novel. By BERNARD BERGONZI. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. xi+197 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929102-1. Feelings of missed opportunity are endemic in Greeneland, but...

Understanding John McGahern.(Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Understanding John McGahern. By DAVID MALCOLM. (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. 2007. xiv+163 pp. $34-95. ISBN 978-1-57003-673-6. David Malcolm is Professor of...

French Arthurian Literature, vol. IV: Old French Narrative Lays.(Arthurian Archives)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... French Arthurian Literature, vol. IV: Old French Narrative Lays. Ed. by GLYN S. BURGESS and LESLIE C. BROOK. (Arthurian Archives, 14) Cambridge: Brewer. 2007. 529 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84384-118-0. The twelve lais attributed...

Anglo-Norman Verse 'Prophecies of Merlin'.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Anglo-Norman Verse 'Prophecies of Merlin'. Ed. and trans. by JEAN BLACKER. Dallas: Scriptorium Press. 2005. 125 pp. $18. ISBN 978-0-9651877-2-5. The two poetic prophecies in this edition--one in decasyllabic rhymed couplets, the other in...

History of William Marshal, vol. II: Text and Translation (ll. 10032--end).(History of William Marshal, Vol. III: Introduction, Notes, Indices)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... History of William Marshal, Vol. II: Text and Translation (ll. 10032--end). Ed. by A. J. HOLDEN, with English translation by S. GREGORY. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society. 2004. v+500 pp. 49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-905474-45-8 ...

Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos.(Gallica)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos By DOUGLAS KELLY. (Gallica, 4) Cambridge: Brewer. 2007. 226 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84384-111-1. Douglas Kelly's book is one of the few that...

Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Sublime Worlds: Early Modern French Literature. By EMMA GILBY. London: Le genda. 2006. 160 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-65-1 This cryptically entitled book is, the author explains from the outset, not a word history of the...

Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France.(Research Monographs in French Studies)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Poisoned Words: Slander and Satire in Early Modern France. By EMILY BUTTER WORTH. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 21) London: Legenda. 2006. 122 PP. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-78-1. In his relentless satirical pursuit...

Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in 17th-Century France.(Biblio 17)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in 17th-Century France. By JOSEPH HARRIS. (Biblio 17, 156) Tubingen: Narr. 2005. 279 pp. [euro]54. ISBN 978-3-8233-6114-5. The civil unrest of the Fronde in the mid-seventeenth century caused an upsurge in...

Madame de Sevigne, classique a son insu.(Biblio 17)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Madame de Sevigne, classique a son insu. By MARCEL GUTWIRTH. (Biblio 17, 153) Tubingen: Gunter Narr. 2004. 157 pp. 49 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8233-6067-4. This is an elegant and suggestive piece of impressionistic criticism, the work of an...

Le Dix-huitieme Siecle: histoire, memoire et reve. Melanges offerts a Jean-Marie Goulemot.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Le Dix-huitieme Siecle: histoire, memoire et reve. Melanges offerts a Jean-Marie Goulemot. Ed. by DIDIER MASSEAU. Paris: Champion. 2006. 365 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 9782-7453-1332-4. This volume contains twenty-five contributions...

Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron. By DEREK CONNON. London: Legenda. 2007. x+182 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-904350-69-9. Alexis Piron is one of those writers whose range was broad in its time, but who is...

Two French Libertine Novels: 'The Story of Madame de Luz' and 'The Confessions of the Comte de ***'.(AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Two French Libertine Novels: 'The Story of Madame de Luz' and 'The Confessions of the Comte de ***'. By CHARLES PIVOT-DUCLOS. Trans. with an introduction by DOUGLAS PARMEE. (AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, 46) New York: AMS Press. 2006....

Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda: The Fermiers Generaux Edition of La Fontaine's 'Contes et nouvelles en vers' of 1762.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Book Illustration, Taxes and Propaganda: The Fermiers Generaux Edition of La Fontaine's 'Contes et nouvelles en vers' of 1762. By DAVID ADAMS. (SVEC, II) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. 428 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7294-0885-1....

Balzac et le temps: litterature, histoire et psychanalyse.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Balzac et le temps: litterature, histoire et psychanalyse. By NICOLE MOZET. Saint-Cyrsur-Loire: Pirot. 2005. 260 pp. 24 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-86808-227-5. Balzac avant Balzac. Ed. by CLAIRE BAREL-MOISAN and JOSE-Luis DIAZ....

Victor Hugo et le roman architectural.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Victor Hugo et le roman architectural. By CHANTAL BRIERE. (Romantisme et Modernite, 102) Paris: Champion. 2007. 665 pp. 120 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1436-9. Jean Mallion's Victor Hugo et l'art architectural (Paris: Presses universitaires...

Logiques du dernier Baudelaire: Lectures du "Spleen de Paris".(Champion Classiques)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Logiques du dernier Baudelaire: lectures du 'Spleen de Paris'. By STEVE MURPHY. (Champion Classiques) Paris: Champion. 2007. 732 pp. [euro]16. ISBN 978-2-7453-1580-9. In the last twenty years or so critics of Baudelaire's late collection...

Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Supernatural Proust: Myth and Metaphor in 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. By MARGARET TOPPING. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2007. 223 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7083-1866-9. In Supernatural Proust, Margaret Topping gives a...

Du discours medical dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu': science et souffrance.(Recherches Proustiennes)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Du discours medical dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu': science et souffrance. By DONALD WRIGHT. (Recherches Proustiennes, 8) Paris: Champion. 2007. 460 pp. 85 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7453-1376-8. There is much that is serious and accomplished...

Segalen: 'Steles'.(Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Segalen: 'Steles'. By YVONNE Y. HSIEH. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 53) Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2007. 116 pp. 6 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85261-811-0. For twenty years, under...

Reinventer le lyrisme: le surrealisme de Joyce Mansour.(Histoires des Idees et Critique Litteraire)(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Reinventer le lyrisme: le surrealisme de Joyce Mansour. By STEPHANIE CARON. (Histoires des Idees et Critique Litteraire, 427) Geneva: Droz. 2007. 383 pp. SwF 52. ISBN 978-2-600-01090-0. 'Self-discovery, stale and complete, proves to be...

La Chute des temps/Time-Fall.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... La Chute des temps/Time-Fall. By BERNARD NOEL. Trans. by ANDREW ROTHWELL. Halifax, NS: VVV Editions. 2006. 181 pp. Can$15. ISBN 978-0-9 32098-8-4. Bernard Noel is a major writer whose work includes poetry, discursive and fictional prose,...

Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema. By LUCILLE CAIRNS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. 223 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-2165-1. Despite the increase in representations of lesbians...

Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay concerning Women, Philosophy, etc.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay concerning Women, Philosophy, etc. By MICHELE LE DOEUFF. Trans. by TRISTA SELOUS. New York: Columbia University Press. 2007. 416 pp. 16 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-231-13895-6. This second edition of the...

Dante's Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Dante's Enigmas: Medieval Scholasticism and Beyond. By RICHARD KAY. (Variorum Collected Studies Series) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2006. x+ 340 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]; $114.95 ISBN 978-0-86078-984-0. Richard Kay, as the title...

Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism. Ed. by THOMAS C. STILLINGER and F. REGINA PSAKI. (Studi e Testi, 8) Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d' Italianistica. 2006. 273 pp. $25. ISBN 978-o-9657956-7-8 Gender-oriented readings of Boccaccio's works are...

Dal Belcalzer al Castiglione: studi sull' antico volgare di Mantova e sul 'Cortegiano'.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Dal Belcalzer al Castiglione: studi sull' antico volgare di Mantova e sul 'Cortegiano'. By GHINO GHINASSI. Ed. by PAOLO BONGRANI. (Biblioteca Mantovana, 5) Florence: Olschki. 2006. xiv+318 pp. 33 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-222-5520-4. A volume...

The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... The Quest for Epic: From Ariosto to Tasso. By SERGIO ZATTI. Ed. by DENNIS LOONEY. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2006. 315 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 20 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-8020-9031-7 (pbk 978-0-8020-9373-8). Sergio...

L'italiano lingua di migrazione: verso l'affermazione di una cultura transnazionale agli inizi del XXI secolo.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... L'italiano lingua di migrazione: verso l'affermazione di una cultura transnazionale agli inizi del XXI secolo. Ed. by ANNA FRABETTI and WALTER ZIDARIC. Nantes: Centre de Recherches sur les Identites Nationales et l'Interculturalite, Universite...

Spanish Cinema: A Student's Guide.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Spanish Cinema: A Student's Guide. By BARRY JORDAN and MARK ALLINSON. London: Hodder Arnold. 2005. vi+229 pp. ISBN 987-0-340-80745-3. Of the growing number of publications on Spanish film, Barry Jordan and Mark Allinson's book will be a...

Im Wortfeld des Textes: Worthistorische Beitrage zu den Bezeichnungen von Rede und Schrift im Mittelalter.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Im Wortfeld des Textes: Worthistorische Beitrage zu den Bezeichnungen von Rede und Schrift im Mittelalter. Ed. by GERD DICKE, MANFRED EIKELMANN, and BURKHARD HASEBRINK. (Trends in Medieval Philology, 10) Berlin: de Gruyter. 2006. ix+409 pp. 98...

Sprachnormenwandel im geschriebenen Deutsch an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
July 1, 2008... Sprachnormenwandel im geschriebenen Deutsch an der Schwelle zum 21. Jahrhundert. By VIT DOVALIL. (Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- and Kulturwissenschaft, 63) Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang. 2006. vi+236 pp. 42.50 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-631-53425-0. ...

Von Mythen und Maren: Mittelalterliche Kulturgeschichte im Spiegel einer Wissenschaftler-Biographie. Festschrift fur Otfrid Ehrismann zum 65. Geburtstag.(Book review)
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