The Modern Language Review articles from October 1999

The Modern Language Review archives from October 1999

George Eliot and Schiller: Narrative, ambivalence in Middlemarch and Felix Holt.
October 1, 1999... Much has been written about the various literary and philosophical currents that contributed to the making of George Eliot's work. In a woman as intensely intellectual as she was this can be fascinating work, especially as she was widely read in...

Was Thomas Middleton a puritan dramatist?
October 1, 1999... Margot Heinemann's book, Puritanism and Theatre: Thomas Middleton and Opposition Drama under the Early Stuarts, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1980. It was an immediate success, and a paperback version appeared in 1982. Literary...

'The Sound must seem an Eccho to the Sense': An eighteenth-century controversy revisited.
October 1, 1999... 'Sound enactment' is the expression used throughout this article to denote how poets sometimes exploit rhythm and phonology in such a way that these effects seem to corroborate, mimic, or enact the content of the lines in which they occur. (1)...

'Patrouillotisme' and 'Thierroisme' in Rimbaud's 'Democratie'.
October 1, 1999... 'Elle [l'histoire] vous fletrira du nom de 'Thierroristes' et ce sera la une epithete plus ridicule et plus infame que celle que vous essayez de nous infliger.' (Le Pere Fouettard, 2, 1871) Democratie (1) 'Le...

Ideology and discourse in Proust: The making of 'M. De Charlus Pendant La Guerre'.
October 1, 1999... Marcel Proust has often been described as apolitical. (1) It is true that apart from a well-known involvement in the Dreyfus Affair and a lesser-known intervention against the separation of Church and State in 1904, he generally refrained from...

A name for extermination.
October 1, 1999... The extermination of two-thirds of the Jews in Europe by the Nazis during the Second World War is, for the Jewish people and perhaps for the whole of mankind, an 'epoch-making event', (1) something with which every survivor and all people from...

Who is the model reader of Delibes's Cinco Horas Con Mario?
October 1, 1999... Miguel Delibes's Cinco horas con Mario consists principally of the thoughts of a newly bereaved widow as she watches over her husband's body during the course of a night. Carmen, the widow and the protagonist of the novel, allows her mind to...

Two paths to the boom: Carpentier, Asturias, and the performative split.
October 1, 1999... A critical consensus identifies Miguel Angel Asturias and Alejo Carpentier as two of the pioneers of the contemporary Spanish-American novel. (1) Absorbing and domesticating European avant-garde currents, notably Surrealism, during their...

On the diverse duties of the servants of Princes: Lorenz Beger (1653-1705), librarian, antiquarian, and court poet in Heidelberg.
October 1, 1999... Lorenz Beger was in court service for thirty years, from 1675 until his death at the age of fifty-one. The son of a tanner and member of Heidelberg civic council, he followed a career of interest for a variety of reasons, not least because it...

Female language theory in the age of Goethe: Three case studies.
October 1, 1999... By the close of the German Romantic Movement there was in existence a well-entrenched corpus of sophisticated reflections on language by the German male writing fraternity. Herder, Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegel brothers, Tieck, Novalis, Kleist,...

Alexander Benitskii and the Vostochnaia Povest in the reign of Alexander I.
October 1, 1999... Russian prose writing during the reign of Alexander I (1801-25) is characterized primarily by the variety and heterogeneity of the works produced. A wide spectrum of experiments in narrative forms and styles is characteristic of the...

Arthurian Literature, XV.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Arthurian Literature, xv. Ed. by JAMES B. CARLEY and FELICITY RIDDY. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. vii + 216 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $63. The articles in this latest volume of Arthurian Literature range in content from the identity of Chretien de...

The Composition of Old English Poetry.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Composition of Old English Poetry. By H. MOMMA. (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 20) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii + 205 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $49.95. This book concerns itself...

The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Entertainer in Medieval and Traditional Culture: A Symposium. (Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium Organised by the Centre for Medieval Studies, Odense University, 20-21 November, 1994). Ed. by FLEMMING G. ANDERSEN, THOMAS PETTIT,...

Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Individuality and Achievement in Middle English Poetry. Ed. by O. S. PICKERING. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. xi + 227 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]. Distinctive creativity amongst medieval poets is the guiding principle chosen by O. S. Pickering for...

The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: The B Version. By C. DAVID BENSON and LYNNE S. BLANCHFIELD, with acknowledgement to the work of MARIE CLAIR UHART. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. 339 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. This volume offers detailed descriptions...

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kinis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B24.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Kingis Quair': A Facsimile of Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Arch. Selden. B.24. With an introduction by JULIA BOFFEY and A. S. G. EDWARDS and an appendix by B. C. BARKER-BENFIELD. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997....

Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Ideology and Desire in Renaissance Poetry: The Subject of Donne. By RONALD CORTHELL. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 1997. 227 pp. $39.95. All scholarship is by nature symbiotic. The truly lasting kind feeds on what it engages with;...

Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century. By ANNA R. BEER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1997. xi + 208 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Anna Beer takes the politics of Sir Walter Ralegh's writings...

The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd edn.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd edn. Ed. by G. BLAKEMORE EVANS, with the assistance of J. J. M. TOBIN. Boston, MA, and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1997. xx + 2057 pp. 41.34 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. After it appeared a quarter of a century ago...

Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Shakespeare and Carnival: After Bakhtin. Ed. by RONALD KNOWLES. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. x + 232 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 16.99 [pounds sterling]). This...

Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: 'The Tempest' and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Shakespeare and the Spectacles of Strangeness: 'The Tempest' and the Transformation of Renaissance Theatrical Forms. By JOHN G. DEMARAY. (Medieval and Renaissance Literary Studies) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. 1998. xvi + 174 pp....

Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Milton and the Tangles of Neaera's Hair: The Making of the 1645 Poems. By STELLA P. REVARD. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. 1997. x + 299 pp. $44.95. Stella Revard has written a rich account of Milton's 1645 Poems... Both...

God and the American Writer.(Review)
October 1, 1999... God and the American Writer. By ALFRED KAZIN. New York: Knopf. 1997. 272 pp. $25. Communication, information, and even a degree of entertainment, however unfashionable such things have become in some academic quarters, have always been among...

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglas, and the Politics of Representative Identity.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. By ROBERT S. LEVINE. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiv + 314 pp. $45 (paperbound $18.95). The publication in 1852 of Harriet...

Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihasi and his Internment Writings, 1942-1945.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Morning Glory, Evening Shadow: Yamato Ichihashi and his Internment Writings, 1942-1945. Ed. by GORDON H. CHANG. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. xii + 552 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. 19 February 1942 holds a grim place in Japanese...

Caribbean Poetics: towards an Aesthetic of West INdian Literature.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Caribbean Poetics: Towards an Aesthetic of West Indian Literature. By SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiv + 353 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $64.95. Discussions of Caribbean literary...

Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy, 1970-1995. Ed. by DEREK ATTRIDGE and ROSEMARY JOLLY. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xvii + 288 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $64.95 (paperbound 14.95...

French Grammar in Context: Analysis and Practice.(Review)
October 1, 1999... French Grammar in Context: Analysis and Practice. By MARGARET JUBB and ANNIE ROUXEVILLE. London, Sydney, and Auckland: Arnold. 1998. x + 219 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. French Grammar Explained. By DAVID NOTT. London: Hodder & Stoughton. xi +...

French Grammar Explained.(Review)
October 1, 1999... French Grammar in Context: Analysis and Practice. By MARGARET JUBB and ANNIE ROUXEVILLE. London, Sydney, and Auckland: Arnold. 1998. x + 219 pp. 11.99 [pounds sterling]. French Grammar Explained. By DAVID NOTT. London: Hodder & Stoughton. xi +...

Les Prefaces du Dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise 1694-1992.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Les Prefaces du Dictionnaire de l'Academie francaise 1694-1992. Ed. by BERNARD QUEMADA. Paris: Champion. 1997. 564 pp. 360F. On its foundation in 1635, the Academie francaise was assigned four tasks: the compilation of a dictionary, a grammar,...

The Old French Narrative Lay: An Analytical Bibliography.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Old French Narrative Lay: An Analytical Bibliography. By GLYN S. BURGESS. Cambridge: Brewer. 1995. viii + 140 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]; $43. In the introduction to this indispensable research tool Glyn Burgess justifies his choice of the...

The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations. Ed. by WILLIAM W. KIBLER. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1994. vi + 247 pp. $37.50. This volume contains many important essays on the French Lancelot-Grail cycle and its reception. The...

The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chretien to Froissart.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chretien to Froissart. By BEATE SCHMOLKE-HASSELMANN. Trans. by MARGARET and ROGER MIDDLETON. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xlix + 321 pp. It...

Eustache Deschamps en son temps.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Eustache Deschamps en son temps. Ed. by JEAN-PATRICE BOUDET, HELENE MILLET, and others. (Textes et documents d'histoire medievale 1) Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 1997. 314 pp. 140 F. Prospective readers of Deschamps are sometimes...

Les Epistres familieres et invectives.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Les Epistres familieres et invectives. By HELISENNE DE CRENNE. Ed. by JERRY C. NASH. (Textes de la Renaissance, 8) Paris: Champion. 1996. 232 pp. Le Livre du corps de policie. By CHRISTINE DE PIZAN. Ed. by ANGUS J. KENNEDY. (Etudes...

Le Livre du corps de policie.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Les Epistres familieres et invectives. By HELISENNE DE CRENNE. Ed. by JERRY C. NASH. (Textes de la Renaissance, 8) Paris: Champion. 1996. 232 pp. Le Livre du corps de policie. By CHRISTINE DE PIZAN. Ed. by ANGUS J. KENNEDY. (Etudes...

Les trois premiers livres de la Metamorphose d'Ovide.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Les trois premiers livres de la Metamorphose d'Ovide. Trans. by CLEMENT MAROT and BARTHELEMY ANEAU. Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE MOISAN, with the collaboration of MARIE-CLAUDE MALENFANT. (Textes de la Renaissance, 14) Paris: Champion; Geneve: Slatkine....

Louis Labe Lyonnaise, ou la Renaissance au feminin.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Louise Labe Lyonnaise, ou la Renaissance au feminin. By FRANCOIS RIGOLOT. (Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance, 15) Paris: Champion. 1997. 345 pp. Francois Rigolot's new book is a fascinating excavation of the intertextual layers of Louise...

Les Contes de fees et les nouvelles de Madame d'Aulnoy (1690-1698): L'Imaginaire feminin a rebours de la tradition.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Les Contes de fees et les nouvelles de Madame d'Aulnoy (1690-1698): L'Imaginaire feminin a rebours de la tradition. By ANNE DEFRANCE. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 369) Geneva: Droz. 1998. 361 pp. 53 SwF. Mme d'Aulnoy was the...

Alfred de Vigny: Etapes et sens du gest litteraire.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Alfred de Vigny: etapes et sens du geste litteraire. By ANDRE JARRY. 2 vols. Geneve: Droz. 1998. 537 pp.; 499 pp. 280 SwF the set. Andre Jarry's admirably detailed and extensive work traces, chronologically, the evolution of Alfred de Vigny's...

Messiah or Antichrist? A Study of the Messianic Myth in the Work of Zola.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Messiah or Antichrist? A Study of the Messianic Myth in the Work of Zola. By ANTHONY JOHN EVERHUIS. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 283 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. The evidence of Anthony...

Debussy Studies.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Debussy Studies. Ed. by RICHARD LANGHAM SMITH. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xvi + 235 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of topics relating to Debussy's life and...

Aragon, Londres et la France Libre.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Aragon, Londres et la France Libre. By JOHN BENNETT. Preface by MICHEL APEL-MULLER. Trans. by EMILE-JEAN DUMAY. (Collection Espaces Litteraires) Paris: L'Harmattan. 1998. 271 pp. 140 F. Louis Aragon: Du surrealisme au realisme socialiste, du...

Louis Aragon: Du surrealisme au realisme socialiste, du 'Libertinage' au 'Mentir vrai', des 'Incipit' a la posterite.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Aragon, Londres et la France Libre. By JOHN BENNETT. Preface by MICHEL APEL-MULLER. Trans. by EMILE-JEAN DUMAY. (Collection Espaces Litteraires) Paris: L'Harmattan. 1998. 271 pp. 140 F. Louis Aragon: Du surrealisme au realisme socialiste, du...

Le Theatre en France des origines a nos jours.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... Le Theatre en France des origines a nos jours. Ed. by ALAIN VIALA. (Collection Premier Cycle) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1997. xiv + 503 pp. 128 F. In 1988 Armand Colin published a two-volume history of French theatre (1: Du...

Sources et fontaines du moyen age a l'age baroque: Actes due Colloque tenu a l'Universite Paul-Valery (Montpellier III), les 28, 29 et 30 novembre 1996.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Sources et fontaines du moyen age a l'age baroque: Actes du Colloque tenu a l'Universite Paul-Valery (Montpellier III), les 28, 29 et 30 novembre 1996. Ed. by FRANCOIS ROUDAUT. (Colloques, Congres et Conferences sur la Renaissance, 12) Paris:...

Le Moi et ses espaces: quelques reperes identitaires dans la litterature franciase contemporaine.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Le Moi et ses espaces: quelques reperes identitaires dans la litterature francaise contemporaine. Ed. by DAVID GASCOIGNE. Caen: Presses Universitaires de Caen. 1997. 182 pp. 100 F. Le Moi et ses espaces represents a collaborative enterprise...

Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence. MICHELLE BOULOUS-WALKER. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. x + 235 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. In this compelling and admirably lucid analysis of the silencing of the feminine voice in...

Women's Representations of the Occupation in Post-'68 France.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Women's Representations of the Occupation in Post-'68 France. By CLAIRE GORRARA. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1998. vii + 168 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This book certainly does offer, as it claims, a new perspective on French literature about the...

Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape. By BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE. Foreword by Simon Njami. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998. xviii + 350 pp. $34.95. This wide-ranging study provides an innovative reading of the...

Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media: Actas de las V Journadas Medievales.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media: Actas de las V Jornadas Medievales. Ed. by LILLIAN VON DER WALDE, CONCEPCION COMPANY, and AURELIO GONZALEZ. (Publicaciones de Medievalia, 13) Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and...

The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain.(Review)
October 1, 1999... The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain. By MICHAEL SOLOMON. (Cambridge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. vii + 221 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Michael Solomon has written an...

Juan Fernandez de Heredia y su epoca: IV Curso sobre lengua ye literatura en Aragon.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Juan Fernandez de Heredia y su epoca: IV Curso sobre lengua y literatura en Aragon. Ed. by AURORA EGIDO and JOSE MA. ENGUITA. Zaragoza: Institucion 'Fernando el Catolico'. 1996. 369 pp. 24 [pounds sterling]; 2,500 ptas. This neatly produced,...

Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia. Ed. by ALAN DEYERMOND. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 2) London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1996. 132 pp. 8.50 [pounds sterling]; $14. El modelo historiografico alfonsi: una...

El modelo historiografica alfonsi: una caracterizacion.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia. Ed. by ALAN DEYERMOND. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 2) London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1996. 132 pp. 8.50 [pounds sterling]; $14. El modelo historiografico alfonsi: una...

La imagen del poder real a traves de los compendios de castigos castellanos del siglo XII.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Historical Literature in Medieval Iberia. Ed. by ALAN DEYERMOND. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 2) London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1996. 132 pp. 8.50 [pounds sterling]; $14. El modelo historiografico alfonsi: una...

New Historicism and the Comedia: Poetics, Politics and Praxis.(Review)
October 1, 1999... New Historicism and the Comedia: Poetics, Politics and Praxis. Ed. by JOSE A. MADRIGAL. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. 1997. 236 pp. $30. This collection of eleven essays offers a series of interesting...

Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 1620s.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Spanish Comedies and Historical Contexts in the 1620s. By WILLIAM R. BLUE. (Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1996. xi + 259 pp. 38.50 [pounds sterling]; $42.50. A monograph on...

El teatro palaciego en Madrid: 1586-1707. Estudio y documentos.(Review)
October 1, 1999... El teatro palaciego en Madrid: 1586-1707. Estudio y documentos. By MARGARET RICH GREER and J. E. VAREY. (Fuentes para la historia del teatro en Espana, 29) London: Tamesis, 1997. 271 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $52.00. This is the second in a...

Teatros y vid teatral en Badajoz: 1601-1700. Estudio y documentos.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Teatros y vida teatral en Badajoz: 1601-1700. Estudio y documentos. By FERNANDO MARCOS ALVAREZ. (Fuentes para la historia del teatro en Espana, 27) London: Tamesis. 1997. 377 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling] The series Fuentes para la historia del...

Eighteenth-Century Spanish Chapbooks in the British Library: a descriptive Catalogue.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Eighteenth-Century Spanish Chapbooks in the British Library: A Descriptive Catalogue. Comp. by H. G. WHITEHEAD. London: The British Library. 1997. xiv + 145 pp. + 30 plates. 55 [pounds sterling]. In the author's Short-Title Catalogue of...

Women in the Short Stories of Pedro Antonio de Alarcon.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Women in the Short Stories of Pedro Antonio de Alarcon. By COLLEEN J. COMBS. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont., and Lampeter: Mellen Press. 1997. iv + 140 pp. $69.95. This is a competent if not ground-breaking systematic study of Alarcon's...

Ludismo e intertextualidad en la lirica espanola moderna.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Ludismo e intertextualidad en la lirica espanola moderna. Ed. by TREVOR J. DADSON and DEREK W. FLITTER. (Birmingham Modern Languages Publications) Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press. 1998. xiv + 172 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. The...

A Common Place: The Representation of Paris in Spanish american Fiction.(Review)
October 1, 1999... A Common Place: The Representation of Paris in Spanish American Fiction. By JULIE JONES. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 136 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. Every Latin Americanist is aware that...

Vision romantica del otro: Estudio comparativo de 'Atala' y 'Cummanda', 'Bug-Jargal'y 'Sab'.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Vision romantica del otro: Estudio comparativo de 'Atala' y 'Cumanda', 'Bug-Jargal' y 'Sab.' By NARA ARAUJO. (Serie Iztapalapa: Texto y Contexto) Mexico City: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana. 1998. 179 pp. This study is based on the...

A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba.(Review)
October 1, 1999... A Place in the Sun? Women Writers in Twentieth-Century Cuba. By CATHERINE DAVIES. London and New York: Zed Books. 1997. 240 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65 (paperbound 15.95 [pounds sterling]; $25). In recent times, the field of Latin-American...

Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 1999... Between the Self and the Void: Essays in Honor of Severo Sarduy. Ed. by ALICIA RIVERO-POTTER. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. 1998. 136 pp. $36. A major strength of this book lies in its reflection on both the...

Philogie als Textwissenschaft. Alte und neue Horizonte.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Philologie als Textwissenschaft. Alte und neue Horizonte. Ed. by HELMUT TERVOOREN and HORST WENZEL. (Zeitschrift fur deutsche Philologie, 116) Berlin: Schmidt. 1997. 252 pp. DM 110. At the meeting of the Wolfram von Eschenbach Gesellschaft in...

Gesprache-Boten-Brief. Korpergedachtnis und Schriftgedachtnis im Mittelalter.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Gesprache--Boten--Briefe. Korpergedachtnis und Schriftgedachtnis im Mittelalter. Ed. by HORST WENZEL. (Philologische Studien und Quellen, 143) Berlin: Schmidt. 1997. 374 pp. DM 84. Amongst recent widenings of medieval literary studies, the...

Hymen.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Hymen. By FERDINAND VON SAAR. Ed. by NIKOLAUS NOWAK. (Kritische Texte und Deutungen, 8) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. 260 pp. DM 116. 'Hymen' was one of Saar's last stories (even though certain aspects of its subject-matter had engaged him since...

Johannes Schlaf and German Naturalist Drama.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Johannes Schlaf and German Naturalist Drama. By RALEIGH WHITINGER. Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1997. x + 193 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. Raleigh Whitinger's well-presented volume does not set out to challenge the accepted view that Schlaf 's...

Arthur Schnitzler, Tagebuch 1927-1930.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Arthur Schnitzler, Tagebuch 1927-1930. Ed. by WERNER WELZIG and others. Wien: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1997. 510 pp. 490 Sch. One of the many established virtues of this splendid edition is the clockwork...

Gerhart Hauptmann: Tagebucher 1914 bis 1918.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Gerhart Hauptmann: Tagebucher 1914 bis 1918. Ed. by PETER SPRENGEL. Berlin: Propylaen Verlag. 1997. 479 pp. DM 128. Hauptmann's diaries are a difficult read. Most entries are brief, their meaning is sometimes obscure, and the casual spelling...

'...A Poet or Nothing at All': The Tubingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse.(Review)
October 1, 1999... '... A Poet or Nothing at All': The Tubingen and Basel Years of Hermann Hesse. By RICHARD C. HELT. Providence, RI, and Oxford: Berghahn. 1996. xii + 257 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. In October 1900, the twenty-three-year-old Hermann Hesse...

Franz Kafka.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Franz Kafka. By RONALD SPEIRS and BEATRICE SANDBERG. (Macmillan Modern Novelists) Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1997. 161 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 11.50 [pounds sterling]). This is only the second volume on a German novelist (the other...

Yvan Goll-Claire Goll: Texts and Contexts.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Yvan Goll--Claire Goll: Texts and Contexts. Ed. by ERIC ROBERTSON and ROBERT VILAIN. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1997. 249 pp. 14.50 [pounds sterling]. Typically, these twelve symposium papers provide several perspectives on a central...

Dramen.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Dramen. By LOTHAR SCHREYER. Ed. by BRIAN KEITH-SMITH. (Lothar Schreyer Edition, 2) Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont., and Lampeter: Mellen Press. 1996. xlvii + 710 pp. 99.95 [pounds sterling]. Lothar Schreyer (1886-1966) was a German writer and...

Hans Werner Richter, Briefe.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Hans Werner Richter, Briefe. Ed. by SABINE COFALLA. Munich and Vienna: Hanser. 1997. 820 pp. DM 79.80. Der 'soziale Sinn' Hans Werner Richters. Zur Korrespondenz des Leiters der Gruppe 47. By SABINE COFALLA. Berlin: Weidler. 1997. 140 pp. DM...

Der 'soziale Sinn' Hans Werner Richters. Zur Korrespondenz des Leiters der Gruppe 47.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Hans Werner Richter, Briefe. Ed. by SABINE COFALLA. Munich and Vienna: Hanser. 1997. 820 pp. DM 79.80. Der 'soziale Sinn' Hans Werner Richters. Zur Korrespondenz des Leiters der Gruppe 47. By SABINE COFALLA. Berlin: Weidler. 1997. 140 pp. DM...

Die Gruppe 47 in Bildern und Texten.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Hans Werner Richter, Briefe. Ed. by SABINE COFALLA. Munich and Vienna: Hanser. 1997. 820 pp. DM 79.80. Der 'soziale Sinn' Hans Werner Richters. Zur Korrespondenz des Leiters der Gruppe 47. By SABINE COFALLA. Berlin: Weidler. 1997. 140 pp. DM...

Retrospect and Review: Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Retrospect and Review: Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990. Ed. by ROBERT ATKINS and MARTIN KANE. (German Monitor, 40) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1997. iii + 348 pp. Hfl 110 (paperbound Hfl 35). ,This volume is the result of...

Judische Selbstwahrnehmung/La prise de conscience de l'identite juive.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Judische Selbstwahrnehmung/La prise de conscience de l'identite juive. Ed. by HANS OTTO HORGH and CHARLOTTE WARDI. (Conditio Judaica, 19) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. xiii + 292 pp. DM 138. These twenty-two papers (five in French, two in English,...

Russian Etymological Dictionary.(Review)
October 1, 1999... Russian Etymological Dictionary. By TERENCE WADE. London: Bristol Classical Press. 1996. vi + 266 pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. Terence Wade's welcome compilation of the etymologies of 1500 Russian words 'chosen for their frequency or intrinsic...