The Modern Language Review articles from October 2000

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2000

'Our drooping country now erects her head: Nahum Tate's History of King Lear.
October 1, 2000... It was once thought that 'political considerations' had 'a minimum of direct effect' on Tate's rewriting of King Lear. (1) However, for some time now critics have attended to the play's contemporary political significance, placing it squarely in...

Coleridge's Francophobia.
October 1, 2000... It is no secret, nor has it ever been, that Coleridge disliked the French. The 'Gall contra Gallos' (1) that he had once joked about with Poole was really a deep-seated repugnance for an entire people, culpable not only for Jacobinism and...

'Beyond' George Eliot? Reconsidering Edith Wharton.
October 1, 2000... In this reconsideration of fiction central to Wharton's high reputation (The Touchstone, The House of Mirth, The Reef, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence) I follow Henry James in seeing George Eliot as a formative influence and...

Ritual in branch XVII of the Roman de Renart (Mort et Procession Renart): A key to a carnivalesque reading of the texts?
October 1, 2000... A succession of rituals structures Branch XVII of the Roman de Renart, (1) which narrates the death and burial of the fox, Renart. In addition to the religious rituals of confession, eulogy, sermon, and solemn procession that mark the funeral...

Gustave Dore's magical realism: The Nouveaux Contes de Fee of the Comtesse de Segur.
October 1, 2000... GUSTAVE DORES MAGICAL REALISM: THE NOUVEAUX CONTES DE FEE OF THE COMTESSE DE SEGUR * In 1857 the Librairie Hachette published a collection of fairy tales entitled Nouveaux contes de fees pour les petits enfants by the Comtesse de Segur, whose...

Barbarian travels: Textual positions in Un Barbare en Asie.
October 1, 2000... Les ecrivains commencent a' se dire de l'univers. Parfois il arrive que l'un d'eux se mette en voyage, pousse jusqu'a Hong-Kong, passe la nuit avec une Jaune. Puis il revient, on le regarde, on l'invite a parler. [...] Il...

Telling tales about 'Impegno': Commitment and hindsight in Vittorini and Calvino.
October 1, 2000... This article investigates how two authors, Elio Vittorini and Italo Calvino, respond to their own early works, both critical and narrative, when they return to edit or comment on them some time after original publication. The works in question...

'Que Yo le Hare de Suerte que os Espante, Si El Fingimiento A la Verdad Excede': Creative use of art in Lope de Vega's Los Locos de Valencia.(and Velazquez's Fabula de Aracne)
October 1, 2000... This study makes no claim for a direct influence of Lope de Vega on Diego Velazquez, especially in the two works under consideration here: the early comedy Los locos de Valencia and the late mythological painting the Fabula de Aracne, otherwise...

'Buenos Seamos, que dios nos ve': La Madre Naturaleza and Foucault's Panopticon.
October 1, 2000... La madre naturaleza is the story of a no-win situation: Manuela and Perucho's love is doomed and even if Gabriel Lage had never gone to the Pazos and brought matters to a head, sooner or later the truth of their kinship would have had to be...

The question of influence: Holderlin's dealings with Schiller and Pindar.
October 1, 2000... Holderlin is remarkable for having identified his main literary influences very early on in his writing career. They are named in one of his first poems, 'Mein Vorsaz', written when he was about seventeen: 'Ists schwacher Schwung nach Pindars...

Dramaturgies of Sprachkirtik: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Blut am Hals der Katze and Peter Handke's Kaspar.
October 1, 2000... Twentieth-century literature has been fascinated by language, more precisely, perhaps, by the disjunction of word and meaning. Few literary works, however, have attempted to approach these problems from the perspective of their linguistic...

Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Strange Music: The Metre of the English Heroic Line. By PETER L. GROVES. (ELS Monograph Series, 74) Victoria, BC: English Literary Studies. 1998. 199 pp. $14.50. If metre springs from the rhythm of spoken language, why do so many students and...

Sharing Store: Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Sharing Story: Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships. By PAUL BEEKMAN TAYLOR. (AMS Studies in the Middle Ages, 25) New York: AMS Press. 1998. ix + 281 pp. $67.50. Old English literature seemed unsatisfactory almost from the start of...

Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Stories of Chaos: Reason and its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative. By NICK DAVIS. Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, Singapore, and Sydney: Ashgate. 1999. x + 195 pp. 39.95 [pounds sterling]. Medusa's Mirrors: Spenser, Shakespeare,...

A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642.(Review)
October 1, 2000... A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642. By ALAN C. DESSEN and LESLIE THOMSON. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xvi + 289 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $69.95. In the author's words, the...

Shakespeare in Production: 'Much Ado About Nothing'.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Shakespeare in Production: 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Ed. by JOHN F. COX. (Shakespeare in Production) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xxv + 257 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 15.95 [pounds sterling])....

King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance.(Review)
October 1, 2000... King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance. By JUDY KRONENFELD. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. 1998. xiii + 383 pp. 61.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 20.95 [pounds sterling]). Judy...

Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Dryden and the Traces of Classical Rome. By PAUL HAMMOND. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xii+305 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. 'I Trade both with the Living and the Dead, for the enrichment of our Native Language': Dryden devoted most of his poetic...

Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women. By ARLENE YOUNG. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. viii + 227 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Arlene Young's new study looks at the...

The Brontes and Religion.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Brontes and Religion. By MARIANNE THORMAHLEN. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. x + 287 pp. $69.95. The title of this book raises a little-discussed effect of the electronic information revolution. The...

No-Think is Left to Tell: Zen/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett.(Review)
October 1, 2000... No-Thing Is Left to Tell: Zen/Chaos Theory in the Dramatic Art of Samuel Beckett. By J. L. KUNDERT-GIBBS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 236 pp. 34.50 [pounds sterling]. This is...

Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett. By DANIEL KATZ. (Avant-garde and Modernism Studies) Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. 1999. vii + 220 pp. $22.50. Beckett in Black and Red: The...

Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Providence Tales and the Birth of American Literature. By JAMES D. HARTMAN. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 202 pp. $38.50. Many will be familiar with the thesis propounded by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard...

Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Americans on Shakespeare, 1776-1914. Ed. by PETER RAWLINGS. Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 1999. xvi + 551 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. Peter Rawlings's anthology of American writings on Shakespeare uses the dates of the...

Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. By CAROLINE FIELD LEVANDER. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University...

Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge. By MARK SCROGGINS. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1998. xvi + 398 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95). Mark Scroggins usefully and accurately...

Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretation in Medieval French Literature.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretation in Medieval French Literature. By RENATE BLUMENFELD-KOSINSKI. (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture) Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. 314 pp. Modern scholars have long been...

Maurice Sceve: 'The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548'.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Maurice Sceve: 'The Entry of Henri II into Lyon, September 1548'. A facsimile with an introduction by RICHARD COOPER. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 160; Renaissance Triumphs and Magnificences, n.s., 5) Tempe: Arizona Center for...

Editer les 'Essais' de Montaigne: Actes due colloque tenu a l'Universite Paris IV, Sorbonne, les 27 et 28 janvier 1995.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Editer les 'Essais' de Montaigne: Actes du colloque tenu a l'Universite Paris IV, Sorbonne, les 27 et 28 janvier 1995. Ed. by CLAUDE BLUM and ANDRE TOURNON. Paris: Champion. 1997. 228 pp. Claude Blum's introduction is particularly enlightening,...

Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's 'Secret Architecutre'.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's 'Secret Architecture'. By JAMES R. LAWLER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Mississauga, Ont.: Associated University Presses. 1997. 217 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]....

Zola. Vol. I: sous le regard d'Olympia.(1840-1871)(Review)
October 1, 2000... Zola. Vol. 1: Sous le regard d'Olympia (1840-1871). By HENRI MITTERAND. Paris: Fayard. 1999. 943 pp. + 32 pp. plates. 198 F. In one of many telling juxtapositions that illustrate known and less appreciated aspects of Zola's literary...

The New Bergson.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The New Bergson. Ed. by JOHN MULLARKEY. (Angelaki Humanities) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1999. 235 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]). In the excellent biography of Henri Bergson published...

Forbidden Fictions: Pornography and Censorship in Twentieth-Century French Literature.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Forbidden Fictions: Pornography and Censorship in Twentieth-Century French Literature. By JOHN PHILLIPS. London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press. 1999. ix + 241 pp. Stimulated by the widely held perception that by virtue of the French association...

La puttana e il gigante: Dal 'Cantico dei Cantici' al 'Paradiso Terrestre' di Dante.(Review)
October 1, 2000... La puttana e il gigante: Dal 'Cantico dei Cantici' al 'Paradiso Terrestre' di Dante. By LINO PERTILE. Ravenna: Longo. 1998. 278 pp. 45,000 lire. For those of us endeavouring to take Dante seriously as the great poet of self-losing and...

Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America. Ed. by JO ANN CAVALLO and CHARLES ROSS. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 183) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1998. x + 371 pp. $30. The year 1494 marked the end...

The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Orlando Furioso: A Stoic Comedy. By CLARE CARROLL. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 174) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies. 1998. x + 245 pp. $26. The interpretation of the Orlando Furioso...

'L'aspra tragedia': Poesia e sacro in Troquato Tasso.(Review)
October 1, 2000... 'L'aspra tragedia': Poesia e sacro in Torquato Tasso. By ERMINIA ARDISSINO. Florence: Olschki. 1996. 235 pp. 48,000 lire. As the title suggests, Erminia Ardissino's study of Tasso takes as its starting-point the twin ideas of poetry and the...

Glossario di Carlo Emilio Gadda 'milanese': Da 'La meccanica' a 'L'Adalgisa'.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Glossario di Carlo Emilio Gadda 'milanese': Da 'La meccanica' a 'L'Adalgisa'. By PAOLA ITALIA. Alessandria: dell'Orso. 1998. cxxxvii + 377 pp. 80,000 lire. The University of Pavia, already meritorious for contributing so much in recent years,...

English Grammar for Students of Spanish.(Review)
October 1, 2000... English Grammar for Students of Spanish. By EMILY SPINELLI. London and Auckland: Arnold. 1999. vii + 191 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling]. This is the fourth edition of a widely used elementary Spanish learning resource. To judge from the on-line...

The Spanish Language Today.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Spanish Language Today. By MIRANDA STEWART. London: Routledge. 1999. 237 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. This book takes us on a journey through the modern Spanish language, both Peninsular and Latin-American, pausing in some places longer...

Diccionario del espanol usual en Mexico.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Diccionario del espanol usual en Mexico. Ed. by LUIS FERNANDO LARA ROMOS and others. Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico. 1996. 941 pp. This Diccionario is a preview, in one volume, of the Diccionario del espanol de Mexico, which the Colegio de...

Gesta Hispaniensia ex annalibus suorum dierum collecta.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gesta Hispaniensia ex annalibus suorum dierum collecta. By ALFONSO DE PALENCIA. Ed. by BRIAN TATE and JEREMY LAWRANCE. 2 vols. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia. 1998; 1999. lxxxvii + 223 pp.; xxxiii + 643 pp. 3,120 ptas; 18.75 Euro each....

The 'Invenciones y letas' of the 'Cancionero general'.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The 'Invenciones y letras' of the 'Cancionero general'. By IAN MACPHERSON. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 9) London: Queen Mary and Westfield College. 1998. 122 pp. 9 [pounds sterling]; $14.50; 2,100 ptas. The core of this...

Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Discourses of Poverty: Social Reform and the Picaresque Novel in Early Modern Spain. By ANNE J. CRUZ. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1999. xvii + 297 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $55. This study of the Spanish...

Gongoremas.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gongoremas. By ANTONIO CARREIRA. Barcelona: Ediciones Penynsula. 1998. 454 pp. 2,629 ptas. Occasionally, one has the good fortune to come across a book that is both a real pleasure to read and also extremely instructive. Such a book is...

Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales: Fernan Caballero, Juan Holgado and Death, Antonio de Trueba, Tragaldabas, Pedro Antonio de Alarcon Death's Friend.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Death and the Doctor: Three Nineteenth-Century Spanish Tales: Fernan Caballero, 'Juan Holgado and Death'; Antonio de Trueba, 'Tragaldabas'; Pedro Antonio de Alarcon, 'Death's Friend'. Trans. by ROBERT M. FEDORCHEK, with an introduction by LOU...

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. Ed. by EAMONN RODGERS. London and New York: Routledge. 1999. xxii + 591 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. True to its title, this volume offers the novice and the expert complete instruction about...

Tres poetas, tres amigos: Estudios sobre Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca y Damaso Alonso.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Tres poetas, tres amigos: Estudios sobre Vicente Aleixandre, Federico Garcia Lorca y Damaso Alonso. Ed. by FRANCISCO JAVIER DYEZ DE REVENGA and MARIANO DE PACO. Murcia: Caja Murcia, Obra Cultural. 1999. 348 pp. Price. Amongst the various...

Women in Contemporary Spain.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Women in Contemporary Spain. By ANNY BROOKSBANK JONES. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 1997. ix + 208 pp. 40 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 12.99 [pounds sterling]). This book provides a lucid socio-cultural analysis of the...

Portraits of Excess: Reading Character in the Modern Spanish Novel.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Portraits of Excess: Reading Character in the Modern Spanish Novel. By JULI HIGHFILL. Boulder, CO: Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies. 1999. 184 pp. $25. In this study Juli Highfill sets out to rescue the notion of character for...

Reflection in Sequence: Novels by Spanish Women, 1944-1988.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Reflection in Sequence: Novels by Spanish Women, 1944-1988. By SANDRA J. SCHUMM. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 222 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. As the bibliography in Sandra J. Schumm's work...

Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Writing Paris: Urban Topographies of Desire in Contemporary Latin American Fiction. By MARCY E. SCHWARTZ. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1999. xiii + 182 pp. $18.95. This is a study of 'the Paris inscribed in Latin-American...

Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany. By BARBARA FENNELL. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii + 167 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. The...

Mittelalterliche Literatur im Lebenszusammenhang.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Mittelalterliche Literatur im Lebenszusammenhang. Ed. by ECKART CONRAD LUTZ. (Scrinium Friburgense, 8: Ergebnisse des Troisieme Cycle Romand 1994) Freiburg Schweiz: Universitatsverlag. 1997. 480 pp. 19 black and white plates. DM 178. This...

Grimmelshausen the Storyteller: A Study of the 'Simplician' Novels.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Grimmelshausen the Storyteller: A Study of the 'Simplician' Novels. By ALAN MENHENNET. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1997. x + 213 pp. $52. Among the achievements of this study is the...

Vom Streit zum Wettstreit der Relgionen: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Islam.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Vom Streit zum Wettstreit der Religionen: Lessing und die Herausforderung des Islam. By KARL-JOSEF KUSCHEL. Dusseldorf: Patmos. 1998. 364 pp. DM 49.80. Karl-Josef Kuschel teaches the theology of culture and inter-religious dialogue in the...

Sturm und Drang: Geistiger Aufbruch 1770-1790 im Spiegel der Literatur.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Sturm und Drang: Geistiger Aufbruch 1770-1790 im Spiegel der Literatur. Ed. by BODO PLACHTA and WINFRIED WOESLER. Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. vi + 289 pp. DM 88. This volume contains eighteen short papers first presented at a conference in 1994...

Offentliche Rede in der Zeitenwende. Deutsche Literatur und Geschichte um 1800.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Offentliche Rede in der Zeitenwende. Deutsche Literatur und Geschichte um 1800. By PETER PHILIPP RIEDL. (Studien zur deutschen Literatur, 142) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 1997. 418 pp. DM 116. Peter Philipp Riedl investigates the role that rhetoric...

Towards emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century.3.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Towards Emancipation: German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century. By CAROL DIETHE. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. 1998. x + 214 pp. 28 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 11.95 [pounds sterling]). Carol Diethe has written a long-overdue book: an...

Die Unsinnsgesellschaft. Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Fraundeskreis.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Die Unsinnsgesellschaft. Franz Schubert, Leopold Kupelwieser und ihr Freundeskreis. By RITA STEBLIN. Wien, Koln, and Weimar: Bohlau. 1998. xiv + 490 pp. 698 Sch. This handsome, finely illustrated volume presents for the first time detailed...

Gerhart Hauptmann zwischen Modernitat und Tradition: Neue Perspektiven zur Atriden-Tetralogie.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gerhart Hauptmann zwischen Modernitat und Tradition: Neue Perspektiven zur Atriden-Tetralogie. By DARIA SANTINI. Trans. by BENJAMIN BUTTRICH. (Veroffentlichungen der Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft, 8) Berlin: Erich Schmidt. 1998. 172 pp. DM 68....

The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Magic Bishop: Hugo Ball, Dada Poet. By ERDMUTE WENZEL WHITE. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Columbia, SC: Camden House. 1998. xii + 254 pp. + 23 plates. 35 [pounds sterling]. This study takes a new look at Hugo...

Hermann Broch: Perspektiven interdisziplinarer Forschung.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Hermann Broch: Perspektiven interdisziplinarer Forschung. Ed. by ARPAD BERNATH, MICHAEL KESSLER, and ENDRE KISS. (Stauffenburg Colloquium, 42) Tubingen: Stauffenburg. 1998. xiv + 326 pp. DM 96. This welcome addition to Broch studies focuses on...

Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Bertolt Brecht: Centenary Essays. Ed. by STEVE GILES and RODNEY LIVINGSTONE. (German Monitor, 41) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. iii + 260 pp. Hfl 152; $98 (paperbound Hfl 52; $29). Centenary Essays are often a dubious honour:...

The Theater of Heiner Muller.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Theater of Heiner Muller. By Jonathan Kalb. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xix + 255 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Despite a growing interest in Heiner Muller in the English-speaking world in the last...

F.C. Delius: Studien uber sein literarisches Werk.(Review)
October 1, 2000... F. C. Delius: Studien uber sein literarisches Werk. Ed. by MANFRED DURZAK and HARTMUT STEINECKE. (Stauffenburg Colloquium, 43) Tubingen: StauVenburg. 1997. xi + 258 pp. DM 78. This fine collection of thirteen papers and an interview represents...

Dekonstruktion des Mythos in ausgewahlten Prosawerken von Elfriede Jelinek.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Dekonstruktion des Mythos in ausgewahlten Prosawerken von Elfriede Jelinek. By MONIKA SZCZEPANIAK. (Europaische Hochschulschriften, 1695) Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Berne: Lang. 1998. 225 pp. DM 69. Monika Szczepaniak begins her study of...

Contemporary Images of Death and Sickness: A Theme in German-Swiss Literature.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Contemporary Images of Death and Sickness: A Theme in German-Swiss Literature. By MALCOLM PENDER. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press. 1998. 251 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. A serious study of Swiss literature is a rarity in English, let alone...

Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gendering German Studies: New Perspectives on German Literature and Culture. Ed. by MARGARET LITTLER. Oxford: Blackwell. 1997. 216 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. The impetus for this volume (which is also published as the second Women's Studies...

The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Russian Language in the Twentieth Century. By BERNARD COMRIE, GERALD STONE, and MARIA POLINSKY. 2nd edn, revised and expanded. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xii + 385 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This new edition of Bernard Comrie's and...

Simeon Polockii. Vertograd mnogocvetnyi.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Simeon Polockii: Vertograd mnogocvetnyi. Vol. 1: 'Aaron'-'Detem blagoslovenie'. Ed. by ANTHONY HIPPISLEY and LUDIA I. SAZONOVA. With a foreword by DMITRIJ S. LICHACEV. (Bausteine zur slavischen Philologie und Kulturgeschichte, Reihe B:...

The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel. Ed. by MALCOLM V. JONES and ROBIN FEUER MILLER. (Cambridge Companions to Literature) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xxvi + 312 pp. This is the first...

Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Russian Modernism: The Transfiguration of the Everyday. By STEPHEN C. HUTCHINGS. (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii + 295 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This...

Das Selbstmordmotiv in der russichen Prosa des 20 Jahrhunderts.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Das Selbstmordmotiv in der russischen Prosa des 20 Jahrhunderts. By ALEXANDER GRAF. (Heidelberger Publikationen zur Slavistik, 5) Frankfurt a.M.: Lang. 1996. 227 pp. DM 28. In this interesting but uneven study Alexander Graf concentrates on...

The Last Soviet Avant-Garde.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU--Fact, Fiction, Metafiction. By GRAHAM ROBERTS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii + 274 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Daniil Kharms: Theologian of the Absurd. By NEIL CARRICK. (Birmingham...

Daniil Kharms: Theologian of the Absurd.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU--Fact, Fiction, Metafiction. By GRAHAM ROBERTS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xiii + 274 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Daniil Kharms: Theologian of the Absurd. By NEIL CARRICK. (Birmingham...

In the Party Spirit: socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China.(Review)
October 1, 2000... In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice in the Soviet Union, East Germany and China. Ed. by HILARY CHUNG. (Critical Studies, 6) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1996. xviii + 191 pp. 'Socialist realism', observed Czeslaw...

The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature.(Review)
October 1, 2000... The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature. By EVGENY DOBRENKO. Trans. by JESSE M. SAVAGE. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1997. x + 374 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Soviet...

Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, Nationality. Ed. by EWA PLONOWSKA ZIAREK. Albany: State University of New York Press. 1998. ix + 311 pp. $21.95. Gombrowicz's Grimaces is undoubtedly a ground-breaking and long overdue in-depth study...

Code Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Code Switching in Conversation: Language, Interaction and Identity. Ed. by PETER AUER. London and New York: Routledge. 1998. viii + 355 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. In the vast literature on code switching (CS), this volume makes a valuable...

Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language. Ed. by HUMPHREY TONKIN. (Papers of the Centre for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, 5) New York: University Press of America. 1997. xxiii + 256 pp. $42.50. Esperanto is...

Chivalry and Exploration 1298-1630.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Chivalry and Exploration 1298-1630. By JENNIFER R. GOODMAN. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1998. 234 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. Different socio-cultural strands influenced the attitudes of the European travellers of that crucial late-medieval and...

Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities.(Review)
October 1, 2000... Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities. By JOHN M. ELLIS. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 1997. vii + 262 pp. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. Literature Lost is a spirited defence of the disinterested...

Female Victims and Oppressors in Novels by Theodor Fontane and Francois Mauriac.(Review)
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