The Modern Language Review articles from October 2001

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2001

Mother tongues and literary languages.
October 1, 2001... 'Native speaker' and 'mother tongue' are two symmetrical and converse notions. They seem to refer to the same reality from two opposite viewpoints. Native speakers, by definition, speak their mother tongue, and a mother tongue is the language of...

The Poetry of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos.(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Poetry of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos. By NEIL C. MCKINLAY. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 177) London: Tamesis. 1999. viii + 183 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling]. It is now some thirty years since Tamesis published two of...

The human bestiary.(animal names applied to humans)
October 1, 2001... A feature probably shared by all languages, and certainly by the major languages of Western Europe, which are the only ones with which I can profess some familiarity, is the frequent figurative application of animal names to human beings. The...

A new fragment of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'.(poet John Gower)
October 1, 2001... There have been few recent additions to the materials for the study of the text of Gower's Confessio Amantis. (1) Discoveries have been largely confined to the identification of various extracts from this work. (2) Recently, however, a new...

Defoe and the politics of representing the African interior.(author Daniel Defoe)
October 1, 2001... To talk of the way writers represent interiors of Africa will not do, for the fact is that continental interiors come in the singular and take the definite article. Language favours the view that each continent has one body, and bound in with the...

Oliver Goldsmith and Voltaire's 'Lettres Philosophiques'.
October 1, 2001... Ever since Arthur Lytton Sells published his pioneering study, Les Sources francaises de Goldsmith in 1924, (1) the Irish author's excellent knowledge of French literature has been well known and plentifully documented, as has his equally...

Second thoughts on the denouement of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'.
October 1, 2001... Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses leaves unanswered a number of puzzling questions which relate to how the reader is being asked to understand the events described in the denouement; (1) it seems that, being in possession of all the facts,...

Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Giuseppe Passi: an early seventeenth-century feminist controversy.
October 1, 2001... This article seeks to propose some tentative answers to three questions surrounding the controversy involving Giuseppe Passi and Lucrezia Marinella. It will also examine the role of the 'absent' Moderata Fonte as a point of reference for...

Afrocubanista poetry and Afro-Cuban performance.
October 1, 2001... In the 1920s Cuba's intellectuals began to search for a new definition of Cuban cultural identity as a response to increasing US domination of all aspects of Cuban life. Influenced by European and North American 'black' and Primitivist artistic...

Reproducing the monstrous nation: a note on pregnancy and motherhood in the fiction of Rosario Castellanos, Brianda Domecq, and Angeles Mastretta.
October 1, 2001... 'I should have murdered this, that murders me [...] Can such innocence kill and kill? It milks my life' (1) In this passage from Sylvia Plath's poem, 'Three Women', the impossible paradoxes of the maternal myth as they are...

Literary 'Empfindsamkeit' and nervous sensibility in eighteenth-century Germany.
October 1, 2001... Du Gotze dieser Hemisphare, Empfindsamkeit, Dir und derWahrheit sey zur Ehre, Diess Bild geweiht! Du gleichst des Gartners Treibehaus; Jagst unsern Keim empor, und unsre Kraft hinaus. (1) It is now generally...

The 'Krimi' and the criminal state: Wolfgang Hilbig's 'Eine Ubertragung'.
October 1, 2001... In his Frankfurt Lectures of 1995, the East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig sets out his artistic manifesto, claiming that writers should function as the 'Ratten und Schmeissfliegen' of society. He goes on to explain: 'Ratten und Schmeissfliegen...

Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays. Ed. by SANDRA J. MCENTIRE. (Garland Medieval Casebooks, 21) New York and London: Garland. 1998. xxi+341 pp. 70 [pounds sterling]. 'You ought to look at that tree right over there', said Rabbit. 'I can see a...

Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology. By CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT. (Studies in Medieval Mysticism) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xiv+197 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60. 'You ought to look at that tree right over there', said Rabbit. 'I can see a...

Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Ed. by PETER BROWN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. x+194 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. The genesis of these six essays was a series of seminars at the University of Kent....

Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Ed. by PATRICK CHENEY and LAUREN SILBERMAN. (Studies in the English Renaissance) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1999. viii+288 pp. $39.95. This is an extremely useful...

Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture. By CATHERINE BELSEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xvii+203 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. Shakespeare on Love & Lust. By...

Shakespeare on Love & Lust.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture. By CATHERINE BELSEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xvii+203 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. Shakespeare on Love & Lust. By...

Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. Ed. by ARTHUR F. MAROTTI. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martins Press. 1999. xviii+266 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This is a valuable...

Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. By R. V. YOUNG. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 2) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. x+241 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. R. V. Young's new book...

Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England. By DESIREE HELLEGERS. (Series for Science and Culture, 4) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. xiv+218 pp. $32.95. Desiree Hellegers argues...

Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742. By TONE SUNDT URSTAD. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 297 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. 'During the...

Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. By RAB HOUSTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xiv+450 pp. 55.00 [pounds sterling]. 'Historians too', writes Rab Houston at the end of his long, engrossing book, 'must care about...

Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction. By RANDALL CRAIG. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2000. xvi+331 pp. $23.95. Promises are made to be broken, as the saying goes. In Promising Language Randall Craig...

The Victorians and Visual Imagination.(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. By KATE FLINT. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xvi+427 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $74.95. Kate Flint's well-written and well-illustrated volume is a handsome new...

Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry. By STEVEN MATTHEWS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. vii+238 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. As the key word 'precursor' suggests, this study utilizes...

Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. By JAMES PERRIN WARREN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. x+202 pp. $40. James Perrin Warren opens his Culture of Eloquence by quoting from an address...

The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage.(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage. By ALAN L. ACKERMAN, JR. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xix+271 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. At the core of Alan Ackerman's distinctive...

Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. By GAVIN JONES. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1999. xi+288 pp. $45 (paperbound $18.95). 'Strange talk' (an innocuous phrase from Harold...

Old French-English Dictionary.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Old French-English Dictionary. By ALAN HINDLEY, FREDERICK W. LANGLEY, and BRIAN J. LEVY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 621 pp. 85 [pounds sterling]. The appearance of the first major dictionary glossing Old French into modern...

The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority.(Review)
October 1, 2001... The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority. By PETER DAMIAN-GRINT. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1999. xii+202 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $90. The twelfth century is one of the most important periods in medieval...

Fonder les Savoirs, Fonder les Pouvoirs, XVe-XVII siecle: Actes de la journee d'etude orgnisee par l'Ecole Natinale des Chatres.(Paris, 8 avril 1999)(Review)
October 1, 2001... Fonder les Savoirs, Fonder les Pouvoirs, XV e-XVIIe siecle: Actes de la journee d'etude organisee par l'E cole Nationale des Chartes (Paris, 8 avril 1999). Ed. by DOMINIQUE DE COURCELLES. (E tudes et rencontres de l'E cole des Chartes, 6) Paris:...

Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern, volume 2.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern. By ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais 509 and 511). 3 Vols. Geneve: Droz. 1999. Vol. II. 320 pp.; Vol. III. 248 pp. 43 SwF; 32.80 SwF. Volumes II and III of...

Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern, Volume 3.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern. By ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais 509 and 511). 3 Vols. Geneve: Droz. 1999. Vol. II. 320 pp.; Vol. III. 248 pp. 43 SwF; 32.80 SwF. Volumes II and III of...

Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing. By FLOYD GRAY. (Cambridge Studies in French, 63) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 227 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. This study sets out to examine the influence...

Pre-histoires: textes troubles au seuil de la modernite.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Pre-histoires: textes troubles au seuil de la modernite. By TERENCE CAVE. (Les seuils de la modernite: Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 54) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 200 pp. 41 SwF. Terence Cave's reflections, gleaned from a lifetime of scholarly...

La Raison des figures symboliques a la Renaissance et a l'age classique: Edudes sur les fondements philosophiques, theologiques et rhetoriques de l'image.(Review)
October 1, 2001... La Raison des figures symboliques a la Renaissance et a l'age classique: E tudes sur les fondements philosophiques, theologiques et rhetoriques de l'image. By FLORENCE VUILLEMIER LAURENS. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 340) Geneve: Droz....

Carpe Corpus. Time and Gender in Early Modern France.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Carpe Corpus. Time and Gender in Early Modern France. By CATHY YANDELL. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses. 2000. 281 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. While there have recently been various studies of the...

Orationes duae contra Erasmum.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Orationes duae contra Erasmum. By JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER. Ed. and trans., and with notes by Michel Magnien. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 329) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 458 pp. 145.30 SwF. Is Julius Caesar Scaliger becoming fashionable again...

Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite. Ed. and trans. by PHILIP FORD. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 338) Geneve: Droz. 2000. xxx + 178 pp. 77.70 SwF. Given the importance of allegory in...

Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires. Texte de 1553.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires. Texte de 1553. Ed. by CHRISTINE DE BUZON and PIERRE MARTIN. Preface by MICHEL SIMONIN. Postface by JEAN CEARD. Cahier musical (1552) presented by FRANCOIS LESURE. (Classiques Didier Erudition)...

Les Jardins qui sentent le sauvage: Ronsard et la poetique du paysage.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Les Jardins qui sentent le sauvage: Ronsard et la poetique du paysage. By DANIELE DUPORT. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 57) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 144 pp. 51.20 SwF. Daniele Duport investigates the representations of gardens and landscape...

Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court. By YVONNE ROBERTS. Bern, Berlin, and Oxford: Peter Lang. 2000. 231 pp. 24 [pounds sterling]. This is a welcome and well-written study of Baif's relations with Catherine de Medicis, whom he served...

Concordance des oeuvres poetiques de Philippe Desportes.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Concordance des oeuvres poetiques de Philippe Desportes. By KEITH CAMERON. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 338) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 32 pp. + CD-ROM. 92.10 SwF. Keith Cameron explains at the outset that this set of three concordances is...

La Vengeance dans la Litterature d'Ancien Regime.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... La Vengeance dans la Litterature d'Ancien Regime. Ed. by ERIC MECHOULAN. (Paragraphes). Montreal: Departement d'Etudes Francaises, Universite de Montreal. 2000. 191 pp. $20. Revenge is omnipresent in French literature of the seventeenth and...

Moliere, La Mariage force.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Moliere, Le Mariage force. Ed. by JULIA PREST. (Textes Litteraires, 109) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1999. xxxiv + 58 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. Although Claude Abraham and Stephen Fleck have swept away the old truism that...

Birth Marks: the Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille and Jean Racine.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Birth Marks: The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine. By RICHARD E. GOODKIN. (New Cultural Studies) Philadelphia: PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. 281 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling]. This...

Presences de Racine.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Presences de Racine. By WOLFGANG LEINER. (OEuvres & Critiques XXIV, 1) Tubingen: Gunter Narr. 1999. 328 pp. Celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of Racine's death, this volume sets out to give a comprehensive review of the status of...

Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715, Volume XVI.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715. Vols XVI and XVII. Texte etabli par et commentaire de JEAN ORCIBAL avec la collaboration de JACQUES LE BRUN et IRENEE NOYE. Geneve: Droz. 1999. 463 pp; 395 pp. 360 F; 315 F. The final...

Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715, Volume XVII.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715. Vols XVI and XVII. Texte etabli par et commentaire de JEAN ORCIBAL avec la collaboration de JACQUES LE BRUN et IRENEE NOYE. Geneve: Droz. 1999. 463 pp; 395 pp. 360 F; 315 F. The final...

Journalisme et fiction au 18e siecle.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Journalisme et fiction au 18e siecle. Ed. by MALCOLM COOK and ANNIE JOURDAN. (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1) Bern: Peter Lang. 1999. 241 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. This first volume of a new series presents...

Femmes en toutes lettre: Les epistolieres du XVIIIe siecle.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Femmes en toutes lettre: Les epistolieres du XVIIIe siecle. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCE SILVER and MARIE-LAURE GIROU SWIDERSKI. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2000: 04). Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. 277 + xiii pp. 75 [pounds...

Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France. By JULIE ANNE PLAX. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 52.50 [pounds sterling]. Watteau, the artist of mystery and melancholy so vividly evoked by the...

1748: L'Annee de L'Espril des lois.(Review)
October 1, 2001... 1748: L'Annee de L'Esprit des lois. Ed. by CATHERINE LARRERE and CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER. (Les Dix-huitiemes siecles, 37) Paris: Champion. 1999. 192 pp. 270F. The purpose of this book is to describe the society in which Montesquieu's...

Diderot's Counterpoints: the Dynamics of Contrariety in his Major Works.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Diderot's Counterpoints: the Dynamics of Contrariety in his Major Works. By WALTER E. REX. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1998. 318 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. 'I am not the first to see "contrariety" in Diderot' states Walter Rex (p. 41)....

Le 'Prince d'Albanie': Un aventurier au Siecle des Lumieres.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Le 'Prince d'Albanie': Un aventurier au Siecle des Lumieres. By ROLAND MORTIER. (Les Dix-huitiemes siecles, 58) Paris: Champion. 2000. 190 pp. 210F. This is a biography of the self-styled 'Prince d'Albanie', Stiepan Zannovich (1751-1786), an...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains: Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains. Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'. By RAYMOND TROUSSON. Paris: Champion. 2000. 635 pp. 600 F. From the beginning Rousseau was a phenomenon. His first philosophical...

La Convention de l'amour-gout chez Claude Crebillon: Genese et perspectives.(Review)
October 1, 2001... La Convention de l'amour-gout chez Claude Crebillon. Genese et perspectives. By THIERRY VIART. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. viii + 194 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. During his life, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon suffered the...

Essais litteraires et philosophiques sur les causes de l'universalite de la langue francaise.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Essais litteraires et philosophiques sur les causes de l'universalite de la langue francaise. By GUILLAUME HENRI CHARLES DE GOYON D'ARZAC. Ed. by JURGEN STOROST. Bonn: Romantischer Verlag. 2000. 1 + 197 pp. Frederick the Great's preference for...

Six French poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme. Ed. by E. H. and A. M. BLACKMORE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xlvii + 334 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]....

Balzac et la Revolution francaise: Aspects ideologiques et politiques.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Balzac et la Revolution francaise. Aspects ideologiques et politiques. By RENE-ALEXANDRE COURTEIX. Preface de Madeleine Ambriere. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1997. xi+ 459 pp. 198 F. As the magisterial socio-political surveys by...

Unite et dualite dans l'oeuvre de Prosper Merimee: Mythe et recit.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Unite et dualite dans l'aeuvre de Prosper Merimee: Mythe et recit. By CLARISSE REQUENA. (Romantisme et Modernites, 32) Paris: Champion. 2000. 448 pp. 420F. Clarisse Requena's two starting-points are Merimee's early fragment Un duel and the...

Pot-Bouille.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Pot-Bouille. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by PERCY PINKERTON; ed. by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (The Everyman Library). London: J. M. Dent. 2000. xxxiv+409 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. Pot Luck. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans., with an introduction and notes by BRIAN...

Pot Luck.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Pot-Bouille. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by PERCY PINKERTON; ed. by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (The Everyman Library). London: J. M. Dent. 2000. xxxiv+409 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling]. Pot Luck. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans., with an introduction and notes by BRIAN...

Andre Gide, Pederasty and Pedagogy.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Andre Gide, Pederasty and Pedagogy. By NAOMI SEGAL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xi+383 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. Gide's homosexuality is a slippery business. In a brilliant account of it, with special reference to L'Immoraliste, Leo Bersani...

La Jeune Parque.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... La Jeune Parque. By Paul Valery. Trans. by ALISTAIR ELLIOTT. French-English bilingual edition. Newcastle: Bloodaxe Books. 1997. 64 pp. 6.95 [pounds sterling]. It ought to be impossible to translate La Jeune Parque. There is no poem in French...

Proust lecteur de Balzac et de Flaubert: L'Imitation cryptee.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Proust lecteur de Balzac et de Flaubert. L'Imitation cryptee. By ANNICK BOUILLAGUET. Paris: Champion. 2000. 238 pp. 260F. Proust et Barbey d'Aurevilly. Le dessous des cartes. By BRIAN G. ROGERS. Paris: Champion. 2000. 300 pp. 320F. The...

Proust et Barbey d'Aurevilly: Le dessous des cartes.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Proust lecteur de Balzac et de Flaubert. L'Imitation cryptee. By ANNICK BOUILLAGUET. Paris: Champion. 2000. 238 pp. 260F. Proust et Barbey d'Aurevilly. Le dessous des cartes. By BRIAN G. ROGERS. Paris: Champion. 2000. 300 pp. 320F. The...

Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time'.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time'. By ROGER SHATTUCK. London: Allen Lane, Penguin. 2000. 304 pp. 20 [pounds sterling]. This collection, as its title suggests, is set out as a series of excursions, conducted sometimes at a...

Colette, Beauvoir and Duras: Age and Women Writers.(Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2001... Colette, Beauvoir and Duras: Age and Women Writers. By BETHANY LADIMER. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 1999. 235 pp. 30.50 [pounds sterling]. Studies of the female ageing process in the work of women writers are few and far between....

Contingent Loves: simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Contingent Loves: Simone de Beauvoir and Sexuality. Ed. by MELANIE C. HAWTHORNE. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. 2000. 208 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. Although the oft cited sentence 'on ne nait pas femme: on le devient' in Le...

Poeticized Language: The Foundations of Contemporary French Poetry.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Poeticized Language: The Foundations of Contemporary French Poetry. By JEAN-JACQUES THOMAS and STEVEN WINSPUR. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. 2000. 279 pp. $55 (paperbound $22.50). This adventurous critical work carries perhaps the...

Ricciotto Canudo ou le cinema comme art.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Ricciotto Canudo ou le cinema comme art. By GIOVANNI DOTOLI. Foreword by JEAN-LOUIS LEUTRAT. (Pubblicazioni della 'Fondazione Ricciotto Canudo', 12) Fasano, and Paris: Schena-Didier. 1999. 119 pp. 20,000 lire. Giovanni Dotoli is an expert on...

Litteratures postcoloniales et representations de l'ailleurs: Afrique, Caraibe, Canada.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Litteratures postcoloniales et representations de l'ailleurs: Afrique, Caraibe, Canada. Ed. by JEAN BESSIERE and JEAN-MARC MOURA. Paris: Champion. 1999. 198 pp. 240F. The need for postcolonial theory to engage with geography as well as history...

La Creolite de Saint-John Perse.(Review)
October 1, 2001... La Creolite de Saint-John Perse. By MARY GALLAGHER. (Cahiers Saint-John Perse, 14) Paris: Gallimard. 1998. 470 pp. 150F. The question of cultural belonging has long been one of the primary preoccupations of both authors and critics of Caribbean...

Women Writers in Francophone Africa.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Women Writers in Francophone Africa. By NICKI HITCHCOTT. Oxford, and New York: Berg. 2000. ix + 193 pp. 42.99 [pounds sterling]. In this useful study, Nicki Hitchcott sets out to '[redress] the balance of critical attention', allowing the too...

Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought. Ed. by JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX and PHILIP R. WOOD. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 1998. 222 pp. 'L'exception francaise' has become a much-used phrase of increasingly vaguer definition....

A History of Women's Writing in France.(Review)
October 1, 2001... A History of Women's Writing in France. Ed. by SONYA STEPHENS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. ix + 314 pp. To write a history of women's writing is to confront a number of exacting and unavoidable issues. Some of these are common...

Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's 'Decameron'.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's 'Decameron'. Ed. by JAMES H. MCGREGOR. New York: Modern Languages Association of America. 2000. 207 pp. $37.50 ($18 paperbound). This is one of a substantial series of MLA publications, aimed primarily at...

Le 'Dark Ladies' manzoniane e altri saggi sui 'Promessi sposi'.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Le 'Dark Ladies' manzoniane e altri saggi sui 'Promessi sposi'. By VERINA R. JONES. Rome: Salerno. 1998. 167 pp. In this volume Verina Jones has collected the articles she has written on Manzoni's masterpiece and which have already appeared in...

Dario Fo and Popular Performance.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Dario Fo and Popular Performance. By ANTONIO SCUDERI. With a Foreword by JOSEPH FARRELL. Ottawa: Legas. 1998. 119 pp. $17.95. This nuanced study of Dario Fo's debt to the traditions of European popular theatre appeared shortly after the...

Lo sguardo escluso: L'idea di paesaggio nella letteratura occidentale.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Lo sguardo escluso. L'idea di paesaggio nella letteratura occidentale. By GIORGIO BERTONE. (Saggi e testi, 21) Novara: Interlinea. 1999. xii + 271 pp. 40,000 lire. Only in modern times has the idea of landscape been separated from the idea of...

The Life of lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Larzrillo de Tormes y de Sus Fortunas y Adversidades).(Review)
October 1, 2001... The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de Sus Fortunas y Adversidades). Trans. by DAVID ROWLAND. Introduction and notes by KEITH WHITLOCK. Warminster: Aris & Phillips. 2000. 168 pp. 11.95 [pounds sterling]; $22.00....

Tirant lo Blanc: New Approaches.(Review)
October 1, 2001... Tirant lo Blanc: New Approaches. Ed. by ARTHUR TERRY. (Coleccion Tamesis, Monografias, 180) London: Tamesis. 1999. x + 142 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. This relatively short but important volume deservedly highlights a fascinating work published...