The Modern Language Review articles from October 2002

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2002

Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature. By JOHN D. NILES. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1999. ix+280 pp. $45; 33.50 [pounds sterling]. Homo Narrans is a tribute to what John Niles calls the 'strong...

The Alchemy of Laughter: Comedy in English Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Alchemy of Laughter: Comedy in English Fiction. By GLEN CAVALIERO. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xi + 255 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. The advantage of the The Alchemy of Laughter is its freedom to range over a...

The Writer and Religion.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Writer and Religion. Ed. by WILLIAM H. GASS and LORIN CUOCO. (International Writers Center Series) Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 2000. xiii + 157 pp. $19.95. This volume has a more international scope than...

The Radical Aesthetic.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Radical Aesthetic. By ISOBEL ARMSTRONG. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2000. vii + 280 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.95). This is an ambitious and intriguing book that stages a series of arguments...

Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Murder Most Fair: The Appeal of Mystery Fiction. By MICHAEL COHEN. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 207 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. 'Mystery fiction' is a term used to denote the...

From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... From Wulfstan to Richard Rolle: Papers Exploring the Continuity of English Prose. By TADAO KUBOUCHI. Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xvi + 176 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60. A most welcome recent development in the historiography of English has been...

Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis'. By ANTHONY MORTIMER. New York: AMS Press. 2000. xv + 213 pp. $62.50. Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel. By ROBERT LANIER REID. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware...

Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis'. By ANTHONY MORTIMER. New York: AMS Press. 2000. xv + 213 pp. $62.50. Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel. By ROBERT LANIER REID. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware...

Fated Sky: The 'Femina Furens' in Shakespeare.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Variable Passions: A Reading of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis'. By ANTHONY MORTIMER. New York: AMS Press. 2000. xv + 213 pp. $62.50. Shakespeare's Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel. By ROBERT LANIER REID. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware...

Living Texts: Interpreting Milton.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Living Texts: Interpreting Milton. Ed. By KRISTIN A. PRUITT and CHARLES W. DURHAM. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 312 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. This, the editors' fourth such collection,...

Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in 'Paradise Lost.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Milton and the Death of Man: Humanism on Trial in 'Paradise Lost'. By HAROLD SKULSKY. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 262 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. It's an odd yet undeniable fact that...

Dr Johnson's Women.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Dr Johnson's Women. By NORMA CLARKE. London and New York: Hambledon. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810. By HARRIET GUEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000....

Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Dr Johnson's Women. By NORMA CLARKE. London and New York: Hambledon. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. Small Change: Women, Learning and Patriotism, 1750-1810. By HARRIET GUEST. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000....

Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800: Identity, Performance, Empire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theater, 1660-1800: Identity, Performance, Empire. By MITA CHOUDHURY. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated...

The French Revolution and the London Stage: 1789-1805.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789-1805. By GEORGE TAYLOR. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2001. x + 263 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. One problem in writing about the politics of the London...

Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization. By J. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xvi + 154 pp. 27 [pounds sterling]. 'Readings', in the subtitle of Feeding on Infinity, aptly...

Ruskin and the Twentieth Century: The Modernity of Ruskinism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Ruskin and the Twentieth Century: The Modernity of Ruskinism. Ed. by . (Studi Umanistici) Vercelli: Edizioni Mercurio. 2000. 238 pp. 34,000 lire. Late Ruskin: New Contexts. By F O'GORMAN. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and...

Late Ruskin: New Contexts.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Ruskin and the Twentieth Century: The Modernity of Ruskinism. Ed. by . (Studi Umanistici) Vercelli: Edizioni Mercurio. 2000. 238 pp. 34,000 lire. Late Ruskin: New Contexts. By F O'GORMAN. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot, Burlington, VT, and...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game That Must Be Lost.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost. By JEROME MCGANN. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 2000. xviii + 188 pp. 19.95 [pounds sterling]. In recent years the revival of interest in women's poetry has meant that...

Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century. By JOSEPHINE M. GUY and IAN SMALL. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. x + 314 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. How may we re-evaluate Oscar...

Virginia Woolf Icon.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Virginia Woolf Icon. By BRENDA R. SILVER. (Women in Culture and Society) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2000. xx + 353 pp. $54 (pbk $19; 13.50 [pounds sterling]). In the centre of St Andrews, Fife, Shelter's window posters...

Lifting the Sentence: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Lifting the Sentence: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction. By ROBERT FRASER. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2000. xii+252 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. Until its problematic last chapter, Robert Fraser's cheerful...

Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present. By J. DERRICK MCCLURN. East Lothian: Tuckwell Press. 2000. v+239 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being....

Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into Being.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Language, Poetry and Nationhood: Scots as a Poetic Language from 1878 to the Present. By J. DERRICK MCCLURN. East Lothian: Tuckwell Press. 2000. v + 239 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. Scottish Women's Fiction, 1920s to 1960s: Journeys into...

The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Mixed Legacy of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Ed. by CATHERINE J. GOLDEN and JOANNA SCHNEIDER ZANGRANDO. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 235 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. As the title...

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance. By JAMES G. WATSON. (Literary Modernism Series) Austin: University of Texas Press. 2000. xvi+ 255 pp. 26.95 [pounds sterling]. Two photographs frame this study and define its field of vision....

Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Poetry and the Sense of Panic: Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery. Ed. by LIONEL KELLY. (Costerus New Series, 124) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 2000. v+192 pp. Hfl. 75; $32. In his introduction to this collection Lionel...

James Merrill's Apocalypse.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... James Merrill's Apocalypse. By TIMOTHY MATERER. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2000. xii+172 pp. 22.95 [pounds sterling]. This absorbing study explores several significant aspects of Merrill's poetry. In its seven brief...

The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition. By BRIAN TREHEARNE. Toronto, Buffalo, New York, and London: University of Toronto Press. 1999. x+381 pp. $60; 45 [pounds sterling]. Aestheticism and the Canadian Modernists (Kingston,...

Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem & Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem. Ed. by FRANK M. TIERNEY and ANGELA ROBBESON. (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers, 21) Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 1998. v+192 pp. $25. Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short...

The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... The Last Canadian Poet: An Essay on Al Purdy. By SAM SOLECKI. Toronto, Buffalo, New York, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2000. xix + 316 pp. $50; 32 [pounds sterling]. Except for its awkward title, Sam Solecki's The Last Canadian...

An Illustrated Dictionary of French Similes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... An Illustrated Dictionary of French Similes. By KEITH FOLEY. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Ont., and Lampeter: Mellen. 2000. vi + 335 pp. $99.95. 'Comparaison n'est pas raison'; comparisons are odious. No, they are not. French treats similes and...

Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A Comparative Approach.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Social and Stylistic Variation in Spoken French: A Comparative Approach. By NIGEL ARMSTRONG. (Impact: Studies in Language and Society, 8) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 2001. x+278 pp. 88.49 [euro]. As the first real synthesis of...

Fictions of Identity in Medieval France.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Fictions of Identity in Medieval France. By DONALD MADDOX. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xx + 295 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. Taking as its database some of the principal monuments of...

Les Arts du spectacle dans la ville (1404-1721).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Les Arts du spectacle dans la ville (1404-1721). Ed. by MARIE-FRANCE WAGNER and CLAIRE LE BURN-GOUANVIC. Paris: Champion. 2001. 288 pp. 310 F. The ten studies in this collection of essays on large-scale public spectacle in early modern Europe...

La 'Varietas' a la Renaissance: Actes de la journee d'etude organisee par l'Ecole nationale des Chartes (Paris, 27 avril 2000).(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... La 'Varietas' a la Renaissance: Actes de la journee d'etude organisee par l'Ecole nationale des Chartes (Paris, 27 avril 2000). Ed. by DOMINIQUE DE COURCELLES. (Etudes et rencontres de l'Ecole des Chartes, 9) Paris: Ecole des Chartes. 2001. 267...

Poetique de la Renaissance: Le Modele italien, le monde franco-bourguignon et leur heritage en France au XVIe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Poetique de la Renaissance: Le Modele italien, le monde franco-bourguignon et leur heritage en France au XVIe siecle. Ed. by PERRINE GALLAND-HALLYN and FERNAND HALLYN. Preface by TERENCE CAVE. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 348) Geneve:...

Helisenne de Crenne: At the Crossroads of Renaissance Humanism and Feminism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Helisenne de Crenne: At the Crossroads of Renaissance Humanism and Feminism. By DIANE S. WOOD. Madison and Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 186 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. Helisenne de...

Grammaire (1572).(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Grammaire (1572). By PIERRE DE LA RAMEE. Ed. by COLETTE DEMAIZIERE. (Textes de la Renaissance, 3: Langue francaise, 40) Paris: Champion. 2001. 165 pp. 240 F. Specialists in the history of the French language will be delighted to have at their...

Le Reveille-matin des courtisans ou Moyens legitimes pour parvenir a la faveur et pour s'y maintenir.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Le Reveille-matindes courtesans ou Moyens legitimes pour parvenir a la faveur et pour s'y maintenir. By ANTONIO DE GUEVARA. Ed. by NATHALIE PEYREBONNE. (Textes de la Renaissance: serie Sources espagnoles, 2, 25) Paris: Champion. 1999. 472 pp. 410...

Sponde: Commentateur d'Homere.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Sponde: Commentateur d'Homere. By CHRISTIANE DELOINCE-LOUETTE. (Bibliotheque Litteraire de la Renaissance, serie 3: tome 47) Paris: Champion. 2001. 472 pp. 450 F. Christiane Deloince-Louette's study of Jean de Sponde's commentary on Homer...

La Troade: Tragedie.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... La Troade: Tragedie. By G. Ed. by JEAN-DOMINIQUE BEAUDIN. (Theatre complet, v: Textes de la Renaissance, 27) Paris: Champion. 1999. 264 pp. 150 F. Champion's complete edition of Garnier's theatre is highly welcome. The quality of the...

Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Women and the Politics of Self-Representation in Seventeenth-Century France. By PATRICIA FRANCIS CHOLAKIAN. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2000. 219 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. The Grand Siecle is...

Moliere: A Theatrical Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Moliere: A Theatrical Life. By VIRGINIA SCOTT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 333 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. All lives of Moliere are to a greater or lesser extent histories of his plays, their enormous success, the controversy...

French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... French Books in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. By MAIRE KENNEDY. (Studies in Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2001:07) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2001. x + 255 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. What presence did French books have in...

Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siecle): Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de 'Guzman d'Alfarache' a 'Jacques le fataliste.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Les Prisons du roman (XVIIe-XVIIIe siecle): Lectures plurielles et intertextuelles de 'Guzman d'Alfarache' a 'Jacques le fataliste'. By JACQUES BERCHTOLD. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 386) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 784 pp. 76.80 SwF....

Pensees libres sur la Religion, sur l'Eglise, et sur le Bonheur national, par B.M., Seconde edition reveue, corrigee et augmentee: Traduction de l'anglois.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Pensees libres sur la Religion, sur l'Eglise, et sur le Bonheur national, par B.M., Seconde edition reveue, corrigee et augmentee: Traduction de l'anglois. By BERNARD MANDEVILLE. Ed. by LUCIEN and PAULETTE CARRIVE. Paris: Champion. 2000. 295 pp....

Montesquieu du Nord au Sud: Actes de la table ronde organisee a Paris les 29 et 30 janvier 1999.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Montesquieu du Nord au Sud: Actes de la table ronde organisee a Paris les 29 et 30 janvier 1999. Ed. by JEAN EHRARD. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2001. 108 pp. 12.39 [euro]. This publication explores the influence of Montesquieu, particularly...

Crebillon fils, Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... CREBILLON fils, Les Egarements du coeur et de l'esprit. By PATRICK FEIN. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 123) London: Grant and Cutler. 2000. 72 pp. 5.95 [pounds sterling]. The past few years have witnessed a considerable increase in interest...

Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Voicing Desire: Family and Sexuality in Diderot's Narrative. By J.E. FOWLER. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2000. x + 180 pp. 14.50 [pounds sterling]. The methodology for James Fowler's study of Diderot is established in his conclusion: defining...

Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe. By ANDREW CURRAN. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2001. xii + 171 pp. 350 F. This carefully argued and convincing account of monstrosity in Diderot shows decisively what a pivotal...

Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe. By RENE TARIN Preface by ROLAND DESNE Paris: Champion. 2001. 179 pp. Anymodern admirer of Diderot possessed of rather more than a passing acquaintance with...

Penser la musique dans l''Encyclopedie.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Penser la musique dans l'Encyclopedie'. By ALAN CERNUSCHI (Les dix-huitieme siecles, 47, collection dirige par Raymond Trousson et Antony McKenna) Paris: Champion. 2000. 789 pp. This is a book of major importance for the interpretation of the...

Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Blood in the City: Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789-1945. By RICHARD D. E. BURTON Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2001. xv + 395 pp. $36.50. Revisiting Paris with Richard D. E. Burton is an exhilarating experience. In an...

L'Expression du sentiment dans l'oeuvre de Benjamin Constant.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... L'Expression du sentiment dans l'oeuvre de Benjamin Constant. By VICTORIA KOCAY. (Studies in French Literature, 48) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2001. viii+342 pp. 59.95 [pounds sterling]; $99.95. This work grew out of an earlier...

Approches du XIXe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Approches du XIXe siecle. By LOIC CHOTARD. Paris: Presses de l'Universite Paris-Sorbonne. 2000. 454 pp. 180 F. Following Loic Chotard's untimely death (he would have been 40 if he had lived to see the volume under review), his colleagues marked...

Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities. By JANELL WATSON. (Cambridge Studies in French, 62) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 227 pp. Any doubts concerning the...

While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand. By DAVID A. POWELL. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 381 pp. 44 [pounds sterling]. Music is a theme which has...

Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Remnants of Song: Trauma and the Experience of Modernity in Charles Baudelaire and Paul Celan. By ULRICH BAER. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2000. 343 pp. This searching study sees unresolved shock as the experience of modernity. The...

Le Livre de Monelle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Le Livre de Monelle. By MARCEL SCHWOB. Ed. by FERNANDO SCHIROST. (Testi Stranieri, 32) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier Erudition. 2000. 104 pp. 15,000 lire. Le Livre de Monelle marks, together with Mimes, a shift from Schwob's two earlier...

Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot: Writing at the Limit. By LESLIE HILL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. 277 pp. The subtitle of Bataille, Klossowski, Blanchot designates the terrain which Leslie Hill's several books (on Beckett, Duras,...

L'Imaginaire paradoxal ou la creation absolue dans les oeuvres dernieres de Samuel Beckett.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... L'Imaginaire paradoxal ou la creation absolue dans les oeuvres dernieres de Samuel Beckett. By JEAN-PAUL GAVARD-PERRET. (Bibliotheque Circe, 3, collection dirigee par Jean Burgos) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2001. 256 pp. 260 F....

Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty. By CATHRYN VASSELEU. Andover: Routledge. 1998. x + 157 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. Cathryn Vasseleu's text is a philosopher's philosophy book: a serious engagement...

National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in France, Frenchmen in America.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in France, Frenchmen in America. Ed. by. WILLIAM L. CHEW III. (Studia Imagologica: Amsterdam Studies on Cultural Identity, 9) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2001. x + 433 pp. 82 [euro]; $77. Although...

Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Luce Irigaray and the Question of the Divine. By ALISON MARTIN. (Texts and Dissertations, 53) London: Maney for the Modern Humanities Research Association. 2000. 233 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; 72 [euro]. Luce Irigaray is a notoriously difficult...

Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Cesaire, Glissant, Conde.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing: Cesaire, Glissant, Conde. By JEANNIE SUK. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press. 2001. 206 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. This book attempts to negotiate the difficult terrain that stands between...

French Erotic Fiction: Ideologies of Desire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... French Erotic Fiction: Ideologies of Desire. Ed. by JEAN MAINIL. Nottingham French Studies, 37, no. 1 (Spring 1998). Nottingham: University of Nottingham. 1998. xi + 139 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. The eight essays that make up this excellent...

The Cinema of Jean Cocteau: Essays on His Films and Their Coctelian Sources.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... The Cinema of Jean Cocteau: Essays on his Films and their Coctelian Sources. Ed. by C. D. E. TOLTON. (LEGAS Series: Language, Media and Education Studies, 5) New York, Ottawa, and Toronto: LEGAS. 1999. vi + 200 pp. This is potentially a...

Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-Definition with Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig and Cixous.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-Definition with Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig and Cixous. By SARAH COOPER. Bern: Lang. 2000. 231 pp. In an essay entitled 'Against Proper Objects', in a 1994 number of the journal differences,...

Commencements du roman: Conferences du seminaire de Litterature comparee de l'Universite de la Sorbonne Nouvelle.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... Commencements du roman: Conferences du seminaire de Litterature comparee de l'Universite e de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Ed. by JEAN BESSIERE. Paris: Champion. 2001. 216 pp. The preface to this collection suggests that both historical and formal...

Critique du vers.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Critique du vers. By JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD. Paris: Champion. 2000. 288 pp. 330 F. Against a background of nineteenth-century commentary on the decay of the alexandrine, Jean-Michel Gouvard sets out to trace more precisely its productive...

Materia actuosa: Antiquite, age classique, lumieres. Melanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Materia actuosa: Antiquite, age classique, lumieres. Melanges en l'honneur d'Olivier Bloch. Ed. by MIGUEL BENITEZ AND OTHERS. (Champion-Varia, 38) Paris: Champion. 2000. 747 pp. 580 F. This eclectic and erudite tribute to Olivier Bloch's vast...

Leopardi e la filosofia.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Leopardi e la filosofia. Ed. by GASPARE POLIZZI. Florence: Polistampa. 2001. 232 pp. 14.46 [euro]. In the Italian critical field, Giacomo Leopardi is considered the unsurpassed representative of nineteenth-century Italian poetry. However, for...

Italian Fascism and Antifascism: A Critical Anthology.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Italian Fascism and Antifascism: A Critical Anthology. Ed. by STANISLAO G. PUGLIESE. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2001. ix + 250 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). Italian Fascism and Antifascism is a...

Fenoglio's Binoculars, Johnny's Eyes: History, Language, and Narrative Technique in Fenoglio's 'Il partigiano Johnny.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Fenoglio's Binoculars, Johnny's Eyes: History, Language, and Narrative Technique in Fenoglio's 'Il partigiano Johnny'. By PHILIP COOKE. New York: Peter Lang. 2000. 160 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. This stimulating investigation of various aspects...

Antonio Tabucchi.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Antonio Tabucchi. By CLAUDIO PEZZIN. Sommacampagna (Verona): CIERRE Edizioni. 2000. 115 pp. 9.3 [euro]. The fiction of Antonio Tabucchi has received much critical attention over the years, and the many different approaches that have been taken...

Using Italian Synonyms.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Using Italian Synonyms. By HOWARD MOSS and VANNA MOTTA. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. viii + 724 pp. 52.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 18.95 [pounds sterling]). This elegant and well-presented volume takes its place among parallel...

Vida de Segundo: Version castellana de la 'Vita Secudi' de Vicente de Beauvais.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Vida de Segundo: Version castellana de la 'Vita Secundi' de Vicente de Beauvais. Ed. by HUGO O. BIZZARRI. (Exeter Hispanic Texts, 55) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2000. lxxvi + 46 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. Secundus learns as a...

Textos epicos castellanos: Problemas de edicion y critica.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Textos epicos castellanos: Problemas de edicion y critica. Ed. by DAVID G. PATTISON. (Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 20) London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College. 2000. 138 pp. 10 [pounds...

Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in 'Celestina.'(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance Vision: Phantasm, Melancholy, and Didacticism in 'Celestina'. By RICARDO CASTELLS. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2000. ix + 125 pp. $45. In this short and elegantly produced...

Poesia moral (Polimnia), 2d ed.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Poesia moral (Polimnia). By FRANCISCO DE QUEVEDO. Ed. by ALFONSO REY. 2nd edn. Madrid: Tamesis. 1999. 406 pp. This second edition of one of the parts of El Parnaso espanol comprises a substantial revision, by addition rather than by amendment....

La autoficcion en Espana: Jorge Semprun, Carlos Barral, Luis Goytisolo, Enriqueta Antolin y Antonio Munoz Molina.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... La autoficcion en Espana: Jorge Semprun, Carlos Barral, Luis Goytisolo, Enriqueta Antolin y Antonio Munoz Molina. By ALICIA MOLERO DE LA IGLESIA. Bern and Oxford: Lang. 2000. 421 pp. 37 [pounds sterling]. One of the principal research areas of...

Vidas im/proprias: Transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa espanola contemporanea.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... Vidas im/proprias: Transformaciones del sujeto femenino en la narrativa espanola contemporanea. By MARIA PILAR RODRIGUEZ. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 19) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 2000. xi + 222 pp. 41.50 [pounds...

From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima.(Book Review)
October 1, 2002... From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima. By CESAR AUGUSTO SALGADO. (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 265 pp. $43.50....