The Modern Language Review articles from October 2004

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2004

The 'Myth of Gentillet' reconsidered: an aspect of Elizabethan Machiavellianism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The 'Myth of Gentillet' Reconsidered: An Aspect of Elizabethan Machiavellianism by N. W Bawcutt The role played by Innocent Gentillet's notorious attack on Machiavelli, published in 1576, in the Elizabethan response to Machiavelli's...

Alexander Pope and Duke Upon Duke: satiric context, aims, and means.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2004... Alexander Pope and Duke upon Duke: Satiric Context, Aims, and Means by Pat Rogers Duke upon Duke (1720) is a satirical ballad, first firmly attributed to Alexander Pope in 1949 The article considers Pope's aims and methods in the light of...

Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745).(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Love, Honour, and Duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745) by Sandro Jung James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda juxtaposes notions of heroic drama with the mid-eighteenth-century sentimentalism of individuality and...

The power of the gift: desire and substitution in Daurel et Beton.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Power of the Gift: Desire and Substitution in Daurel et Beton by Finn E. Sinclair The Occitan epic Daurel et Beton presents a vision of monologic masculinity which is soon fractured and revealed as an ideological dream. The themes of...

France exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... France Exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle by Anne Green The first part of this article examines recurrent features of the official reports, speeches, catalogues, and guidebooks generated by the 1855 Exposition...

Aldo Palazzeschi's: Riflessi or, writing as erasure.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Aldo Palazzeschi's :Riflessi or, Writing as Erasure by Enrico Cesaretti This article addresses the issue of self-effacement in the earliest novel by Aldo Palazzeschi. The epistolary nature of the novel is first emphasized and then read...

Rafael Alberti's 'Muerte y juicio': death, judgement, and the poetry of (dis)belief.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Rafael Alberti's 'Muerte y juicio': Death, Judgement, and the Poetry of (Dis)Belief by Derek Gagen The polemics following the death of Rafael Alberti in 1999 rendered difficult any assessment of his work. However, interviewed in his...

Demystification and sacrificial thinking: violence in Terenci Moix's Mon mascle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Demystification and Sacrificial Thinking: Violence in Terenci Moix's Mon Mascle by Arthur J. Hughes Terenci Moix prefaces Mon mascle with an epigraph from Sade's Juliette, ascribing to the concepts of justice and religion the masking of an...

The traveller as Landschaftsmaler: industrial labour and landscape aesthetics in Johanna Schopenhauer's travel writing.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Traveller as Landschaftsmaler: Industrial Labour and Landscape Aesthetics in Johanna Schopenhauer's Travel Writing by Alison E. Martin This article explores Johanna Schopenhauer's problematic inclusion of industrial labour in the...

The erection of the Berlin Wall: Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir and the end of East Germany.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Erection of the Berlin Wall: Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir and the End of East Germany by Brad Prager For Thomas Brussig, the author of Helden wie wir (1995), the turn away from the GDR brought about a turn towards one more set of...

Pechorin's demons: representations of the demonic in Lermontov's a hero of our time.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Pechorin's Demons: Representations of the Demonic in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time by W J. Leatherbarrow This essay seeks to identify the rhetoric used to elucidate the presence of the demonic in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, and to...

Faust 20e: echos de l'ego. Le demon de Faust on l'homme et ses demons.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Faust 20e: echos de l'ego. Le demon de Faust on l'homme et ses demons. Ed. by PASCAL NOIR. Paris: Minard. zoos. 24.39 [euro]. 290 pp. ISBN 2-256-91032-6. Pascal Noir's foreword to the present collection records renewed interest in the...

Le Vampire dans la litterature du XXe siecle.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Le Vampire dans la liWrature du XX' siecle. By JEAN MARIGNY. Paris: Champion. 2003. 379 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0818-1. The vampire is a stereotype. Why has this horror myth prospered? Most of us, despite irrational fears of fluttering...

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck. By PETER L. RUDNYTSKY. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2002. xviii+312pp. $21.95. ISBN o-8014-8825-'7 (pbk). This is a book of considerable ambition. It seeks to...

Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women. Ed. by ADALGISA GiORG10. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2002. xiv+258pp. 46-77 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.59 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-57181-953-3...

Conversations with Zizek.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Conversations with Zizek. By SLAVOJ ZIZEK and GLYN DALY. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2003. 171 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $5495 (pbk 16.99 [pounds sterling]; $19.95). ISBN 0-7456-2664-5 (pbk 0-7456-2665-3). Slavoj Zizek, who, thanks to what he...

Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction. By DEREK PEARSALL. Maldon, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. viii +182 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $5495 (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]; $19.95). ISBN 0-631-23319-9 (pbk 0-631-23320-2). In his preface,...

New Directions in Arthurian Studies.(Arthurian Literature: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, vol. 19)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... New Directions in Arthurian Studies. Ed. by ALAN LuPACK. (Arthurian Studies, 51) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. ix+ 181 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN o-85991-642 1. Arthurian Literature, vol. xix: Comedy in Arthurian Literature. Ed. by KEITH...

The Numerical Universe of the 'Gawain-Pearl' Poet: Beyond 'Phi'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Numerical Universe of the 'Gawain-Pearl' Poet: Beyond 'Phi'. By EDWARD I. CONDREN. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2002. x+205 pp. $55. ISBN 0-8130-2554-0 This book contains a lot of reasoning that is...

Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern. By STEPHANIE TRIGG. (Medieval Cultures, 30) Minneapolis: University of Minnnesota Press. 2002. xxiv+280pp. 48 [pounds sterling](pbk [pounds sterling]1q). ISBN 0-8166-3822-5(pbk...

Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation.(Shakespeare and Machiavelli)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation. By RICHARD C. McCoy. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. xxiv+ 218 pp. $29.50; 20.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-231-126160-6. Shakespeare and Machiavelli. By JOHN ROE....

Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Philosophy and 'The Faerie Queene'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Philosophy and 'The Faerie Queene'. By JON A. QUITSLAND. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xiv+373 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3505-1. One ignores Spenser's...

Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays. By BRIAN VICKERS. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xviii+ 558 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925653-5. Shakespeare, Co-Author is an important...

Stage Directions in 'Hamlet': New Essays and New Directions.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Stage Directions in 'Hamlet': New Essays and New Directions. Ed. by HARDIN L. AASAND. Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 234 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3946-1. W.W....

Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. By JOSEPH F. BARTOLOMEO. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 242 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-799-3....

Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850. By RAJANI SUDAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 200 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3656-4. The title of Rajani Sudan's monograph refers to...

The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi,1774-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), 1817-1821, vol. 6.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi,1774-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), Vol. VI: 1817-1821. Ed. By EDWARD A. BLOOM and LILLIAN D. BLOOM; assoc. ed. O. M. BRACK, JR; intro. by GAY W. BRACK. Cranbury, NJ: University of...

Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. By GEORGE LEVINE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xi+326 pp. $45; 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-47536-0. An epigraph from Pater quoting...

The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. By CAROLINE ROBERTS. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. ix+253 pp. $50; 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3595-5. This is a tremendous book....

Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship. By JUDITH L. FISHER. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ix+300 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0651-1. Judith Fisher's study of...

George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism. By SALEEL NURBHAI and K. M. NEWTON. Basings In the introduction toke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi+ 220 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96381-4. Much recent...

A Longing like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Longing like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism. By ALAN GROB. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 249 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-752-7 A Longing like Despair is a...

Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction.(Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction. By WILLIAM A. DAVIS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 199 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-798-5. ...

Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Ed. by NIRAN ABBAS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 256 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3954-2 The twelve essays collected in...

La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminin dans la literature medievale.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminine dans la literature medievale. BY YASMINA FOEHR-JANSSENS. Geneva: Droz. 2000. 301 pp. SwF 50. ISBN 2-600-00422-x. In medieval studies it has been the Anglo-American scholars who have tended...

Homo Viator: Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Homo Viator: Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe. By GEORGE HUGO TUCKER. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 376) Geneva: Droz. 2003. xix+395PP. SwF 114.70; 77.68[euro]. ISBN 2-600-00857-8. This volume is...

Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etudes du Seizieme Siecle, Bar-le-Duc, 2-5 decembre 1999.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etudes du Seizieme Siecle, Bar-le-Duc, 2-.5 decembre z999. Ed. by JEAN BALSAMO. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 356) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 536 pp. SwF...

Etudes Rabelaisiennes.(Periodical Review)
October 1, 2004... Etudes Rabelaisiennes, 42. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 142 pp. SwF 94.20. ISBN 2-600-00869-1. This volume, like many in the series, is a miscellany. Fran9ois Cornilliat, 'On Sound Effects in Rabelais (Part II)', completes an article of which Part...

''Comme un souci aux rayons du soleil'': Ronsard et l'invention d'une poetique de la merveille, 1550-1556.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... 'Comme un souci aux rayons du soleil': Ronsard et l'invention d'une poetique de la merveille (zsso-zss6). By VERONIQUE DENIZOT. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 373: Etudes Ronsardiennes, 9) Geneva: Droz. 2003. 352 pp. SwF 124.90; 84.61...

Histoire et litterature au siecle de Montaigne: melanges offerts a Claude-Gilbert Dubois.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Histoire et litterature au siecle de Montaigne: melanges offerts a Claude-Gilbert Dubois. Ed. by FRANCOISE ARGO-DUTARD. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 60) Geneva: Droz. tool. 409 pp. 43.91 [euro]; SwF 61.45. ISBN 2-600-00643-5. It is...

Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III, 1558-1589, vol. 6.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III. By PIERRE DE L'ESTOILE. Vol. VI: (1588--1589). Ed. by MADELEINE LAZARD and GILBERT SCHRENCK. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 349 pp. SwF 65. ISBN 2-600-00850-0. This is the sixth and last volume of an edition of...

The Story of Sapho.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Story of Sapho. By MADELEINE DE SCUDERY. Trans. and intro. by KAREN NEWMAN. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xxxi+ 155 PP. 10 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-14399-6. This...

The Moral Tale in France and Germany 1750-1789.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Moral Tale in France and Germany 7750-7789. By KATHERINE ASTBURY. (SVEC 2002:07) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. viii+ 223 pp. 49[pounds sterling]. I SBN 0-7294-0789-6. Katherine Astbury begins this study by reminding her reader of...

Voltaire et "sa grande amie": correspondance complete de Voltaire et de Mme de Bentinck, 1740-1778.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Voltaire et 'sa grande amie': correspondance complete de Voltaire et de Mme de Bentinck (1740-1778). Ed. by FREDERIC DELOFFRE and JACQUES CORMIER. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2003. xxiv+363 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0815-9. ...

Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot, 1739-1900.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot, 1739-1900. By DAVID ADAMS. (Publications du Centre International d'Etude du XVIIIe Siecle, 6-7) Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d'Etude du xvIIIe Siecle. 2000. 2 vols; 464 pp. +480 pp.; 72 black...

Autour de Lamartine: Journal de voyage, correspondances, temoignages, iconographie.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Autour de Lamartine: Journal de voyage, correspondances, temoignages, iconographie. Ed. by CHRISTIAN CROISILLE and MARIE-RENEE MORIN. (Cahler d'etudes sur les correspondances des xixe et xxe siecles, 12) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires...

Correspondance generale de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, 1821-1836, vol. 1.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Correspondance generale de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, vol. 1: 1821-1836. Ed. by CHARLES F. DUPECHEZ. (Bibliotheque des Correspondances, 4) Paris: Champion. 2003. 571 pp. 90[euro]. ISBN 2-'7453-0860-2. Madame d'Agoult's life is...

Romances Sans paroles.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Romances Sans paroles. By PAUL VERLAINE. Ed. by STEVE MURPHY, JEAN BONNA, and JEAN-JACQUES LEFRBRE. Paris: Champion. 2003. 470 PP. 75[euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0873-4. Following an impressively thorough critical edition of Rimbaud's Poesies...

Marges du premier Verlaine.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Marges du premier Verlaine. By STEVE MURPHY. Paris: Champion. 2003. 422 pp. 70 [euro]. ISBN 2-'7453-o866-I. Focusing mostly on the pre-Rimbaud years, Steve Murphy turns our attention from the well-worn themes of impressionism, musicality,...

Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the "Fin-de-Siecle'' in Europe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the 'Fin-de-Siecle' in Europe. By CHARLES BERNHEIMER. Ed. by T. JEFFERSON KLINE and NAOMI SCHOR. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002....

Lettres de Marcel Jouhandeau a Max Jacob.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Lettres de Marcel Jouhandeau a Max Jacob. Ed. by ANNE S. KIMBALL. (Textes litteraires fran9ais, 544) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 132 pp. SwF 38.90; 26.36. [euro] ISBN 2-600-00622-2. The 113 letters which make up this annotated edition were a chance...

Paul Claudel 18: Claudel poete? de 'La Cantate a trois voix' (1912) a ''Poesies diverses''.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Paul Claudel 18: Claudel poete? de 'La Cantate a trois voix' (1912) a 'Poesies diverses' (1952). Ed. by DIDIER ALEXANDRE. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. 164 pp. 18[euro]. ISBN 2-256-91053-9. The aim of this publication is...

Malraux: ''La Condition humaine''.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Malraux: 'La Condition humaine'. By CHRISTOPHER SHORLEY. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 129) London: Grant & Cutler. 2003. 89 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0438-8. Grant & Cutler's series of Critical Guides is now apparently...

Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux. By ALISON S. FELL. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford. 2003. x+208 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-73-4. Motherhood is an impassioned...

Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the z99os. Ed. by GILL RYE and MICHAEL WORTON. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. ix+262 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-622'7-6. ...

Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity, Politics, Debate.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity, Politics, Debate. By DAVID L. LOOSELEY. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2003. xii+ 254 pp. C5o (pbk 5.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-85973-631-9 (pbk 1-85973-636-X). The title of David...

Oyono: "Une vie de boy" and "Le Vieux Negre et la medaille".(Henri Lopes: "Le Pleurer-rire")(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Oyono: 'Une vie de boy' and 'Le Vieux Negre et la medaille'. By PATRICK CORCORAN. (Grant & Cutler Critical Guides to French Texts, 132) London: Grant and Cutler. 2003. 89 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0437-x. Henri Lopes: 'Le...

A History of French Literature: From ''Chanson de Geste'' to Cinema.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A History of French Literature: From 'Chanson de Geste' to Cinema. By DAVID COWARD. Oxford: Blackwell. 2002. xxviii+606 pp. 09-99;$34-95- ISBN 0-631-16758-7. Covering in varying depth everything down to modern gay, regional, and...

Saussure and his Interpreters.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Saussure and his Interpreters. By Roy HARRIS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2001. vi+224 pp. 44[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-1308-0. In a very readable study, Roy Harris examines the mis/representation of Saussurean ideas by...

Histoire culturelle des pronoms d'adresse: vers une typologie des systemes allocutoires dans les langues romanes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Histoire culturelle des pronoms d'adresse: vers une typologie des systemes allocutoires daps les langues romanes. By BEATRICE COFFEN. (Bibliotheque de grammaire et de linguistique, 12) Paris: Champion. 2002. 319 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN...

Le riviste di italianistica nel mondo: Atti del Convegno internazionale. Napoli 23-25 Novembre 2000.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Le riviste di italianistica nel mondo: Atti del Convegno internazionale. Napoli 23-25 Novembre 2000. Ed. by MARCO SANTORO. (Quaderni di 'Esperienze Letterarie', 3) Rome and Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali. 2002. xvii+ 384...

Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language. By GIULIO LEPSCHY. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. x+ 148 pp. 15[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3729-1. Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language is...

'La fonte d'ogni eloquenzia': il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... 'La fonte d'ogni eloquenzia': il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese. By ITALO PANTANI. Rome: Bulzoni. 2002. 467 pp. 30[euro]. ISBN 88-8319-753-4. Over the last thirty years considerable scholarly...

The Century of Women: Representation of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Century of Women: Representation of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse. By REBECCA MESSBARGER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xi+209 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3652-x. Rebecca Messbarger's...

In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism. By GIULIANA MINGHELLI. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xi+238 pp. 32[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3638-4. I first came across...

Text and Manuscript in Medieval Spain: Papers from the King's College Colloquium.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Text & Manuscript in Medieval Spain: Papers from the King's College Colloquium. Ed. by DAVID HOOK. (King's College London Hispanic Series, 5) London: King's College, Department of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies. 2000. viii+208pp. 15[pounds...

'Other' Spanish Theatres: Erasure and Inscription on the Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... 'Other' Spanish Theatres: Erasure and Inscription on the Twentieth-Century Spanish Stage. By MARIA M. DELGADO. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2003. xv+336 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-5976-3. This...

Carlos Barral, entre el esteticismo y la reinvidicacion.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Carlos Barral, entre el esteticismoy la reinvidicacion. By JOSE VICENTE SAVAL. Madrid: Fundamentos. 2002. 316 pp. $12.50. ISBN 84-245-0935-8 Carlos Barral is probably one of the poets of 'La Escuela de Barcelona' most neglected by the...

A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction. By DONALD L. SHAW. (Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias) London: Tamesis. 2002. 258 PP. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85566-065-2. Donald L. Shaw's A Companion to Modern Spanish American...

Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico 1561-1699.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico 1561-1699. By FEDERICO GARZA CARVAJAL. (Amsterdam Historische Reeks, Kleine Serie, 41) Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam: 2000. xiv+306 pp. ISBN 90-73941-24-5. This book would probably...

Volkssprache zwischen Stift und Hof: Hofgeistliche in Literatur und Gesellschaft des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Volkssprache zwischen Stift and Hof: Hofgeistliche in Literatur and Gesellschaft des 12. and 13. Jahrhunderts. By TIMO REUVEKAMP-FELBER. (K61ner Germanistische Studien, NF 4) Cologne and Vienna, Weimar: B6hlau. 2003. viii + 414 PP. 44.90[euro]....

Dietrichs Flucht: Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Dietrichs Flucht: Textgeschichtliche Ausgabe. By ELISABETH LIENERT and GERTRUD BECK. (Texte and Studien zur mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik, 1) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. xxx+352 pp. 56 [euro]. ISBN 3-484-64501-6. For the present reviewer,...

Ava's New Testament Narratives: When the Old Law Passed Away. Excerpts from: Rudolfvon Ems, 'Weltchronik'; The 'Christherre-Chronik'; Jans Enikel, 'Weltchronik'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Ava's New Testament Narratives: 'When the Old Law Passed Away'. Excerpts from: Rudolfvon Ems, 'Weltchronik'; The 'Christherre-Chronik'; Jans Enikel, 'Weltchronik'. Introduction, translation, and notes by JAMES A. RUSHING, JR. (Medieval German...

Von der Chronik zum Weltbuch: Sinn und Anspruch sudwestdeutscher Hauschroniken am Ausgang des Mittelalters.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Von der Chronik zum Weltbuch: Sinn und Anspruch sudwestdeutscher Hauschroniken am Ausgang des Mittelalters. By GERHARD WOLF. (Quellen and Forschungen zur Literatur-und Kulturgeschichte, NF 18) Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2002. xiii+519PP....

A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Companion to the Works of Grimmelshausen. Ed. by KARL J. OTTO, JR. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. xiv+400 pp. 50[pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 1-57113-184-I. This collection of twelve essays in English by leading experts on the...

Lessings Theorie der Tragodienwirkung: Humanistische Tradition und aufklakrerische Erkenntniskritik.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Lessings Theorie der Tragodienwirkung: Humanistische Tradition und aufklarerische Erkenntniskritik. By THOMAS MARTINEC. (Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 116) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. ix +252 pp. 46[euro]. ISBN 3-484-32II6-4....

Goethes Faust: Poetik der Gabe und Selbstreflexion der Dichtung.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Goethes Faust: Poetik der Gabe and Selbstreflexion der Dichtung. By PETER BRANDES. Munich: Fink. 2003. 298 pp. 32.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-7705-3809-9. One month before his death, Goethe remarked: 'Mon oeuvre est celle d'un etre collectif et elle...

The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe. By ROBERT J. RICHARDS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xix+571 pp. $35. ISBN 0-226-71210-9. Robert J. Richards's major study of the...

Italy in the German Literary Imagination: Goethe's 'Italian Journey' and its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Italy in the German Literary Imagination: Goethe's 'Italian Journey' and its Reception by Eichendorff, Platen, and Heine. By GRETCHEN L. HACHMEISTER. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2002....

Heinrich Heine.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Heinrich Heine. By BERND KORTLANDER. (Reclam UB 17638) Stuttgart: Reclam. 2003. 367 pp. 8.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-15-017638-7 (pbk). Bernd Kortlander's new book on Heine is a pleasure. Written for Reclam's recently established series of survey...

The Ambivalent Author: Five German Writers and their Jewish Characters, 1848-1914.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Ambivalent Author: Five German Writers and their Jewish Characters, 1848-1914. By HANNAH BURDEKIN. (British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature, 29) Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt a.m., New York, and Vienna: Peter...

Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Imperial Culture in Germany, 1871-1918. By MATTHEW JEFFERIES. (European Studies) Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+ 338 pp. 55 [pounds sterling] (pbk 19.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-4039-0420-0 (pbk 1-4039-0421-9). Matthew...

Gerhart-Hauptmann-Studien 1934-1958.(Grossstadt, Landschaft, Augenblick: Ober die Tradition von Motiven im Werk Gerhart Hauptmanns)(Gerhart Hauptmanns Erzkalung 'Mignon', mit Erstdruck der ersten Fassung und Materialien)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Gerhart-Hauptmann-Studien 1934-1958. By FELIX A. VOIGT. Ed. by MECHTHILD PFEIFFER-VOIGT. (Veroffentlichungen der Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft, 9) Berlin: Schmidt. 1999. 170 pp. 34.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-503-04920-7. Grossstadt, Landschaft,...

A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... A Companion to the Works of Arthur Schnitzler. Ed. by DAGMAR C. G. LORENZ. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. xii+ 415 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]; $90. ISBN 1-57113-213-9. A boom in...