The Modern Language Review articles from October 2005

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2005

The virgin in the garden: Milton's Ovidian eve.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Milton appropriates narrative structures from the Metamorphoses to amplify the elliptical account of Eve's creation in Genesis and to convey her sense of self or sexuality. Through the controlled use of such mythological...

Nimrods: hunting, authority, identity.(hunting ban in England)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Why does the proposed ban on hunting--a seemingly marginal and anachronistic activity--by the ruling Labour government stir up such passion in twenty-first-century Britain? An examination of the current rhetoric about hunting...

'I am not he': Narcissus and ironic performativity in medieval French literature.
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Scholars have discussed extensively the medieval French use of Narcissus and mirrors to figure love experience. However, the claim to be like Narcissus is often closely associated with a counter-claim to be unlike him. Focusing on...

Balzac and the poetics of ignorance: La Vieille Fille.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article argues that in La Vieille Fille (1836) Balzac is not content to produce a novel that reflects the non-novelistic nature of provincial life but allows his composition to be shaped by a constant recognition of the...

Proust's a la recherche as intertext of Makine's Le Testament francais.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT When Andrei Makine won the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medicis in 1995 with Le Testament francais, reviewers compared him to Proust. This article considers A la recherche as an intertext for Makine's novel, focusing particularly on the...

The myopic eye: Calvino's travels in the USA and the USSR.(Italo Calvino)(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article presents Italo Calvino's little-studied travel writing, concentrating on two texts: Diario americano 1959-60 and Taccuino di viaggio nell'Unione Sovietica, his accounts of journeys to the United States and the Soviet...

The lamentable loss of Alhama in 'Paseabase el Re Moro'.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article studies three versions of a medieval Spanish ballad which relates Muslim reaction to the Christians' capture of Alhama. It explores how various motifs of loss, such as the association of death and writing, and...

From screen to stage: Edgar Neville's La vida en un hilo.(Critical Essay)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT In 1959 Edgar Neville wrote a stage adaptation of his 1945 film La vida en un hilo. This study first argues that theatre can be regarded as narration as defined by David Bordwell, which facilitates an examination of Neville' s...

Authority and audience in seventeenth-century German grammatical texts.
October 1, 2005... This article contributes to the study of non-literary text-types in seventeenth-century Germany by examining five examples, available over the period 1615-30, of the new and rapidly diversifying text-type 'German grammar'. As German grammar...

Nietzsche and the paradigm of influence studies: a review article.(Nietzsche and Antiquity: His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition)(Nietzsche and the German Tradition)(Ecce Opus: Nietzsche-Revisionen im 20. Jahrhundert)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article examines three recent collections of essays on Nietzsche, concerned respectively with the influence on him of the classical tradition, that of the German tradition, and his own influence on twentieth-century...

Heine's Russia Doppelganger: nineteenth-century translations of his poetry.(Heinrich Heine)
October 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Numerous Russian translations of Heine's poetry appeared in the mid-nineteenth century. Literary-political debates between radicals and conservatives shaped the reception of these translations, and the strategies adopted by...

Les Grandes Peurs. Vol. II: L'Autre.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Les Grandes Peurs. Vol. III: L'Autre. Ed. by MADELEINE BERTAUD. (Travaux de Litterature, 17) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 555 PP. 92-73 [euro]. ISBN 2-9518403-2-2. At times in this fat volume on the topography and topoi of fear, it seems as if this...

Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton. By EMILY R. WILSON. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 289 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-7964-7. Mocked with Death discusses tragedy in an unusual way, with two...

L'Orient des femmes.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... L'Orient des femmes Ed. by MARIE-ELISE PALMIER-CHATELAIN and PAULINE LAVAGNE-D'ORTIGUE. Paris: ENS Editions. 2002. 320 pp. 29 [euro]. ISBN 2-90212693-x. The publication of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 triggered what is now over a...

Crime Fiction 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Crime Fiction 1800-2000: Detection, Death, Diversity. By STEPHEN KNIGHT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. xv+272 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79179-7 Students and scholars of modern crime fiction seeking a...

Fiction, Intuition, and Creativity: Studies in Bronte, James, Woolf, and Lessing.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Fiction, Intuition, and Creativity: Studies in Bronte, James, Woolf, and Lessing. By ANGELA HAGUE. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. 2003. ix+329 pp. $59-95. ISBN 0-8132-1314-2. Angela Hague's book is built upon a belief...

The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature. By MARY ESTEVE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. 45 [pounds sterling];$55. ISBN 0-521-81488-x. 'The crowd--no subject was more entitled to the attention of...

English in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... English in the Middle Ages. By TIM WILLIAM MACHAN. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. x+205 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926268-3. Using the present to explain the past (William Labov's formulation) has become...

Caxton's 'Morte Darthur': The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text.(Malory's 'Morte Darthur': Remaking Arthurian Tradition)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Caxton's 'Morte Darthur': The Printing Process and the Authenticity of the Text By TAKAKO KATO. (Medium Aevum Monographs, 22) Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. 2002. ix+102 pp. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History.(Merlin: A Casebook)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Writing the Future: Lazamon's Prophetic History. By KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2002. x + 182 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1714-6. Merlin: A Casebook. Ed. by PETER H. GOODRICH and RAYMOND H....

Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan.(Figuring Sex between Men from Shakespeare to Rochester)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud, and Lacan. By RICHARD HALPERN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 126 pp. $29-95; 21 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3661-0. Figuring Sex between...

Shakespeare by Stages: An Historical Introduction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Shakespeare by Stages: An Historical Introduction. By ARTHUR F. KINNEY. Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. xii+180 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-631-22468-8 (pbk 0-631-22469-6). In the preface to Kinney's excellent...

Shakespeare and Violence.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Shakespeare and Violence. By R A. FOAKES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiii+224 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]; $66 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $23). ISBN 0-521-82043-x (pbk 0-521-52743-0) What some...

Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis': New Interdisciplinary Essays.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Francis Bacon's 'New Atlantis': New Interdisciplinary Essays. Rd. by BRONWEN PRICE. (Texts in Culture) Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2003. xii + 209 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

At Vacant Hours: Poems by Thomas St Nicholas and his Family.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... At Vacant Hours: Poems by Thomas St Nicholas and his Family. Ed. by H. NEVILLE DAVIES. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press. 2002. xlviii + 492 pp. + CD of manuscript. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 1-902459-32-6. 'At Vacant Hours'...

Women and Literary History: 'For There She Was'.(Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690-1740)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Women and Literary History: 'For There She Was.' Ed. by KATHERINE BINHAMMER and JEANNE WOOD. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 247 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-824-8. Women,...

Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self.(Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Privacy: Concealing the Eighteenth-Century Self. By PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. vii+242 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]; $36. ISBN 0-226-76860-0. Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust....

Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish Poet)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Burns the Radical: Poetry and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland. By LIAM MCILVANNEY. East Linton: Tuckwell. 2002. x+262 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-86232-177-9. Heaven-Taught Fergusson': Robert Burns's Favourite Scottish...

Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic. By Julie Kipp. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiii+237 pp. 40[pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81455-3. This study...

The Companion to 'Little Dorrit'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Companion to 'Little Dorrit.' By TREY PHILPOTTS. (The Dickens Companions) Robertsbridge: Helm. 2003. xv+560 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $97. ISBN 1-873403-85-2. Although this addition to the line of Dickens Companions has much to...

Henry James and Queer Modernity.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Henry James and Queer Modernity. By ERIC HARALSON. (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiv+265 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81394-8. ...

Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England. By CHRISTOPHER LANE. New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press. 2004. xxviii+228 pp. $27.50; 18.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-231-13064-3. Challenging a misperception...

Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War. By SARAH COLE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. vii+297 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81923-7. On the dust jacket of Sarah Cole's book Jay...

The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe. Ed. by MARY ANN CAWS and NICOLA LUCKHURST. (Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British Authors in Europe) London and New York: Continuum. 2002. xxvii+450 pp. 125 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Ezra Pound and China.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ezra Pound and China. Ed. by ZHAOMING QIAN. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. ix + 297 pp. $57.50; 36 [pounds sterling] pbk $24.95; 15-50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-472-09829-2 (pbk 0-472-00682-6). China, here, is reaffirmed...

Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Border Crossings: Thomas King's Cultural Inversions. By ARNOLD E. DAVIDSON, PRISCILLA L. WALTON , and JENNIFER ANDREWS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. ix+223 pp. $35; 22-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. By BONNIE COSTELLO. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 2003. x+ 225 pp. 23.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-674-00894-4. In this remarkably lucid and...

Contemporary Fiction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Contemporary Fiction. By JAGO MORRISON. London and New York: Routledge. 2003. ix + 255 pp. 50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-415-19455-5 (pbk 0-415-19456-3). This is a layered and, at times, wide-ranging guide to...

Variation et francophonie: en hommage a Gertrud Aub-Buscher.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Variation et francophonie: en hommage a Gertrud Aub-Buscher. Ed. by AIDAN COVENEY, MARIE-ANNE HINTZE, and CAROL SANDERS. Paris: L'Harmattan. 2004. 371 pp. 30 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-6804-0. The aim of this volume is to provide a description of...

Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Codex and Context: Reading Old French Verse Narrative in Manuscript. By KEITH BUSBY. 2 vols. (Faux Titre, 221) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2002. xi+941 pp. 90 [euro] (vol. I); 85 [euro] (vol. II). ISBN 90-420-1379-6 (set). This study,...

Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Robert of Arbrissel: A Medieval Religious Life. Trans. by BRUCE L. VENARDE. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press. 2003. xxxiii+155 pp. $21.95. ISBN 0-8132-1354-1. Connoisseurs of hagiography are acquainted with a wide range...

The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's 'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The History of the Holy War: Ambroise's 'Estoire de la Guerre Sainte'. Vol. I: Text, ed. by MARIANNE AILES and MALCOLM BARBER; Vol. II: Translation, by MARIANNE AILES with notes by MARIANNE AILES and MALCOLM BARBER. Woodbridge: Boydell Press....

Le Sujet et la mort dans 'La Mort Artu'.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Le Sujet et la mort dans 'La Mort Artu'. By VIRGINIE GREENE. Saint-Genouph: Nizet. 2002. 418 pp. 38 [euro]. ISBN 2-7078-1274-9. La Mort le roi Artu is often the text that most moves students who are studying medieval literature for the...

Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Medieval Narratives of Accused Queens. By NANCY B. BLACK. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2003. xviii+262 pp. $59.95 ISBN 0-8130-2640-7 Nancy B. Black's study of the narratives of accused queens is very welcome. The previous...

The Complete Works of Voltaire Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Complete Works of Voltaire/OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. III:C: Herode et Mariamne. Ed. by MICHAEL FREYNE. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2004. xvii+351 pp. 90 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0833-7. ...

Figures du destin stendhalien.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Figures du destin stendhalien. By GEORGES KLIEBENSTEIN. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. 2004. 390 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-87854-290-8. Drawing on the theories of Roland Barthes, Georges Kliebenstein undertakes a detailed, well-researched,...

L'Esthetique de la derision dans les romans de la periode realiste en France (1850-1870): genese, epanouissement et sens du grotesque.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... L'Esthetique de la derision dans les romans de la periode realiste en France (1850-1870): genese, epanouissement et sens du grotesque. By SANDRINE BERTHELOT. (Romantisme et Modernites, 83) Paris: Champion. 2004. 731 pp. 115 [euro]. ISBN...

En Marge.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... En Marge. By J.-K. HUYSMANS. Ed. by GILLES BONNET. (Textes litteraires francais, 572) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 324 pp. 30.75 [euro] ISBN 2-600-00983-3. This edition fills a gap, as the text is otherwise available only in the complete works of...

Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les ecrits surrealistes sur l'art.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Ceci n'est pas un tableau: les ecrits surrealistes sur l'art. By ELZA ADAMOWICZ. (Bibliotheque Melusine, 14) Lausanne: L'Age d'Homme. 2004. 259 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-8251-1875-3. In this dynamic reading of the response of Surrealist writers...

Encounters with Levinas.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Encounters with Levinas. Ed. by THOMAS TREZISE. (Yale French Studies, 104) London: Yale University Press. 2004. 146 pp. 15 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-10216-x. In the useful but tantalizingly short 'Editor's Preface' to this collection...

Andrei Makine: la rencontre de l'Est et de l'Ouest.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Andrei Makine: la rencontre de l'Est et de l'Ouest. Ed. by MARGARET PARRY, MARIE-LOUISE SCHEIDHAUER, and EDWARD WELCH. Paris, Budapest, and Turin: L'Harmattan. 2004. 166 pp. 14.80 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-6019-8. This publication consists of...

French Popular Culture: An Introduction.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... French Popular Culture: An Introduction. Ed. by HUGH DAUNCEY. London: Arnold. 2003. viii+220 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-80882-9. Designed primarily as an introductory textbook, this slim volume, comprising an introduction and...

Caribbean Connections.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Caribbean Connections. Ed. by LORNA MILNE. (Forum for Modern Language Studies, special issue, 40.4) Oxford: Oxford University Press. October 2004. 12 [pounds sterling]. ISSN 0015-8518. The connections alluded to in the title of this special...

Les Theatres francophones et creolophones de la Caraibe: Haiti, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Sainte-Lucie.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Les Theatres francophones et creolophones de la Caraibe: Haiti, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, Sainte-Lucie. Ed. by ALVINA RUPRECHT. (Collection Univers Theatral) Paris, Budapest, and Turin: L'Harmattan. 2003. 252 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN...

Encountering 'Terra Australis': The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Encountering 'Terra Australis': The Australian Voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders. By JEAN FORNASIERO, PETER MONTEATH, and JOHN WEST-SOOBY. Adelaide: Wakefield Press. 2004. xii+411 pp. 43.95 [pounds sterling]; AU$49-95. ISBN...

Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Comedy and Culture: Cecco Angiolieri's Poetry and Late Medieval Society. By FABIAN ALFIE. (Italian Perspectives, 8) Leeds: Northern Universities Press. 2002. vi+ 216 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-902653-43-2. If even a fraction of the...

The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante): Text, Context and Performance.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante): Text, Context and Performance. By RONNIE FERGUSON. Ravenna: Longo. 2000. 253 pp. 25.82 [euro]. ISBN 88-8063-259-0. More than any other anglophone critic, Ronnie Ferguson has helped correct Richard...

Percorsi dell'incredulita: religione, amore, natura nel primo Tasso.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Percorsi dell'incredulita: religione, amore, natura nel primo Tasso. By ANTONIO CORSARO. Rome: Salerno. 2003. 254 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 88-8402-422-6. A crucial and one of the most widely debated aspects of Torquato Tasso's thought is the...

Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films.(Speculative Identities: Contemporary Italian Women's Narrative)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Relational Spaces: Daughterhood, Motherhood, and Sisterhood in Dacia Maraini's Writings and Films. By VIRGINIA PICCHIETTI. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 182 pp. $38.50. ISBN...

Cervantes and the Comic Mind of his Age.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Cervantes and the Comic Mind of his Age. By ANTHONY CLOSE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. viii+375 pp. 57-50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-815998-6. Modern scholarship on Cervantes's works has explored his complex and sustained...

Mothers and Daughters in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mothers and Daughters in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Literature. By TERESA M. HURLEY. London: Tamesis. 2003. vii+212 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-85566-086-5. Teresa Hurley's study considers the novels of four important Mexican women...

A pie de obra: escritos sobre teatro.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... A pie de obra: escritos sobre teatro. By MARCOS ORDONEZ. Barcelona: Alba. 2003. 488 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 84-8428-165-5. The fact that a theatre critic has decided to compile a volume of his work that was originally published in the press and...

Deutsch als Fremdsprache im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Fremdsprachenlernens in Europa und zu den deutsch-russischen Beziehungen.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Deutsch als Fremdsprache im Russland des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein Beitragzur Geschichte des Fremdsprachenlernens in Europa und zu den deutsch-russischen Beziehungen. By KRISTINE KOCH. (Geschichte des Deutschen als Fremdsprache, 1) Berlin and New...

Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul: Female Discourse in National Socialism 1924-1934.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Mothers, Warriors, Guardians of the Soul: Female Discourse in National Socialism 1924-1934. By GERALDINE THERESA HORAN. (Studia Linguistica Germanica, 68) Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2003. 350 pp. 94 [euro] p. ISBN 3-11-017232-1. ...

Typus and Poetik: Studien zur Bedeutungsvermittlung in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Typus and Poetik: Studien zur Bedeutungsvermittlung in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters. By TIMOTHY R. JACKSON. (Beihefte zum Euphorion, 45) Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. xii+326 pp. 48 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1540-1. The essays contained...

Singende Rosen oder Liebes- and Tugend-Lieder (1654). Poetische Rosen-Gepusche (1657).(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Singende Rosen oder Liebes- and Tugend-Lieder (1654). Poetische Rosen-Gepusche (1657). By DAVID SCHIRMER. Ed. by ANTHONY J. HARPER. (Deutsche Neudrucke, Reihe Barock, 42) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2003. 2 vols: viii+674, 126* pp. 198 [euro]. ISBN...

J. M. R. Lenz: Sozioanalyse einer literarischen Laufbahn.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... J. M. R. Lenz: Sozioanalyse einer literarischen Laufbahn. By HERIBERT TOMMEK. Krottenmuhl: Synchron. 2003. viii+435 pp. 49-80. ISBN 3-935025-29-7 What distinguishes this from the many other studies of Lenz that have appeared in recent...

Das Tagebuch einer Ferienreise an den Bodensee von 1791.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Das Tagebuch einer Ferienreise an den Bodensee von 1791. By JOSEPH ANTON KOCH. Ed. by BARBARA HOFMANN. (Europaische Hochschulschriften, Reihe III, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften, 982) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York,...

Goethe and die Weltkultur.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Goethe and die Weltkultur. Ed. by KLAUS MANGER. (Ereignis Weimar-Jena: Kultur um 1800. Asthetische Forschungen, 1) Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. viii +498 pp. 58 [euro]. ISBN 3-8253-1499-5. Goethe and die Weltkultur, the result of an eponymous...

Imagination and Wirklichkeit: Goethes Kunstler-Bildungsroman 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'. Struktur, Symbolik, Poetologie.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Imagination and Wirklichkeit: Goethes Kunstler-Bildungsroman 'Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre'. Struktur, Symbolik, Poetologie By HELLMUT AMMERLAHN. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2003. 448 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-8260-2554-7. This large...

Theodor Storm: The Dano-German Poet and Writer.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Theodor Storm: The Dano-German Poet and Writer. By CLIFFORD ALBRECHT BERND. (North American Studies in 19th-Century German Literature, 33) Oxford, Bern, Brussels, Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Vienna: Peter Lang. 2003. 233 pp. 49.40 [euro]; 30...

The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900. By CARSTEN STRATHAUSEN. (Studies in the Germanic Languages and Literatures, 126) Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. 321 pp. $49-95. ISBN 0-8078-8126-0. In...

Poems.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Poems. By GEORG HEYM. Translated by ANTONY HASLER. London: Librus. 2004. xxiii + 216pp. 14.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-870352-97-1. In an English context Georg Heym is perhaps best known for his city poem 'The God of the City', and for his...

Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Beyond Nihilism: Gottfried Benn's Postmodernist Poetics. By SUSAN RAY. (Studies in Modern German Literature, 96) Oxford, Bern, Brussels, Frankfurt a.M., New York, and Vienna: Peter Lang. 2003. 205 pp. 42.80 [euro]; 26 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Faszination des Verfalls: Thomas Mann und Oswald Spengler.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Faszination des Verfalls: Thomas Mann und Oswald Spengler. By BARBARA BESSLICH. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 2002. 171 pp. 39.80 [euro]. ISBN 3-05-003773-3. 'Man spricht nicht so von Nietzsche!' Thus reads just one of the many marginalia that...

Thomas Mann und das Judentum: Die Vortrage des Berliner Kolloquiums der deutschen Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Thomas Mann and das Judentum: Die Vortrage des Berliner Kolloquiums der deutschen Thomas-Mann-Gesellschaft. Ed. by MANFRED DIERKS and RUPRECHT WIMMER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 30) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2004. 221 pp. 39. [euro] ISBN...

Orientierungsversuche im Zeitalter der Angst: Gertrud von le Forts Weg zur Mystik.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Orientierungsversuche im Zeitalter der Angst: Gertrud von le Forts Weg zur Mystik. By ROSWITHA GOSLICH. (Germanistische Texte and Studien, 71) Hildesheim: Olms. 2003. 246 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 3-487-11897-1. Unlike earlier studies of the...

The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Nazi Abduction of Ganymede: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Postwar German Literature. By GARY SCHMIDT. (Studies in Modern German Literature, 95) Oxford, Bern, and Berlin: Peter Lang. 2003. 307 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; 57-70...

An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... An Introduction to the Works of Peter Weiss. By OLAF BERWALD. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2003. vii + 170 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 1-57113-232-5. Olaf Berwald offers an...

Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte: Zur Poetik der Erinnerung in W. G. Sebalds Prosa.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Die Schmerzensspuren der Geschichte: Zur Poetik der Erinnerung in W. G. Sebalds Prosa. By ANNE FUCHS. Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Bohlau. 2004. 252 pp. 30.70 [euro]. ISBN 3-412-08104-3. The rapidly growing secondary literature on W G....

Literatur and nationale Einheit in Deutschland.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Literatur and rationale Einheit in Deutschland. By STEFAN NEUHAUS. Tubingen: Francke. 2002. 573 pp. 128 [euro]. ISBN 3-7720-3330-x. This study of literature and national unity in Germany is both a survey of a major theme in modern German...

Changing Notions of Money and Language in German Literature from 1509 to 1956.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Changing Notions of Money and Language in German Literature from 1509 to 1956. By REGINA ANGELA WENZEL. (Studies in German Language and Literature, 32; Bristol German Publications, 12) Lewiston, Queenston, and Lampeter: Mellen. 2003. x+262 pp....

Jenische, Sinti and Roma in der Schweiz.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Jenische, Sinti and Roma in der Schweiz. Ed. by HELENA KANYAR BECKER. (Basler Beitrage zur Geschichtswissenschaft, 176) Basel: Schwabe. 2003. 185 pp. SWF 48; 33.50 [euro]. ISBN 3-7965-1973-3. Helena Kanyar Becker's Jenische, Sinti und Roma...

The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature.(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... The Jewish Pope: Myth, Diaspora and Yiddish Literature. By JOSEPH SHERMAN. (Studies in Yiddish, 4) Oxford: Legenda. 2003. 201 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $55. ISBN 1900755-77-7. Joseph Sherman's book examines the treatment of the Jewish Pope...