The Modern Language Review articles from October 2006

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2006

Reading like a clerk in the Clerk's Tale.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Chaucer's Clerk's Tale has always provided difficulties of interpretation to readers. The tale itself operates a problematic division between its literal and allegorical meanings, and the framing device of the Canterbury Tales multiplies the...

Ovid and the 'free play with signs' in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Thomas Nashe (1567-1600) is famous for his bizarre prose style-full of neologisms and disjointed periods, and run together with all manner of 'high' and 'low' language-racy, eloquent, slangy, and wildly ironical. Much of this stylistic...

'It's the old story': David and Uriah in II Samuel and David Copperfield.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Reading the David-Uriah plot in Dickens's David Copperfield against the original story in the Bible (II Samuel), this essay demonstrates that by deviating knowingly from the scriptural account, Dickens was able to circumvent Copperfield's...

Transforming the horizon: Reverdy's World War I.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... Reverdy's 1917 journal Nord-Sud signals his call for an art that follows its own aims, despite the continuing war. Given the influence of cubism and this poet's involvement with cubist painters such as Juan Gris, one could easily classify his...

A novel afterlife: play and performance in Jean Echenoz's Au piano.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... In Au piano (2003) Jean Echenoz considers the conventions of novelistic narration and the ways in which literary meaning may be constructed. In particular, he focuses upon the articulation of writer and reader, anticipating the latter's...

In search of an author: Pirandello and the poetics of biography.(Luigi Pirandello)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... This article examines the major biographies of the Italian modernist writer Luigi Pirandello and documents their striking practice of interpreting Pirandello's fictional texts through the prism of autobiography. It argues that the non-literary...

Baudelaire, degeneration theory, and literary criticism in fin de siecle Spain.(Charles Baudelaire)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... This article seeks, through an analysis of the response of 'psychologist critics' inspired by degeneration theory to the work of Charles Baudelaire in fin de siecle Spain, to determine the originality of the application of this theory to...

The journey into the text: reading Rulfo in Carlos Reygadas's 2002 feature film Japon.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... This article analyses the presence of Juan Rulfo's novel Pedro Paramo in Carlos Reygadas's film Japon. While Pedro Paramo becomes allegorical of the nature of reading, Japon employs equivalent narrative devices to lead the spectator into a...

Struggle and victory in Kafka's Das Schloss.(Franz Kafka)
October 1, 2006... This essay is an attempt to interpret the behaviour of K. in Kafka's novel Das Schloss. The focus is on three episodes that stand, respectively, at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the novel. In all of these episodes, the concepts of...

Joseph Roth and Benno Reifenberg: aspects of the author-editor relationship.
October 1, 2006... This article focuses on the significance of Joseph Roth's relationship, during the 1920s, with his editor at the Frankfurter Zeitung, Benno Reifenberg, in shaping his approach to his work. Using evidence from Roth's letters, journalism, and...

Life in the present: time and immortality in the works of Tolstoy.(Leo Tolstoy)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2006... This article examines the importance of time to Tolstoy's belief in immortality. After a brief overview of this belief, which is essentially to live in the present, be mindful of death, and be free from the tyranny of time, some examples of...

Sensus Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sensus Spiritualis: Studies in Medieval Significs and the Philology of Culture. By FRIEDRICH OHLY. Ed. and with an Epilogue by SAMUEL P. JAFFE. Trans. by KENNETH J. NORTHCOTT. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xviii + 403...

The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch to Milton. By J. CHRISTOPHER WARNER. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2005. xii + 270 pp. 43 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-472-11518-9. This book presents a history of the 'Augustinian epic', defined...

Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Imagining Contagion in Early Modern Europe. Ed. by CLAIRE L. CARLIN. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. xii + 289 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN I-4039-3926-8. This book is a collection of fifteen essays on the idea of contagion in...

Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Physiognomy in Profile: Lavater's Impact on European Culture. Ed. by MELISSA PERCIVAL and GRAEME TYTLER. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2005. 258 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-836-1. It could be argued that the recent...

How to Make it as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... How to Make it as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to the Present. By ALISON BOOTH. (Women in Culture and Society) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2004. 423 PP. 17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-06546-4....

The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer. By TIMOTHY CLARK. (The Frontier of Theory) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2005. xvi+ 186 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Handbook of Narrative Analysis.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Handbook of Narrative Analysis. By Luc HERMAN and BART VERVAECK. (Frontiers of Narrative) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2005. X+231 pp. 16.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8032-7349-5 This volume provides a detailed overview of the...

Perspectives on Travel Writing.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Perspectives on Travel Writing. Ed. by GLENN HOOPER and TIM YOUNGS. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 19) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2004. x+210 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0366-0. This new collection is issued...

The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Corvey Library and Anglo-German Cultural Exchanges, 1770-1837. Ed. by WERNER HUBER. Munich: Fink. 2004. xiv + 199 pp. 48.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-77053933-8 This volume, presenting papers delivered at the Third International Corvey Symposium...

Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Salvator Rosa in French Literature: From the Bizarre to the Sublime. By JAMES S. PATTY. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2005. x+269 pp. $55. ISBN 0-8131-2330-5 The subject of this erudite and meticulous study is the critical...

The Reception of Ossian in Europe.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Reception of Ossian in Europe. Ed. by HOWARD GASKILL. (Reception of British Authors in Europe, 5) London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum. 2004. lxviii+452pp. 125 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8264-6135-2. Few writers can have enjoyed such...

La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... La Femme chez Heinrich Heine et Charles Baudelaire: le langage moderne de l'amour. By SOPHIE BOYER. (Allemagne d'hier et d'aujourd'hui) Paris: L'Harmattan. 2004. xi+322pp. 29 [euro]. ISBN 2-7475-7822-4. Comparisons of Heine and Baudelaire...

A Companion to Middle English Prose.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A Companion to Middle English Prose. Ed. by A. S. G. EDWARDS. Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. x+334 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84384-018-9. Although not presented formally as such, this volume is clearly intended as a replacement for Middle...

Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the 'Canterbury Tales'. Ed. by WENDY HARDING. (Interlanges) Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail. 2003. 246 pp.; 2 plates. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-85816-705-2. That deliberately mixed bag of fourteenth-century...

Celtic Arthurian Material.(The Grail Legend in Modern Literature)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Celtic Arthurian Material. Ed. by CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN. (Arthurian Literature, 21) Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. viii+141 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 1-8438-4028-6. The Grail Legend in Modern Literature. By JOHN B. MARINO. (Arthurian...

Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England. By RICHARD J. MOLL. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2003. ix+368 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3722-4. Richard Moll's agenda is the interpenetration of romance and...

Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Sanctifying Signs: Making Christian Tradition in Late Medieval England. By DAVID AERS. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. 2004. xiii+281 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk, 19.50 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-268-02021-3 (pbk...

From Script to Stage in Early Modern England.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... From Script to Stage in Early Modern England. Ed. by PETER HOLLAND and STEPHEN ORGEL. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. xiii+ 251 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-3343-X. For all those weary of a theatre history that fails to...

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature. By ANNE COTTERILL. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004. x+341 pp. 60 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926117-2. Anne Cotterill of Rutgers University guides us through the long seventeenth...

Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy. Ed. by DIETER MEHL, ANGELA STOCK, and ANNE-JULIA ZWIERLEIN. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. ix+236 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-4097-3. Essentially a Festschrift for Brian...

Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Reading the Early Modern Passions: Essays in the Cultural History of Emotion. Ed. by GAIL KERN PASTER, KATHERINE ROWE, and MARY FLOYD-WILSON. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. vi + 384 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8122-1872-8. ...

Deliver Us from Evil: Essays on Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Deliver Us from Evil: Essays on Symbolic Engagement in Early Drama. By CLIFFORD DAVIDSON. New York: AMS. 2004. xiii + 204 pp. $72.50. ISBN 0-404-64167-9. Evil is back on the agenda, somewhere between the tabloids and tablets of stone. This...

Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage. By GAIL KERN PASTER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. xv + 274 pp. $35. ISBN 0-226-64847-8. This book, the latest addition to Gail Kern Paster's work on the...

Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Royalist Women Writers 1650-1689. By HERO CHALMERS. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2004. xii + 228 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-927327-8. In Hero Chalmers's scrupulous study every term in the title bears...

The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century.(Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814)(Writing British Infanticide: Child-Murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race, and Gender in the Long Eighteenth Century. By FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii + 336 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]; $75 (pbk 19.95 [pounds sterling]; $27)....

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Ed. by PATRICK CHENEY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xx + 312 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-52734-1. Companions are a difficult genre. Should they be fresh and...

The Literature of Satire.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Literature of Satire. By CHARLES A. KNIGHT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. ix + 327 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83460-0. According to Charles A. Knight, satire is pre-generic, not so much a genre as an exploiter...

Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society, 1879-1922.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922. By LISBET KICKHAM. (Lund Studies in English) Lund: Almqvist & Wiksell for Lund University, Dept of English. 2004. 252 pp. SEK 133. ISBN 91-974023-5-4. Lisbet Kickham's book offers a...

James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... James Joyce and the Problem of Psychoanalysis. By LUKE THURSTON. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. xii+232 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83590-9. The central purpose of Luke Thurston's study is to place emphasis on the...

Twentieth-Century Autobiography.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Twentieth-Century Autobiography. By BARBARA PRYS-WILLIAMS. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2004. xii+188 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1891-6. In this volume in the Writing Wales in English series, Barbara Prys-Williams...

Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy. By MARJORIE PERLOFF. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2004. xxxv+307 pp. 29.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8173-5128-0. Differentials brings together some dozen or so of Marjorie Perloff's...

Beyond the Gray Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Beyond the Grey Flannel Suit: Books from the 1950s that Made American Culture. By DAVID CASTRONOVO. New York: Continuum. 2004. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN 0-8264-1626-8. In 1952, when the editors of Partisan Review staged a print symposium, 'Our...

Access French 2: An Intermediate Language Course.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Access French 2: An Intermediate Language Course. By BERNARD GROSZ. London: Hodder Headline. 2005. viii+247 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-340-88485-1. Access French: A First Language Course (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)...

A Companion to Chretien de Troyes.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... A Companion to 'Chretien de Troyes'. Ed. by NORRIS J. LACY and JOAN TASKER GRIMBERT. (Arthurian Studies, 63) Cambridge: Brewer. 2005. xiv+242 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-84384-050-2. This work, edited by well-known figures in the field...

Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours. A Bilingual Edition.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Lark in the Morning: The Verses of the Troubadours. A Bilingual Edition. Ed. by ROBERT KEHEW. Trans. by EZRA POUND, W. D. SNODGRASS, and ROBERT KEHEW. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. 280 pp.; 4 halftones. 35 [pounds sterling] (pbk...

Les Paraboles maistre Alain en francoys.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les Paraboles maistre Alain en francoys. Ed. by TONY HUNT. (MHRA Critical Texts, 2) London: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2005. viii + 178 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-947623-64-7. The work presented here is the third...

Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procedent d'amour.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les Angoisses douloureuses qui procedent d'amour. By HELISENNE DE CRENNE Ed. by JEAN-PHILIPPE BEAULIEU. (La Cite des Dames) Saint-Etienne: Publications de l'Universite de Saint-Etienne. 2005. 381 pp. 10 [euro]. ISBN 2-86272-368-1. The...

Dialogues sacres/Dialogi sacri (premier livre).(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Dialogues sacres/Dialogi sacri (premier livre). By SEBASTIEN CASTELLION. Ed. by DAVID AMHERDT and YVES GIRAUD. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 571) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 264 pp. SwF 42. ISBN 2-600-00930-2. Castellion (1515-63, also Castalio and...

Le Sang embaume des roses: sang et passion dans la poesie amoureuse de Pierre de Ronsard.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Le Sang embaume des roses: sang et passion dans la poesie amoureuse de Pierre de Ronsard. By MARC CARNEL. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 395: Etudes Ronsardiennes, 10) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 509 pp. SwF 148. ISBN 2-600-00965-5. In this...

'Les Quatrains', 'Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique' et autres poesies.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... 'Les Quatrains', 'Les Plaisirs de la vie rustique' et autres poesies. By GUY DU FAUR DE PIBRAC. Ed. by LORIS PETRIS. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 566) Geneva: Droz. 2004. 344 pp. SwF 43. ISBN 2-600-00931-0. Pibrac (1529-84) was of the...

La Justice de Dieu: Les Tragiques d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et la Reforme protestante en France au XVIe siecle.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... La Justice de Dieu: 'Les Tragiques' d'Agrippa d'Aubigne et la Reforme protestante en France an XVIe siecle. By ELLIOTT FORSYTH. (Etudes et Essais sur la Renaissance, 57) Paris: Champion. 2005. 567 pp. 105 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1128-x. Having...

Marguerite de Valois: "La reine Margot."(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Marguerite de Valois 'la reine Margot'. By ELIANE VIENNOT. (Collection Tempus) Paris: Perrin. 2005. 660 pp. 11 [euro]. ISBN 2-262-02377-8. Marguerite de Valois (1553-1615) was a diplomat, a patron of the arts and a muse, an author and a...

Archives nationales: documents du Minutier central des notaires de Paris. Ecrivains de theatre 1600-1649.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Archives nationales: documents du Minutier central des notaires de Paris. Ecrivains de theatre 1600-1649. Documents reunis et presentes par ALAN HOWE a partir des analyses de MADELEINE JURGENS. Avant-propos de GERARD ERMISSE. Preface de JEAN...

La Jouissance et le trouble: recherches sur la litterature chretienne de l'age classique.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... La Jouissance et le trouble: recherches sur la litterature chretienne de l'age classique. By JACQUES LE BRUN. Geneva: Droz. 2004. 632 pp. SwF 35. ISBN 2-600-00532-3. Throughout the seventeenth century, the French Church confronted a...

Moliere and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Moliere and Modernity: Absent Mothers and Masculine Births. By LARRY RIGGS. (EMF Critiques) Charlottesville: Rockwood Press. 2005. 234 pp. $45.95. ISBN 1-886365-55-5. In his revisionist study of Moliere, Larry Riggs develops an approach...

Questioning Racinian Tragedy.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Questioning Racinian Tragedy. By JOHN CAMPBELL. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 281) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. 275 pp. $34.95. ISBN 0-8078-9285-8. The 'deliberately pragmatic...

Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, vol. IV: Janvier 1684-juillet 1684. Lettres 242-308.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Correspondance de Pierre Bayle, vol. IV: Janvier 1684-juillet 1684. Lettres 242-308. Ed. by ANTONY MCKENNA, LAURENCE BERGON, HUBERT BOST, WIEP VAN BUNGE, EDWARD JAMES, ELISABETH LABROUSSE, ANNIE LEROUX, and CAROLINE VERDIER. Oxford: Voltaire...

Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville.(The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. By FRANCOIS-TIMOLEON DE CHOISY, MARIE-JEANNE L'HERITIER, and CHARLES PERRAULT. Ed. by JOAN DEJEAN. (MLA Texts and Translations) New York: The Modern Language Association ofAmerica. 2004. xxviii+64...

The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. By DORIS GARRAWAY. (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press. 2005. xvi + 412 pp. 67 [pounds sterling] (pbk 19.95 [pounds sterling]). ISBN...

Les Baisers des Lumieres.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les Baisers des Lumieres. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. (Litteratures) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2004. 210 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 2-84516-249-9. The eighteenth century, argues Alain Montandon in the preface to this...

Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire: Voltaire editeur: oeuvres de 1769-1770, vol. 71A)(Les oeuvres completes de Voltaire: Voltaire editeur: oeuvres de 1769-1770, vol. 71B)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. LXXIA: Voltaire editeur: oeuvres de 1769-1770, pt I. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK, JANET GODDEN, and VIRGIL TOPAZIO. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2005. xiii + 335 pp. 95 [pounds...

Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire.(Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire: Writings of 1771, vol. 73)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. LXXIII: Writings of 1771. Ed. by SIMON DAVIES, DURAND ECHEVERRIA, ROBERT GRANDEROUTE, ANDREW KAHN, MICHEL MERVAUD, JOHN PAPPAS, and JOHN RENWICK. Oxford: Voltaire...

OEuvres poetiques.(OEuvres poetiques: 'Imitations et preludes', 'Art d'aimer', 'Elegies', vol. 1)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... OEuvres poetiques. By ANDRE CHENIER. Ed. by GEORGES BUISSON and EDOUARD GUITTON. Vol. I: 'Imitations et preludes', 'Art d'aimer', 'Elegies'. (Hologrammes, 1) Orleans: Paradigme. 2005. 543 pp. 39 [euro]. ISBN 2-86878-233-7. As Francis...

Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution. By SUSAN MASLAN. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xii+277 pp.; 15 plates. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-8125-0. This is an ambitious study which joins...

OEuvres romanesques completes.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... OEuvres romanesques completes. By STENDHAL. Vol. I, ed. by YVES ANSEL and PHILIPPE BERTHIER. (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade) Paris: Gallimard. 2005. lxxxvi + 1160 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 2-07-011714-6. It is now more than fifty years since Henri...

L'Harmonie selon Lamartine: utopie d'un lieu commun.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... L'Harmonie selon Lamartine: utopie d'un lieu commun. By AURELIE LOISELEUR. (Romantisme et Modernites, 92) Paris: Champion. 2005. 753 pp. 110 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1197-2. Aurelie Loiseleur explores what she claims is an outmoded aspect of...

Quinze etudes sur Nerval et le romantisme en hommage a Jacques Bony.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Quinze etudes sur Nerval et le romantisme en hommage a Jacques Bony. Ed. by HISASHI MIZUNO and JEROME THELOT. Paris: Kime. 2005. 288 pp. 26 [euro]. ISBN 2-84174-371-3. This Festschrift presents a collection of papers from a conference held...

Baudelaire's 'Le Spleen de Paris': Shifting Perspectives.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Baudelaire's 'Le Spleen de Paris': Shifting Perspectives. By MARIA C. SCOTT. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 29) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. 238 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-5111-8. The principal aim of this study of...

Jules Verne, la science et l'espace: travail de la reverie.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Jules Verne, la science et l'espace: travail de la reverie. By CHRISTIAN CHELEBOURG. (Archives des Lettres Modernes, 282) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 144 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-90476-8. In a modest study based on...

Ecrits.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Ecrits. By ODILON REDON. Ed. by CLAIRE MORAN. (MHRA Critical Texts, 1) London: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2005. ix +141 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-947623-63-9. The life and work of the artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916)...

Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Naturalism Redressed: Identity and Clothing in the Novels of Emile Zola. By HANNAH THOMPSON. (Legenda) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 2004. x+ 188 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-82-3. This book is valuable for its...

Paul Claudel 19: theatre et recit.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Paul Claudel 19: theatre et recit. Ed. by PASCALE ALEXANDRE-BERGUES. (Revue des Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 168 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91092-x. Les Mots de 'Tete d'Or' (2e version): dictionnaire de...

Les Figures du livre: essai sur la coincidence des arts dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu'.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Les Figures du livre: essai sur la coincidence des arts dans 'A la recherche du temps perdu'. By MOXICIL0 MILOVANOVIC. (Recherches Proustiennes, 5) Paris: Champion. 2005. 288 pp. 50 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-1130-1. 'L'art, inlassablement, a...

The Growth of 'A la recherche du temps perdu': A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, vol. I: 1909-1911; vol. II: 1911-1914.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Growth of 'A la recherche du temps perdu': A Chronological Examination of Proust's Manuscripts from 1909 to 1914, vol. I: 1909-1911; vol. II: 1911-1914. By ANTHONY R. PUGH. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2004....

Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt. By JILL FELL. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2005. 236 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-4007-9. Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is a notoriously difficult author to approach, and...

Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Forged Genealogies: Saint-John Perse's Conversations with Culture. By CAROL RIGOLOT. (North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 271) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. 264pp. $34-95. ISBN...

Etudes bernanosiennes, XXIII: Monsieur Ouine', pt III: L'Ecriture romanesque et l'univers du mal.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Etudes bernanosiennes, XXIII: Monsieur Ouine', pt III: L'Ecriture romanesque et l'univers du mal. Ed. by MICHEL ESTEVE. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 284 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91069-5. This is the third volume in the...

Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Antonin Artaud's Writing Bodies. By ADRIAN MORFEE. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2005. xi+233 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-927749-0. Adrian Morfee's book provides a brilliant and ground-breaking approach to reading Artaud. In...

Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Collaboration and Resistance in Occupied France: Representing Treason and Sacrifice. By CHRISTOPHER LLOYD. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xi+270 pp. $75. ISBN 001-4039-2031-1. There is a dual focus at the heart of...

Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal Sign.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Henri Michaux: Poetry, Painting, and the Universal Sign. By MARGARET RIGAUD-DRAYTON. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 2005. 183 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-927798-2. Henri Michaux's...

Vailland: 'Un jeune homme seul' and '325 000 francs'.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Vailland: 'Un jeune homme seul' and '325 000 francs'. By DAVID NOTT. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 138) London: Grant & Cutler. 2005. 94 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0448-5 Prefaced by a critical 'sprint' through the life...

The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Mandarins'.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Mandarins'. Ed. by SALLY J. SCHOLZ and SHANNON M. MUSSETT. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2005. 244 PP. $81.50 (pbk $25.95). ISBN 0-7914-6559-4 (pbk...

Julien Gracq 4: references et presences litteraires.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Julien Gracq 4: references et presences litteraires. Ed. by PATRICK MAROT. (Revue des Lettres Modernes) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2004. 280 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91073-3. One striking, and sometimes irritating, feature of...