The Modern Language Review articles from October 2007

The Modern Language Review archives from October 2007

Statues and normalization.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT After some remarks about the normalization of language through the preponderance of English, the paper considers the background to the normalization of measures in eighteenth-century France. It proposes that, long before the...

Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: tale-telling and the trial of personal experience and written authority.(Critical essay)(Character overview)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article examines the medieval influence of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales on John Fowles's postmodern novel, A Maggot. I argue that Fowles's fiction reimagines and ultimately transforms the Wife of Bath's debate about experience...

The travels of ideology: Niccolo Machiavelli at the court of James VI.
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This paper analyses William Fowler's translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's Principe, reconstructing the historical circumstances of the work, and its author's political and cultural activity at the court of James VI of Scotland. A...

Sappho, Mary Wakefield, and Vernon Lee's 'A Wicked Voice'.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Vernon Lee's Venetian ghost story 'A Wicked Voice' has received more critical attention than any other of her supernatural tales. The narrator Magnus experiences an ambivalent homoerotic attraction to the ghost of Zaffirino, a...

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and Girodet: illustrating the 'luxury' edition of Paul et Virginie.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT In 1806 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre published what is now called the 'luxury' edition of his novel Paul et Virginie. In 2005 Sotheby's in Paris auctioned a series of letters sent by Bernardin to the painter Girodet. These letters,...

Notions of evil in Baudelaire.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article seeks to resituate and revivify a debate of very long standing--the problem of evil--through a philosophical and literary reading of Baudelaire. Its objectives are twofold: first, to show that in the...

Camus's La Peste: sanitation, rats, and messy ethics.(Albert Camus)(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Critical readings of Albert Camus's La Peste (1947) tend to concede an element of ambiguity in the novel, but also to tie it to relatively clear and fixed moral positions. This is reflected in the novel itself by the narrator's...

The ethics of science: Leonardo Sciascia and the Majorana case.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The enquiry into the unexplained disappearance in 1938 of the Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana takes the form of an inchiesta, a quasi-historical genre devised by Leonardo Sciascia, whose nature is subjected to analysis....

Imperfect portraits of a postcolonial heroine: Laura Restrepo's La novia oscura.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article considers the conjunction between postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, and magical realism. The colonial legacy of Colombia provides for the opposition between timeless female values and the chronological urgency...

Beyond the shadows of solitude: self, desire, and (dis)embodiment in Ana Clavel's Los deseos y su sombra.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT Mexican writer Ana Clavel's Los deseos y su sombra (1999) is a socially engaged text which explores questions of gender within a broad context. Its endeavour to challenge monological versions of historical truth and to reconstruct...

Portraits of the artist: Gerhart Hauptmann's Kollege Crampton and Michael Kramer.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT The problematic of artistry is a central preoccupation in several of Gerhart Hauptmann's Naturalist plays. This article focuses on two Malerdramen which provide snapshots of artists at critical junctures in their lives: Kollege...

Rilke's 'left-handed lyre': (1) multilingualism and the poetics of possibility.(Rainer Maria Rilke)
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article traces the development of Rainer Maria Rilke's French verse in the context of his perceptions of language and translation and his emerging 'lyrische Zweisprachigkeit'. This is considered both in terms of his...

Remapping arcadia: 'pastoral space' in nineteenth-century Russian Prose.
October 1, 2007... ABSTRACT This article examines the hitherto neglected role of space in the pastoral, as distinct from place. The concept of 'pastoral space' (based on archaic world models) is developed and proposed as a template for various physical...

Translating Voices, Translating Regions.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Translating Voices, Translating Regions. Ed. by NIGEL ARMSTRONG and FEDERICO FEDERICI. Rome: Aracne. 2006. 421 pp. 19 [euro]. ISBN 978-88-548-0619-1. This useful and varied collection of articles takes as its focus one of the classic...

Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Menippean Satire Reconsidered: From Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. By HOWARD D. WEINBROT. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xviii + 375 pp. $60. ISBN 978-0-8018-8210-4. This is, in its primary focus, a study of the...

De amore libri tres/Von der Liebe Drei Bucher.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... De amore libri tres/Von der Liebe Drei Bucher. By ANDREAS CAPELLANUS. Ed. and trans. by FRITZ P. KNAPP. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2006. x + 669 pp. 178 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-11-017915-6. Andreas Capellanus's treatise De amore has long been a central...

The Idea of Latin America.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Idea of Latin America. By WALTER MIGNOLO. Oxford: Blackwell. 2005. 224 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4051-0086-1. Blackwell Publishing, in its Manifestos series, has provided leading scholars in the social sciences and...

Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery. By CAROLYN VELLENGA BERMAN. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2006. xi + 240 pp. $39.95; 21.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8014-4384-8. In many ways,...

Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Transformation und Kritik der neuen Heloise.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Die Wahlverwandtschaften: Transformation und Kritik der neuen Heloise. By ANNELIESE BOTOND. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2006. 97 pp. ISBN 978-3-8260-3186-1. This handsome, small book identifies many parallels between Goethe's...

John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... John Stuart Blackie: Scottish Scholar and Patriot. By STUART WALLACE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. 342 pp. 70 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7486-1185-0. John Stuart Blackie was, indeed, a scholar and a patriot. He was a man...

The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein. By MARY JACOBUS. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xii + 303 pp. 58 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-924636-6. This excellent study of British object-relations theory has definitive...

The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940).(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940). Ed. by SASCHA BRU and GUNTHER MARTENS. (Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 19) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 290 pp. 60 [euro]; $75. ISBN 978-90-420-1909-6. This...

Aesthetic Democracy.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Aesthetic Democracy. By THOMAS DOCHERTY. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2006. xix + 185 pp. $19.95. ISBN 978-0-8047-5189-6. Aesthetic Democracy is not for the faint-hearted or 'unfriendly' reader, but those who read this rich and...

The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. By JEROME McGANN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xii + 239 pp. $22; 14 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-50085-0. The Scholar's Art--Jerome McGann's seventeenth...

Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death. By R. CLIFTON SPARGO. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006. xvi + 311 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8018-8311-8. Trauma, memory, responsibility,...

Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. By PARK HONAN. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. xvi + 421 pp. 16.22 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-818695-3. The central tension of Christopher Marlowe's life is captured by Robert Lowell in a...

Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England. By MAURREN QUILLIGAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2005. viii + 281 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8122-1905-0. In Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England Maureen Quilligan...

Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Sonnets and the English Woman Writer, 1560-1621: The Politics of Absence. By ROSALIND SMITH. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2005. xii + 169 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-4039-9122-5. Rosalind Smith has produced a...

John Milton: 'Paradise Lost'.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... John Milton: 'Paradise Lost'. Ed. by DAVID SCOTT KASTAN. Indianapolis: Hackett. 2005. lxxix + 427 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 987-0-87220-733-1. William Shakespeare: 'The Merchant of Venice'. By WARREN CHERNAIK. Horndon: Northcote...

Loving Dr Johnson.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Loving Dr Johnson. By HELEN DEUTSCH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. xiii + 304 pp. $35; 22.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-14382-8. Samuel Johnson, wrote Frances Burney, 'has naturally a noble figure; tall, stout, grand...

The Life of Daniel Defoe.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Life of Daniel Defoe. By JOHN RICHETTI. Malden: Blackwell. 2005. xi + 486 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-631-19529-0. Writing a biography of Daniel Defoe is a doomed quest: yet John Richetti takes up the challenge and comes out...

'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... 'Pamela' in the Marketplace: Literary Controversy and Print Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. By THOMAS KEYMER and PETER SABOR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. x + 295 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840. By THOMAS PFAU. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005. xii + 572 pp. $65. ISBN 978-0-8018-8197-8. This is a long and densely argued book that makes unusually heavy...

Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style. By CONSTANCE W. HASSETT. (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 2005. xiii + 278 pp. 26.49 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8139-2339-0. ...

Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Lewis Carroll and the Victorian Stage: Theatricals in a Quiet Life. By RICHARD FOULKES. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. xi + 224 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-0466-2. In his new study of Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll, Richard Foulkes...

Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation. By PATRICK O'NEILL. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2005. x + 301 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8020-3897-5. Translations are extensions of original texts that offer new perspectives...

Bernard Shaw: A Life.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Bernard Shaw: A Life. By A. M. GIBBS. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. xiii + 554 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-0-8130-2859-0. Did any writer live longer, know more people, write more, and find himself the subject of more studies than...

Coming out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Coming out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars. By JANIS P. STOUT. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. xxii + 270 pp. $47.50. ISBN 978-0-8173-1472-9. Janis P. Stout shows herself to be a good close reader...

Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel. By JOHN J. SU. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2005. vii + 226 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-521-85440-5. On revisiting St Lucia, the poet narrator in Derek Walcott's Omeros...

A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. By SUSAN M. SCHULTZ. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2005. viii + 247 pp. 28.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8173-5198-4. It is no easy task to survey contemporary...

Du roman courtois au roman baroque: actes du colloque des 2-5 juillet 2002.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Du roman courtois au roman baroque: actes du colloque des 2-5 juillet 2002. Ed. by EMMANUEL BURY and FRANCINE MORA. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 2004. 510 pp. 40 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-251-44259-4. In a welcome attempt to remedy the traditional...

Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France: Mastering Memory. By FAITH E. BEASLEY. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. 358 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5354-7. This...

Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Correspondance de Madame de Graffigny. Ed. by J.A. DAINARD. Vol.x: 26 avril 1749-2 juillet 1750, lettres 1391-1569. Ed. by MARIE-THERESE INGUENAUD, DOROTHY P. ARTHUR, M.-P. DUCRETET-POWELL, E. SHOWALTER, and D.W. SMITH. Oxford: Voltaire...

Confiscations at Customs: Banned Books and the French Booktrade during the Last Years of the Ancien regime.
October 1, 2007... Confiscations at Customs: Banned Books and the French Booktrade during the Last Years of the Ancien regime. By ROBERT L. DAWSON. (SVEC 2006:07) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2006. xv + 315 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-72940-881-3. ...

Le Musee imaginaire de George Sand: l'ouverture et la mediation.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Le Musee imaginaire de George Sand: l'ouverture et la mediation. By GERARD PEYLET. Saint-Genouf: Nizet. 2005. 263 pp. 23.50 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7078-1277-3. In this wide-ranging reading of Sand's work, Gerard Peylet delves into the Sandian...

Tristan Corbiere and the Poetics of Irony.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Tristan Corbiere and the Poetics of Irony. By KATHERINE LUNN-ROCKLIFFE. (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. viii + 256 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-19-929588-3. In this...

Translating Rimbaud's 'Illuminations'.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Translating Rimbaud's 'Illuminations'. By CLIVE SCOTT. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 2006. 328 pp. 15.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85989-769-3. In this highly stimulating and challenging work, Clive Scott proposes a range of new...

Andre Gide-Eugene Rouart: correspondance.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Andre Gide-Eugene Rouart: correspondance. Vol. i: 1893-1901; vol. ii: 1902-1936. Ed. by DAVID H. WALKER. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon. 2006. Vol I: 631 pp.; vol. ii: 616 pp. 32 [euro] (each). ISBN 978-2-7297-0795-8 (vol. I);...

Proust et ses contemporains.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Proust et ses contemporains. By MARGARET MEIN. Witney: Glove House Publishing. 2006. 251 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-9552964-0-6. Margaret Mein is a well-known Proustian. Her Proust's Challenge to Time (Manchester: Manchester...

Celine et ses compagnonnages litteraires: Rimbaud, Moliere.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Celine et ses compagnonnages litteraires: Rimbaud, Moliere. By SUZANNE LAFONT. (Situation, 60) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2005. 262 pp. 22 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-256-91096-8. In this dense but innovative study, Suzanne Lafont...

Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Love, Desire and Transcendence in French Literature: Deciphering Eros. By PAUL GIFFORD. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2005. 345 pp. 55 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5269-4. The power of erotico-romantic love has fascinated and confounded...

Philippe Jaccottet: l'evidence du simple et l'eclat de l'obscur.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Philippe Jaccottet: l'evidence du simple et l'eclat de l'obscur. By JEAN-CLAUDE MATHIEU. Paris: Jose Corti. 2003. 547 pp. 23 [euro]. ISBN 978-2-7143-0826-9. This detailed study, encompassing Jaccottet's publications until 2002, presents a...

Patrick Chamoiseau: espaces d'une ecriture antillaise.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Patrick Chamoiseau: espaces d'une ecriture antillaise. By LORNA MILNE. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 226 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-2021-4. This monograph, the first major study dedicated entirely to Chamoiseau, is a welcome...

The Art of Commedia: A Study in the 'Commedia dell'arte', 1560-1620, with Special Reference to the Visual Records.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Art of Commedia: A Study in the 'Commedia dell'arte', 1560-1620, with Special Reference to the Visual Records. By M. A. KATRITZKY. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 625 pp., incl. 340 plates. 180 [euro]. ISBN 978-90-420-1798-6. ...

Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: A Case of Possible Difference.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: A Case of Possible Difference. By DEREK DUNCAN. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2006. vi + 178 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-7546-5391-2. This volume, the first single-authored study of its kind in...

El hijo del aguila.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... El hijo del aguila. By LUIS VELEZ DE GUEVARA. Ed. by WILLIAM R. MANSON and C. GEORGE PEALE. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2004. 181 pp. $17.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-043-7. Las palabras a los reyes y gloria de los Pizarros. By LUIS VELEZ DE...

Joaquin Dicenta: Spain's Forgotten Dramatist.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Joaquin Dicenta: Spain's Forgotten Dramatist. By LETICIA MCGRATH. Newark: Juan de la Cuesta. 2004. 241 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978-1-58871-062-8. In her very thorough study Leticia McGrath sets out to demonstrate the 'great talent' and...

The Ideal Image: Studies in Writing for the German Court, 1616-1705.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... The Ideal Image: Studies in Writing for the German Court, 1616-1705. By SARA SMART. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 160) Berlin: Weidler. 2005. 370 pp. 52 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-89693-441-3. The emperors, monarchs,...

Deutsche Liebeslyrik im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: 18. Mediavistisches Kolloquium des Zentrums fur Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg am 28. und 29.(Apologien der Lust: Zum Diskurs der Sinnlichkeit in der Lyrik Hoffmannswaldaus und seiner Zeitgenossen mit Blick auf die antike Tradition)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Deutsche Liebeslyrik im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert: 18. Mediavistisches Kolloquium des Zentrums fur Mittelalterstudien der Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg am 28. und 29. November 2003. Ed. by GERT HUBNER. (Chloe, 37) Amsterdam and New York:...

Die Entdeckung Shakespeares auf der deutschen Buhne des 18. Jahrhunderts: Adaption und Wirkungder Vermittlung auf dem Theater.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Die Entdeckung Shakespeares auf der deutschen Buhne des 18. Jahrhunderts: Adaption und Wirkungder Vermittlung auf dem Theater. By RENATA HAUBLEIN. (Theatron, 46) Tubingen: Niemeyer. 2005. vi + 335 pp. 76 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-484-66046-5. ...

A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Ed. by BARBARA FISCHER and THOMAS C. FOX. (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) Rochester, NY: Camden House. 2005. 378 pp. $99; 70 [pounds sterling]. ISBN...

Schiller: National Poet--Poet of Nations: A Birmingham Symposium.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Schiller: National Poet--Poet of Nations. A Birmingham Symposium. Ed. By NICHOLAS MARTIN. (Amsterdamer Beitrage zur Neueren Germanistik, 61) Amsterdam: Rodopi. 2006. 341 pp. 69 [euro]; $90. ISBN 978-90-420-2003-0. The proceedings of the...

Heine und die Nachwelt: Geschichte seiner Wirkung in den deutschsprachigen Landern. Texte und Kontexte, Analysen und Kommentare vol. I: 1856-1906.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Heine und die Nachwelt: Geschichte seiner Wirkung in den deutschsprachigen Landern. Texte und Kontexte, Analysen und Kommentare, vol. I: 1856-1906. Ed. by DIETMAR GOLTSCHNIGG and HARTMUT STEINECKE. Berlin: Schmidt. 2006. 710 pp. 79 [euro]. ISBN...

Musealer Historismus: Die Gegenwart des Vergangenen bei Stifter, Keller und Raabe.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Musealer Historismus: Die Gegenwart des Vergangenen bei Stifter, Keller und Raabe. By KATHARINA GRATZ. (Beitrage zur neueren Literaturgeschichte, 225) Heidelberg: Winter. 2006. 304 pp. 44 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8253-5105-2. A notorious feature...

Letzte Chancen: Vier Einakter von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.(Macht des Weibes: Zwei historische Tragodien von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Letzte Chancen: Vier Einakter von Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. Ed. by SUSANNE KORD. (MHRA Critical Texts, 3) London: Modern Humanities Research Association. 2005. 136 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.99. ISBN 978-0-947623-65-4. Macht des...

Briefe an Jonas Lesser und Siegfried Trebitsch, 1939-1954.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Briefe an Jonas Lesser und Siegfried Trebitsch, 1939-1954. By THOMAS MANN. Ed. by FRANZ ZEDER. (Thomas-Mann-Studien, 36) Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann. 2006. 234 pp. 59 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-465-03500-8. 'Thomas Mann's letters to whom?' might...

Ein Hungerkunstler: Vier Geschichten.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Ein Hungerkunstler: Vier Geschichten. By FRANZ KAFKA. Ed. by EWALD ROSCH. (Goldmann Klassiker mit Erlauterungen) Munich: Goldmann. 2005. 255 pp. 6.95 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-442-07701-4. Replicating the format established in his earlier edition...

Antike Mythen: Kafka und Brecht.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Antike Mythen: Kafka und Brecht. By FRANK D. WAGNER. (Der neue Brecht, 1) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2006. 163 pp. 28 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-8260-3391-9. Prometheus and Odysseus are the two Greek mythological characters whose presence...

Menschendammerung: Karl Marx, Ernst Junger und der Untergang des Selbst.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Menschendammerung: Karl Marx, Ernst Junger und der Untergang des Selbst. By JOHAN TRALAU. Trans. by KLAUS-JURGEN LIEDTKE. Freiburg and Munich: Alber. 2005. 205 pp. 24 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-495-48139-4. 'Wann hat dieser Scheisskrieg ein Ende?'...

Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture, and Identity in Joseph Roth's Writing in the 1920s.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture, and Identity in Joseph Roth's Writing in the 1920s. By JON HUGHES. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 67; Bithell Series of Dissertations, 30) Leeds: Maney. 2006. viii+195 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $82....

Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. By S. S. PRAWER. (German Cinema in an International Context) New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2005. xii + 228 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-1-84545-074-8. ...

Benjamin-Handbuch: Leben--Werk--Wirkung.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Benjamin-Handbuch: Leben--Werk--Wirkung. Ed. by BURKHARD LINDNER. Stuttgart: Metzler. 2006. xiii+720 pp. 64.95 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-476-01985-1. Archiv--Zitat--Nachleben: Die Medien bei Walter Benjamin und das Medium Benjamin. Ed. by AMALIA...

German Orientalisms.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... German Orientalisms. By TODD KONTJE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. x+316 pp. $35. ISBN 978-0-472-11392-7. This is a very good, ambitious, timely, concise, yet wide-ranging study. It has two chief cognitive interests. The...

Waiting for Pushkin: Russian Fiction in the Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825).(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Waiting for Pushkin: Russian Fiction in the Reign of Alexander I (1801-1825). By ALESSANDRA TOSI. (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, 44) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. 2006. 429 pp. 85 [euro]; $106. ISBN 978-90-420-1829-7. Seeking...

Maxim Gorky: Russian Dramatist.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Maxim Gorky: Russian Dramatist. By CYNTHIA MARSH. Bern: Peter Lang. 2006. 382 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-3-03-910305-8. Cynthia Marsh follows up her slim volume File on Gorky (London: Methuen, 1993) with a more expansive work about...