Journal of European Studies back issues from March 2000:
Aspects and uses of ekphrasis in relation to photography, 1816-186O [*].(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2000; ... EMMANUEL HERMANGE [+] 'La description d'une photographie est [grave{a}] lettre impossible ( ...) D[acute{e}]crire un dessin est plus facile.' Roland Barthes, 'Le message photographique' (1961) Alongside photography, I intend to discuss language more than literature ....
Poetry, the picturesque and the photogenic quality in the nineteenth century [*].(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PHILIPPE ORTEL [+] Studies on the relationship between literature and photography often feature the notion of the paradigm. Although photography may be seen as a foil by many writers, it is certainly present in their imaginations, taking many and varied forms. This apparent ...
Frederick Evans: photography as mediation.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2000; ... CLIVE SCOTT [*] I would like to begin with two definitions of photography. The first belongs to Georges Potonni[acute{e}]e, to his Histoire de la d[acute{e}]couverte de la photographie (1925): Photography is the art of making permanent the images perceived in the ...
Ritual and deception: photography and Thomas Hardy.(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2000; ... MARK DURDEN [*] On 3 June 1882 in the autobiographic notes in The Life of Thomas Hardy the writer has this to say about the art of fiction writing: As in looking at a carpet, by following one colour a certain pattern is suggested, by following another colour, another; ...
The photograph in Georges Rodenbach's Bruges-la-Morte (1892) [1].(Critical Essay)
Mar 01, 2000; ... PAUL EDWARDS [*] Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898, a Belgian author who lived in Paris and wrote in French), published his novel Bruges-la-Morte in 1892, with 35 half-tone reproductions of original photographs supplied by the Parisian 'image banks' J. L[acute{e}]vy and Co. and ...
Photographic portraiture and the forgetting of colour.
Mar 01, 2000; ... LINDSAY SMITH[*] The annual autumn display of the National Portrait Gallery of London's John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, named after the journalist and film historian who had a passion for movie-star gazing, reminds us of the Gallery's age-old dictum: 'we know ourselves ...
Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Singlewomen in the European Past 1250-1800. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pp. viii + 352. [pounds]19.50. Given the ubiquity of the unmarried throughout European history, it is extraordinary that this is the ...
The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries. By Peter Burke. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. The Making of Europe. Pp. xii + 284. [pounds]19.95. This new series, underwritten by five European publishers (Beck in Germany, Critica in Spain, Laterza in Italy, and Le Seuil in France, ...
The Enlightenment.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Enlightenment. Edited by David Williams. (Cambridge Readings in the History of Political Thought). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 529. [pounds]15.95. This book is described as 'the most convenient and accessible single introduction to Enlightenment ...
Complots et conjurations dans l'Europe moderne.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Complots et conjurations dans l'Europe moderne. Ed. by Yves-Marie Berc[acute{e}] et Elena Fasano Guarini. Rome: [acute{E}]cole francaise de Rome, 1996. In these multifarious proceedings from an international colloquium held in Rome in 1993, Henry Kamen suggests that plots and ...
Auschwitz im Widerstreit: Zur Darstellung der Shoah in Film, Philosophie und Literatur.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Auschwitz im Widerstreit: Zur Darstellung der Shoah in Film, Philosophie und Literatur. By Sven Kramer. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universit[ddot{a}]ts-Verlag, 1999. Pp. 141. DM38,-. In The Drowned and the Saved (1986), Primo Levi defined with moving precision the dilemma faced by ...
Darwinismus und Literatur. Naturwissenschaftliche und literarische Intelligenz in Osterreich, 1859-1914.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Darwinismus und Literatur. Naturwissenschaftliche und literarische Intelligenz in [ddot{O}]sterreich, 1859-1914. By Werner Michler. Literaturgeschichte in Studien und Quellen, Band 2. Vienna, Cologne, Weimar: B[ddot{o}]hlau, 1999. Pp. 560. [ddot{O}]s 698.-/DM 99. In order to ...
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction. By Nicholas White. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 214. [pounds]40.00. This is a challenging, wide-ranging and thought-provoking book. It is one of that increasingly rare breed that succeeds ...
Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Small Worlds: Minimalism in Contemporary French Literature. By Warren Motte. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. iv + 213. The majority of studies so far on Minimalism have appeared in the form of articles. This book, consisting in part, as the author ...
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition. By Judith Ryan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi + 256. [pounds]40.00. The basic premise of Judith Ryan's book is that '[i]f the rise of modernism is the story of a struggle between the burden of tradition and a desire to ...
Pfemfert: Erinnerungen und Abrechnungen: Texte und Briefe.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Pfemfert: Erinnerungen und Abrechnungen: Texte und Briefe. Edited by Lisbeth Exner and Herbert Kapfer. Munich: belleville Verlag Michael Farin, 1999. Pp. 676. DM98,-. Surprisingly little is known about Franz Pfemfert, who edited Die Aktion, one of the two leading Expressionist ...
The Magic Bishop. Hugo Ball, Dada Poet.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... The Magic Bishop. Hugo Ball, Dada Poet. By Erdmute Wenzel White. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1998. Pp. 254. [pounds]35.00. As Erdmute Wenzel White acknowledges in her introduction, making a case for Hugo Ball as a major poet presents quite a challenge. His works undoubtedly had ...
Ambivalence Transcended: A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-Hulshoff.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Ambivalence Transcended: A Study of the Writings of Annette von Droste-H[ddot{u}]lshoff. By Gertrud Bauer Pickar. Columbia SC: Camden House, 1997. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture. Pp. 381 + xiii. [pounds]50.00. This study is devoted to the work of Annette ...
Thomas Mann's Joseph And His Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Thomas Mann's Joseph And His Brothers: Writing, Performance, and the Politics of Loyalty. By William E. McDonald (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture.) Rochester, NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (Camden House), 1999. Pp. xiv + 276. If one is ...
Poland's Last King and English Culture. Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Poland's Last King and English Culture. Stanislaw August Poniatowski, 1732-1798. By Richard Butterwick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. Pp. 376. In the 'Introduction' to his book Richard Butterwick describes the reburial of the remains of Poland's last King, Stanislaw August ...
Lucid Dreams: The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Lucid Dreams: The Films of Krzysztof Kie[acute{s]lowski. Edited by Paul Coates. (Cinema Voices Series). Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Flicks Books, 1999. Pp vi + 234. [pounds]14.95. In the interview which closes Lucid Dreams, Kie[acute{s]lowski tells Paul Coates that he thinks of the ...
Russia. A History.(Review)
Mar 01, 2000; ... Russia. A History. Edited by Gregory L. Freeze. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii + 478. [pounds]25.00. This beautifully produced book is not so much A History as histories, an introduction to the Russian millennium written by some of the best names in ...