The Modern Language Review back issues from January 2001:
Truth so difficult: George Eliot and Georg Buchner, a shared time.
Jan 01, 2001; ... In Chapter 17 of Adam Bede (1), George Eliot makes a strong appeal for what, in speaking of art, she generally refers to as 'truth': it is what we now usually think of as realism. She opposes this truth to 'idealism'. Her arguments form a three-page discourse, freely expressed in the first ...
The crux in A Cure for A Cuckold: A cryptic message, a doubtful intention, and two dearest friends.
Jan 01, 2001; ... There is a major difficulty in the text of A Cure for a Cuckold (1661), the partly 'pleasant comedy' that John Webster wrote in collaboration with William Rowley and (probably) Thomas Heywood in the mid-1620s. Lessingham loves Clare, who declares in a letter that in order to win her he must ...
'Autobiografiction': Problems with autobiographical fictions and fictional autobiographies. Mark Rutherford's Autobiography and Deliverance, and others.
Jan 01, 2001; ... In our lives we are always weaving novels. (1)Between 1881 and 1896 William Hale White in the name of Mark Rutherford published six interlinked fictions: (2) The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Minister, Mark Rutherford's Deliverance: Being The Second Part of his ...
Les Faux Miroirs: The good woman/bad woman dichotomy in Racine's tragedies.
Jan 01, 2001; ... To ascribe didactic intentions to a dramatist such as Racine is always dangerous: although he claims such a purpose in the Preface to Phedre, for example, his motivations are open to question: the Preface clearly states his desire to 'reconcilier la tragedie avec quantite de personnes ...
Imagination and ideology: Ethical tensions in twentieth-century French writing.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Four prophetic presences could be taken to represent stages in the development of the French ethical imagination in the course of the twentieth century. Valery's Hamlet, questioning the very ground on which European intellectual identity stands and the precariousness of its continuing ...
Vittoria Colonna and the Virgin Mary.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Some time in 1540 or 1541, a bound manuscript copy of a selection of Vittoria Colonna's published and unpublished sonnets was sent to Marguerite d'Angouleme, Queen of Navarre, who had been requesting a copy of the poet's work via the French ambassador to Rome, George d'Armagnac. Some doubt ...
Poetic discourse patterning in the Cantar de Mio CID.
Jan 01, 2001; ... The reception of the greatest epic of Spanish mediaeval poetry has been conditioned during the twentieth century by the work of Ramon Menendez Pidal. His monumental edition published between 1908 and 1911 under the title Cantar de Mio Cid included an exhaustive study of every aspect of the ...
The double coding of desire: language conflict, nation building, and identity crashing in Juan Marse's El Amante Bilingue.
Jan 01, 2001; ... The most explicit literary intervention in Catalonia's contemporary language conflict is Juan Marse's El amante bilingue, published in 1990. Although essentially a pastiche of political figures and institutions of the first post-Franco Catalan government, the novel focuses on the social ...
Genius beyond gender: Novalis, women and the art of shapeshifting.
Jan 01, 2001; ... The literary canon of the eighteenth century has long been thought of as terrain dominated by men and largely inaccessible to women. On the one hand, works by male writers portrayed femininity in a manner that expressed the author's constructions of femininity and failed, therefore, to show ...
Time travel in the forbidden realm: J.J. Slauerhoff's Het Verboden Rijk viewed as a modernist novel.
Jan 01, 2001; ... This essay on the Dutch writer J. J. Slauerhoff's novel Het verboden rijk (1931) analyses it as an experimental novel. I argue that the traditional view of Slauerhoff, which emphasizes the romanticism of his subject matter, fails to acknowledge the modernist character of the novel and its ...
Szymborska's two monkeys: The stammering poet and the chain of signs.
Jan 01, 2001; ... Like the hero of folktales, the speaker of 'Bruegel's Two Monkeys', by Wislawa Szymborska, is confronted by a test, an interrogation. She is taking her graduation exam, experiencing a rite of passage marking the transition from schooling to life, and she is failing. She stammers and falls ...
The Use and Abuse of Antiquity.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Uses and Abuses of Antiquity. Ed. by MARIA WYKE and MICHAEL BIDDISS. Bern, Berlin, and Bruxelles: Peter Lang. 1999. 281 pp. 25 [pounds sterling].'Reception', once a gentlemanly hobby for the more broad-minded classicist, is now a la mode within Classics, even to the extent of ...
Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Feminism, Theory and the Politics of Difference. By CHRIS WEEDON. Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell. 1999. x + 220 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $54.95 (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]; $24.95).There appears to be a paradox in the title of Chris Weedon's most recent account of ...
Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual. By ROSS POSNOCK. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. 1998. x + 353 pp. 21.95 [pounds sterling].The concept of the modern intellectual, in Ross Posnock's normative use of the term, first ...
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics. By N. KATHERINE HAYLES. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xiv + 350 pp. $49; 39.25 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18; 14.50 [pounds sterling]).N. Katherine Hayles, who according ...
Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Umberto Eco: Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction. By MICHAEL CAESAR. (Key Contemporary Thinkers) Cambridge: Polity Press. 1999. x + 198 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 13.99 [pounds sterling]).This is another in Polity's 'Key Contemporary Thinkers' series and it is ...
The Fantasy Literature of England.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Fantasy Literature of England. By COLIN MANLOVE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. vi + 222 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum. By BJORN SUNDMARK. (Lund Studies in English, 97): Lund: Lund University Press. 1999 ....
Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Fantasy Literature of England. By COLIN MANLOVE. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. vi + 222 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].Alice's Adventures in the Oral-Literary Continuum. By BJORN SUNDMARK. (Lund Studies in English, 97): Lund: Lund University Press. 1999 ....
The Practice of Reading.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Practice of Reading. By DENIS DONOGHUE. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. 1998. x + 307 pp. 20 [pounds sterling].To keep our subjective imaginations active, an inner logic in Denis Donoghue's fifteen essays develops ideological debate out of their occasionally ...
Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Memory & Narrative: The Weave of Life-Writing. By JAMES OLNEY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xvi + 430 pp. 27.95 [pounds sterling].James Olney has written an attractive and often persuasive study of what he now calls 'life-writing', the product of many ...
Reading Old English Texts.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reading Old English Texts. Ed. by KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 231 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $18.95).New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse. Ed. by SARAH ...
New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reading Old English Texts. Ed. by KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFFE. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1997. xi + 231 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling]; $59.95 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $18.95).New Approaches to Editing Old English Verse. Ed. by Sarah ...
New Medieval Literatures. Volume I.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... New Medieval Literatures. Volume 1. Ed. by WENDY SCASE, RITA COPELAND, and DAVID LAWTON. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. vii + 278 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].One important effect of the appearance of this new series is to provide an English-based forum for theoretically aware ...
Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies. Ed. by HUW PRYCE. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 33) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1998. xiii + 297 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $59.95.The aim of this important volume of thirteen studies is to ...
The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle. By LISTER M. MATHESON. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180) Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies. 1998. xxxvi + 388 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]; $30.This volume has been eagerly awaited and its ...
The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words. By CHRISTOPHER CANNON. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature), Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xiii + 435 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $69.95.Part I of Christopher Cannon's new study consists ...
The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality. Ed. by MICHELE MARRAPODI. Associate ed. A. J. HOENSELAARS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 370 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling].Italian Studies ...
Italian Studies in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Italian World of English Renaissance Drama: Cultural Exchange and Intertextuality. Ed. by MICHELE MARRAPODI. Associate ed. A. J. HOENSELAARS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 370 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling].Italian Studies ...
Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reforging Shakespeare: The Story of a Theatrical Scandal. By JEFFREY KAHAN. Cranbury, NJ: Lehigh University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 271 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].In John Nixon's satirical print of 1796, The Oaken Chest or the Gold Mines of Ireland, the ...
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Re-Presenting Ben Jonson: Text, History, Performance. Ed. by MARTIN BUTLER. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xii + 255 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].This collection, ably introduced by Martin Butler, contains James Knowles's ...
Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627-1660. By DAVID NORBROOK. Cambridge, New York and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xiii + 509 pp. 15.95 [pounds sterling]; $24.95.This study of 'republican' writing will permanently alter how we read ...
From 'Academia' to 'Amicitia': Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... From 'Academia' to 'Amicitia': Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies. By ESTELLE HAAN. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, 88, Part 6) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. 1998. x + 208 pp. ...
Blake in the Nineties.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Blake in the Nineties. Ed. by STEVE CLARK and DAVID WORRALL. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xiii + 240 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].William Blake and the Myths of Britain. By JASON WHITTAKER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xi + ...
William Blake and the Myths of Britain.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Blake in the Nineties. Ed. by STEVE CLARK and DAVID WORRALL. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xiii + 240 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].William Blake and the Myths of Britain. By JASON WHITTAKER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xi + ...
England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling].Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. By ...
Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling].Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. By ...
Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780-1830.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism. By JAMES CHANDLER. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1998. xxii + 584 pp. $35; 27.95 [pounds sterling].Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. By ...
Conrad and Women.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Conrad and Women. By SUSAN JONES. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. viii + 252 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].This original book purports to give a new reading of the relation between Conrad and women mainly by making use of a new reading of Chance. The author ...
Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Myth and the Making of Modernity: The Problem of Grounding in Early Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. by MICHAEL BELL and PETER POELLNER. (Text: Studies in Comparative Literature, 16) Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi. 1998. vii + 260 pp. Hfl. 80; $44.Most of these fourteen essays ...
New Larkins for Old: Critical Essays.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... New Larkins for Old: Critical Essays. Ed. by JAMES BOOTH. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xi + 247 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].New Larkins for Old is a collection of fifteen essays, fourteen of which were originally delivered at a conference on Larkin at ...
King Arthur in America.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... King Arthur in America. By ALAN LUPACK and BARBARA TEPA LUPACK. (Arthurian Studies, 41) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xiii + 382 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75.Of the two terms yoked in the title of Alan and Barbara Tepa Lupack's King Arthur in America, 'King Arthur' is treated ...
Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism. By LEON SURRETTE. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. xii + 314 pp. $39.95.How does it come about that we can enjoy the poetry of a fascist? Why is it that some of our best poets are fascists? These ...
The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable. Ed. by ANDREW LEAK and GEORGE PAIZIS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press in assoc. with The Institute for Romance Studies and The Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, The University of London, and The ...
Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism, and American Cultural Politics. By STEVEN MAILLOUX. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 1998. xv + 206 pp. 36.50 [pounds sterling]; $42.50 (paperbound 13.95 [pounds sterling]; $15.95).In Reception Histories Steven Mailloux ...
The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The Committed Word: Literature and Public Values. By JAMES ENGELL. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. x + 198 pp. $32.50.The type of 'commitment' meant by James Engell becomes clear in his attempts to stake a claim for the force of 'literature' in its ...
Le Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise et la lexicographie institutionnelle europeene. Actes due colloque international 17, 18 et 19 novembre 1994.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Le Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise et la lexicographie institutionnelle europeenne. Actes du colloque international 17, 18 et 19 novembre 1994. Ed. by BERNARD QUEMADA and JEAN PRUVOST. (Lexica: Mots et Dictionnaires, 2) Paris: Champion. 1998. 534 pp. 430 F.In some respects ...
Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Dominique Bouhours: Doutes sur la langue francoise proposez a Messieurs de l'Academie Francoise. Ed. by GIOVANNI DOTOLI and FULVIA FIORINO. (Biblioteca della Ricerca, Linguistica 5) Fasano: Schena; Paris: Didier. 1998. 430 pp. 45,000 lire.A critical edition of Dominique Bouhours's ...
La tragedie due sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... La tragedie du sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'. By VOLKER SCHRODER. (Collection Biblio 17, 119) Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 1999. 327 pp.This study of Britannicus and its textual sources makes an eloquent case, both theoretical and practical, for ...
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century. By CLAUDE JAECKLE-PLUNIAN and SEAN A. MCMEEKIN. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 373) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. vi + 371 pp. 60 [pounds sterling].This volume of Studies on Voltaire brings together two ...
Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Circles of Learning: Narratology and the Eighteenth-Century French Novel. By JENNY MANDER. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 366) Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. viii + 232 pp.One of the constant problems with theory is its juxtaposition with texts. A theory ...
Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel 1730-1830.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Reparative Realism: Mourning and Modernity in the French Novel 1730-1830. By PATRICK COLEMAN. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 370) Geneve: Droz. 1998. 159 pp.This is quite a short book on a very ambitious subject, and as a result it constantly verges on the cryptic and ...
Stendhal: Interieurs.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Stendhal: Interieurs. By MARIELLA DI MAIO. Fasano: Schena. 1999. 250 pp. 30,000 lire.This collection of essays on Stendhal is aimed at the specialist reader. Some of them are already familiar, as they were published separately, and they are united in this book. The first essay, ...
Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Honore de Balzac: Memoire de la critique. Ed. by STEPHANE VACHON. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne. 1999. 560 pp. 199 F.Given the recent bicentenary of Balzac's birth and the 150th anniversary of his death, it is appropriate that reprints of notable if somewhat ...
Critical Fictions: Nerval's 'Les Illumines'.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Critical Fictions: Nerval's 'Les Illumines'. By MERYL TYERS. (Legenda: Research Monographs in French Studies, 3) Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre. 1998. xvi + 122 pp.Of all Gerard de Nerval's major publications, Les Illumines has attracted the least critical attention ....
Arthur Rimbaud:.(Euvres completes 1: Poesies)(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Arthur Rimbaud: CEuvres completes 1: Poesies. Ed. by STEVE MURPHY. (Textes de litterature moderne et contemporaine, 36) Paris: Champion. 1999. 944 pp. 580 F.Steve Murphy, who has worked so impressively in Rimbaldian studies in recent years, here adds another highly significant ...
L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. Paris: Corti. 1996. 364 pp. 150F.Maurice Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. (Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francais, 14) Paris and Rome: Memini. 1998. 657 pp. 610F.This doctoral ...
Maurice Maeterlinck.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... L'Envers du Theatre: Dramaturgie du Silence de l'age classique a Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. Paris: Corti. 1996. 364 pp. 150F.Maurice Maeterlinck. By ARNAUD RYKNER. (Bibliographie des Ecrivains Francais, 14) Paris and Rome: Memini. 1998. 657 pp. 610F.This doctoral ...
Proust, the Body and Literary Form.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Proust, the Body and Literary Form. By MICHAEL R. FINN. (Cambridge Studies in French, 59) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 207 pp.Proust as fastidious valetudinarian and his Narrator's excessively nervous disposition have fascinated biographers and critical ...
Traversees de Pierre Klossowski.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Traversees de Pierre Klossowski. Ed. by LAURENT JENNY and ANDREAS PFERSMANN. (Recherches et Rencontres, 11) Geneve, Droz: 1999. 184 pp.This volume brings together sixteen selected papers from the international Klossowski colloquia in Vienna (1995, around the Wiener Secession ...
Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Simone de Beauvoir: Gender and Testimony. By URSULA TIDD. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xii + 250 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].This book represents an important and original contribution to the field of Beauvoir studies. It analyses Beauvoir's early theoretical texts ...
Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable. By ANNE-MARIE SMITH. London and Stirling, Virginia: Pluto Press. 1998. vii + 110 pp. 35.00 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 10.99 [pounds sterling]).Over the past decade Kristeva has had her fair share of detractors: Judith Butler, Elizabeth ...
Countering the Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort.(Review)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Countering the Culture: The Novels of Christiane Rochefort. By MARGARET-ANNE HUTTON. Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1998. 277 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 14.99 [pounds sterling]).It is something of a shock to discover, on the very first page of this immensely ...
CEuvres de chair: Figures due discours erotique.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... Oeuvres de chair: figures du discours erotique. By GAETAN BRULOTTE. Quebec: L'Harmattan. 1998. 509 pp.Gaetan Brulotte's impressive study of the figures of erotic discourse clearly owes much in approach to Roland Barthes's Fragments d'un discours amoureux. In fact, the doctoral ...
The French Exception: Still So Special?(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... The French Exception: Still So Special? By ANDREW JACK. London: Profile Books. 1999. 298 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling].Andrew Jack's assessment of the state of la specificite francaise will inevitably be compared to John Ardagh's frequently updated The New France, if only because it ...
La Versification.(Review)
Jan 01, 2001; ... La Versification. By JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD. (Collection Premier Cycle) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1999. x + 305 pp. 99F.This book is one of a series aimed at Premier Cycle students in French universities and its aim is to present the theory of French versification from ...