The Modern Language Review back issues from April 2001:
'But do not so': Herrick's ravishment and lyric address.(Robert Herrick, poet)
Apr 01, 2001; ... An adept reader can find in the lyric poetry of the seventeenth century a repertoire of those postures and strategies that characterize the masculine eloquence of Renaissance humanist chivalry. A series of rhetorical performances give voice to the demands of masculine persuasive force upon a ...
Sir William Davenant's American Operas.
Apr 01, 2001; ... As early as 1656, when he argued the virtues of public entertainment to John Thurloe, Cromwell's Secretary of State, Sir William Davenant attended to the dramatic and propagandistic possibilities that America offered to the London stage:If morale representations may be allowed ...
Mauclair and the musical world of the 'Fin de Siecle' and the 'Belle Epoque'.
Apr 01, 2001; ... Camille Mauclair (1872-1945) was the writer of more than a hundred books, including novels, poetry, and every sort of criticism and critical theory. Henri Mondor and Lloyd James Austin epitomize him as a 'polygraphe infatigable', while Mallarme, of whom he considered himself forever a ...
Paul Claudel's L'Annonce faite a Marie: A process of visionary revision.
Apr 01, 2001; ... In his essay, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', Walter Benjamin notes that 'the history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, in a new ...
D'Annunzio and Alma-Tadema: between pre-raphaelitism and aestheticism.
Apr 01, 2001; ... In any consideration of the diffusion of Pre-Raphaelitism in nineteenth-century Italian art, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) stands out as a central figure. D'Annunzio went through a distinct Pre-Raphaelite phase in the 1880s and gave a decisive impulse to the spread of Pre-Raphaelitism in ...
Cervantes and the soldier's tale: Genre and disorder in 'El casamiento enganoso'.
Apr 01, 2001; ... El casamiento enganoso is typical of Cervantes's fiction in its recourse to various generic models and in its critical engagement with questions of genre. Gonzalo Sobejano and E. C. Riley have both asserted the likelihood that Cervantes remained interested throughout his literary career in ...
Postmodernism, history and social critique in post-dictatorship Argentine cinema: a reading of Eliseo Subiela's 'El lado oscuro del corazon'.
Apr 01, 2001; ... There is some agreement that the older modernism functioned against its society in ways which are variously described as critical, negative, contestatory, subversive, oppositional and the like. Can anything of the sort be ...
Kleist's letter of 1 April 1801.
Apr 01, 2001; ... Heinrich von Kleist's letters provide a main source from which to reconstruct his life and thoughts and offer keys to the interpretation of his creative works. They have consequently been minutely examined and interpreted from almost every conceivable angle. (1) Yet his letter of 1 April ...
'Wahrhaft das Sacrament': Hofmannsthal's 'Der Schwierige' and the sacrament of matrimony.
Apr 01, 2001; ... Welcher ist der notwendigste Unterricht? Der notwendigste Unterricht ist der Unterricht in der katholischen Religion. (1)Hofmannsthal's greeting to his friend Carl J. Burckhardt on the occasion of Burckhardt's engagement has long since entered the ...
Showing, telling and believing: Gunter Grass's 'Katz und Maus and narratology.
Apr 01, 2001; ... Pilenz, the narrator of Katz und Maus, is someone for whom writing is an existential need: 'Ich schreibe, denn das muss weg. Zwar ist es angenehm, Artistik auf weissem Papier zu betreiben--aber [ ...] was nu tzt alle Zauberei mit der Grammatik; und schriebe ich alles klein und ohne ...
Georgii Vladimov's 'The General and His Army': The ghost od Andrei Vlasov.
Apr 01, 2001; ... Decades after the Soviet Union emerged victorious from a long and bloody war with Nazi Germany, the collaboration of Soviet citizens, whether coerced or willing, remains the most painful and viciously contested of all the memories and hurts that survive in Russian recollections of the German ...
Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Reconstructing Contexts: The Aims and Principles of Archaeo-Historicism. By ROBERT D. HUME. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xiv + 235 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].Like the dyer's hand, sometimes the historian is 'subdu'd' to the period he works in. Robert D. Hume's work has been ...
Theorizing About Myth.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Theorizing About Myth. By ROBERT SEGAL. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 1999. vii + 184 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound 15 [pounds sterling]).Grammatical habits have thematic consequences. Consider the title and style of this book. 'Myth' is in the singular, ...
Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling].C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN ROWLAND. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St ...
C.G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling].C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN ROWLAND. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St ...
Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. By HAYDEN WHITE. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. xii + 205 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling].C. G. Jung and Literary Theory: The Challenge from Fiction. By SUSAN ROWLAND. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St ...
Intentions: Negotiated, Contested and Ignored.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. By ARABELLA LYON. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. vii + 215 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $17.95).Loiterature. By ROSS CHAMBERS. (Stages, 14) Lincoln and London: ...
Loiterature.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. By ARABELLA LYON. (Literature and Philosophy) University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. vii + 215 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $17.95).Loiterature. By ROSS CHAMBERS. (Stages, 14) Lincoln and London: ...
The Author of English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature. By W. R. J. BARRON. (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, II) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1999. xvii + 395 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].This book follows the pattern of The Arthur of ...
'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... 'The Cursor Mundi': Poem, Texts and Contexts. By JOHN J. THOMPSON. (Medium AEvum Monographs, New Series xix) Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature. 1998. xii + 193 pp.The Cursor Mundi is a biblical history written in English verse and originated in the ...
Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceeding of the International Conference 20-22 July 1995.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Nicholas Love at Waseda: Proceedings of the International Conference 20-22 July 1995. Ed. by SHOICHI OGURO, RICHARD BEADLE, and MICHAEL G. SARGENT. Cambridge: Brewer. 1997. xxiii + 280 pp. 39.50 [pounds sterling]; $71.This splendid collection of essays, arising from the landmark ...
John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England. By MARGARET CONNOLLY. Aldershot, Brookfield, VT, and Singapore: Ashgate. 1998. xi + 247 pp., with 7 plates and 7 line drawings. 47.50 [pounds sterling].John Shirley's activities as a collector of ...
Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern England: Unbridled Speech. By JOCELYN CATTY. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. ix + 276 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].Jocelyn Catty's erudite and fascinating study demonstrates that ...
Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567-1642.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Lighting the Shakespearean Stage, 1567-1642. By R. B. GRAVES. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. 1999. x + 275 pp. $44.95; 40.45 [pounds sterling].One of the most remarkable qualities of Lighting the Shakespearean Stage is its exhaustive scrutiny of ...
The Dean and his God: John Donne's Concept of the Divine.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Dean and his God: John Donne's Concept of the Divine. By MARIA SALENIUS. (Memoires de la Societe Neophilogique, LIV) Helsinki: Societe Neophilogique. 1998. iii + 208 pp. $40.In the conclusion of her study, Maria Salenius asks, 'if one were to conduct a "purely theological" ...
Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Literature & Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne. By THERESA DIPASQUALE. (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies) Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press. 1999. xviii + 338 pp. $58.The central question for any writer on Donne is the relationship between his ...
The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton and Blake.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. By A. D. NUTTALL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xiii + 282 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake. By HAROLD FISCH. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xiv + 331 pp. 45 ...
The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake. By A. D. NUTTALL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xiii + 282 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake. By HAROLD FISCH. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xiv + 331 pp. 45 ...
Marvell and Liberty.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Marvell and Liberty. Ed. by WARREN CHERNAIK and MARTIN DZELZAINIS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press in association with Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 1999. xiii + 365 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling].The fourteen essays ...
Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth. By JOHN DOLAN. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. viii + 219 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].John Dolan attempts to tell the old story of the progress of English poetry in a new way, ...
Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Cato's Tears and the Making of Anglo-American Emotion. By JULIE ELLISON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. xi + 229 pp. $40; 28 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $16; 11.50 [pounds sterling]).Cato's Tears begins and ends in the United States of the 1990s, with an ...
The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Chained Boy: Orc and Blake's Idea of Revolution. By CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 412 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].This study of Blake seeks to reverse the dominant paradigm of Blake studies in which, ...
1798: The year of the Lyrical Ballads.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... 1798: The Year of the Lyrical Ballads. Ed. by RICHARD CRONIN. (Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. viii + 259 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].This book is a welcome addition to Macmillan's thriving series ...
Culture Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women. By ARLENE YOUNG. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. viii + 227 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].Arlene Young's new study looks at the working relationship between the ...
Rereading Victorian Fiction.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Rereading Victorian Fiction. Ed. by ALICE JENKINS and JULIET JOHN. Foreword by JOHN SUTHERLAND. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xvi + 218 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].The end of the twentieth century seemed a good moment to reconsider and update our ...
Victorian Sappho.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Victorian Sappho. By YOPIE PRINS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. xiii + 279 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling].Sappho has recently become a fruitful area of enquiry in literary studies. Monographs by, for example, Joan DeJean, Page du Bois, Jane Snyder, and Ruth Vanita ...
Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Dickens and Heredity: When Like Begets Like. By GOLDIE MORGENTALER. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. xv + 221 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].This highly accessible book effectively provides the missing link in terms of Dickens studies. Goldie Morgentaler ...
Out of Place: Englishness, Empire an the Locations of Identity.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Out of Place: Englishness, Empire, and the Locations of Identity. By IAN BAUCOM. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. x + 249 pp. $55; 33.50 [pounds sterling] (paperbound $18.95; 11.50 [pounds sterling]).How does England claim the glory of an imperial past and refuse ...
Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View. Ed. by MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 1999. xii + 215 pp. $49.95.Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman. By PETER FRANCIS MACKEY. (Florida James ...
Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Joyce Through the Ages: A Nonlinear View. Ed. by MICHAEL PATRICK GILLESPIE. (Florida James Joyce Series) Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 1999. xii + 215 pp. $49.95.Chaos Theory and James Joyce's Everyman. By PETER FRANCIS MACKEY. (Florida James ...
The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Ed. by RACHEL BLAU DU PLESSIS and PETER QUARTERMAIN. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1999. x + 380 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95).'My Toughest Mentor': Theodore Roethke and ...
'My Toughest Mentor': Theodore Roethke and William Carlos Williams (1940-1948).(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics. Ed. by RACHEL BLAU DU PLESSIS and PETER QUARTERMAIN. (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press. 1999. x + 380 pp. $49.95 (paperbound $24.95).'My Toughest Mentor': Theodore Roethke and ...
W.H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... W. H. Auden: Towards a Postmodern Poetics. By RAINER EMIG. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. x + 237 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].Rainer Emig begins from the premise that today the poetry of Auden 'rarely troubles serious academic debates' and that 'Auden's ...
Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Samuel Beckett's Theatre: Life Journeys. By KATHARINE WORTH. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. xi + 192 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].Katharine Worth's latest book takes the reader on a journey to heaven and hell via the space between, to paraphrase one of her own chapter headings ....
Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. By THOMAS TRAVISANO. Charlottesville, and London: University Press of Virginia. 1999. xvi + 325 pp. $35.As its title indicates, this study examines the work and interconnections between ...
Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext. By NEIL CORCORAN. Cardiff: University ofWales Press. 1999. xiv + 223 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling].Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. By DANIEL TOBIN. (Irish Literature, History, and ...
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext. By NEIL CORCORAN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 1999. xiv + 223 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling].Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. By DANIEL TOBIN. (Irish Literature, History, and ...
Wauchier de Denain: 'La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor'.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Wauchier de Denain: 'La Vie mon signeur seint Nicholas le beneoit confessor'. Ed. by JOHN JAY THOMPSON. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 508) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 271 pp. 43 SwF.John Jay Thompson playfully conceives Wauchier de Denain's translation (dated before 1212) in a double sense ...
Beroul: 'Tristran et Iseut': Poeme du XIIe Siecle.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Beroul: 'Tristran et Iseut': Poeme du XIIe siecle. Ed. and trans. by HERMAN BRAET and GUY RAYNAUD DE LAGE. 2 vols. 2nd edn. (Ktemata 10) Paris and Louvain: Peeters. Vol. I: Edition et traduction. 1999. 267 pp. 790 BF; Euro 20.Herman Braet and Guy Raynaud de Lage brought out their ...
Le Chevalier delibere.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Le Chevalier delibere (The Resolute Knight). By OLIVIER DE LA MARCHE. Ed. by CARLETON W. CARROL. Trans. by LOIS HAWLEY WILSON and CARLETON W. CARROL. (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 199) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1999. 352 pp. + 3 plates. $30. ...
Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age. Trans. into modern French by ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 504) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 356 pp.Following his twelve-volume series of critical editions of some sixty-five late medieval farces, Andre Tissier here gives both theatre ...
Conteurs et romanciers de la Renaissance. Melanges offerts a Gabriel-Andre Perouse.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Conteurs et romanciers de la Renaissance. Melanges offerts a Gabriel-Andre Perouse. Ed. by JAMES DAUPHINE and BEATRICE PERIGOT. (Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance, VII). Paris: Champion. 1997. 477 pp.This collection of thirty articles, in honour of G.-A. Perouse, ...
L'Extase et ses paradoxes: Essai sur la structure narrative du 'Tiers Livre'.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... L'Extase et ses paradoxes: Essai sur la structure narrative du 'Tiers Livre'. By OUMELBANINE ZHIRI. (Etudes et essais sur la Renaissance, 23) Paris: Champion. 1999. 275 pp. 240 F.One might think that the market for books on the hidden coherence of the Tiers Livre was saturated, ...
Jehan Marot: Les Deux Recueils.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Jehan Marot: Les Deux Recueils. Ed. by GERARD DEFAUX and THIERRY MANTOVANI. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 512) Geneve: Droz. 1999. ccxxvi + 603 pp. 94.20 SwF.Until now, the works of Jean Marot, one of the Rhetoriqueurs and father of Clement, have been available to modern readers ...
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron. Ed. by RENJA SALMINEN. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 516). Geneve: Droz. 1999. xcii + 864 pp. 53.20 SwF.Written by the Queen Marguerite of Navarre, the Heptameron has been a bestseller since its creation in the first half of the sixteenth ...
Poetiques d'Aubigne.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Poetiques d'Aubigne. Edited by OLIVIER POT. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 333) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 306 pp. 71.60 SwF.This collection of essays contains the Acta of a conference on Aubigne (now, apparently, the preferred name) held in Geneva in May 1996. The essays are ...
Femmes savantes, savoirs des femmes. Du crepuscule de la Renaissance a l'aube des Lumieres.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Femmes savantes, savoirs des femmes. Du crepuscule de la Renaissance a l'aube des Lumieres. Ed. by COLETTE NATIVEL. (Actes du Colloque de Chantilly, 22-24 Septembre 1995). Geneve: Droz. 1999. 268 pp. 71.60 SwF.This collection of nineteen diverse papers that between them treat the ...
Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Kingdom of Disorder: The Theory of Tragedy in Classical France. By JOHN D. LYONS. (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 18) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press. 1999. xv + 251 pp.John D. Lyons's study mainly discusses La Mesnardiere's Poetique (1640), d'Aubignac's ...
La Fontaine: 'Fables'.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... La Fontaine: 'Fables'. By FANNY NEPOTE-DESMARRES. (Etudes litteraires) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1999. 126 pp. 48 F.Despite its modest length, this little book is thought provoking. Fanny Nepote-Desmarres begins by defining the Lafontainean fable. She does full ...
Moliere: 'Le Festin de pierre (Dom Juan)': Edition critique du texte d'Amsterdam (1683).(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Moliere: 'Le Festin de pierre (Dom Juan)': Edition critique du texte d'Amsterdam (1683). Ed. by JOAN DEJEAN. (Textes Litteraires Francais, 500), Geneve: Droz. 1999. 317 pp. 22.50 SwF.This work addresses the textual problem raised by the early history of Dom Juan. The play was ...
Jean Racine Revisited.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Jean Racine Revisited. By RONALD W. TOBIN. (Twayne's World Authors Series) New York: Twayne. 1999. 195 pp.Ronald Tobin's volume offers an accessible stroll through Racine's works, allotting a chapter to each of the tragedies, together with a chronology and a chapter on Racine's ...
Racine et la Mediterranee, Soleil et Mer, Neptune et Apollen. Actes du Colloque Internatioal de Nice des 19-20 mai 1999.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Racine et la Mediterranee, Soleil et Mer, Neptune et Apollon. Actes du Colloque International de Nice des 19-20 mai 1999. Ed. by HELENE BABY and JEAN EMMELINA. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines de Nice, University of Nice: Sophia Antipolis. 1999. 318 pp. 185F ....
Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Vol. 1: 1662-1674. Lettres 1-65. Ed. by ELISABETH LABROUSSE and others. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. xliv + 432 pp. + 24 plates.This long-awaited first volume of Bayle's complete correspondence, superseding the many incomplete editions that ...
In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France.(Review)(Brief Article)
Apr 01, 2001; ... In the King's Wake: Post-Absolutist Culture in France. By JAY CAPLAN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 1999. 230 pp.Sainte-Beuve recounts that when the marquis de Crequi asked Sebastien Roch Nicolas why he insisted on calling himself de Chamfort, since by the late ...
The Complete Works of Voltaire.(Review)
Apr 01, 2001; ... The Complete Works of Voltaire/OEuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by HAYDN MASON. Vol. ix: 1732-1733. Ed. by O. R. Taylor and others. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. 531 pp. 95 [pounds sterling].The policy of editing Voltaire's complete works in chronological order of ...