The Modern Language Review back issues from October 2001:
Mother tongues and literary languages.
Oct 01, 2001; ... 'Native speaker' and 'mother tongue' are two symmetrical and converse notions. They seem to refer to the same reality from two opposite viewpoints. Native speakers, by definition, speak their mother tongue, and a mother tongue is the language of a native speaker, but, in spite of this ...
The Poetry of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Poetry of Luis Cernuda: Order in a World of Chaos. By NEIL C. MCKINLAY. (Coleccion Tamesis, Serie A: Monografias, 177) London: Tamesis. 1999. viii + 183 pp. 30.00 [pounds sterling].It is now some thirty years since Tamesis published two of the most influential studies of Luis ...
The human bestiary.(animal names applied to humans)
Oct 01, 2001; ... A feature probably shared by all languages, and certainly by the major languages of Western Europe, which are the only ones with which I can profess some familiarity, is the frequent figurative application of animal names to human beings. The names of the fox are used in English, French, ...
A new fragment of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis'.(poet John Gower)
Oct 01, 2001; ... There have been few recent additions to the materials for the study of the text of Gower's Confessio Amantis. (1) Discoveries have been largely confined to the identification of various extracts from this work. (2) Recently, however, a new fragment has come to light, one that is part of one ...
Defoe and the politics of representing the African interior.(author Daniel Defoe)
Oct 01, 2001; ... To talk of the way writers represent interiors of Africa will not do, for the fact is that continental interiors come in the singular and take the definite article. Language favours the view that each continent has one body, and bound in with the corporeal metaphor there is a hint of soul ....
Oliver Goldsmith and Voltaire's 'Lettres Philosophiques'.
Oct 01, 2001; ... Ever since Arthur Lytton Sells published his pioneering study, Les Sources francaises de Goldsmith in 1924, (1) the Irish author's excellent knowledge of French literature has been well known and plentifully documented, as has his equally enthusiastic plagiarism or recycling of French ...
Second thoughts on the denouement of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'.
Oct 01, 2001; ... Laclos's novel Les Liaisons dangereuses leaves unanswered a number of puzzling questions which relate to how the reader is being asked to understand the events described in the denouement; (1) it seems that, being in possession of all the facts, we are invited to make our own interpretation, ...
Moderata Fonte, Lucrezia Marinella, Giuseppe Passi: an early seventeenth-century feminist controversy.
Oct 01, 2001; ... This article seeks to propose some tentative answers to three questions surrounding the controversy involving Giuseppe Passi and Lucrezia Marinella. It will also examine the role of the 'absent' Moderata Fonte as a point of reference for Marinella, an aspect that has been rather neglected in ...
Afrocubanista poetry and Afro-Cuban performance.
Oct 01, 2001; ... In the 1920s Cuba's intellectuals began to search for a new definition of Cuban cultural identity as a response to increasing US domination of all aspects of Cuban life. Influenced by European and North American 'black' and Primitivist artistic movements, the nation's literati soon turned ...
Reproducing the monstrous nation: a note on pregnancy and motherhood in the fiction of Rosario Castellanos, Brianda Domecq, and Angeles Mastretta.
Oct 01, 2001; ... 'I should have murdered this, that murders me [ ...] Can such innocence kill and kill? It milks my life' (1)In this passage from Sylvia Plath's poem, 'Three Women', the impossible paradoxes of the maternal myth as they are perpetuated at many ...
Literary 'Empfindsamkeit' and nervous sensibility in eighteenth-century Germany.
Oct 01, 2001; ... Du Gotze dieser Hemisphare, Empfindsamkeit, Dir und derWahrheit sey zur Ehre, Diess Bild geweiht! Du gleichst des Gartners Treibehaus; Jagst unsern Keim empor, und unsre Kraft hinaus. (1)It is now generally accepted ...
The 'Krimi' and the criminal state: Wolfgang Hilbig's 'Eine Ubertragung'.
Oct 01, 2001; ... In his Frankfurt Lectures of 1995, the East German writer Wolfgang Hilbig sets out his artistic manifesto, claiming that writers should function as the 'Ratten und Schmeissfliegen' of society. He goes on to explain: 'Ratten und Schmeissfliegen sind sehr notwendige Geschopfe, sie weisen auf ...
Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essays. Ed. by SANDRA J. MCENTIRE. (Garland Medieval Casebooks, 21) New York and London: Garland. 1998. xxi+341 pp. 70 [pounds sterling].'You ought to look at that tree right over there', said Rabbit. 'I can see a bird in it from here', said Pooh. 'Or ...
Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Julian of Norwich: Autobiography and Theology. By CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT. (Studies in Medieval Mysticism) Cambridge: Brewer. 1999. xiv+197 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $60.'You ought to look at that tree right over there', said Rabbit. 'I can see a bird in it from here', said Pooh. 'Or ...
Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Ed. by PETER BROWN. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1999. x+194 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].The genesis of these six essays was a series of seminars at the University of Kent. They consider three topics which, perhaps ...
Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age. Ed. by PATRICK CHENEY and LAUREN SILBERMAN. (Studies in the English Renaissance) Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 1999. viii+288 pp. $39.95.This is an extremely useful collection of essays on various aspects of ...
Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture. By CATHERINE BELSEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xvii+203 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling].Shakespeare on Love & Lust. By MAURICE CHARNEY. New York: Columbia ...
Shakespeare on Love & Lust.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden: The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture. By CATHERINE BELSEY. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 1999. xvii+203 pp. 17.99 [pounds sterling].Shakespeare on Love & Lust. By MAURICE CHARNEY. New York: Columbia ...
Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts. Ed. by ARTHUR F. MAROTTI. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martins Press. 1999. xviii+266 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].This is a valuable collection of essays. Until recently, ...
Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan. By R. V. YOUNG. (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 2) Cambridge: Brewer. 2000. x+241 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75.R. V. Young's new book has been more than fifteen years in the ...
Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Handmaid to Divinity: Natural Philosophy, Poetry, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England. By DESIREE HELLEGERS. (Series for Science and Culture, 4) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. xiv+218 pp. $32.95.Desiree Hellegers argues that some of the 'central insights that ...
Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Sir Robert Walpole's Poets: The Use of Literature as Pro-Government Propaganda, 1721-1742. By TONE SUNDT URSTAD. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 297 pp. 36 [pounds sterling].'During the eighteenth century', writes Tone Sundt ...
Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Madness and Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland. By RAB HOUSTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xiv+450 pp. 55.00 [pounds sterling].'Historians too', writes Rab Houston at the end of his long, engrossing book, 'must care about those whom they are researching. Only the ...
Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction. By RANDALL CRAIG. Albany: State University of New York Press. 2000. xvi+331 pp. $23.95.Promises are made to be broken, as the saying goes. In Promising Language Randall Craig explores the concept of the promise and its ...
The Victorians and Visual Imagination.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Victorians and the Visual Imagination. By KATE FLINT. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xvi+427 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $74.95.Kate Flint's well-written and well-illustrated volume is a handsome new addition to studies of the visual in the ...
Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry. By STEVEN MATTHEWS. Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin's Press. 2000. vii+238 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling].As the key word 'precursor' suggests, this study utilizes Harold Bloom's model of influence, ...
Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and Reform in Antebellum America. By JAMES PERRIN WARREN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1999. x+202 pp. $40.James Perrin Warren opens his Culture of Eloquence by quoting from an address given by Wendell Phillips at Harvard ...
The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... The Portable Theater: American Literature and the Nineteenth-Century Stage. By ALAN L. ACKERMAN, JR. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2000. xix+271 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].At the core of Alan Ackerman's distinctive book is an examination of the ...
Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America. By GAVIN JONES. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press. 1999. xi+288 pp. $45 (paperbound $18.95).'Strange talk' (an innocuous phrase from Harold Frederic's 1896 novel The Damnation of ...
Old French-English Dictionary.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Old French-English Dictionary. By ALAN HINDLEY, FREDERICK W. LANGLEY, and BRIAN J. LEVY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 621 pp. 85 [pounds sterling].The appearance of the first major dictionary glossing Old French into modern English will be very welcome to anglophone ...
The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... The New Historians of the Twelfth-Century Renaissance: Inventing Vernacular Authority. By PETER DAMIAN-GRINT. Woodbridge: Boydell. 1999. xii+202 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $90.The twelfth century is one of the most important periods in medieval culture, and this book is most welcome ...
Fonder les Savoirs, Fonder les Pouvoirs, XVe-XVII siecle: Actes de la journee d'etude orgnisee par l'Ecole Natinale des Chatres.(Paris, 8 avril 1999)(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Fonder les Savoirs, Fonder les Pouvoirs, XV e-XVIIe siecle: Actes de la journee d'etude organisee par l'E cole Nationale des Chartes (Paris, 8 avril 1999). Ed. by DOMINIQUE DE COURCELLES. (E tudes et rencontres de l'E cole des Chartes, 6) Paris: Ecole des chartes. 2000. 143 pp.The ...
Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern, volume 2.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern. By ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais 509 and 511). 3 Vols. Geneve: Droz. 1999. Vol. II. 320 pp.; Vol. III. 248 pp. 43 SwF; 32.80 SwF.Volumes II and III of Andre Tissier's rendering into modern ...
Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern, Volume 3.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Farces francaises de la fin du moyen age: Transcription en francais modern. By ANDRE TISSIER. (Textes Litteraires Francais 509 and 511). 3 Vols. Geneve: Droz. 1999. Vol. II. 320 pp.; Vol. III. 248 pp. 43 SwF; 32.80 SwF.Volumes II and III of Andre Tissier's rendering into modern ...
Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Gender, Rhetoric, and Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing. By FLOYD GRAY. (Cambridge Studies in French, 63) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 227 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].This study sets out to examine the influence exerted upon discourses on gender in ...
Pre-histoires: textes troubles au seuil de la modernite.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Pre-histoires: textes troubles au seuil de la modernite. By TERENCE CAVE. (Les seuils de la modernite: Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 54) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 200 pp. 41 SwF.Terence Cave's reflections, gleaned from a lifetime of scholarly endeavour, may be situated within that ...
La Raison des figures symboliques a la Renaissance et a l'age classique: Edudes sur les fondements philosophiques, theologiques et rhetoriques de l'image.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... La Raison des figures symboliques a la Renaissance et a l'age classique: E tudes sur les fondements philosophiques, theologiques et rhetoriques de l'image. By FLORENCE VUILLEMIER LAURENS. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 340) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 538 pp. 145.30 SwF.This ...
Carpe Corpus. Time and Gender in Early Modern France.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Carpe Corpus. Time and Gender in Early Modern France. By CATHY YANDELL. Newark and London: University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses. 2000. 281 pp. 35 [pounds sterling].While there have recently been various studies of the relationship between space and gender, ...
Orationes duae contra Erasmum.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Orationes duae contra Erasmum. By JULIUS CAESAR SCALIGER. Ed. and trans., and with notes by Michel Magnien. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 329) Geneve: Droz. 1999. 458 pp. 145.30 SwF.Is Julius Caesar Scaliger becoming fashionable again after 400 years? Hard on the heels of ...
Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Mythologicum ou interpretation allegorique de l'Odyssee X-XII et de l'Hymne a Aphrodite. Ed. and trans. by PHILIP FORD. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 338) Geneve: Droz. 2000. xxx + 178 pp. 77.70 SwF.Given the importance of allegory in poetry of the French Renaissance, ...
Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires. Texte de 1553.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Ronsard & Muret: Les Amours, leurs Commentaires. Texte de 1553. Ed. by CHRISTINE DE BUZON and PIERRE MARTIN. Preface by MICHEL SIMONIN. Postface by JEAN CEARD. Cahier musical (1552) presented by FRANCOIS LESURE. (Classiques Didier Erudition) Paris: Didier Erudition. 1999. xxvii + 540 pp ....
Les Jardins qui sentent le sauvage: Ronsard et la poetique du paysage.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Les Jardins qui sentent le sauvage: Ronsard et la poetique du paysage. By DANIELE DUPORT. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 57) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 144 pp. 51.20 SwF.Daniele Duport investigates the representations of gardens and landscape in Ronsard's poetry, considering them as ...
Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Jean-Antoine de Baif and the Valois Court. By YVONNE ROBERTS. Bern, Berlin, and Oxford: Peter Lang. 2000. 231 pp. 24 [pounds sterling].This is a welcome and well-written study of Baif's relations with Catherine de Medicis, whom he served devotedly for thirty years, and with her ...
Concordance des oeuvres poetiques de Philippe Desportes.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Concordance des oeuvres poetiques de Philippe Desportes. By KEITH CAMERON. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 338) Geneve: Droz. 2000. 32 pp. + CD-ROM. 92.10 SwF.Keith Cameron explains at the outset that this set of three concordances is based on modern editions of Desportes ...
La Vengeance dans la Litterature d'Ancien Regime.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... La Vengeance dans la Litterature d'Ancien Regime. Ed. by ERIC MECHOULAN. (Paragraphes). Montreal: Departement d'Etudes Francaises, Universite de Montreal. 2000. 191 pp. $20.Revenge is omnipresent in French literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From tragedy to ...
Moliere, La Mariage force.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Moliere, Le Mariage force. Ed. by JULIA PREST. (Textes Litteraires, 109) Exeter: University of Exeter Press. 1999. xxxiv + 58 pp. 12.99 [pounds sterling].Although Claude Abraham and Stephen Fleck have swept away the old truism that comedies-ballets represent a paving stone on the ...
Birth Marks: the Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille and Jean Racine.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Birth Marks: The Tragedy of Primogeniture in Pierre Corneille, Thomas Corneille, and Jean Racine. By RICHARD E. GOODKIN. (New Cultural Studies) Philadelphia: PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2000. 281 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling].This study explores how a selection of French ...
Presences de Racine.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Presences de Racine. By WOLFGANG LEINER. (OEuvres & Critiques XXIV, 1) Tubingen: Gunter Narr. 1999. 328 pp.Celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of Racine's death, this volume sets out to give a comprehensive review of the status of Racine at the end of the twentieth century ....
Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715, Volume XVI.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715. Vols XVI and XVII. Texte etabli par et commentaire de JEAN ORCIBAL avec la collaboration de JACQUES LE BRUN et IRENEE NOYE. Geneve: Droz. 1999. 463 pp; 395 pp. 360 F; 315 F.The final volumes in this major editorial ...
Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715, Volume XVII.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Correspondance de Fenelon: les dernieres annees, 1712-1715. Vols XVI and XVII. Texte etabli par et commentaire de JEAN ORCIBAL avec la collaboration de JACQUES LE BRUN et IRENEE NOYE. Geneve: Droz. 1999. 463 pp; 395 pp. 360 F; 315 F.The final volumes in this major editorial ...
Journalisme et fiction au 18e siecle.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Journalisme et fiction au 18e siecle. Ed. by MALCOLM COOK and ANNIE JOURDAN. (French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 1) Bern: Peter Lang. 1999. 241 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].This first volume of a new series presents nineteen papers delivered at Exeter in ...
Femmes en toutes lettre: Les epistolieres du XVIIIe siecle.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Femmes en toutes lettre: Les epistolieres du XVIIIe siecle. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCE SILVER and MARIE-LAURE GIROU SWIDERSKI. (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2000: 04). Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 2000. 277 + xiii pp. 75 [pounds sterling].The interest of this volume ...
Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France. By JULIE ANNE PLAX. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii + 260 pp. 52.50 [pounds sterling].Watteau, the artist of mystery and melancholy so vividly evoked by the Goncourts, is dead and buried. The past two ...
1748: L'Annee de L'Espril des lois.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... 1748: L'Annee de L'Esprit des lois. Ed. by CATHERINE LARRERE and CATHERINE VOLPILHAC-AUGER. (Les Dix-huitiemes siecles, 37) Paris: Champion. 1999. 192 pp. 270F.The purpose of this book is to describe the society in which Montesquieu's masterpiece of political thought made its ...
Diderot's Counterpoints: the Dynamics of Contrariety in his Major Works.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Diderot's Counterpoints: the Dynamics of Contrariety in his Major Works. By WALTER E. REX. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1998. 318 pp. 55 [pounds sterling].'I am not the first to see "contrariety" in Diderot' states Walter Rex (p. 41). Indeed not, but this remains an original ...
Le 'Prince d'Albanie': Un aventurier au Siecle des Lumieres.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Le 'Prince d'Albanie': Un aventurier au Siecle des Lumieres. By ROLAND MORTIER. (Les Dix-huitiemes siecles, 58) Paris: Champion. 2000. 190 pp. 210F.This is a biography of the self-styled 'Prince d'Albanie', Stiepan Zannovich (1751-1786), an impostor and adventurer who succeeded in ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains: Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau juge par ses contemporains. Du 'Discours sur les sciences et les arts' aux 'Confessions'. By RAYMOND TROUSSON. Paris: Champion. 2000. 635 pp. 600 F.From the beginning Rousseau was a phenomenon. His first philosophical work, the Discours sur les sciences et les ...
La Convention de l'amour-gout chez Claude Crebillon: Genese et perspectives.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... La Convention de l'amour-gout chez Claude Crebillon. Genese et perspectives. By THIERRY VIART. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation. 1999. viii + 194 pp. 45 [pounds sterling].During his life, Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon suffered the misfortune of writing in the shadow of his ...
Essais litteraires et philosophiques sur les causes de l'universalite de la langue francaise.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Essais litteraires et philosophiques sur les causes de l'universalite de la langue francaise. By GUILLAUME HENRI CHARLES DE GOYON D'ARZAC. Ed. by JURGEN STOROST. Bonn: Romantischer Verlag. 2000. 1 + 197 pp.Frederick the Great's preference for French language and culture over ...
Six French poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme.(Review)(Brief Article)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme. Ed. by E. H. and A. M. BLACKMORE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xlvii + 334 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling].What should an anthology such as this set ...
Balzac et la Revolution francaise: Aspects ideologiques et politiques.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Balzac et la Revolution francaise. Aspects ideologiques et politiques. By RENE-ALEXANDRE COURTEIX. Preface de Madeleine Ambriere. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1997. xi+ 459 pp. 198 F.As the magisterial socio-political surveys by Bernard Guyon, Pierre Barberis and Andre ...
Unite et dualite dans l'oeuvre de Prosper Merimee: Mythe et recit.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Unite et dualite dans l'aeuvre de Prosper Merimee: Mythe et recit. By CLARISSE REQUENA. (Romantisme et Modernites, 32) Paris: Champion. 2000. 448 pp. 420F.Clarisse Requena's two starting-points are Merimee's early fragment Un duel and the letter from Corsica in 1839 in which he ...
Pot-Bouille.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Pot-Bouille. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by PERCY PINKERTON; ed. by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (The Everyman Library). London: J. M. Dent. 2000. xxxiv+409 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling].Pot Luck. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans., with an introduction and notes by BRIAN NELSON. Oxford World's Classics. 2000 ....
Pot Luck.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Pot-Bouille. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by PERCY PINKERTON; ed. by ROBERT LETHBRIDGE. (The Everyman Library). London: J. M. Dent. 2000. xxxiv+409 pp. 6.99 [pounds sterling].Pot Luck. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans., with an introduction and notes by BRIAN NELSON. Oxford World's Classics. 2000 ....
Andre Gide, Pederasty and Pedagogy.(Review)
Oct 01, 2001; ... Andre Gide, Pederasty and Pedagogy. By NAOMI SEGAL. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998. xi+383 pp. 40 [pounds sterling].Gide's homosexuality is a slippery business. In a brilliant account of it, with special reference to L'Immoraliste, Leo Bersani writes in Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard ...