The Modern Language Review back issues from July 2004:
Fanny's gaze and the construction of feminine space in Mansfield Park.(Fanny Price, Jane Austen )
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article re-evaluates the protagonist of Mansfield Park through the lens of gaze theory, asserting that Fanny Price withstands the gaze of the male characters while imposing her own powerful gaze, which encompasses views, tastes, morality, and emotions. According to this reading, Jane ...
Anthropomorphism and other figures of speech in James Joyce's Ulysses.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... This close reading from 'Proteus' shows how Stephen, the would-be writer, projects his mind onto the Dublin landscape. Analysing his anthropomorphism helps explain subjective transformations of the objective world in the modern hero's mind. Figures of speech which trap the poet's ...
Cynic shamelessness in late sixteenth-century French texts.
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article examines the diverse responses elicited by ancient Cynicism's sexual shamelessness in a wide range of sixteenth-century French texts. The outrageous performance of the Cynics, including public sex and masturbation, was always designed to provoke questioning of civilized norms ....
Bodily detours: Sarah Kofman's narratives of childhood trauma.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Although psychological trauma has repeatedly been described in terms of the body, the relation between traumatic loss, narrative, and the body requires further elucidation. This article explores how Sarah Kofman's autobiographical texts--Rue Ordener, rue Labat and critically neglected ...
Decorum and indecorum in the Seconda redazione of Baldassare Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano.
Jul 01, 2004; ... Between the Seconda redazione (1520-21) and the third manuscript (i524, published 1528) Castiglione rewrote almost half of the Libro del Cortegiano. Where others have examined changes in socio-political and cultural references, this study focuses on dialogue interaction and on the specific ...
Transition relevance places and overlapping in (Spanish-English) conversational etiquette.
Jul 01, 2004; ... Present-day pragmaticists regard Henk Haverkate's work on conversational etiquette as a momentous insight into politeness studies. In spite of recent endeavours to highlight the socio-pragmatic disparities between Spanish and British politeness models, very little research has been ...
A cinema of contradiction: Picazo's La tia Tula (1964) and the Nuevo Cine Espanol.(Miguel Picazo)(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article argues that the contradictions of the historical context of the apertura, and the industrial context of the government's promotion of art cinema, were encoded in the films of the Nuevo Cine Espanol, focusing on Miguel Picazo's La tia Tula. Picazo adapts Unamuno's abstract tale ...
Heine's Aristophanes complex and the ambivalence of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article re-examines the 'new song' from Canto 1 of Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen in the light of the reference to Aristophanes' Birds in Canto 27. From here it explores a series of statements by Heine in which he proposes that this play holds ah esoteric meaning for him concerning ...
Rilke and the modern portrait.(Ranier Maria Rilke )(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... In his 'Briefe uber Cezanne' (October 1907) Rilke expresses a particular fascination with Cezanne's portraits, since the human subject represents the ultimate challenge for ah aesthetic based on objectivity and the autonomy of colour. Reading the poem 'Der Balkon' (August 1907) in ...
From chudak to mudak? Village prose and the absurdist ethics of Evgenii Popov.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The genealogy of the chudak character type in the shorter fiction of Evgenii Popov is considered. In Shukshin and Village Prose the function of the chudak is found to be paradoxical, expressing both conformist and nonconformist views. Popov's modification of the type into the mudak ...
Mouseion: the counter-institutional agent of the literary utopias of Ricardo Piglia and Dimitris Kalokyris.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2004; ... This article focuses on the function of the topos of the 'museum' in the work of Ricardo Piglia and Dimitris Kalokyris, who have both been greatly influenced by the aesthetic principles of Jorge Luis Borges. In the case of Piglia, the 'museum' is closely associated with the notion of the ...
Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Mapping Lives: The Uses of Biography. Ed. by PETER FRANCE and WILLIAM ST CLAIR. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. 2002. x+350 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-726269-4. This book might have been more accurately entitled 'Mapping Literary ...
The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages. By BRIAN MURDOCH. Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. ix+209 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $85. ISBN 0-85991-776-2 (hbk). It was Beryl Smalley who in 1941 first shook the academic community into an acute awareness of what ...
Der gelehrte Narr: Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklarung.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Der gelehrte Narr: Gelehrtensatire seit der Aufklarung. By ALEXANDER KOSENINA. Gottingen: Wallstein. 2003. 487 pp. 949. ISBN 3-89244-531-1 (hbk). The philosopher or scholar has been a figure of fun for as long as philosophy and scholarship have existed. When Thales, absorbed in ...
Der erotische Film: Zur medialen Codierung von Asthetik, Sexualitat und Gewalt.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Der erotische Film: Zur medialen Codierung von Asthetik, Sexualitat und Gewalt. Ed. by OLIVER JAHRAUS and STEFAN NEUHAUS. (Film--Medium--Diskurs, 1) Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2003. 240 pp. 919.80. ISBN 3-8260-2582-2 (pbk). The difficulty of defining what constitutes an ...
A Critical Companion to "Beowulf".(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... A Critical Companion to 'Beowulf'. By ANDY ORCHARD. Cambridge: Brewer. 2003. xix+396 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-766-5. Scholarship on Beowulf is a robust growth industry, yet the list of indispensable works remains short: an edition (F. Klaeber, Beowulf and the ...
The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance. Ed. by PHILLIPA HARDMAN. Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. xi+165 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-761-4. These essays were originally presented as papers at the seventh conference on Romance in Medieval England, held at Reading in ...
Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts. Ed. by ELAINE TREHARNE for the English Association. (Essays and Studies, 55) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. x+142 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]; $50. ISBN 0-85991-760-6. How times have changed. A ...
Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and the Visual Image. Ed. by JEREMY DIMMICK, JAMES SIMPSON, and NICOLETTE ZEEMAN. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiii+250 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-818759-9. This collection of ...
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature. By JOSHUA SCODEL. (Literature in History) Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2002. viii+ 367 pp. 37.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-691-09028-9. In this rich, precise monograph, Joshua Scodel charts the complex ...
Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Sharpening her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers. By SIDNEY L. SONDERGARD. Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 188 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-57591-059-4. Examining the extant ...
Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Eros and Poetry at the Courts of Mary Queen of Scots and James VI. By SARAH M. DUNNIGAN. (Early Modern Literature in History) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. x+219 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-91875-4. The series in which this important volume appears is, like ...
Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts. By LAUREN SHANNON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xiii+240 pp. $49 (pbk $19). ISBN 0-226-74966-5 (pbk 0-226-74967-3). In Sovereign Amity, Laurie Shannon revisits the venerable topic of ...
The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Reel Shakespeare: Alternative Cinema and Theory. Ed. byLISA S. STARKS and COURTNEY LEHMANN. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 298 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-83386-3939-9. I approached this volume of essays ...
Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice. By BARBARA A. MURRAY. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses in conjunction with Modern Humanities Research Association. 2001. 306 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3918-6. This is ...
Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' and 'King Lear'. By LEON HAROLD CRAIG. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xi+406 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3571-x. Of Philosophers and Kings combines ...
Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man. By ANN CLINE KELLY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+244 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-23959-9. This highly entertaining and enjoyable book is one that I will be putting on my ...
Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution.(Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance. Frances Burney to Jane Austen)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. By DEBORAH KENNEDY. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 276 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8387-5511-9. Mothering ...
In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat.(The Historical Austen)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat. By MONA SCHEUERMANN. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2002. xiv+ 255 pp. $36. ISBN 0-8131-2222-8. The Historical Austen. By WILLIAM H. GALPERIN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania ...
Romanticism and Millenarianism.(William Blake and the Body)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed. by TIM FULFORD. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. xvii+248 pp. 32.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-24011-2. William Blake and the Body. By TRISTANNE J. CONNOLLY. New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave. 2002. xvii+249 pp. 40 [pounds ...
Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Waterloo and the Romantic Imagination. By PHILIP SHAW. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+260 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-99435-3. Written and visual representations of the Battle of Waterloo are such obvious (and major) subjects for cultural study that it is ...
Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Shelley among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language. By STUART PETERFREUND. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. xiii+406 pp. 38.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6751-7. Stuart Peterfreund's aim is ambitious and laudable in a ...
Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology. By LYNDA PALAZZO. (Cross-Currents in Religion and Culture) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiv+165 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79469-9. Although important articles by, for example, Coleen Hobbs ('A View from the "Lowest ...
Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Thomas Hardy, Monism, and the Carnival Tradition: The One and Many in 'The Dynasts'. By G. GLEN WICKENS. Toronto, Buffalo, NY, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xix+255 pp. $60; 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4864-1. G. Glen Wickens's aim in writing this book is ...
Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. By CLIVE BLOOM. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+292 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-333-68742-6 (pbk 0-333-68743-4). Clive Bloom's new book meets a genuine critical need. As he rightly points ...
W.H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... W. H. Auden: Contexts for Poetry. By PETER FIRCHOW. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 274 pp. 36 [pounds sterling. ISBN 0-87413-766-7. This book, the author tells us, has been in the making for 'nearly twenty-five years'. It ...
The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers. By MARGARET M. JENSEN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xiii+235 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-132-29353-4. Margaret Jensen's book falls somewhere in between the categories of the literary ...
Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Theorizing Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction. Ed. By MARTIN MCQUILLAN. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. xi+245 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-79414-1. As Martin McQuillan suggests, a theoretical approach to Muriel Spark's work is 'long overdue' (p. 7) ....
On Modern British Fiction.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... On Modern British Fiction. Ed. By ZACHARY LEADER. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. viii+319 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924932-6. Zachary Leader offers for our perusal an eclectic, engaging, if uneven collection of essays drawn from a conference on ...
Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott.(Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott. By PAUL BRESLIN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. ix+333 pp. $50 (pbk $20). ISBN 0-226-07426-9 (pbk 0-226-07427-7). Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics. By PAULA BURNETT. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: ...
The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon. Ed. with an introduction by LANA A. WHITED. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. 2002. x+408 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8262-1443-6. This well-presented volume is a collection of ...
The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era. By DAVID FINKELSTEIN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2002. viii + 199 pp. $55. ISBN 0-271-02179-9. Founded in 1804, the Edinburgh publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons is best ...
American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853. By MEREDITH L. MCGILL. (MaterialTexts) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. viii+364 pp. $39.95; 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3698-X. In American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, ...
Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature. By TRUDIER HARRIS. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2002. vi+218 pp. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-312-29303-8. Trudier Harris is the author of five previous books on African American literature ....
'La Cort d'Amor': A Critical Edition.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... 'La Cort d'Amor': A Critical Edition. Ed. by MATTHEW BARDELL. (Research Monographs in French Studies, 11). Oxford: Legenda. 2002. x+169 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling]; $29.50. ISBN 1-900755-66-1. Matthew Bardell's critical edition of La Cort d'Amor will bring a wider scholarly ...
Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu: travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Menager.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Cite des hommes, cite de Dieu: travaux sur la litterature de la Renaissance en l'honneur de Daniel Menager. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 623 pp. ISBN 2-600-00824-1. It is a testimony to the scholarship, popularity, and respect enjoyed by the dedicatee of this bulky Festschrift that no ...
Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honour of Ronald W. Tobin.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honour of Ronald W. Tobin. Ed. by CLAIRE M. CARLIN and KATHLEEN WINE. (EMF Critiques) Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2003. 280 pp. ISBN 2-7453-0729-0. This disciplined and wide-ranging volume consists of a brief biography of the distinguished critic, ...
'Moral Maxims' by the Duke de la Rochefoucault. Translated from the French With notes. [London: A. Millar, 1749].(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... 'Moral Maxims' by the Duke de la Rochefoucault. Translated from the French. With notes. [London: A. Millar, 1749]. A dual-language edition with introduction and further notes by IRWIN PRIMER. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 218 pp. $39.50 ....
Racine: trois siecles de theatre.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Racine: trois siecles de theatre. By ANDRE BLANC. Paris: Fayard. 2003. 733 pp. 32 [euro]. ISBN 2-213-61549-7. It is difficult accurately to summarize the scope and focus of this undeniably substantial bipartite study, and certainly the title goes no way towards helping. Only ...
Roman et religion en France (1713-1866).(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Roman et religion en France (1713-1866). Ed. by JACQUES WAGNER. Paris: Champion. 2002. 286 pp. 46 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0594-8. This is a volume of revised conference papers. Under the Ancien Regime, religion and the novel were two institutions of contrasting legitimacy, and the ...
OEuvres completes de Montesquieu, vol. VIII: OEuvres et ecrits divers I.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Oeuvres completes de Montesquieu, vol. VIII: Oeuvres et ecrits divers I, ed. by PIERRE RETAT. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation; Naples: Istituto italiano per gli studi filosofici. 2003. xlvi+644 pp. 110 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0775-6. Pierre Retat, in his introduction to this ...
The Complete Works of Voltaire/Oeuvres completes de Voltaire.(Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prohete, ed. by Christopher Todd; De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet, ed. by Ahmad Gunny )(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... The Complete Works of Voltaire Oeuvres completes de Voltaire. Ed. by NICHOLAS CRONK and others. Vol. XXB: Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet le prohete, ed. By CHRISTOPHER TODD; De l'Alcoran et de Mahomet, ed. by AHMAD GUNNY. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2003. xxv+353 pp. 2002. 70[pounds sterling] ....
Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth. By CHRISTOPHER KELLY. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. x+216 pp. $19. ISBN 0-226-43024-3. Always one to shuncat-and-mouse games with the censors, Rousseau boldly displayed his name in the title of ...
'Emile' ou les figures de la fiction.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... 'Emile' ou les figures de la fiction. By LAURENCE MALL (SVEC 2002:04) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. x+334 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0793-4. In a footnote at one point in her long study of Rousseau's Emile, Laurence Mall briefly criticizes the approach of another ...
Itineraires du XIXe siecle.(Itineraires du XIXe siecle, vol. 2)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Itineraires du XIXe siecle, vol. II. Ed. by RLAND LE HY+UENEN and STEPHANE VACHON. (A la recherche du XIXe siecle, 6) Toronto: Centre d'etudes du XIXe siecle Joseph Sable. 2001. 199 pp. 19.65 [pounds sterling]; $28.49. ISBN 0-7727-8909-6. Drawing attention to the writings of ...
Stendhal: La Chartreuse de Parme.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Stendhal: 'La Chartreuse de Parme'. By ANN JEFFERSON. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 135) London: Grant & Cutler. 2003. 87 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0440-x. Stendhal's Italian novel is a welcome, long overdue addition to this useful series. Noting the variety of ...
L'Annee balzacienne.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... L'Annee balzacienne, 2002. Ed. by MICHEL LICHTLE. (Troisieme Serie, 3) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 2003. 432 pp. 943 [euro]. ISBN 2-13-053342-6. Despite Andre Vanoncini's claim that '[l]e texte balzacien ne se prete que tres conditionnellement aux demarches et ...
Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Victor Hugo 5: autour des 'Orientales'. Ed. by CLAUDE MILLET. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 218 pp. 922 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91040-7. Claude Millet has put together a pleasingly symmetrical and compelling set of articles on Hugo's dazzling early collection Les ...
Five Comedies.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Five Comedies. By GEORGE SAND. Trans., with an introduction, by E. H. BLACKMORE, A. M. BLACKMORE, and F. GIGUERE. (Women Writers in Translation) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. 272 pp. $22.95. ISBN 0-7914-5712-5. The five comedies included in this volume ...
Edouard Charton et l'invention du 'Magasin pittoresque' (1833-1870).(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Edouard Charton et l'invention du 'Magasin pittoresque' (1833-1870). By MARIE-LAURE AURENCHE. Paris: Champion. 2002. xii+534 pp. 106 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0664-2. Marie-Laure Aurenche's study of the Magasin pittoresque and of its founder rightly quotes, then ignores, his claim in ...
Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Jules Verne 8: humour, ironie, fantaisie. Ed. by CHRISTIAN CHELEBOURG. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. 236 pp. 21 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91054-7. The first seven of the valued Minard Jules Verne series appeared between 1978 and 1994, so it was high time that the ...
Proust: la traduction du sensible.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Proust: la traduction du sensible. By NATHALIE AUBERT. Oxford: Legenda (European Humanities Research Centre). 2002. ix+147 pp. 19.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-79-3. Towards the end of 'Combray' Proust uses an expression in regard to his description of the interplay of ...
Giraudoux: 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Giraudoux: 'La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu'. By VICTORIA KORZENIOWSKA. London: Grant and Cutler. 2003. 71 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0434-5. The question to be asked of student guides is simply, 'Do they do the job?' In this case my answer is a mitigated yes ....
Chercheurs d'absolu: Mauriac et de Gaulle.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Chercheurs d'absolu: Mauriac et de Gaulle. Chroniques et discours 1945-1948. By MALCOLM SCOTT. Paris: L'Esprit du temps. 2002. 344 pp. 923. ISBN 2-84795-000-1. This volume follows on from Malcolm Scott's earlier work Mauriac et de Gaulle (Paris: L'Esprit du temps, 1999), which ...
Malraux: 'L'Espoir'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2004; ... Malraux: 'L'Espoir'. By DENIS BOAK. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 131) London: Grant & Cutler, 2003. 87 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0439-6. Although it is Malraux's 'most ambitious novel' (p 7), L'Espoir has attracted surprisingly little substantial criticism, ...