The Modern Language Review back issues from October 2004:
The 'Myth of Gentillet' reconsidered: an aspect of Elizabethan Machiavellianism.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The 'Myth of Gentillet' Reconsidered: An Aspect of Elizabethan Machiavellianism by N. W Bawcutt The role played by Innocent Gentillet's notorious attack on Machiavelli, published in 1576, in the Elizabethan response to Machiavelli's writings has been much debated. The recent ...
Alexander Pope and Duke Upon Duke: satiric context, aims, and means.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Alexander Pope and Duke upon Duke: Satiric Context, Aims, and Means by Pat Rogers Duke upon Duke (1720) is a satirical ballad, first firmly attributed to Alexander Pope in 1949 The article considers Pope's aims and methods in the light of new evidence concerning the main target ...
Love, honour, and duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745).(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Love, Honour, and Duty in James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda (1745) by Sandro Jung James Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda juxtaposes notions of heroic drama with the mid-eighteenth-century sentimentalism of individuality and self-determination. The tragedy centres on the ...
The power of the gift: desire and substitution in Daurel et Beton.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Power of the Gift: Desire and Substitution in Daurel et Beton by Finn E. Sinclair The Occitan epic Daurel et Beton presents a vision of monologic masculinity which is soon fractured and revealed as an ideological dream. The themes of gifting, lack, and desire are fundamental ...
France exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... France Exposed: Madame Bovary and the Exposition Universelle by Anne Green The first part of this article examines recurrent features of the official reports, speeches, catalogues, and guidebooks generated by the 1855 Exposition Universelle, and argues that these texts seek to ...
Aldo Palazzeschi's: Riflessi or, writing as erasure.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Aldo Palazzeschi's :Riflessi or, Writing as Erasure by Enrico Cesaretti This article addresses the issue of self-effacement in the earliest novel by Aldo Palazzeschi. The epistolary nature of the novel is first emphasized and then read through the connection Jacques Derrida ...
Rafael Alberti's 'Muerte y juicio': death, judgement, and the poetry of (dis)belief.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Rafael Alberti's 'Muerte y juicio': Death, Judgement, and the Poetry of (Dis)Belief by Derek Gagen The polemics following the death of Rafael Alberti in 1999 rendered difficult any assessment of his work. However, interviewed in his eighties, Alberti had offered a ...
Demystification and sacrificial thinking: violence in Terenci Moix's Mon mascle.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Demystification and Sacrificial Thinking: Violence in Terenci Moix's Mon Mascle by Arthur J. Hughes Terenci Moix prefaces Mon mascle with an epigraph from Sade's Juliette, ascribing to the concepts of justice and religion the masking of an inherently violent human nature that ...
The traveller as Landschaftsmaler: industrial labour and landscape aesthetics in Johanna Schopenhauer's travel writing.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Traveller as Landschaftsmaler: Industrial Labour and Landscape Aesthetics in Johanna Schopenhauer's Travel Writing by Alison E. Martin This article explores Johanna Schopenhauer's problematic inclusion of industrial labour in the landscape scenes described in her Reise ...
The erection of the Berlin Wall: Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir and the end of East Germany.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Erection of the Berlin Wall: Thomas Brussig's Helden wie wir and the End of East Germany by Brad Prager For Thomas Brussig, the author of Helden wie wir (1995), the turn away from the GDR brought about a turn towards one more set of equally confining ideological strictures ....
Pechorin's demons: representations of the demonic in Lermontov's a hero of our time.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Pechorin's Demons: Representations of the Demonic in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time by W J. Leatherbarrow This essay seeks to identify the rhetoric used to elucidate the presence of the demonic in Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time, and to show how that rhetoric is derived from ...
Faust 20e: echos de l'ego. Le demon de Faust on l'homme et ses demons.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Faust 20e: echos de l'ego. Le demon de Faust on l'homme et ses demons. Ed. by PASCAL NOIR. Paris: Minard. zoos. 24.39 [euro]. 290 pp. ISBN 2-256-91032-6. Pascal Noir's foreword to the present collection records renewed interest in the Faust legend in European culture in recent ...
Le Vampire dans la litterature du XXe siecle.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Le Vampire dans la liWrature du XX' siecle. By JEAN MARIGNY. Paris: Champion. 2003. 379 pp. 60 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0818-1. The vampire is a stereotype. Why has this horror myth prospered? Most of us, despite irrational fears of fluttering bats, do not expect to be relieved of ...
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck. By PETER L. RUDNYTSKY. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2002. xviii+312pp. $21.95. ISBN o-8014-8825-'7 (pbk). This is a book of considerable ambition. It seeks to take stock of psychoanalysis at the start ...
Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women. Ed. by ADALGISA GiORG10. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. 2002. xiv+258pp. 46-77 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.59 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-57181-953-3 (pbk 1-57181341-1). Contrary to ...
Conversations with Zizek.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Conversations with Zizek. By SLAVOJ ZIZEK and GLYN DALY. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2003. 171 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $5495 (pbk 16.99 [pounds sterling]; $19.95). ISBN 0-7456-2664-5 (pbk 0-7456-2665-3). Slavoj Zizek, who, thanks to what he describes here as his 'permanent ...
Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Arthurian Romance: A Short Introduction. By DEREK PEARSALL. Maldon, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell. 2003. viii +182 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $5495 (pbk 12.99 [pounds sterling]; $19.95). ISBN 0-631-23319-9 (pbk 0-631-23320-2). In his preface, Derek Pearsall asserts that his aim is ...
New Directions in Arthurian Studies.(Arthurian Literature: Comedy in Arthurian Literature, vol. 19)(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... New Directions in Arthurian Studies. Ed. by ALAN LuPACK. (Arthurian Studies, 51) Cambridge: Brewer. 2002. ix+ 181 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN o-85991-642 1. Arthurian Literature, vol. xix: Comedy in Arthurian Literature. Ed. by KEITH BUSBY with ROGER DALRYMPLE. Cambridge: Brewer ....
The Numerical Universe of the 'Gawain-Pearl' Poet: Beyond 'Phi'.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Numerical Universe of the 'Gawain-Pearl' Poet: Beyond 'Phi'. By EDWARD I. CONDREN. Gainesville, Tallahassee, and Tampa: University Press of Florida. 2002. x+205 pp. $55. ISBN 0-8130-2554-0 This book contains a lot of reasoning that is soundly based, and a good deal more ...
Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Congenial Souls: Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern. By STEPHANIE TRIGG. (Medieval Cultures, 30) Minneapolis: University of Minnnesota Press. 2002. xxiv+280pp. 48 [pounds sterling](pbk [pounds sterling]1q). ISBN 0-8166-3822-5(pbk 0-8166-38233). '. . . I found I had a ...
Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation.(Shakespeare and Machiavelli)(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Alterations of State: Sacred Kingship in the English Reformation. By RICHARD C. McCoy. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. xxiv+ 218 pp. $29.50; 20.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-231-126160-6. Shakespeare and Machiavelli. By JOHN ROE. (Studies in Renaissance Literature) ...
Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Philosophy and 'The Faerie Queene'.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Spenser's Supreme Fiction: Platonic Philosophy and 'The Faerie Queene'. By JON A. QUITSLAND. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2001. xiv+373 pp. $70; 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3505-1. One ignores Spenser's use of Neoplatonism at one's peril. A ...
Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays. By BRIAN VICKERS. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2002. xviii+ 558 pp. 65 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-925653-5. Shakespeare, Co-Author is an important book, challenging some widely held ...
Stage Directions in 'Hamlet': New Essays and New Directions.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Stage Directions in 'Hamlet': New Essays and New Directions. Ed. by HARDIN L. AASAND. Cranbury NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 234 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3946-1. W.W. Greg once noted that playwrights such as ...
Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Matched Pairs: Gender and Intertextual Dialogue in Eighteenth-Century Fiction. By JOSEPH F. BARTOLOMEO. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 242 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-799-3. The purpose of this book is to ...
Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850. By RAJANI SUDAN. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2002. 200 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8122-3656-4. The title of Rajani Sudan's monograph refers to a quotation from the 1831 edition of ...
The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi,1774-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), 1817-1821, vol. 6.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi,1774-1821 (Formerly Mrs. Thrale), Vol. VI: 1817-1821. Ed. By EDWARD A. BLOOM and LILLIAN D. BLOOM; assoc. ed. O. M. BRACK, JR; intro. by GAY W. BRACK. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University ...
Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England. By GEORGE LEVINE. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2002. xi+326 pp. $45; 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-47536-0. An epigraph from Pater quoting Plato introduces George Levine's work ...
The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. By CAROLINE ROBERTS. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. ix+253 pp. $50; 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3595-5. This is a tremendous book. It concerns Harriet Martineau ...
Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the "Perilous Trade" of Authorship.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Thackeray's Skeptical Narrative and the 'Perilous Trade' of Authorship. By JUDITH L. FISHER. (The Nineteenth Century) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ix+300 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0651-1. Judith Fisher's study of Thackeray's novels is a welcome addition to ...
George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism. By SALEEL NURBHAI and K. M. NEWTON. Basings In the introduction toke and New York: Palgrave. 2001. vi+ 220 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-96381-4. Much recent criticism on George Eliot's fiction has been ...
A Longing like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... A Longing like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism. By ALAN GROB. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 249 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-752-7 A Longing like Despair is a passionate call for Victorian studies to ...
Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction.(Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas Hardy)(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Thomas Hardy and the Law: Legal Presences in Hardy's Life and Fiction. By WILLIAM A. DAVIS. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 199 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-798-5. Knowledge and Survival in the Novels of Thomas ...
Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Ed. by NIRAN ABBAS. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 256 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3954-2 The twelve essays collected in this new volume were originally ...
La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminin dans la literature medievale.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... La Veuve en majeste: deuil et savoir au feminine dans la literature medievale. BY YASMINA FOEHR-JANSSENS. Geneva: Droz. 2000. 301 pp. SwF 50. ISBN 2-600-00422-x. In medieval studies it has been the Anglo-American scholars who have tended to examine literary texts of the French ...
Homo Viator: Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Homo Viator: Itineraries of Exile, Displacement and Writing in Renaissance Europe. By GEORGE HUGO TUCKER. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 376) Geneva: Droz. 2003. xix+395PP. SwF 114.70; 77.68[euro]. ISBN 2-600-00857-8. This volume is in considerable part a collection of ...
Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etudes du Seizieme Siecle, Bar-le-Duc, 2-5 decembre 1999.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Les Funerailles a la Renaissance: XIIe colloque international de la Societe Francaise d'Etudes du Seizieme Siecle, Bar-le-Duc, 2-.5 decembre z999. Ed. by JEAN BALSAMO. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 356) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 536 pp. SwF 122.90; 83.23[euro]. ISBN 2-600-00636-2. ...
Etudes Rabelaisiennes.(Periodical Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Etudes Rabelaisiennes, 42. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 142 pp. SwF 94.20. ISBN 2-600-00869-1. This volume, like many in the series, is a miscellany. Fran9ois Cornilliat, 'On Sound Effects in Rabelais (Part II)', completes an article of which Part I is in Etudes Rabelaisiennes, 39 ...
''Comme un souci aux rayons du soleil'': Ronsard et l'invention d'une poetique de la merveille, 1550-1556.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... 'Comme un souci aux rayons du soleil': Ronsard et l'invention d'une poetique de la merveille (zsso-zss6). By VERONIQUE DENIZOT. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 373: Etudes Ronsardiennes, 9) Geneva: Droz. 2003. 352 pp. SwF 124.90; 84.61 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00852-7. In the ...
Histoire et litterature au siecle de Montaigne: melanges offerts a Claude-Gilbert Dubois.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Histoire et litterature au siecle de Montaigne: melanges offerts a Claude-Gilbert Dubois. Ed. by FRANCOISE ARGO-DUTARD. (Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 60) Geneva: Droz. tool. 409 pp. 43.91 [euro]; SwF 61.45. ISBN 2-600-00643-5. It is fitting that this collection of ...
Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III, 1558-1589, vol. 6.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Registre-Journal du regne de Henri III. By PIERRE DE L'ESTOILE. Vol. VI: (1588--1589). Ed. by MADELEINE LAZARD and GILBERT SCHRENCK. Geneva: Droz. 2003. 349 pp. SwF 65. ISBN 2-600-00850-0. This is the sixth and last volume of an edition of the Parisian chronicle of Pierre de ...
The Story of Sapho.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Story of Sapho. By MADELEINE DE SCUDERY. Trans. and intro. by KAREN NEWMAN. (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xxxi+ 155 PP. 10 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-14399-6. This volume is an interesting exercise in the ...
The Moral Tale in France and Germany 1750-1789.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Moral Tale in France and Germany 7750-7789. By KATHERINE ASTBURY. (SVEC 2002:07) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2002. viii+ 223 pp. 49[pounds sterling]. I SBN 0-7294-0789-6. Katherine Astbury begins this study by reminding her reader of the two senses attaching to the term ...
Voltaire et "sa grande amie": correspondance complete de Voltaire et de Mme de Bentinck, 1740-1778.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Voltaire et 'sa grande amie': correspondance complete de Voltaire et de Mme de Bentinck (1740-1778). Ed. by FREDERIC DELOFFRE and JACQUES CORMIER. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. 2003. xxiv+363 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7294-0815-9. The personality of Charlotte- Sophie ...
Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot, 1739-1900.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Bibliographie des oeuvres de Denis Diderot, 1739-1900. By DAVID ADAMS. (Publications du Centre International d'Etude du XVIIIe Siecle, 6-7) Ferney-Voltaire: Centre International d'Etude du xvIIIe Siecle. 2000. 2 vols; 464 pp. +480 pp.; 72 black and white illustrations. 280[euro]. ISBN ...
Autour de Lamartine: Journal de voyage, correspondances, temoignages, iconographie.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Autour de Lamartine: Journal de voyage, correspondances, temoignages, iconographie. Ed. by CHRISTIAN CROISILLE and MARIE-RENEE MORIN. (Cahler d'etudes sur les correspondances des xixe et xxe siecles, 12) Clermont-Ferrand: Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2002. xx+250 pp. 22.50[euro] ....
Correspondance generale de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, 1821-1836, vol. 1.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Correspondance generale de Marie de Flavigny, comtesse d'Agoult, vol. 1: 1821-1836. Ed. by CHARLES F. DUPECHEZ. (Bibliotheque des Correspondances, 4) Paris: Champion. 2003. 571 pp. 90[euro]. ISBN 2-'7453-0860-2. Madame d'Agoult's life is such stuff as Romantic novels are made ...
Romances Sans paroles.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Romances Sans paroles. By PAUL VERLAINE. Ed. by STEVE MURPHY, JEAN BONNA, and JEAN-JACQUES LEFRBRE. Paris: Champion. 2003. 470 PP. 75[euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0873-4. Following an impressively thorough critical edition of Rimbaud's Poesies (Paris: Champion, 1999), Steve Murphy ...
Marges du premier Verlaine.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Marges du premier Verlaine. By STEVE MURPHY. Paris: Champion. 2003. 422 pp. 70 [euro]. ISBN 2-'7453-o866-I. Focusing mostly on the pre-Rimbaud years, Steve Murphy turns our attention from the well-worn themes of impressionism, musicality, le flou, and le vague, towards 'un poete ...
Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the "Fin-de-Siecle'' in Europe.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Decadent Subjects: The Idea of Decadence in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Culture of the 'Fin-de-Siecle' in Europe. By CHARLES BERNHEIMER. Ed. by T. JEFFERSON KLINE and NAOMI SCHOR. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. xviii + 227PP. $41-95; 30[pounds sterling] ....
Lettres de Marcel Jouhandeau a Max Jacob.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Lettres de Marcel Jouhandeau a Max Jacob. Ed. by ANNE S. KIMBALL. (Textes litteraires fran9ais, 544) Geneva: Droz. 2002. 132 pp. SwF 38.90; 26.36. [euro] ISBN 2-600-00622-2. The 113 letters which make up this annotated edition were a chance discovery in 2001 by Anne Kimball, ...
Paul Claudel 18: Claudel poete? de 'La Cantate a trois voix' (1912) a ''Poesies diverses''.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Paul Claudel 18: Claudel poete? de 'La Cantate a trois voix' (1912) a 'Poesies diverses' (1952). Ed. by DIDIER ALEXANDRE. Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2003. 164 pp. 18[euro]. ISBN 2-256-91053-9. The aim of this publication is to explore and celebrate the body of ...
Malraux: ''La Condition humaine''.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Malraux: 'La Condition humaine'. By CHRISTOPHER SHORLEY. (Critical Guides to French Texts, 129) London: Grant & Cutler. 2003. 89 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0438-8. Grant & Cutler's series of Critical Guides is now apparently coming to its end. Like all such, they ...
Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Liberty, Equality, Maternity in Beauvoir, Leduc and Ernaux. By ALISON S. FELL. Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre of the University of Oxford. 2003. x+208 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-900755-73-4. Motherhood is an impassioned issue in feminist debates, but too few ...
Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the z99os. Ed. by GILL RYE and MICHAEL WORTON. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. 2002. ix+262 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7190-622'7-6. Women's Writing in Contemporary France is one ...
Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity, Politics, Debate.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity, Politics, Debate. By DAVID L. LOOSELEY. Oxford and New York: Berg. 2003. xii+ 254 pp. C5o (pbk 5.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 1-85973-631-9 (pbk 1-85973-636-X). The title of David Looseley's fascinating book is a little ...
Oyono: "Une vie de boy" and "Le Vieux Negre et la medaille".(Henri Lopes: "Le Pleurer-rire")(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Oyono: 'Une vie de boy' and 'Le Vieux Negre et la medaille'. By PATRICK CORCORAN. (Grant & Cutler Critical Guides to French Texts, 132) London: Grant and Cutler. 2003. 89 pp. 7.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7293-0437-x. Henri Lopes: 'Le Pleurer-rire'. By PATRICK CORCORAN. ...
A History of French Literature: From ''Chanson de Geste'' to Cinema.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... A History of French Literature: From 'Chanson de Geste' to Cinema. By DAVID COWARD. Oxford: Blackwell. 2002. xxviii+606 pp. 09-99;$34-95- ISBN 0-631-16758-7. Covering in varying depth everything down to modern gay, regional, and franco-phone writing, this approachable and ...
Saussure and his Interpreters.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Saussure and his Interpreters. By Roy HARRIS. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2001. vi+224 pp. 44[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7486-1308-0. In a very readable study, Roy Harris examines the mis/representation of Saussurean ideas by certain linguists and by French thinkers of ...
Histoire culturelle des pronoms d'adresse: vers une typologie des systemes allocutoires dans les langues romanes.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Histoire culturelle des pronoms d'adresse: vers une typologie des systemes allocutoires daps les langues romanes. By BEATRICE COFFEN. (Bibliotheque de grammaire et de linguistique, 12) Paris: Champion. 2002. 319 pp. 55 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0567-0. The conventions of interpersonal ...
Le riviste di italianistica nel mondo: Atti del Convegno internazionale. Napoli 23-25 Novembre 2000.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Le riviste di italianistica nel mondo: Atti del Convegno internazionale. Napoli 23-25 Novembre 2000. Ed. by MARCO SANTORO. (Quaderni di 'Esperienze Letterarie', 3) Rome and Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali. 2002. xvii+ 384 pp. 93[euro]. ISBN 88-8147-252-x. ...
Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language. By GIULIO LEPSCHY. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. x+ 148 pp. 15[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3729-1. Mother Tongues and Other Reflections on the Italian Language is a collection of six scholarly essays ...
'La fonte d'ogni eloquenzia': il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... 'La fonte d'ogni eloquenzia': il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese. By ITALO PANTANI. Rome: Bulzoni. 2002. 467 pp. 30[euro]. ISBN 88-8319-753-4. Over the last thirty years considerable scholarly activity has been devoted to literary ...
The Century of Women: Representation of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... The Century of Women: Representation of Women in Eighteenth-Century Italian Public Discourse. By REBECCA MESSBARGER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xi+209 pp. 28 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3652-x. Rebecca Messbarger's volume seeks to throw light on the ...
In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism.(Book Review)
Oct 01, 2004; ... In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism. By GIULIANA MINGHELLI. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press. 2002. xi+238 pp. 32[pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-3638-4. I first came across Minghelli's work, when working on Svevo, in ...