The Modern Language Review back issues from July 2005:
Pope and plagiarism.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Pope is the poet of the English Augustan age whose peace of mind and posthumous reputation were most disturbed by allegations of plagiarism. This article discusses his general sensitivity to the ethics of literary borrowing and the numerous accusations of plagiarism that were made against ...
T.S. Eliot on the limits of criticism: the anomalous 'Experiment' of 1929.(Experiment in Criticism, lecture)(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2005; ... In 1929 Eliot delivered a lecture entitled 'Experiment in Criticism'. He never collected it, and it has been largely ignored by critics. This article argues that the essay represents a major departure from his usual conflicted position in the 1920s and 1930s about the objects of criticism ....
The Paris of Rene Crevel.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Although Crevel spent his life in Paris, he always felt something of an outsider in the capital. This article shows how Crevel's Paris serves, in turn, as a locus of homosexual pleasures (especially those of the bal musette), a source of verbal puns, and a site of socio-economic ...
Simone de Beauvoir's 'La femme rompue': reception and deception.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2005; ... This article aims to account for the 'misreading' of 'La femme rompue' by the readers of its serialized publication in French Elle magazine. It offers a close reading of the parallels between the protagonist's strategies for self-deception and Beauvoir's own attempts to deceive the reader ...
Translating the Pope and the Apennines: Harington's version of the Orlando Furioso.
Jul 01, 2005; ... Sir John Harington's translation of the Orlando furioso, first published in 1591, despite its overall fidelity, clearly reflects in key ways the age in which it was produced, in particular a creative interaction with and intervention in the text of the original. That Harington ...
No time for the doves? Intrusion and redrafting in the English translation of La placa del Diamant.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The art of translation is fraught with difficulty. This is particularly the case with literary translation, where a whole series of strategies employed by the translator can alter both the nature and the tenor of the original. This article considers the case of the English version of ...
The colonial criticism of Jose Rabasa: a Marxist critique.(Critical Essay)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The transition from classical to post-Marxism, recently promoted by colonial critics, constitutes a theoretically regressive step. Focusing on the paradigmatic figure of Jose Rabasa, this article argues that the post-structural 'linguistic turn', involving the marginalization of the ...
Oral reading, print culture, and the German Enlightenment.
Jul 01, 2005; ... The eighteenth century is often identified as the period when silent reading became the norm. In the German Enlightenment, however, reading aloud did not die out. Everyday domestic practices, including oral reading, reflected the Enlightenment intellectual programme. This view is supported ...
Masochism and its limits in Robert Musil's 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'.
Jul 01, 2005; ... This article analyses the theme of masochism in Musil's story 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'. It assesses whether the depiction of a masochistic female protagonist by a male narrator reinscribes a schematic gender polarity and the extent to which the story supports an understanding of ...
Universal history as Reworked by 'Satirikon' and 1066 and All That as parody history textbooks: a suggestion of a literary genre.
Jul 01, 2005; ... 1066 and All That, the famous parody history textbook and classic of British humour, was published in 1930. There is an equivalent in Russian humorous literature: a parody history textbook Universal History as Reworked by 'Satirikon', published in 1910-11. These two works display ...
Ossian and Ossianism in Britain and Germany: a review article.('Homer des Nordens' und 'Mutter der Romantik': James Macphersons 'Ossian' und seine Rezeption in der deutschsprachigen Literatur, vols. 1-3)(Kommentierte Neuausgabe wichtiger Texte zur deutschen Rezeption, vol. 4)(Ossian and Ossianism: Subcultures and Subversions, 1750-1850)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... This extended review of two collections of materials on the reception of James Macpherson's 'Ossian' poems in Britain and Germany respectively examines the diversity of responses to Macpherson's work and the depth with which his imagery pervaded German literature of the classical and ...
De soi a soi: l'ecriture comme autohospitalite.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... De soi a soi: l'ecriture comme autohospitalite. Ed. by ALAIN MONTANDON. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal. 2004. 284 pp. 25 [euro]. ISBN 2-84516-241-3. This volume represents the proceedings of a conference held at the Universite Blaise Pascal in 2003, and ...
Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Narrative Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Narratology. By DANILO PUNDAY. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2003. x+234 pp. 42.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-6241-3. Daniel Punday announces that 'After a decade of suspicion about language's ability to refer to anything beyond ...
Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Women and Laughter in Medieval Comic Literature. By LISA PERFETTI. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2003. xiv+286 pp. 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-472-11321-6. Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches, this book examines how female laughter functions when embedded ...
Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Culture and Change: Attending to Early Modern Women. Ed. by MARGARET MIKESELL and ADELE SEEFF. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 400 pp. $48.50. ISBN 0-87413-825-6. This is the fourth volume in a series based on a series of ...
The Global Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Global Eighteenth Century. Ed. by FELICITY A. NUSSBAUM. Baltimore, MD, and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xiv+385 pp. 40.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8018-6865-3. It has recently been suggested in some academic circles that contemporary sensitivity to issues ...
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism.(The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Walter Benjamin and Romanticism. Ed. by BEATRICE HANSSEN and ANDREW BENJAMIN. New York and London: Continuum. 2002. viii+246 pp. $33.95. ISBN 0-8264-6021-6. The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant. By ANGELIKA RAUCH. Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson ...
Discours d'Auschwitz: litterarite, representation, symbolisation.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Discours d'Auschwitz: litterarite, representation, symbolisation. By KARLA GRIERSON. Paris: Champion. 2003. 526 pp. 85 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0722-3. This book has all the advantages and disadvantages of starting out as the author's doctoral thesis. The advantages include the ...
Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Posthumanist Theory.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. By CARY WOLFE. Foreword by W.J.T. MITCHELL. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xvi+237 pp. $49 (pbk $18); 34.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk 13 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-226-90513-6 (pbk ...
Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial and the Rhetoric of Haunting.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Untimely Interventions: AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting. By ROSS CHAMBERS. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2004. xxxvi+ 415 pp. 17 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-472-06871-7. In a densely argued study, Ross Chambers's latest offering analyses ...
Anglo-Saxon Styles.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Anglo-Saxon Styles. Ed. by CATHERINE E. KARKOV and GEORGE HARDIN BROWN. (SUNY Medieval Studies) Albany: State University of New York Press. 2003. viii+320pp. $71.50 (pbk $23.95). ISBN 0-7914-5869-5 (pbk 0-7914-5870-9). This multidisciplinary volume of essays on Anglo-Saxon style ...
Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr. Ed. by MARK C. AMODIO and KATHERINE O'BRIEN O'KEEFER. Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press. 2003. x+359 pp. $78; 48 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8020-4822-6. This important collection offers ...
Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare.(A Companion to Gower)(The English Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Writing War: Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare. Ed. by CORINNE SAUNDERS, R01208 FRANCOISE LE SAUX, and NEIL THOMAS. Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. x+235 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $75. ISBN 0-85991-843-2. A Companion to Gower. Ed. by SIAN ECHARD. Cambridge: Brewer. 2004. x+286 pp ....
Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Early Medieval Texts and Interpretations: Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg. Ed. by ELAINE TREHARNE and SUSAN ROSSER. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 252) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2003. xx+391 pp. $40; 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN ...
Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene': Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Fairy in 'The Faerie Queene': Renaissance Elf-Fashioning and Elizabethan Myth-Making. By MATTHEW WOODCOCK. Aldershot: Ashgate. 2004. ix+162 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]; $59.95. ISBN 0-7546-3639-6. The Faerie Queene remains a kind of fantasy text. As Matthew Woodcock observes in a ...
Marlowe's Empery: Expanding his Critical Contexts.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Marlowe's Empery: Expanding his Critical Contexts. Ed. by SARA MUNSON DEATS and ROBERT A. LOGAN. Newark: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2002. 210 pp. $40; 20.93 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-787-x. These nine essays originated at the ...
Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Shakespeare's Visual Theatre: Staging the Personified Characters. By FREDERICK KIEFER. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xiv+358 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]; $70. ISBN 0-521-82725-6. Frederick Kiefer's book is a lavishly illustrated and ...
The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Taste of the Town: Shakespearian Comedy and the Early Eighteenth-Century Theater. By KATHERINE WEST SCHEIL. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 333 pp. 44 [pounds ...
Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'.(Bawdy and Soul: A Revaluation of Shakespeare's Sonnets)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'. By TOM MCALINDON. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate. 2004. xii+210 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3981-9. Bawdy and Soul: A Revaluation of Shakespeare's Sonnets. By FRANK ERIK POINTNER. Heidelberg: Winter. 2003. 226 pp. ISBN 3-8253-1504-5. ...
Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets. By LISA FREINKEL. New York: Columbia University Press. 2002. xxx+384 pp. $52; 36.50 [pounds sterling] (pbk $20; 14 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-231-12324-8 (pbk 0-231-12325-6). Although concerning ...
Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe. Ed. by LUIS PUJANTE and TON HOENSELAARS, with a foreword by STANLEY WELLS. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 2003. 274 pp. 42 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-812-4. This important collection of European studies of Shakespeare is a ...
A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Early Modern Epistemology.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... A Brave New World of Knowledge: Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and Early Modern Epistemology. By B. J. SOKOL. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 274 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3925-9. At the heart of B. J ....
Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton.(Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity)(The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Imagining Death in Spenser and Milton. Ed. by ELIZABETH JANE BELLAMY, PATRICK CHENEY, and MICHAEL SCHOENFELDT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. xii+216 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-98398-x. Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity. By SUSANNAH ...
Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman. By LUCINDA M. BECKER. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. x+226 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3349-7. With this book, Lucinda M. Becker attempts an exploration of the gendering of death in early modern England. Becker's ...
Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Better a Shrew than a Sheep: Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England. By PAMELA ALLEN BROWN. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press. 2003. xii+263 pp. $49.95 (pbk $19.95). ISBN 0-8014-4024-6 (pbk 0-8014-8836-2). The title of this book challenges ...
Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing: Renaissance Passions Reconsidered.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing: Renaissance Passions Reconsidered. By ROBERT COCKCROFT. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2003. x+209 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-80252-7. Rhetorical Affect in Early Modern Writing is a brave book that does not ...
Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish. Ed. by LINE COTTEGNIES and NANCY WEITZ. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 238 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3983-6. Until recently, ...
The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660. By NICHOLAS MCDOWELL. (Oxford English Monographs) Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. x+219 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926051-6. The rather tired generalities and predictable ...
The Poems of Andrew Marvell.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Poems of Andrew Marvell. Ed. NIGEL SMITH. (Longman Annotated English Poets) London, New York, and Toronto: Pearson Longman. 2003. xxvi+468 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-582-07770-2. Nigel Smith's Longman edition of Marvell is a cornucopia of learning, an extraordinary ...
Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton. By BLAIR HOXBY. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2003. xii+320 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-300-09378-0. Mammon's Music is a work of considerable originality, which casts new light on Milton and some ...
Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel.(Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. By THOMAS KEYMER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2002. xiv+222 pp. 47 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-924592-4. Scepticism and Literature: An Essay on Pope, Hume, Sterne, and Johnson. By FRED PARKER. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. x+290 ...
Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's 'Clarissa'.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Epistolary Spaces: English Letter Writing from the Foundation of the Post Office to Richardson's 'Clarissa'. By JAMES HOW. (Studies in Early Modern English Literature) Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. x+214 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0354-7. At the opening ...
The Other John Adams, 1705-1740.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Other John Adams, 1705-1740. By BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 207 pp. 35 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3986-0. It is not hard to understand why the 'other' John Adams, a New Englander who ...
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination. By BARBARA TAYLOR. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xvi+331 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $65 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $23). ISBN 0-521-66144-7 (pbk 0-521-00417-9). ...
Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Modes of Discipline: Women, Conservatism and the Novel after the French Revolution. By LISA WOOD. (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 189 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN ...
Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Angers, Fantasies and Ghostly Fears: Nineteenth-Century Women from Wales and English-Language Poetry. By CATHERINE BRENNAN. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2003. viii+237 pp. 14.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7083-1764-2. The seven poets assessed by Catherine Brennan in ...
Jane Austen on Screen.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Jane Austen on Screen. Ed. by GINA MACDONALD and ANDREW MACDONALD. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+ 284 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]; $70 (pbk 16.95 [pounds sterling]; $25). ISBN 0-521-79325-4 (pbk 0-521-79728-4). This collection proffers ...
Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory. By PAUL HAMILTON. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. viii+316 pp. $25; 17.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-31480-4. 'Metaromanticism' is Paul Hamilton's coinage. It refers to the philosophical self-reflection ...
British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Vision and Conflict.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Vision and Conflict. By SIMON BAINBRIDGE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. xii+259 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-8187580. Simon Bainbridge extends the work he began with Napoleon and ...
Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia.(Byron, Poetics and History)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Byron and Place: History, Translation, Nostalgia. By STEPHEN CHEEKE. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave. 2003. x+241 pp. 47.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-4039-0403-0. Byron, Poetics and History. By JANE STABLER. (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) Cambridge, New York, and ...
English Romanticism and the Celtic World.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... English Romanticism and the Celtic World. Ed. by GERARD CARRUTHERS and ALAN RAWES. Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2003. xii+265 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]; $60. ISBN 0-521-81085-x. Not that long ago, the title of Marilyn Gaull's English ...
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography. By JOHN SUTHERLAND. London: Viking Penguin. 627 pp. 25 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-670-88303-4. Writing to Spender in April 1942, Auden suggested: 'I believe that you are a very strong, ruthless character [ ...] you escape from the guilt ...
The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Extension of Life: Fiction and History in the American Novel. By R. A. YORK. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 178 pp. 30 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3986-5. Richard York sets out to answer a good question: ...
Reading the East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Reading The East India Company, 1720-1840: Colonial Currencies of Gender. By BETTY JOSEPH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2004. $45 (pbk $18). ISBN 0-226-41203-2 (pbk 0-226-41202-4). In late December 1774 Bishnukumari, the rani of the rich Bengali province of Burdwan, ...
English Literature and Ancient Languages.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... English Literature and Ancient Languages. By KENNETH HAYNES. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003. xiv+210 pp. 47 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-19-926190-3. This is an unusual and welcome book, probably the first monograph of its kind, devoted to the influence of the Latin and ...
Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern. By CHRISTOPH LINDNER. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. viii+190 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3483-3. Christoph Lindner offers a study that looks at literary representations of consumerism ....
Dramaturgies britanniques (1980-2000).(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Dramaturgies britanniques (1980-2000). Ed. by JEAN-MARC LANTERI. (Ecritures contemporaines, 5) Paris and Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard. 2002. 228 pp. 20 [euro]. ISBN 2-256-91047-4. Major social transformations in Britain since 1979 have affected theatrical institutions in ...
Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film. By DARRYL JONES. London: Arnold. 2003. iv+220 pp. 35 [pounds sterling] (pbk 9.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 0-340-76252-7 (pbk 0-340-76253-5). Darryl Jones's Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film falls between a number of ...
Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Future Present: Ethics and/as Science Fiction. By MICHAEL PINSKY. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 2003. 215 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8386-3924-0. The mode, Michael Pinsky suggests, in which we anticipate Otherness ...
The Anonymous Marie de France.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... The Anonymous Marie de France. By R. HOWARD BLOCH. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2003. xii+367 pp. 31.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-226-05968-5. R. Howard Bloch's latest book is a very personal work. Dedicated to the memory of his wife (Naomi Schor), it is also ...
Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Fortune's Faces: The 'Roman de la Rose' and the Poetics of Contingency. By DANIEL HELLER-ROAZEN. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. xvi+206 pp. 33.50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-8081-7191-3. This informative book addresses an aspect of the Roman de la Rose ...
A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, vol. 11.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... A Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 11: L-Z. By ALISON ADAMS, STEPHEN RAWLES and ALISON SAUNDERS. Geneva: Droz. 2002. xxii+762 pp. SwF 142; 9103.95. ISBN 2-600-00676-1. Only three years after the appearance of Volume 1 of this ...
Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... Webs of Allusion: French Protestant Emblem Books of the Sixteenth Century. By ALISON ADAMS. (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 378) Geneva: Droz. 2003. x+ 324 pp. SwF 92.20; 62.42 [euro]. ISBN 2-600-00874-8. Well researched and demonstrating an extraordinary wealth of ...
L'Arcadie.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... L'Arcadie. By JACQUES SANNAZAR. Trans. by JEAN MARTIN. Ed. by JEAN-CLAUDE TERNAUX. (Publication du Centre de Recherche sur la Transmission des Modeles Litteraires et Esthetiques) Reims: Presses Universitaires de Reims. 2003. 209 pp. 18 [euro]. ISBN 2-904835-94-6. The importance ...
Oeuvres completes, vol. 1: La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse.(Book Review)
Jul 01, 2005; ... OEuvres completes, Vol. 1: La Deffence, et illustration de la langue francoyse. By JOACHIM DU BELLAY. Ed. by FRANCOIS GOYET and OLIVIER MILLET. (Textes de la Renaissance, 71) Paris: Champion. 2003. 461 pp. 45 [euro]. ISBN 2-7453-0874-2. This is the first volume to appear in ...