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Introduction

Niven, B. — 2008-04-18

The Valley of the Fallen: Tales from the Crypt

Hite, K. — 2008-04-18

This article focuses on Spain's Valley of the Fallen, the brainchild of dictator Francisco Franco (1939–1975) and the country's largest monument. I argue that, while the monument glorifies General Franco's personal legacy, it also represents a dramatic effort to re-assert a Christian-military nationalist Spain as a model to the world. The article also suggests that the monument calls on Spaniards to struggle not only with the meanings of Franco's defeat of a progressive republic, but also with the country's relationships to its Christian imperial past, to northern Africa and Muslim immigrants to the country, to Fortress Europe, and to current debates about empire and occupation.

The Limits of National Memory: Anti-Fascism, the Holocaust and the Fosse Ardeatine Memorial in 1990s Italy

Clifford, R. — 2008-04-18

This article uses the memorial to the 1944 Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome as a case study that demonstrates how the symbolic function of memorials can alter over time. Focusing on the changing meanings of the monument in a post-Cold War context, it examines how, during the 1990s, the memorial was transformed from a central, national symbol of the Italian anti-fascist Resistance to one which evoked the Holocaust. It argues that this shift in meaning recast the monument – and the massacre itself – as a site and an event at the margins of national history and memory.

Commemorating World War II in Northern Greece: Controversy and Reconsideration

Katsaridou, I., Kontogiorgi, A. — 2008-04-18

This article seeks to examine the World War II memorials that were commissioned by the Greek state and other public institutions in Komotini, a city in Western Thrace, as well as their ambiguous reception during the last three decades. It focuses particularly on "The Sword", a memorial that was erected during the years of the Greek military dictatorship (1967–1974) to honour the victims of World War II who gave their lives for their country. It sheds light on the process behind the creation of "The Sword", analysing also its artistic style and visual references in connection with the historical conditions of its creation. The article also considers the recent dispute surrounding the function and aesthetics of the monument, and alternative forms of memorialisation erected in the area in the last decade.

A Norwegian Grey Zone: Knut Rod, Victor Lind and "The Crucial Year, 1942"

Burch, S. — 2008-04-18

This article uses Primo Levi's concept of "the grey zone" to explore Knut Rød's involvement in the transfer of 532 Norwegian Jews from Oslo to Auschwitz in 1942. Rød, the police chief in charge of the operation, was subsequently exonerated of any crime on the grounds that he had simultaneously used his position to help members of Milorg – the Norwegian Resistance. The legal and moral basis of this verdict has been questioned by the artist Victor Lind in a series of artworks, including his "countermonument" The Perpetrator (2005).

Post-Soviet Remembrance of the Holocaust and National Memories of the Second World War in Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania

Rohdewald, S. — 2008-04-18

This article compares changes in remembrance of the Holocaust and the Second World War in three successor states of the Soviet Union – Russia, Ukraine and Lithuania – belonging to different historical regions of Eastern Europe. The contribution argues that despite important distinctions, in all three states the new practices of remembrance are developing in similar ways: while the Holocaust is remembered, memory of it often remains marginalised or is appropriated for particular ends.

The Afterlife of Communist Statuary: Hungary's Szoborpark and Lithuania's Grutas Park

Williams, P. — 2008-04-18

Following the "Autumn of Nations" revolutions in 1989–1991, cities throughout Eastern Europe were presented with a problem: what to do with their communist-inspired sculptures. Working with the idea that their continued presence in situ was unacceptable, but that their destruction would forgo the opportunity to teach others about the style and content of the political ideology, two key sites – Hungary's Szoborpark ("Statue Park") and Lithuania's Grutas Park – emerged as a novel response. This article argues that these privately-run semi-rural parks, which contain almost comically condensed collections of sculptures and monuments, only semi-effectively demonstrate the current irrelevance of communism.

Beauty, Utility and Christian Civilisation: War Memorials and the Church of England, 1940-47

Webster, P. — 2008-04-18

This article examines responses of the institutional Church of England to the issue of memorials to the Second World War. It explores the debates concerning the relationship between beauty, utility and the notion of "Christian civilisation", particularly with regard to the reconstruction of bombed churches. It argues that debates among interested clergy and others within the wider cultural "establishment" over the future form of memorials was more lively than has often been supposed hitherto.

The German Countermonument: Conceptual Indeterminacies and the Retheorisation of the Arts of Vicarious Memory

Crownshaw, R. — 2008-04-18

This article examines trends in the conceptualisation of German countermonumental architecture that associate monumentality and fascism. The countermonument has been conceptualised as the appropriate form by which to memorialise the Holocaust, given its self-disruptive dynamic and inability to impose a monumental version of the past. However, following recent critiques of memory studies and German architectural discourse, this article argues that the prevailing conceptualisation of the countermonument engenders an ironic slippage from, to use Gillian Rose's terms, the "representation of fascism" to the "fascism of representation".

The Passioun of Our Lord Branches IX-XII, Sections 33-48: Edited from St. John's College, Cambridge, MS G.20 by Catherine Innes-Parker

Innes-Parker, C. — 2008-01-29

"And Died to Kiss his Shadow": The Narcissistic Gaze in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Langley, E. — 2008-01-29

Reading Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in the light of contemporary conceptions of vision, this article argues that the epyllion's rhetoric of like kindness and loving mutuality is predicated upon a conception of visual reciprocation achieved in the exchange of eyebeams. Consequently, it is in this context of ocular exchange and reflection that the poet introduces the figure of Narcissus, figuring the Ovidian youth as an epitome of dangerous visual kindness. While initially it is the self-sufficient Adonis who is associated with the introverted Narcissus, ultimately it is Venus, whose manifesto of erotic exchange and reciprocation insists upon reflection, who exhibits the attitude and rhetorical characteristics of the self-interested self-lover.

Inside Out: Female Bodies in Rabelais

Bromilow, P. — 2008-01-29

This article explores representations of female bodies in Rabelais in the light of Laqueur's notion of the "one-sex body". Contrary to previous studies which have argued that women are marginalised and excluded from Rabelais's works, this piece demonstrates the author's fascination with the female body, a site that he revisits throughout his narratives. This preoccupation emerges from the impossibility of resolving tensions inherent in the social construction of two genders within the medically-defined "one-sex body". As a consequence, Rabelais continually seeks to cover over signs of female sexual difference by using representational strategies which rewrite the female body in terms of its safer (male) parallel, particularly during scenes of childbirth. These dynamics of desire and revulsion echo Kristeva's theory of the abject, where the primal scene of abjection (the child's rejection of the Mother) resurfaces in society's expulsion of waste beyond its boundaries, exteriorising the danger within.

Weakness as a Form of Engagement: Maurice Blanchot on the Figure of the Last Man

Just, D. — 2008-01-29

Against the background of the literary and philosophical debates in France in the mid- and the late 1950s, this article examines Maurice Blanchot's narrative Le Dernier homme (1957), as well as his critical essays from this period, asking whether the emphasis Blanchot puts in these texts on exhaustion, weakness and suspended deixis is, at the height of the war in Algeria, a sign of an apolitical withdrawal. I argue that instead of positing stylistic asceticism, slowness and silence as autonomous aesthetic categories, these texts propose them as historically conditioned literary devices – devices capable of undermining the drive for mastery that Blanchot identifies as the cause of the present Western ego- and ethnocentrism.

Ni Ennemie, Ni Rivale: Female Friendship in Works by Alice Rivaz, Anne-Lise Grobety and Noelle Revaz

Charnley, J. — 2008-01-29

This article studies the theme of female friendship in work by three women writers from French-speaking Switzerland: La Paix des ruches by Alice Rivaz (1947), Pour mourir en février by Anne-Lise Grobéty (1969) and Rapport aux bêtes (2002) by Noëlle Revaz. The writers chosen for this study represent three generations, having been born in 1901, 1949 and 1968 respectively. The article compares and contrasts their different representations of friendships between women. Rivaz, writing before Le Deuxième sexe and the modern women's movement, has a very idealistic view of relations between women, which she contrasts strongly with male–female interaction; Grobéty, writing in the wake of 1968 and during the early days of modern feminism, is perhaps more realistic but again sees men as potential threats to relationships between women; finally, Revaz is completely different since her female character is isolated from other women, dominated by the male narrator and sidelined. This article thus seeks to show how, over a period of sixty years, the theme of female friendship has been dealt with in different ways by women writers, and establishes links with changing attitudes to the women's movement.

The Psychology of Association in Karl Philipp Moritz's Anton Reiser

Minter, C. J. — 2008-01-29

This article examines the treatment of association psychology in Moritz's Anton Reiser. First, an attempt is made to provide a context for the subsequent reading of Anton Reiser by exploring Moritz's views on the association of ideas in his Vorlesungen über den Stil. Interpretation of Anton Reiser then focuses on the relationship of association psychology to two characteristic aspects of Anton's experiencing: his episodic self-experience; and his lack of freedom, both psychological and actual.

The Mirage of the New World: Eveline Hasler's Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Kopfen

Burns, B. — 2008-01-29

Eveline Hasler's historical novel Ibicaba, das Paradies in den Köpfen (1985) concerns the emigration of a group of Swiss citizens to Brazil in 1855. The article considers the author's technique of blending fact and fiction to craft a powerful account of white slavery in the New World, and traces links between Hasler's novel and nineteenth-century literary works by Friedrich Gerstäcker and Amalia Schoppe. Examining Hasler's use of characterisation, theme and leitmotiv, the article probes the manner in which the novel illuminates a dark episode in Swiss history, while also contributing indirectly to the modern political discourse on economic migration, people trafficking and bonded labour.

Affaires de famille: The Family in Contemporary French Culture and Theory. Ed. Marie-Claire Barnet & Edward Welch. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007. 347 pp. {pound}49.70. ISBN 978-90-420-2170-9

2008-01-29

BEGLEY, VARUN. Harold Pinter and the Twilight of Modernism. Toronto, Buffalo & London: University of Toronto Press, 2005. x + 207 pp. {pound}35.00/$55.00. ISBN 0-8020-3887-5

2008-01-29

BLOUET, OLWYN M. The Contemporary Caribbean: History, Life and Culture since 1945. London: Reaktion Books (Contemporary Worlds), 2007. 160 pp. {pound}14.95. ISBN 1-86189-313-2

2008-01-29

BROWN, HILDA MELDRUM. E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Serapiontic Principle: Critique and Creativity. Rochester, NY & Woodbridge: Camden House, 2006. 211 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1-57113-348-8

2008-01-29

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Ed. Shaun Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv + 287 pp. {pound}45.00 (hardback); {pound}17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-80400-0/00873-5

2008-01-29

CANADAS, IVAN. Public Theater in Golden Age Madrid and Tudor-Stuart London: Class, Gender and Festive Community. Aldershot: Ashgate (Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama), 2005. xiv + 233 pp. {pound}50.00. ISBN 0-7546-5187-8

2008-01-29

The Cloister and the World: Early Modern Convent Voices. Ed. Thomas M. Carr, Jr. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 11), 2007. x + 267 pp. ISBN 978-1-886365-64-3

2008-01-29

Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present. Eds. Silvia Bigliazzi & Sharon Wood. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006. xii + 221 pp. {pound}50.00. ISBN 0-7546-5512-1

2008-01-29

Conceptions of Europe in Renaissance France: Essays in Honour of Keith Cameron. Ed. David Cowling. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (Faux Titre, 281), 2006. 204 pp. ISBN 90-420-2006-7

2008-01-29

FARRANT, TIM. An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. London: Duckworth, 2007. 216 pp. {pound}14.99. ISBN 0715629077

2008-01-29

GARRAWAY, DORIS. The Libertine Colony: Creolization in the Early French Caribbean. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2005. xvi + 412 pp. {pound}16.95. ISBN 0-8223-3465-8

2008-01-29

How Joyce Wrote "Finnegans Wake": A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide. Ed. Luca Crispi & Sam Slote. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (Irish Studies in Literature and Culture), 2007. 522 pp. $65.00. ISBN 0-299-21860-0

2008-01-29

HOWE, ALAN. Ecrivains de Theatre, 1600-1649: Documents du Minutier Central des Notaires de Paris. Paris: Centre historique des Archives nationales, 2005. xiii + 340 pp. {euro}35.00. ISBN 2-86000-311-8

2008-01-29

JONES, CHRIS. Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 266 pp. {pound}50.00. ISBN 0-19-927832-6

2008-01-29

LAMBROPOULOS, VASSILIS. The Tragic Idea. London: Duckworth, 2006. 158 pp. {pound}12.99. ISBN 0-7156-355-8

2008-01-29

Learning English. Eds. N. Mercer, J. Swann & B. Mayor. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007. iii + 296 pp. {pound}19.99. ISBN 978-0-415-37687-7

2008-01-29

MALLARME, STEPHANE. Divagations. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Cambridge, MA & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. x + 302 pp. {pound}19.95/$29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-02438-0

2008-01-29

MARDER, STEPHEN. A Supplementary Russian-English Dictionary (ASRED 2). Bloomington, IN: Slavica, second edition, 2007. xxv + 736 pp. $44.95. ISBN 978-0-89357-327-2

2008-01-29

Modern Perspectives on the Early Modern: Temps recherche, temps retrouve. Ed. Anne L. Birberick & Russell Ganim. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press (EMF: Studies in Early Modern France, 10), 2005. x +186 pp. ISBN 1-886365-54-7

2008-01-29

MORASH, CHRISTOPHER. A History of Irish Theatre, 1601-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xx + 322 pp. {pound}40.00/$60.00 (hardback); {pound}16.99/$24.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-64117-9/64682-0

2008-01-29

NICHOLLS, ANGUS. Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic After the Ancients. Woodbridge: Camden House, 2006. xii + 313 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1-57113-307-0

2008-01-29

ORME, MARK. The Development of Albert Camus's Concern for Social and Political Justice: "justice pour un juste". Madison, Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-8386-4110-1

2008-01-29

ORTEGA, JULIO. Transatlantic Translations: Dialogues in Latin American Literature. Trans. Philip Derbyshire. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. 222 pp. {pound}25.00. ISBN 1-86189-287-X

2008-01-29

OSER, LEE. The Ethics of Modernism: Moral Ideas in Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Woolf and Beckett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 185 pp. {pound}45.00/$80.00. ISBN 0-521-86725-8

2008-01-29

PARATI, GRAZIELLA. Migration Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 272 pp. {pound}35.00/$55.00. ISBN 0-8020-3924-3

2008-01-29

PETERS, JOHN G. The Cambridge Introduction to Joseph Conrad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 146 pp. {pound}35.00/$65.00 (hardback); {pound}10.99/$19.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-83972-6/54867-5

2008-01-29

PRAGER, BRAD. Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images. Rochester & Woodbridge: Camden House, 2007. viii + 287 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00. ISBN (13): 987-1-57113-341-0/(10): 1-57113-341-0

2008-01-29

Re-Visiting Angela Carter: Texts, Contexts, Intertexts. Ed. Rebecca Munford. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xiv + 207 pp. {pound}45.00. ISBN 1-4039-9705-5

2008-01-29

ROWLAND, INGRID. The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. x + 230 pp. {pound}16.00/$22.50. ISBN 0-226-73037-9

2008-01-29

RANASINHA, RUVANI. South Asian Writers in Twentieth-Century Britain: Culture in Translation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. viii + 302 pp. {pound}50.00. ISBN 978-0-19-920777-0

2008-01-29

RUZ, ROBERTO. Contemporary Peruvian Narrative and Popular Culture: Jaime Bayly, Ivan Thays and Jorge Eduardo Benavides. Woodbridge: Tamesis (Serie A: Monografias, 212), 2005. 130 pp. {pound}40.00/$80.00. ISBN 1-85566-110-1

2008-01-29

Schiller's "On Grace and Dignity" in Its Cultural Context. Essays and a New Translation. Ed. Jane V. Curran & Christophe Fricker. Rochester, New York: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture), 2005. 231 pp. $65.00/{pound}45.00. ISBN 1-157113-3054

2008-01-29

SALOM, JAIME. Three Comedies. Ed. Gregary J. Racz. University Press of Colorado: Boulder, CO, 2004. viii + 227 pp. $45.00 (hardback); $18.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-87081-780-9/781-7

2008-01-29

SAND, GEORGE. Valvedre. Trans. and intro. Francoise Massardier-Kenney. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. xvii + 203 pp. $65.50 (hardback); $21.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-7914-7059-6/7060-2

2008-01-29

SHIEL, MARK. Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City. London & New York: Wallpaper (Short Cuts), 2006. 142 pp. {pound}12.99/$20.00. ISBN 1-904764-48-7

2008-01-29

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Poems. Ed. John Roe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xvi + 309 pp. {pound}40.00/$60.00 (hardback); {pound}7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-85551-9/67162-0

2008-01-29

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Sonnets. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xiv + 277 pp. {pound}40.00/$60.00 (hardback); {pound}7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-86118-7/67837-4

2008-01-29

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Titus Andronicus. Ed. Alan Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (The New Cambridge Shakespeare), 2006. xii + 180 pp. {pound}40.00/$70.00 (hardback); {pound}7.99/$14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-85708-2/67382-8

2008-01-29

The Spanish Match: Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623. Ed. Alexander Samson. Aldershot: Ashgate 2006. viii + 243 pp. {pound}55.00. ISBN 0-7546-4087-6

2008-01-29

SPROLES, KARYN Z. Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 242 pp. {pound}42.00/$65.00 (hardback); {pound}20.00/$29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-3883-2/9402-3

2008-01-29

Theorising National Cinema. Ed. Valentina Vitali & Paul Willemen. London: BFI Publishing, 2006. x + 326 pp. {pound}60.00 (hardback); {pound}16.99 (paperback). ISBN 1-844-57119-X/57120-3

2008-01-29

WARDLE, CATHY HELEN. Beyond Ecriture Feminine: Repetition and Transformation in the Prose Writing of Jeanne Hyvrard. London: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 2007. viii + 145 pp. {pound}37.00. ISBN 978-1-904350-63-7

2008-01-29

WATSON, ROBERT N. Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. viii + 437 pp. {pound}39.00/$59.95. ISBN 0-8122-3905-9

2008-01-29

THOMAS, HELEN. Caryl Phillips. Tavistock: Northcote, British Council (Writers and their Work), 2006. xii + 100 pp. {pound}40.00 (hardback); {pound}12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-7463-1124-9/0956-2

2008-01-29

WOOD, JASON. Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview. London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. xi + 239 pp. {pound}45.00 (hardback); {pound}16.99 (paperback). ISBN 1-904764-91-6/90-8

2008-01-29

The Women's Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives, 1914-19. Eds. Alison S. Fell & Ingrid Sharp. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. xii + 272 pp. {pound}50.00. ISBN (13): 978-0-230-01966-9/(10): 0-230-01966-8

2008-01-29

Writing to Delight: Italian Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century Women Writers. Eds. Antonia Arslan & Gabriella Romani. London: University of Toronto, 2006. 210 pp. {pound}48.00 (hardback)/{pound}20.00 (paperback). ISBN 0-8020-3874-3/3810-7

2008-01-29

ZALLOUA, ZAHI. Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism. Charlottesville: Rockwood Press (EMF Critiques), 2005. xii + 191 pp. ISBN 1-886365-56-3

2008-01-29

Introduction: The Witching Hour

Wygant, A. — 2007-10-19

Playing with Demons: Interrogating the Supernatural in Jacobean Drama

Kolb, L. — 2007-10-19

This essay tracks two types of narrative associated with the Scottish witch events of 1590–91: exemplary and dramatic. The first movement examines how trial interrogations and demonologies use exempla to prove universal truths. The second analyses how dramatic literature exposes the imperfect fit between general principle and particular illustrative tale. Telling the same stories in a different mode, Shakespeare's The Tempest and Macbeth interrogate the authoritative version of events and the authority that produced them.

Lyly's Chimerical Vision: Witchcraft in Endymion

Neufeld, C. M. — 2007-10-19

One of the few plays to invoke witchcraft on an Elizabethan stage otherwise eerily silent on the subject, Lyly's Endymion is conventionally read as a panegyric juxtaposing the Queen and the witch. However, Lyly's mythographic play in Endymion portrays monstrosity not as an inversion, but as a confusion of categories which society deems discrete – a chimerical condition that aligns the Virgin Queen with the figure of the witch that haunts her society.

Bewitching Politics and Unruly Performances: Mother Shipton Gets her Kicks in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Popular and Print Culture

McGrane, L. — 2007-10-19

This article explores the textual and theatrical spaces in which the figure of Mother Shipton trifled with history, hierarchy and seditious discursive strategies in Restoration and eighteenth-century London. Shipton resonated in the popular imagination not merely as a faux-historical personage but also as a fantasy hermeneutic key operating outside of linear history, a linguistic marker of oracular knowledge communicated by performances that belied a tidy shift from oral to print-centred genres in the period.

Montaigne's Stages, and Witches

Wygant, A. — 2007-10-19

Reading two of Montaigne's essays – I, 21: "De la force de l'imagination", and III, 11: "Des boyteux" – this study argues that it is no longer urgent to construct Montaigne as a liberal free-thinker on witchcraft. Instead, it appears that he was deeply rooted in the conceptual turbulences of his own time. This rootedness, nevertheless, escapes the local and comes to its readers as general and powerful. How this happens, a wonder of reception history, involves moving his local witches onto a stage with its own historicity, a stage of the imagination itself.

Silencing the Supernatural: La Devineresse and the Affair of the Poisons

Prest, J. — 2007-10-19

Thomas Corneille and Jean Donneau de Visé's comedy La Devineresse ou les faux enchantements occupies a paradoxical position within the wider story of the Affair of the Poisons, for it sought simultaneously to draw on the anxieties of the Parisian public and to reassure them. While the play demystifies the occult, its lessons cannot neatly be transferred to the real events that were its inspiration, and the question of the supernatural is left uncomfortably open.

The Priestesses of Apollo and the Heirs of Aesculapius: Medical Art-Historical Approaches to Ancient Choreography after Charcot

Marshall, J. — 2007-10-19

This article examines the legacy of neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and the teaching of his students Paul Richer and Henry Meige at the École des Beaux-Arts, 1903–40. According to the terms of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, their approach to art history and anatomy constituted a strictly Apollonian aesthetic in which Dionysian forms were pathologised and constrained. Although critical of the ancient witch, they influenced the revival of classical dance within Eurhythmics by Maurice Emmanuel.

Mary Wigman and German Modern Dance: A Modernist Witch?

Song, J. — 2007-10-19

This study engages with the two Witch Dances by Mary Wigman, a pioneering artist of German modern dance called Ausdruckstanz that developed during the first two decades of the twentieth century. By situating the dances within the cultural context of the time, the paper shows how Wigman's choice of a witch figure represents her effort to solve the dilemma of becoming both popular and innovative at the same time.

The Signifying Poppet: Unseen Voodoo and Arthur Miller's Tituba

Miller, D. Q. — 2007-10-19

Arthur Miller's The Crucible is a subtle and unconscious illustration of the invisibility of African Americans as well as an acknowledgement of the degree to which they control American history, the American character and American literature. By making Tituba's role in The Crucible more visible, this article examines the struggle of African Americans to gain visibility, a voice, and a story within more dominant white American stories.

Translation Spells: From Shakespeare's Page to the Tourist Stage

Phipps, A. — 2007-10-19

This paper explores ways in which the craft of translation becomes the Kraft of tourist visits. It examines popular artefacts, from German guidebooks to Scotland and amateur performances of Macbeth in German dialect, to educational resources. Through these everyday cultural artefacts, translation casts a long spell on the imagination of German tourists. Translation plays at the interface between performance and writing, spelling out in literary form that which in tourism is enacted and enfleshed. It is for such reasons of doubling that translators have long been compared to magicians and tricksters, and ascribed powers similar to those found in witchcraft.

AGNIHOTRI, RAMA KANT. Hindi: An Essential Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2007. xxii + 274 pp. {pound}17.99. ISBN 978 0 415 35671 8

2007-10-19

AICHELE, K. PORTER. Paul Klee, Poet/Painter. Rochester, NY: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture), 2006. x + 225 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1 57113 343 7

2007-10-19

ANDERSON, WENDY J. The Phraseology of Administrative French: A Corpus-Based Study. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi (Language and Computers: Studies in Practical Linguistics, 57), 2006. ix + 289 pp. {euro}60.00/$78.00. ISBN 978 90420 2022 1

2007-10-19

ARETINO, PIETRO. Aretino's Dialogues. Ed. & trans. Raymond & Margaret Rosenthal. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (The Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library), 2005. xxiv + 398 pp. {pound}40.00/$60.00 (hardback); {pound}20.00/$29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8020 9004 4/4890 0

2007-10-19

BELL, SHEILA M. Stendhal: Vie de Henry Brulard. London: Grant & Cutler (Critical Guides to French Texts, 141), 2006. 85 pp. {pound}7.95. ISBN 978 07293 0450 4

2007-10-19

BETTELLA, PATRIZIA. The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (Toronto Italian Studies), 2005. viii + 260 pp. {pound}40.00/$60.00. ISBN 0 8020 3926 X

2007-10-19

BLOOMSBURY. Improve Your Word Power. London: A & C Black, 2007. 184 pp. {pound}6.99. ISBN 978 0 7136 8531 2

2007-10-19

BROOKER, JOSEPH. Flann O'Brien. Tavistock: Northcote House (Writers and their Work), 2005. viii + 120 pp. {pound}35.00 (hardback); {pound}10.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7463 1013 7/1081 1

2007-10-19

A Companion to the Works of Friedrich Schiller. Ed. Steven D. Martinson. Rochester, New York: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture), 2005. xvi + 333 pp. {pound}65.00/$90.00. ISBN 1 57113 183 3

2007-10-19

CORCORAN, NEIL. Elizabeth Bowen: The Enforced Return. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004. 211 pp. {pound}54.00/$95.00. ISBN 0 19 818690 8

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CREEL, BRYANT. The Voice of the Phoenix: Metaphors of Death and Rebirth in Classics of the Iberian Renaissance. Temple, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 272), 2004. xv + 374 pp. $40.00. ISBN 0 86698 315 5

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DAVIES, ANN, & POWRIE, PHILL. Carmen on Screen: An Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Tamesis: Woodbridge (Research Bibliographies and Checklists: New Series, 7), 2006. xvi + 133 pp. {pound}40.00/$75.00. ISBN 1 185566 129 2

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FALICOV, TAMARA L. The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film. London: Wallflower Press, 2007. 188 pp. {pound}45.00 (hardback); {pound}16.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 904764 92 2/93 9

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Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism (second edition). Ed. Lester D. Friedman. London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2006. xxiv + 341 pp. {pound}45.00 (hardback); {pound}16.99 (paperback). ISBN 1 904 76472 X/76471 1

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The First World War as a Clash of Cultures. Ed. Fred Bridgham. Camden House, 2006. vii + 336 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00. ISBN 1 57113 340 2

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FORSDICK, CHARLES. Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures: The Persistence of Difference. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxiii + 255 pp. {pound}56.00. ISBN 0 19 925829 5

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FRAMPTON, DANIEL. Filmosophy. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. 254 pp. {pound}45.00 (hardback); {pound}15.00 (paperback). ISBN 1 904 76485 1/76484 3

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FRAYLING, CHRISTOPHER. Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema. London: Reaktion Books, 2005/2006. 239 pp. {pound}19.95 (hardback)/{pound}12.95 (paperback). ISBN 1 861 89255 1/89285 3

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A History of Austrian Literature 1918 2000. Ed. Katrin Kohl & Ritchie Robertson. Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2006. xii + 336 pp. {pound}50.00/$90.00. ISBN 1 157113 276 7

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HUGHES, JON. Facing Modernity: Fragmentation, Culture, and Identity in Joseph Roth's Writing in the 1920s. Leeds: Maney Publishing (Modern Humanities Research Association, Texts and Dissertations, 67/Bithell Series of Dissertations, 30), 2006. viii + 195 pp. {pound}35.00/$82.00. ISBN 1 904350 37 2

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Jose Lezama Lima: Selections. Ed. Ernesto Livon-Grosman. Berkeley & Los Angeles: The University of California Press (Poets for the Millennium), 2005. xlix + 186 pp. {pound}11.95. ISBN 0 520 23476 6

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JOTTKANDT, SIGI. Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture), 2005. xvii + 177 pp. $55.00. ISBN 0 7914 6557 8

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KERSHAW, ANGELA. Forgotten Engagements: Women, Literature and the Left in 1930s France. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 2007. vii + 306 pp. {euro}63.00/$88.00. ISBN 978 90 420 2169 3

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KIBERD, DECLAN. The Irish Writer and the World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xii + 331 pp. {pound}45.00/$75.00 (hardback); {pound}14.99/$24.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 521 60257 2/9 521 84163 1

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LANDER, JESSE M. Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. x + 324 pp. {pound}48.00/$85.00. ISBN 051838541

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LITTAU, KARIN. Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies and Bibliomania. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. xi + 194 pp. {pound}55.00 (hardback), {pound}17.99 (paperback). ISBN 0 7456 1659 3/1658 5

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