Bibliography Of Secondary Literature Research Articles

The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace ed. by Ralph Clare

Reviewed by: The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace ed. by Ralph Clare Vernon W. Cisney CLARE, RALPH, ed. The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 284 pp. $89.99 hardcover; $29.99 cloth; $24.00 e-book. This outstanding collection, edited by Ralph Clare, offers a welcome addition to the rapidly growing world of David Foster Wallace Studies. One of the aspects of Wallace’s work that makes it so difficult to compile a comprehensively focused collection of this sort is the sheer range of Wallace’s skills as an intellectual and creative virtuoso. Not only was his development deeply informed by cutting-edge trends in literature and literary theory (trends which he sought to incorporate and transcend), but his writerly comportment was also shaped by his background in academic philosophy. In addition, Wallace’s writing functioned both emotionally and intellectually, with the result that his works have not only connected with professional authors and academics, but have attracted a wide popular audience as well. Finally, while many authors limit themselves to a few primary modes of expression, Wallace was accomplished in a wide array of outlets, from his maximalist Infinite Jest to his work in philosophy of mathematics and his popular essays and short stories. This multifarious breadth makes the excellence of this Cambridge Companion that much more impressive. To address this virtuosity, Clare, taking a lead from philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, describes his editorial approach as oriented by the desire to construct a “Wallace-without-Organs” (6). Taking as his inspirations the collaborative construction of Wallace’s posthumous novel, The Pale King, as well as Wallace’s expressed desire to create works that are, by nature, dialogical, Clare’s collection aspires to the constitution of a “Wallace in flux” (6), or, even better, Wallaces in flux, as opposed to the would-be “authentic” Wallace—Wallace as a consciously and collaboratively constructed, multifaceted assemblage, with potentialities constantly emerging and reaching into new directions, rather than Wallace as a unified regulative ideal to which scholarship draws ever nearer. To that end, Clare has assembled a stellar cadre of fifteen accomplished scholars, and together they pull off the difficult task of engaging, with an agile blend of breadth and precision, the majority of Wallace’s corpus. The collection is bookended by a thorough chronology of Wallace’s life, works, and posthumous reputation in the front of the book and a helpful bibliography of secondary literature in the back. The collection itself is broken into four major sections. The first part, focused on “Historical and Cultural Contexts,” contains pieces by Marshall Boswell, Andrew Hoberek, and Lee Konstantinou. Boswell’s piece situates the development of Wallace’s [End Page 344] writing from the perspective of his generational moment, the late 1980s and early 1990s. This moment is marked by the fall of the Berlin Wall and Francis Fukuyama’s famous declaration of the “end of history”—the “triumph” of global capitalism. Unlike his contemporaries, Boswell argues, Wallace’s early work embodies the apolitical aimlessness of this moment, allowing him to explore the barrage of “information, entertainment, and the pursuit of pleasure” (30) that accompanies adolescence. Hoberek’s piece examines Wallace’s position as a uniquely American author—“a late exponent of the romance tradition described by Richard Chase as the American answer to the European realist novel” (37). Part I ends with Konstantinou’s piece, which surveys the development of Wallace’s reception in the decade since his death— from the demiurgic “Saint Dave” and the icon of the so-called “lit-bros” to the vilified manipulator decried by critics such as Amy Hungerford. Konstantinou’s piece explores a multitude of ways of conceptualizing the relationship between Wallace-the-person and Wallace-the-author, ultimately siding with Jennifer Egan in viewing Wallace’s contribution to modern literature as monumentally important, but as one among others, acting as a powerful inspiration but nevertheless an object of honest criticism, avoiding the Scylla of beatification and the Charybdis of demonization. Part II is titled “Early Works, Story Collections, and Nonfiction.” Of the four major sections, Part II appears to be the least cohesive. This likely derives from...

Origenes: Grieche und Christ in römischer Zeit. By Alfons FÜrst

This book has the taut density of an encyclopaedia article, and in fact is based on the author’s entry, ‘Origenes’, in Reallexikon fur Antike und Christentum 26, pp. 460–567. There are few students of Origen who will not learn many interesting details from the opening biographical chapter, or whose memories will not be sharpened. The author has read thoroughly the six hundred items in his bibliography of secondary literature, and on disputed issues helpfully footnotes the strongest representatives of positions opposed to those he espouses. The second chapter surveys Origen’s writings with much fine detail; it warns against uncritical use of fragments; it does not discuss the possibility of reconstructing lost works from Origen-based commentaries of Eusebius or Jerome. Next come chapters on Origen’s relations with Gnostics, Jews, Greek learning, and Greek philosophy, and one on philosophy and exegesis. On the Jews, Fürst sees a the ‘gulf’ between Origen’s appreciation of their lore as a scholar and his theological hostility as a preacher (p. 48); but it might be more fruitful to interrogate tensions within the theology itself.

A Companion to Giles of Rome, ed. Charles F. Briggs and Peter S. Eardley

Giles of Rome (c.1243/7–1316) is now probably most famous for the defence of papal supremacy which was offered in his De ecclesiastica potestate (1302). However, to readers in the later Middle Ages, Giles was perhaps best known for his political treatise, De regimine principum (c.1280). The work survives in almost three hundred Latin manuscripts and was also translated into many vernaculars, including the Middle English version by John Trevisa. John Watts has described the political theory produced in late medieval France and England as being ‘mostly Egidian in its assumptions’ and Giles’s work was also a source for poets such as John Gower and Thomas Hoccleve. Yet, despite the fame of his political works, Giles was, as the editors to this volume note in their introduction, ‘first and foremost a theologian’. An Austin friar and a student of Thomas Aquinas at the University of Paris, Giles became prior general of his order in 1291, with his teachings—both those written and those ‘still to be written’—being adopted as the Austins’ official doctrine; he eventually rose to be archbishop of Bourges In addition to his political and theological works, Giles also wrote widely on philosophy and metaphysics with a number of his works in these fields being studied in the universities. It is surprising, given his medieval influence and modern fame, that this useful collection is the first general survey of Giles’s work. Its eight chapters offer a wide-ranging investigation of Giles’s thought, and the book also includes a chronology of his writings, a list of catalogues of their manuscripts and a bibliography of secondary literature.

<em>Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England</em>, by Preeti Nijhar<br/><em>Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief</em>, by Henry Schwarz

Reviewed by: Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England, and: Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief Clare Anderson (bio) Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England, by Preeti Nijhar; pp. 220. London and Brookfield: Pickering & Chatto, 2009, £60.00, $99.00. Constructing the Criminal Tribe in Colonial India: Acting Like a Thief, by Henry Schwarz; pp. viii + 163. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, £60.00, $99.95. Law and Imperialism is a fascinating study of legal hierarchies in Britain and India. Preeti Nijar ranges widely across sociology, criminology, and history to discuss the close relationship between metropole and colony in the making of scientific typologies and social categories. Drawing on Homi Bhaba's idea of ambivalence, Nijar theorises this relationship as part of a deliberate effort to distance colonizer from colonized and to alleviate fears provoked by the proximity of the social other in Britain and in India. The place of scientific understandings is of special concern to her, in particular with respect to the supposed dangerousness of specific communities. Though I greatly enjoyed this book, more engaged and critical editing would have greatly assisted Nijhar in producing a more forceful argument. Too often her prose is laboured, repetitive, and hard to follow. She presents a number of quotations without introduction or contextualisation. The footnotes are inconsistent; primary sources are included in the bibliography of secondary literature; and the author even misspells the name of one of the advisory editors of the book series. Conceptually, the book left me a little confused about the lines of distinction between race and ethnicity. Also, the history of the British Isles makes the concept of British indigeneity—repeatedly invoked by the author—deeply problematic. There are minor errors, too. She misunderstands the meaning of the word "outcast," following each citation with "sic." This completely misses its biblical associations, which are critical to understanding particular representations of the London poor. Nijhar is simply wrong, furthermore, about the history of convict transportation. She says that it was used in Britain before India, that Britain was unique in using it, and that convicts were used as indentured labor. But the East India Company transported Indian convicts overseas from the 1790s; Portugal, Spain, and France also transported convicts; and convicts were used as indentured [End Page 327] labor only in the Americas, not in Australia. These criticisms aside, the general thrust of the book is timely and convincing, joining a growing academic literature on colonial networks and connectedness that includes Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy's Decentering Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (2006). In placing the so-called criminal Sansi tribe and the British criminal classes into a single frame of analysis through an evaluation of the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act in India and the 1869 Habitual Criminals Act in England, Nijhar is especially effective. She writes of the mutual exchange of ideas about dangerousness and race: "The 'criminal' tribes and castes of imperial India were legally and socially reified in ways not dissimilar to the 'dangerous' classes in Victorian England" (134). Constructing the Criminal Tribe is a quite different sort of book, its analysis literary rather than historical or sociolegal. In Law and Imperialism, Nijhar places critical legal theory, criminal justice history, postcolonial theory, and criminology (especially labelling theory) within a single frame of historical analysis—albeit with the ultimate (though unexplored) aim of considering the historical constitution of aspects of postcolonial India. Henry Schwarz presents a narrower discussion of "the stigma of criminal inheritance" that impacts the denotified (ex-criminal) tribes in India today to more explicitly think through what I would call the colonial present (3). This is not a story of colonial and postcolonial crossings; it is instead about the explicit integration of history with the now, about the significance of colonialism for the Indian state, its institutions, its law, its governance, and its identity. Schwarz does not have to dig very deeply to find what he is looking for—the denotified tribe on which he mainly focuses (the Chhara) lives on the margins, and colonial discourses about criminality pervade contemporary social attitudes towards...

La littérature de jeunesse: Itinéraires d' hier à aujourd'hui [Children's literature: Itineraries from yesterday until today] (review)

Reviewed by: La littérature de jeunesse: Itinéraires d' hier à aujourd'hui[Children's literature: Itineraries from yesterday until today] Sibylle Weingart Denise Escarpit [ et al.] (EDS), La littérature de jeunesse: Itinéraires d' hier à aujourd'hui [Children's literature: Itineraries from yesterday until today]. Paris: Éd. Magnard2008 473pp ISBN 9782210720015 €35.00 France With this study, Denise Escarpit, founder of the notable journal Nous voulons lire!, makes one of the most important and readable scholarly contributions to the current history of French children's literature. Her reflections are centered on the developments in France. As the title suggests, however, she also invites readers to venture into other- albeit only European- literary landscapes. In the first four chapters, Escarpit draws on her own body of works published over the last thirty years. These [End Page 69]reworked essays offer readers a welcome alternative to standard historical accounts. The brilliantly written pieces work together like a conclusive, effectively conceptualized anthology. They follow a (sometimes invisible) chronological order and address themes such as children as readers or various other European traditions. From a scholarly point of view, the fourth part of the book offers the greatest interest. In it, Janie Godfrey, Christiane Connan-Pintado, Florence Gaïotti, Régis Lefort, Pierre Bruno, and Philippe Geneste- all of them members of the editorial team of Nous voulons lire!- give a succinct state-of-the-art report on individual genres (picture book, nonfiction, fairy tales, poetry, drama, novel) from the 1970s to the present. Another chapter (by Escarpit and Godfrey) explores contemporary issues concerning illustration and presents a number of prominent contemporary French illustrators through both text and image. This volume, focusing on the essentials without boring the reader with erudite ramblings, is rounded off with an index and a bibliography of secondary literature. Sibylle Weingart Copyright © 2011 Bookbird, Inc.

Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Miranda Gill

ii6o Reviews interest, though, are the introduction of a scientist demon, whose skills transform Hell into a much more entertaining and inviting place than dull, unchanging Paradise, and Parnys interpretation of the knowledge given by the forbidden fruit. For this is no less than the discovery of sexual urges and pleasure, a discovery which not only makes aman of the first man, but also makes him and Eve realize that the Fall has its compensations. Swansea University Derek Connon Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris. By Miranda Gill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. xi+328 pp. ?55. ISBN 978-0-19-954328-1. This innovative study explores the varied manifestations of eccentricity in Parisian life between the July Monarchy and thefin de siecle. As the author reminds us in her introduction, eccentricity implies behaviour divergent from the norms of a given centre or centricity' (p. 1), which in nineteenth-century France were those determined primarily by bourgeois society. In contrast to the English notion of the eccentric as a harmless oddity, French perceptions of eccentricity during this period were deeply ambivalent, and sometimes contradictory. As the country struggled to contain the aftershocks of the 1789 Revolution, itsupper and middle classes viewed difference as a threat (to religion, morality, and convention), while simultaneously admiring thosewho dared to assert their individuality. Eschewing a strictlychronological approach, Miranda Gill examines four spheres of Parisian life inwhich this dichotomy was most visible and engagingly problematic. Following an introductory chapter which traces the origins of eccentricity in French cultural discourse, the firstpart of the book deals with fashion, and the status ofwomen as both leaders and victims of sartorial desire. For many women in polite society, the 'never-closing eye' (p. 50) of public opinion could readily humiliate those who departed from the subtle elegance prescribed by etiquette manuals and physiolo gies'. Others, however, embraced fashion as ameans of reclaiming the freedom of expression denied them elsewhere in social and political life. While continuing to draw on an impressive range of sources, the focus of thevolume turns subsequently to the Parisian underworld, with its criminals and circus freaks offering a disturb ing image of themarginal, monstrous, and bizarre. The milieu of the fairground, in particular, is revealed as a distillation of post-1848 attitudes towards eccentricity, its one-limbed dancers and saltimbanques inducing a mixture of fascination and disgust inwriters such as Jules Valles, who brought them through the curtains of the fairground booth and into the domain ofbiographical literature. With seamless co herence leading into the finalpart of her discussion, Gill shows thatby 1830 artistic interest inmonstrosity already had a counterpoint inmedicine, with Etienne Geof froySaint-Hilaire's founding of the discipline of teratology, and the exploration of physical deformities which, in the second half of the century,would be stigmatized as a reflection of national decline. In each of these chapters, Gill has prepared her material with meticulous care. Her writing brims with factual detail and analytical MLR, 105.4, 2010 1161 insight,while under-discussed categories of eccentric, especially the lionne and fe male dandy, are returned firmlyto the critical foreground. An epilogue more than hints at the tantalizing possibility of further research in awider European context, with Dostoevsky's The Idiot (1869) employed as one example of the tension between eccentricity,mischief, and madness in nineteenth-century Russian fiction. Some important works relevant to these subjects (most notably Shoshana Felman's La Folie et la chose litteraire (Paris: Seuil, 1978)) do not appear in the bibliography of secondary literature. Itwould be churlish to complain about suchminor omissions, however, given that this book will serve as an invaluable reference for students, scholars, and all those interested in nineteenth-century French cultural studies. University of Birmingham Andrew Watts Correspondance generate (1824-1890). By Edouard Charton. Vol. 1:1824-1859; vol. 11:1860-1890. Ed. byMarie-Laure Aurenche. Paris: Champion. 2008. xlvii+2309 pp. ISBN 978-2-7453-1670-7 (vol. 1); 978-2-7453-1794-0 (vol. 11). Letters were the social cement of the nineteenth century. This massive compilation of 1573 letters has been assembled from an impressive range of archives and private papers by Marie-Laure Aurenche, author of...

Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers 1939-1953 by Kirill Tomoff (review)

REVIEWS 123 Viktor Val'ter (Walter), and the appearance of a number of essays from this volume in an easily available German translation ought to do much to bring the composer to the attention of a variety of scholars and music lovers. The volume includes Val'ter's own biography of the composer, as well as brief accounts of Liadov's vocal works and folksong arrangements, and further memoirs by Val'ter (ofLiadov as a teacher) and theAcmeist poet turned Soviet opera librettist,Sergei Gorodetskii. There is an account of Liadov's piano music by the Soviet critic,Aleksandr Alekseev, and a newly commis sioned survey of the orchestral music by SigfridNeef. By far themost interest ing and important of the individual sections is a set of extracts fromLiadov's own letters, which record his reactions to contemporary cultural events and illustrate the breadth of his reading, from his enthusiastic response to Chekhov's Tri sestry and various stories, to his distaste for the utilitarianism of Gor'kii and Tolstoi's Chto takoe iskusstvo? His reading also encompassed Dickens, Wilde, d'Annunzio, Huysmans, Hamsun and the Kalevala, as well as Andreev and Merezhkovskii. As a guide to one creative individual's reading at the turnof the century, thispart of the collection will be of interest tomore than justmusicologists. The volume concludes with a list of Liadov's compositions and a biblio graphy of secondary literature (but note that Kiui's brief article on the songs ismore easily consulted in his Russkii romans:ocherkego razvitiiaof 1896 rather than in its original form in the journal Nedelia). Given thatmuch scholarship on Russian music concentrates primarily in the three areas of nineteenth-century nationalism, early-twentieth-century modernism or the politics and aesthetics of the Soviet era, the appearance of a volume on an underappreciated figure of an often neglected age is to be especially welcomed. Wadham College,Oxford Philip Ross Bullock Tomoff, Kirill. CreativeUnion: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers I939"I953- Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, 2006. xiv + 321 pp. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $57.50: ?32.95. Studying a Soviet artistic union requires a grasp of Soviet political and cultural history, but also an understanding of an artistic profession and its practice. The Writers' Union, for example, is interesting not just for Soviet reasons, but literary ones, which are not at all the same thing. When the union chosen is the Composers' Union ? made up of compos ers and musicologists (ormuzykovedy, a word with slightiydifferentassociations) ? there is an extra dimension for the researcher to confront: not only the importance (or otherwise) ofmusic and musicians in theUSSR, and theplace of the union in the story of twentieth-centurymusic, but the fact that this organization was the professional home of two of the most familiar, contro versial and internationally reputed composers of the twentieth century, Prokof ev and Shostakovich, whose work is a matter of debate and study 124 SEER, 87, I, JANUARY 2009 outside theborders of Soviet cultural history or academic music. Most people who have heard of the Composers' Union have done so because theywere exploring themusic and lives of these two. This iswhy there has been for some time, as a colleague recendy put it to me, 'an urgent need' on all sides for a scholarly history of the Composers' Union. Apart from Boris Schwarz's excellent but now very old survey of Soviet musical life (most recendy issued as Music andMusical Life in Soviet Russia, igij-81, Bloomington, IN, 1983), there is no authoritative source to which all can turn for an account of this surprisingly significant organization. Kiril Tomoffs new book is not thatwork and does not pretend to be, but it is an energetic and enthusiastic contribution to the discussion thatwill eventually produce that history, involving as itdoes a considerable amount of material derived from the author's hands-on readings in Russian archives. Tomoff is at his most exciting when he delivers us the relatively unmedi ated results of these readings. There are wonderful written exchanges to be found inwhat he has discovered ? letters, memoranda and so on. His work becomes more problematic when he seeks to draw wider conclusions. Partly this is...

Ent-Fernungen. Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945 [Alterity. Representations of the other and cultural transfer in German-language children's and young adult literature since 1945] (review)

Reviewed by: Ent-Fernungen. Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945 [Alterity. Representations of the other and cultural transfer in German-language children's and young adult literature since 1945] Christa Stegemann Ulrich Nassen (Et Al) (Eds). Ent-Fernungen. Fremdwahrnehmung und Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945 [Alterity. Representations of the other and cultural transfer in German-language children's and young adult literature since 1945] München: Iudicium 2006. 1087pp + 1 CD-ROM ISBN 9783891291726 €98 Vol. 1: Gina Weinkauff (Ed) Fremdwahrnehmung. Zur Thematisierung kultureller Alterität in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur seit 1945 [Representations of the other. Cultural alterity in German-language children's and young adult literature since 1945] 784pp Vol. 2: Martina Seifert and Gina Weinkauff (Eds): Kulturtransfer. Studien zur Repräsentanz einzelner Herkunftsliteraturen [Cultural transfer. Studies on the representation of individual source literatures] 789–1086pp + 1 CD-ROM This worthwhile study on the perception and literary representation of alterity (with a focus on cultural alterity) in German children's literature and literature translated into German between 1945 and 2000 is a product of a research project at the University of Leipzig. Methodologically, it draws on studies of cross-cultural transfer and on descriptive translation studies developed during the 1990s. 'Which texts were translated, when, why, how and why in the particular way they were?' – those are the guiding questions formulated by Ulrich Nassen, director of the project, in the extensive introduction to the two-volume study. The first volume presents a reflection on the development of the adventure novel of the second half of the 20th century, ranging from didactic attempts at fictionalised history to fantasy worlds and modern science fiction. The practices of 'cross-writing' and 'cross-reading' are illustrated using the work of authors who adapt the same text written for adult readers to a younger audience. One chapter is dedicated to texts written about minorities in Germany or by authors belonging to these minorities. A comparison of the different translation strategies of East and West Germany is particularly illuminating. Their distinctive choices of translations from Scandinavian and Soviet literature as well as their idiosyncratic images of Italy clearly illustrate how translations help shape the literary canon as well as cultural stereotypes. The ideological nature of the book market – dominated by administrative-political control in communist Germany and by the laws of a capitalist media economy in West Germany – largely accounts for the striking differences in this cultural transfer of children's literature. The case of the German translation of Pippi Långstrump [Pippi Longstocking] shows that West German publishers, unlike their eastern counterparts, could risk bold ventures to develop their individual profiles. The second volume analyses texts from Poland, the Czech Republic, Ireland and Canada translated into the German target language. It closes with a bibliography of secondary literature and an index; the complete titles of all primary texts can be consulted on the enclosed CD-ROM. By offering a comprehensive overview of the changing practices of literary cultural transfer in postwar Germany, this voluminous work makes an important and long-desired contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship in children's literature. [End Page 61] Copyright © 2008 Bookbird, Inc. Reproduction of articles in Bookbird requires permission in writing from the editor.

Latin Aristotle Commentaries. V. Bibliography of Secondary Literature

Latin Aristotle Commentaries. V. Bibliography of Secondary Literature

Mediating the past: Gustav Freytag, Progress and German Historical Identity, 1848-1871 by Alyssa A. Lonner

888 Reviews which subsumed the literature of the I8I 5-48 period under notions of domesticity, self-restriction, and contentedness. Today's interest in the I820S-I840s has come a long way, acknowledging the period's inherent contradictions and its dynamism as manifestations of an 'open' or 'experimental' stage in the development ofmodernity and hence as a prime object of interdisciplinary enquiry. A Cinderella ofold-fashioned Germanistik has turned into a princess of contemporary Kulturanthropologie. Eke's Einfzihrung in die Literatur des Vormdrz is itself informed by cultural anthropological thought and thus offers a much-needed up-to-date assessment of theperiod, without in the least neglecting the crucial socio-political context or pub lications with a direct political purpose, such as the poetry of the I840s or The Communist Manifesto. No such general works on the period have appeared since Bernd Witte's edited volume (I980) within Horst Albert Glaser's Deutsche Lite ratur:Eine Sozialgeschichte (Reinbek: Rowohlt) and the counterpart edited by Gert Sautermeister and Ulrich Schmid (Munich: Hanser, I998) in Hansers Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur, edited by Rolf Grimminger. Building on and moving be yond the achievements of social history, Eke focuses on aspects such as 'Korper und Geschichte' and 'Kultur-Natur', which isparticularly illuminating inhis comparative discussion ofGrabbe and Biichner as dramatic innovators and in his consideration of thewider cultural significance of female emancipation as a literary subject. The enormous importance of 'Religionskritik'-part and parcel of the 'nature/culture' antagonism which represents a preoccupation of the Vormdrz-is brought out in a detailed interpretation ofKarl Gutzkow's novella Der Sadducder vonAmsterdam (I 834) and itsdramatic version Uriel Acosta (I 846). By giving prominence to lesser known works, including Nikolaus Lenau's epic poem Die Albigenser (i842), as well as to the neglected genre of Vormarz drama apart fromBiichner and Grabbe, Eke certainly contributes to a new appreciation of theperiod in terms of itsmassive shift away from intellectual and aesthetic models of the 'Goethezeit' and towards formsof cognition associated with (industrial) modernity. Yet there are also omissions, due, perhaps, to the concision required by the Ein fiihrungen in die Germanistik series. Hebbel and Grillparzer are barely discussed, Nestroy not at all, which is regrettable in view of Eke's attention to drama and the theatre.Given their culturally significant emergence in the i840s, women writ ers receive very short shrift. Itwould also have been opportune tomention, in the 'Kontexte' section, the particular conditions Austrian writers had to contend with; forexample, Hubert Lengauer's important book on theAustrian Vormdrz, Asthetik und liberaleOpposition (Vienna: Bohlau, I989), is not listed in the bibliography. As an introduction to a difficult period, aimed at students of Germanistik, Eke's book could usefully also have listed the current critical editions, including Internet ones, of key authors (Biichner; Gutzkow; Heine-Portal). The bibliography of secondary literature, including brief comments on each title, iswell balanced and will be very helpful to students. This superbly structured and presented publication fillsa gap in the fieldof critical introductions, but isperhaps notwritten accessibly enough to be recommended toundergraduates studying German in theUK. UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MARTINA LAUSTER Mediating thePast: Gustav Freytag, Progress and German Historical Identity, I848 I87I. By ALYSSA A. LONNER. (North American Studies inNineteenth-Century German Literature, 36) New York: Peter Lang. 2005. 255 pp. $56.70; f3I.50. ISBN 978-3-03910-33I-7. There was a timewhen Gustav Freytag was one of themost widely read authors in Germany; well into the twentieth century,his Soll undHaben (i 855) was the standard MLR, I02.3, 2007 889 gift young Germans received for confirmation. Today, except to reconsider Frey tag's complicated anti-Semitism, it isdifficult to imagine anyone, evenmost literary scholars, cracking that book's nearly goo pages, much less slogging through the six volumes ofDie Ahnen (1873-8I), opening Die verloreneHandschrift (I864), or pe rusing Freytag's multi-volume non-fictional treatments ofGerman history, although theywere all once nearly as popular as his firstnovel. With the possible exception ofTheodor Fontane, hardly any nineteenth-century novelist receivesmuch attention these days, and Fontane's shorter, that is to saymore reader-friendly,works are no longer available in asmany editions as theyonce were, now that the centenary...

Il battesimo di Costantino il Grande. Storia di una scomoda eredità (review)

Il battesimo di Costantino il Grande. Storia di una scomoda eredita. By Marilena Amerise. [Hermes Zeitschrift fur klassische Philologie, Einzelscbrifien, Heft 95.] (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. 1995/2005. Pp. 180. euro34.00 paperback.) story which Amerise has to tell is an extremely interesting one, even if some of its details will probably always remain obscure. emperor was baptized in May, 337, when he was very close to death, and the bishop who baptized him was Eusebius of Nicomedia. Eusebius was constantly and consistently reviled by the adherents of the creed drawn up at Nicaea in 325 as an arrant heretic, not merely after his own death in 342, but even while he and were both still alive, as his political ally Eusebius of Caesarea complained (Contra Marcellum 1.4.9). Hence it is not surprising that the orthodox of later ages found it hard to stomach the fact that the first Christian emperor had been baptized by an Arian. truth about Constantine's baptism was, therefore, concealed, adapted, and modified, then eventually completely replaced by deliberate invention. first part of Amerise's study analyzes the account of the baptism of the emperor in the Life of by Eusebius of Caesarea (pp. 13-64); the second part describes how writers of the fourth century after Eusebius presented Constantine's baptism in a new way because they depicted the emperor, who had in reality been sympathetic to Arius and had recaEed him twice from exile, as an unwavering supporter of doctrinal orthodoxy against Arius, Arians, and Arianism (pp. 65-92); the third part examines the emergence of the completely fictitious account which subsequently established itself as canonical and was accepted throughout the Middle Ages-the legend that had at first persecuted the Christians and had been stricken with leprosy, but converted to Christianity, was miraculously healed and then baptized by Pope Silvester in Rome (pp. 93-120). Unfortunately, it is not clear to the present reviewer that Amerise's monograph marks any significant advance on previous scholarship, and her bibliography raises serious doubts about her scholarly expertise and judgment. A bibliography of secondary literature, which runs to fully twenty-seven pages in what is a rather short book (pp. 145-172), includes several unscholarly and perverse books such as Alastair Kee's notorious versus Christ. Triumph of Ideology (London, 1982), yet finds no space for (1) W. Levison, Kirchenrechtliches in den Actus Silvestri, Zeitschrifl der Savigny Stiftung, Kanonistische Abteilung, 15 (1926), 230-240, reprinted in the posthumous volume Aus Rheinischer und Frankischer Frilhzeit. Ausgewahlte Aufsatze (Dusseldorf, 1948), pp. 466-473; (2) Jean Gaudemet,La legislation religieuse de Constantin, Revue d'histoire de l'eglise de France, 33 (1947), 25-61; or (3) Peter Weiss, Die Vision Constantins, Colloquium aus Anlass des 80. Geburtstages von Alfred Heuss. Frankfurter Althistorische Studien, 13 (Kallmunz, 1993), pp. 146-169, now translated into English by A. R. Birley and revised by the author as The Vision of Constantine Journal of Roman Archaeology, 16 (2003), 237-259. These omissions are regrettable because they are so relevant to Amerise's book. …

Die Register Innocenz' III by Othmar Hageneder. 7. Band: 7. Pontifikatsjahr, 1204/1205. Texte und Indices

Die Register Innocenz' III. 7. Band: 7. Ponttfikatsjahr, 1204/1205. Texte und Indices. Edition supervised by Othmar Hageneder. Edited by Andrea Sommerlechner and Herwig Weigl, together with Christoph Egger and Rainer Muraurer. (Vienna: Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 1997. Pp. lxvii, 495.1590,00 oS paperback.) With the appearance of the volume under review this definitive editorial project presents the enregistered correspondence for an interesting chronological slice in the history of Innocent III's pontificate. Excepting three missives from September, 1203, the letters range between late February, 1204, and mid-February, 1205. All in all, 231 registered letters and documents are presented here with detailed commentary. The edited portion of the register was transcribed from folios 134-203 of Cod. Reg. Vat. 5. In their introduction to the manuscript (pp. vii-xvi) the editors present an exhaustive survey of codicological and paleographical information. A short list of the topics includes the average size and number of lines of written text per sheet, the various numberings of the folios and letters, the system of rubrication, titular formulae of addressees, the coloring of a letter's initial, a brief description of four marginal illustrations, and a discussion of other marginalia which seem often to mark individual letters considered by later scribes or readers as important. For example, twenty-five letters have marginal notations of the tituli wherein they would later be located in the Gregorian Decretals. The scribes themselves also come under scrutiny; almost all (226) of the letters were written by two different scribes; the five remaining were written by three other hands. Finally, the editors briefly discuss those manuscript indications which reveal whether original letters or concept drafts formed the archetype for registration. The introduction to the edition (pp. xvi-lxvii) briefly discusses the two prior printed editions of de Brequingy/La Porte du Theil (Paris, 1791) and Migne, PL, Vol. 215 (Paris, 1855). In the edition under review it is claimed that paleographical data from the Reg. Vat. 5 ms. will permit additional dating information for the stages whereby many letters were copied into the register. Especially noteworthy here is the manner whereby the two main scribes alternated while working on the main register and the special register on the German throne controversy. To their explication of editorial policies and conventions the editors append a bibliography of utilized editions or analyses of decretal collections (pp. xx-xxi), tables of letters sorted by scribe and rubricator (pp. xxi-xxii), a concordance of letter numeration according to the new edition and to the Migne edition (p. xxii), a bibliography of secondary literature (pp. xlvlxvii), and tables of stages for the registration of letters by individual scribes (pp. xxiii-xxxvii), of expansions to abbreviated epistolary formulae (pp. xviii-xliii), and of bibliographical abbreviations (pp. xliii-xlviv). Restrictions of space in this review allow only the most summary comments regarding the letters themselves. In some Innocent merely responds to his correspondents' specific questions regarding law or ritual observance. He dispenses advice on the settlement of a matrimonial case (#38), the proper observance of fasting on the vigil of feast days (#150), the extent of exemption from episcopal jurisdiction provided by certain types of letters of papal protection (#177), or the suitability for holy orders of an inadvertent parricide (#73). In a long reply (#169) to an English bishop the pope is obliged to give detailed answers in six separate matters. …

The Spanish Civil War in literature, film, and art: an international bibliography of secondary literature

Preface Introduction Bibliographies Secondary Literature on Literature Filmographies Secondary Literature on Film Secondary Literature on Art Index

The Thematic Catalogue in Music

ABSTRACT A survey of the history of thematic catalogs from Kochel to the present, marking the years 1955, 1965, and 1972 as significant turning points. A brief account is given of the problems involved in the production of RISM AIII and to predictions for thematic catalogs of the future. It includes bibliographies of thematic catalogs used in the Library of Congress Uniform Titles (as of 1972), and thematic catalogs in series (1969–1987), plus a selected bibliography of secondary literature.

Jürgen habermas: The complete oeuvre. A bibliography of primary literature, translations and reviews

For an English-speaking public, the work of the Frankfurt School is doubly inaccessible: not only are the primary texts written, for the most part, in a foreign language, but ?even more daunting?they draw heavily on sociological and philosophical traditions whose reception in the English speaking world has only barely begun. When?as is the case for the rapidly expanding oeuvre of J?rgen Habermas?all of these difficulties are, in addition, compounded by a primary literature which is widely scattered and only partly translated, then the need for some kind of general overview of the available literature becomes fairly pressing. Such, at any rate, has been the experience of the authors, and we present this bibliography in the hope that it may function as a resource for other scholars in this field. This bibliography comprises, to the best of our knowledge, the first full documentation of all Habermas's published work2, and we have supplemented this with a list of all English translations, as well as some eighty reviews and review articles in both languages. (A bibliography of secondary literature is in preparation.) To facilitate easy usage of this bibliography, the following points should be born in mind. The publications?185 in all?are arranged chronologically, by year, from 1952 onwards: for each entry the number of reprints, new editions, translations, and reviews (where applicable) are indicated. The numbering system is meant to serve as a guide to the contents of the bibliographic items