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The Heart of the European Body Politic: British and German Perspectives on Europe's Central Organ (2003)
Journal Article
Musolff, A. (2003). The Heart of the European Body Politic: British and German Perspectives on Europe's Central Organ. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25(5-6), 437-452

On the basis of a corpus of British and German press coverage of European Union (EU) politics over the 1990s, the paper analyses uses of the geopolitical heart metaphor. Over the course of the 1990s, successive British governments promised to work at... Read More about The Heart of the European Body Politic: British and German Perspectives on Europe's Central Organ.

To Lise Deharme's lighthouse : le phare de Neuilly, a forgotten surrealist review (2003)
Journal Article
Barnet, M. (2003). To Lise Deharme's lighthouse : le phare de Neuilly, a forgotten surrealist review. French Studies, 57(3), 323-334. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/57.3.323

Lise Deharme (1898–1980) has almost been forgotten, except for being a Surrealist muse and impossible mad love of André Breton. While she may also be remembered (or derided) for her literary salon in the 1950s, her prolific and diverse literary produ... Read More about To Lise Deharme's lighthouse : le phare de Neuilly, a forgotten surrealist review.

Station to Station: Circulation in the 'New' Berlin (2003)
Journal Article
Ward, S. (2003). Station to Station: Circulation in the 'New' Berlin. German as a foreign language, 1, 93-105

This article uses the insights of Michel De Certeau into the perception and experience of the urban environment as a way into examining the relationship between transport infrastructure and developments in Berlin since the opening of the Berlin Wall.... Read More about Station to Station: Circulation in the 'New' Berlin.

Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory (2003)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2003). Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory. Austrian Studies, 11(1), 85-101

Hans Lebert’s Die Wolfshaut [The Wolf ’s Fell, 1960] and Gerhard Fritsch’s Fasching [Shrovetide, 1967] are powerful narratives that address the continued existence of the fascist mentality in 1950s rural Austria. Though both contain allusions to Germ... Read More about Casual Brutalities: Hans Lebert's Die Wolfshaut, Gerhard Fritsch's Fasching, and Austrian Collective Memory.

The Ethics of 'Writing' Enigma: A Reading of Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal and of Lévinas's Totalité et infini (2003)
Journal Article
Banks, K. (2003). The Ethics of 'Writing' Enigma: A Reading of Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal and of Lévinas's Totalité et infini. Comparative Literature, 55(2), 95-111. https://doi.org/10.1215/-55-2-95

This unusual exercise in comparative studies reads the twelfth-century Conte du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes together with the twentieth-century text Totalité et infini by Emmanuel Lévinas. These texts share a concern with enigma and interpretation: t... Read More about The Ethics of 'Writing' Enigma: A Reading of Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal and of Lévinas's Totalité et infini.

History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten (2003)
Journal Article
Long, J. J. (2003). History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten. Modern Language Review, 98(1), 117-137

The function of photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten goes beyond the merely illustrative. The photographs that are handed down to the narrator in the course of his researches are read in terms of postmemory and the affiliative gaze, both... Read More about History, Narrative, and Photography in W. G. Sebald's Die Ausgewanderten.

L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny (2003)
Journal Article
Dousteyssier-Khoze, C. (2003). L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny. Nineteenth-century French studies, 31(1-2), 123-137

This article focuses on two novels Ð Tous Quatre (1885) and Le Termite (1890) Ð by two Naturalist writers of the so-called second generation, Paul Margueritte and J.-H. Rosny, who were among the signatories of the famous "Manifeste des Cinq" (1887).... Read More about L'Angoisse de l'influence naturaliste: Tous Quatre de Paul Margueritte et Le Termite de J.-H. Rosny.

Sade’s verse (2003)
Journal Article
Wynn, T. (2003). Sade’s verse. Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 2003(01), 427-434