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Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Julian W. Connolly, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Thomas Seifrid

Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis, eds. National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction. Keith Livers

Sander L. Gilman. Franz Kafka. Esther K. Bauer

Jill Robbins, ed. P/herversions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti. Roberta Johnson

Jennifer Warburton. John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds. John Fowles. The Journals, Vol. I. Ed. Charles Drazin Gerd Bayer

Hidden Sentiments, Unfinished Project: Pirandello’S Film La Nuova Colonia, Stefano Giannini

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

This article investigates the notion of the unfinished work. In Pirandello studies the word unfinished holds particular importance. Luigi Pirandello's last, and one of his major works, I giganti della montagna [The Mountain Giants] was not completed. The many years devoted to its making weaken the assumption that Pirandello was not capable of completing it in favor of his decision not to complete his work. I considered the overlapping of the writing of I giganti della montagna and of the attempts to produce the film La nuova colonia [The New Colony] an important, and insofar unnoticed, key element for understanding …

Nietzsche’S “Gay” Science, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Offers a reading of the allusion to the 'Provencal' in Nietzsche’s The Gay Science, including the troubadour’s art (or 'technic') of poetic song, an art at once secret, anonymous and thus nonsubjective, but also including logical disputation, for which it is the model, and comprising, perhaps above all, the important ideal of action (and pathos) at a distance: l’amour lointain. But beyond the Provençal character and atmosphere of the troubadour, Nietzsche’s conception of a joyful science, Nietzsche's 'gay' science also adumbrates a critique of science understood as the collective ideal of scholarship, and including classical philology as much as logic, …