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{"title":"Book Review: G.C. Peden: Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement","authors":"Jeremy Black","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054","url":null,"abstract":"During the spring term, the Yale-in-London program at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, located in central London, offers four courses in British studies generally including British history, history of art or architecture, literature, and drama. Students take all four courses offered, and courses taught at the Paul Mellon Centre must be taken for a letter grade. Further information is available on the program's website. Inquiries may also be directed to yaleinlondon@yale.edu. The application deadline for spring term 2018 is Friday, October 6, 2017. Students will be notified of acceptance within one month of the application deadline. Inquiries about the summer program, described in the Undergraduate Curriculum section, should be directed to the same address. Applications for summer 2018 are due Thursday, February 15, 2018.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"198 - 199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65284828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Keir Giles: Russia’s War on Everybody: And What it Means for You","authors":"Alan B. Wood","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"199 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43211771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Uwe Schütte (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Krautrock","authors":"P. Bishop","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054b","url":null,"abstract":"Condescendingly, Giles admits that while these ‘“idiots” can often be highly intelligent individuals . . . for one reason or another [they] simply do not understand the consequences of what they do or say’. This, he adds, can stem ‘from a lack of understanding of the real-world impact of their academic studies’ (p. 167). The effrontery, almost insolence, of these remarks is truly breath-taking and has no part in proper academic discourse. It amounts to little more than mud-slinging. By loosing off these vitriolic barbs, Giles’ philippic merely serves to reinforce Russian suspicions about the West’s hostile attitude and intentions, thereby unwittingly turning himself into the Kremlin’s ‘useful cretin’. (The author may rest assured that this description is not intended to be a ‘deliberate insult’ but used just in the interests of alliteration). As for his final prognosis concerning the future of Russo-Western relations, his prodigious investigations lead him to the startling conclusion that we can all expect more of the same. That is to say: Russia – whoever the country’s leader – will always remain antagonistic towards the West, and the West will continue to regard Russia as its potential or actual enemy. According to Giles, ’twas ever thus, and ever more shall be so.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"201 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42308838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Karolina Watroba: Mann’s Magic Mountain: World Literature and Closer Reading","authors":"Osman Durrani","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054c","url":null,"abstract":"musicians’ decision to settle in the rural idyll of Forst in Lower Saxony, sometimes going into the granular detail of specific tracks. Yet, while most contributors rightly emphasise Krautrock’s musical innovativeness, Jens Balzer makes a powerful case for seeing it as a highly conservative movement, arguing it was almost exclusively dominated by white, heterosexual men with an upper-middle-class background, and often sought to cultivate and reappropriate German cultural traditions (reflected in the choice of such band names as Hölderlin, Novalis, and Ougenweide). Finally, in examining the legacy of Krautrock, Jeff Hayton traces the evolution of punk as it developed in West Germany in the late 1970s and early 1980s and its connections to Krautrock, noting that the generation against which punks were revolting was precisely the ’68ers (although surely not only them); Alexander Carpenter explores how, despite its ‘Teutonic heaviness’, the experimental aesthetic and anti-rock ethos of Krautrock helped shape the sound of British post-punk music; and in a fascinating chapter, Marcus Barnes investigates how Krautrock transcended Germany’s borders and (so to speak) travelled from Düsseldorf to Detroit and its musical nightclub scene of house, techno, hip-hop, etc., via the influence of free jazz. According to Mike Banks, Kraftwerk’s key track Nummern is nothing less than ‘the secret code of electronic funk’: it was ‘the perfect urban music because it was controlled chaos, and that’s exactly what we live in’ (cited p. 290). This remark clearly hints at Krautrock’s continuing relevance today, as does another aspect. For Barnes argues that the notion of ‘universal funk’ pervades Krautrock and the music it inspired, suggesting it shows how, ‘beyond superficial physical identity such as gender, nationality, racial categorisation, and other such limiting signifiers of identity, music is a vehicle for the human experience’ (p. 291). In this sense, then, Krautrock fully deserves the label of kosmische Musik that Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser introduced in the 1970s, and this confirms the link drawn – perhaps surprisingly – by Schütte in his introduction between the astral metaphor found in Arnold Schönberg’s string quartet no. 2, op. 10 (with its incorporation of a line from the poem Entrücking by the Symbolist poet Stefan George and its reference to ‘air from another planet’) and the ambition of Krautrock to produce music that is truly kosmisch, experimenting with ‘previously unheard, otherworldly sounds [. . .] not in a fantastic neverland or an unattainable, distant future, but here and now, as a harbinger of things to come’ (p. 11). As Louis Pattison recently observed in the online music publication Bandcamp Daily (in an article celebrating the continuing creativity and activity of many individuals associated with the genesis of this experimental movement some 50 years ago), ‘the pioneers of Krautrock are still chugging away’; and this excellent Companion should prove","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"203 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45738009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse: The Twitter feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope","authors":"Fergal Lenehan, Roman Lietz","doi":"10.1177/00472441231172058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231172058","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to the discourse of wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital Europeanism that examines digital texts, in the widest sense, contextualised within the norms of digital culture. The texts emanating on the platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and one largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope – were examined from 9 May 2021 to 9 November 2021. In evidence was a type of textual Europeanism that indeed owes a degree of coherence to the norms of digital culture. This was seen in relation to referentiality, that is, the use of already existing and circulating cultural materials for one’s own cultural production. This was evident in commented and uncommented retweets, social TV practices and the Europeanisation of Internet memes. The creation of a sense of communality – the way in which meanings can be stabilised, options for action generated and resources made accessible via a collectively supported frame of reference – is also in evidence and to be seen in the distinct discursive creation of an authoritarian ‘other’. This ‘other’ consists of a temporal ‘other’ – a small number of tweets relating to authoritarianisms of the past; an inner-European Union ‘other’ – tweets relating to movements towards authoritarianism within the European Union, especially in Hungary and Poland; and an external European Union other – tweets relating to authoritarianism on the European Union’s borders, especially in Belarus and Russia.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"153 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48175137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thomas Carlyle, François Guizot and the Brothers Ruffini: An unpublished letter","authors":"Alexander Jordan","doi":"10.1177/00472441231172062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231172062","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a letter from the great Victorian man of letters Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) to François Guizot (1787–1874), the de facto premier of France, recently discovered in the Archives Nationales in Paris. In the letter, Carlyle requests Guizot’s help in procuring visas for two of his friends, the exiled Italian revolutionaries Giovanni and Agostino Ruffini, who were hoping to visit their mother in France. The letter serves as an entry point into a wider consideration of the relationships between Carlyle, Guizot and the brothers Ruffini, all of which have been overlooked in the existing scholarship on Carlyle. In particular, the article provides an English translation of Giovanni and Agostino’s significant accounts of their relations with Carlyle (and his wife Jane), originally written in Italian.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"103 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42613234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Hanna Björg Sigurjónsdóttir and James G. Rice (eds): Understanding Disability Throughout History: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Iceland from Settlement to 1936","authors":"Ozancan Bozkurt","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054f","url":null,"abstract":"different history of a country beyond the Ocean stamped on the genes’ (p. 175). Yet, contemporary Italian society is still reluctant to accept itself as multi-ethnic nation, as Patriarca shows in the last chapter. Despite the fact that racial equality is inscribed in the Italian Constitution, Italy is still a country that considers itself as white and prejudiced towards non-white Italians. The claim for a plural identity, Patriarca concludes, is key for a truly democratic Italy.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"209 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47038725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Sven Hanuschek: Arno Schmidt: Biografie","authors":"M. Minden","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054d","url":null,"abstract":"assessment of Mann’s methodology, which proves him to be less knowledgeable about the matters he discusses than he would appear to be. The average person finds the narrator ‘almost intimidatingly cultivated’ (p. 138), but this is merely a trap that Mann set for an easily browbeaten public. Watroba has little time for Hermann Kurzke’s eloquent if somewhat obscure characterisation of Mann’s ideal reader as ‘ein Bildungsbürger auf Abwegen, der sich nicht mehr mit den Interessen seiner Klasse identifiziert, aber auch keine andere Heimat findet’ (a cultivated bourgeois gone astray who no longer identifies with the interests of his class but has not found another home‘, cited p. 23). She sees things differently: ‘this self-indulgent spectacle of intellectual and cultural superiority ultimately draws so much attention to itself that The Magic Mountain ends up laying bare its own pretence’ (p. 139). Nowhere is this more obvious than in Castorp’s use of French, in which he displays greater fluency than Mann ever attained. The same applies to the prolonged, exceedingly wearying debates. Untutored readers are more likely to recognise their carefully staged artificiality than most scholars are willing to. Aware of the unequal distribution of cultural capital, Watroba reaches the sobering verdict that the novel is ‘all about feeling consigned to intellectual inferiority and passivity, and nevertheless trying to become intellectually independent and active, albeit with varying results’ (p. 154). A spark of hope may yet flicker on within the crepuscular world of the Berghof.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"205 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42317705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Silvana Patriarca: Race in Post-Fascist Italy: ‘War Children’ and the Color of the Nation","authors":"L. Paci","doi":"10.1177/00472441231170054e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231170054e","url":null,"abstract":"and warm account of the everyday reality of the Schmidts’ life, that conveys the tragic core of the Schmidtian experience of the world. This brings us to a third justification of the length of this volume. Because Schmidt did not fit in, he became a caricature of himself in the media world he heroically resisted. He was reduced to a cluster of cliches behind which he became invisible, and which may, superficially, have contributed to the public acclaim that was accorded him. Hanuschek reverses this. He re-humanises and reclaims Schmidt not only by the immense detail with which Arno and Alice’s way of life is described, even to the point of giving us Alice’s recipe for preparing dried mushrooms, but by relaying the care shown him by colleagues and publishers, especially Ernst Krawehl, but many others too. It is particularly laudable that Hanuschek pays a great deal of attention, presumably on the basis of original research in the archive, to the many readers, from all walks of life and levels of education, who loved Schmidt’s prose and wrote to him about it. Here is justification indeed of this volume and of Schmidt’s titanic efforts. Despite its Schmidt-appropriate length, the volume is very readable, both unpretentiously written and impeccably organised. The scholarly apparatus is reader-friendly: rather than one unified and massive bibliography, the endnotes to each chapter are preceded by the relevant references which, together with a comprehensive system of abbreviations, means that it takes only a moment to discover the source of a quotation or fact. The book itself is beautifully produced by Hanser.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"207 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42806822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An uncanny dialogue: Lev Shestov’s philosophy as the ‘great art’ of not seeing and Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic investigations of the unconscious mind","authors":"Marie Ogden","doi":"10.1177/00472441231172061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441231172061","url":null,"abstract":"Having become known as one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Lev Shestov (1866–1938) advanced his pioneering ideas in parallel to Freud’s development of psychoanalysis. Originating in his earlier works, his views of philosophy as art and the corresponding idea of the possibility of a fundamental, inner and creative transformation of one’s worldview found its further expression in his mature writings, in which his insight into the nature of other thinkers’ creativity took on a definitively active role in his philosophy. With the focus on the notion of the transformative capability of thought in Shestov’s writing and based on my archival research and translations, in this article, I explore the Kyiv-born philosopher’s ideas in dialogue with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and in the context of the postmodern view of reality as a symbolical and multifaceted representation.","PeriodicalId":43875,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"119 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48992609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}