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{"title":"Five Plays for the Archangel Raphael by Giovan Maria Cecchi (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907867","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Five Plays for the Archangel Raphael by Giovan Maria Cecchi Richard Andrews Five Plays for the Archangel Raphael. By Giovan Maria Cecchi. Trans, and ed. by Konrad Eisenbichler. (Renaissance and Reformation Texts in Translation, 14) Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. 2020. 227 pp. $21.95. ISBN 978–0–7727–2488–5. Scholars of sixteenth-century Italian theatre tend to focus on the secular genres of comedy, tragedy, and pastoral, which had roots, or at least claimed them, in Graeco-Roman antiquity. We often overlook the fact that there was a parallel tradition of religious and didactic drama, less erudite and more popular, which probably figured more strongly in the imagination and the theatrical experience of the average citizen. One of the Anglophone scholars who has reminded us most effectively of this fact, over a long career, is Konrad Eisenbichler, who has previously published The Boys of the Archangel Raphael: A Youth Confraternity in Florence, 1411–1785 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998). This was a ground-breaking history of the Confraternità dell' Arcangelo Raffaello, a young men's social and devotional brotherhood also known as the Confraternità della Scala. Mounting plays with a religious or moralistic content was a key public activity of Florentine confraternities, and some of the playwrights involved are known to history. Giovan Maria Cecchi (1518–1587) was a particularly prolific dramatist, producing both secular comedies and a wide range of religious and didactic plays. Eisenbichler now offers English translations of five scripts composed by Cecchi for the Arcangelo Raffaello confraternity. Like much of Cecchi's work, they did not reach print until the nineteenth century. In editing them now, Eisenbichler takes full account of their surviving manuscript sources, and he also relays what can be deduced about the circumstances in which each spectacle was staged by the 'boys of the Archangel Raphael', the surviving evidence being different in scope and detail for each item. None of the five scripts is longer than a thousand lines of verse—not even the three-act Cleofas e Luca ('Cleopas and Luke') composed between 1580 and 1587, which dramatizes biblical and apocryphal events traditionally narrated as surrounding Christ's Resurrection. This play contains nineteen characters: they include Christ and an Angel, but also the Virgin Mary, male and female disciples, hostile Jews, and the staff of an inn at Emmaus who provide an episode of low-life slapstick comedy. The other four plays are an Act Suitable for Recitation in Front of the Nativity Scene; a presentation of Contempt for Love and Earthly Beauty; a Duel of Active [End Page 628] and Contemplative Life; and Dolcina, where a single eponymous human character appears alongside figures such as Humility, Pride, and Religion. She is stated to represent Human Fragility, and in practice she too offers something approaching comic relief, with her down-t","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134933801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 by Franz J. Potter (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907857","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 by Franz J. Potter Jimmy Packham Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830. By Franz J. Potter. (Gothic Literary Studies) Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2021. xi+ 257 pp. £70. ISBN 978–1–78683–670–0. Ghosts! Spectres! Apparitions! The New Life after Death; or, Secrets of the Grave Laid Open (n.d.). What reader would not be enticed by such a lurid title? It is this and 399 other Gothic pamphlets and chapbooks that underpin Franz J. Potter's detailed and informative account of the rise and fall of these short-form tales. Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830 takes as its primary line of enquiry the emergence, proliferation, and decline of these cheap (and perhaps not so cheerful) texts—a combination of original tales and, more frequently, adaptations and abridgements of popular Gothic novels and dramatic works, often extracting the most thrilling and horrid passages from these longer forms. Potter has digested an absolute wealth of information pertaining to the publication history of Gothic chapbooks, enabling the study to unfold in two interrelated directions: first, as Potter outlines, the book offers an empirical and statistical analysis focusing on the publishers, printers and circulating libraries (including readers)' involved in some form with these media; second, it offers a series of short 'biographical case studies' of key figures in this business to 'illustrate the mechanism of the Gothic chapbook trade' (pp. 3,4). Gothic Chapbooks is in consequence a book primed to offer valuable material for scholars working in a number of different critical fields: Gothic studies is the most obvious beneficiary, but this is a study that also has a great deal to say to book historians, scholars of short-form fiction, and—especially in the monograph's most compelling final two chapters—scholars of nineteenth-century children's literature. Gothic Chapbooks presents a useful account of the network of writers, publishers, printers, and distributors—primarily London-based but also 'extending] their reach to the provinces' (p. 133)—who were responsible for circulating the pamphlets and the volumes into which they were frequently collected. Potter reminds us to think of these networks above all as mutually beneficial collaborations rather than real partnerships, and there is something appropriately incestuous about the dazzling combinations and recombinations of publisher and printer names affixed to title-pages: The Veiled Picture… (1802)—a version of Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)—contains a colophon indicating 'twenty-two firms across the United Kingdom collaborating on the project' (p. 81). This suggests something of the murkiness of these networks, but Potter's succinct histories of individuals do much to make this manageable for his readers and a few names stand out as particularly important players in this game: Thomas Hurst,","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134934007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Silhouette of a Translator: Marian Fell and Russian Culture","authors":"Anna Maslenova","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907836","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Marian Fell Vans Agnew (1886–1935), a largely forgotten American translator of Russian literature, was among the first to introduce Anton Chekhov and Vladimir Korolenko to Anglophone audiences. As a teenager, Fell lived in Karaganda, Siberia (nowadays in Kazakhstan) with her family, and this experience inspired her to promote Russian culture after she returned to America. This article investigates Fell's collaboration with the Charles Scribner's Sons and Duffield & Co. publishing companies, analyses and contextualizes Fell's translations, and examines the critique of her works from the Russian school of criticism to provide an assessment of Fell's contribution to Russo-American intercultural relationships.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abbas Khider's Refugee Narrative Ohrfeige : A System-Critical Intervention in the Continuing Human Rights and Solidarity Crisis","authors":"Daphne Maria Seemann","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907835","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article investigates Abbas Khider's Ohrfeige as a system-critical intervention in the discourse of forced migration and the continuing human rights and solidarity crisis. It focuses on Khider's use of the grotesque to illustrate how, as refugee narrative, Ohrfeige is symptomatically situated within the constraints of a profit-driven world economic system which reduces literature, cultures, and people to commodities, while growing numbers of refugee populations are kept in inhospitable spaces of radicalized exclusion. The grotesque also serves Khider as a distancing technique to highlight the need to assume active responsibility beyond humanitarian compassion to confront the injustices of our time.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Voice in the Snow: Rediscovering Olga Carlisle as a Mediator of Russian Culture","authors":"Cathy McAteer","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a907837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a907837","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article evaluates, for the first time from a Translation Studies perspective, the cultural and humanitarian contribution of the Paris-born, ethnically Russian literary translator and editor Olga Carlisle. It identifies her as a mediator who transcended the gender norms of the time and diversified the modern Russian literary canon by her advocacy of Solzhenitsyn in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on Carlisle's publications and archival and paratextual material, this article analyses the life events, interactions, and dispositions that led Carlisle to advocate for Russian culture and political freedom, and explores Carlisle's influence on twenty-first-century female translators of Russophone literature.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134935250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GNet: An integrated context-aware neural framework for transcription factor binding signal at single nucleotide resolution prediction.","authors":"Jujuan Zhuang,&nbsp;Kexin Feng,&nbsp;Xinyang Teng,&nbsp;Cangzhi Jia","doi":"10.3934/mbe.2023704","DOIUrl":"10.3934/mbe.2023704","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcription factors (TFs) are important factors that regulate gene expression. Revealing the mechanism affecting the binding specificity of TFs is the key to understanding gene regulation. Most of the previous studies focus on TF-DNA binding sites at the sequence level, and they seldom utilize the contextual features of DNA sequences. In this paper, we develop an integrated spatiotemporal context-aware neural network framework, named GNet, for predicting TF-DNA binding signal at single nucleotide resolution by achieving three tasks: single nucleotide resolution signal prediction, identification of binding regions at the sequence level, and TF-DNA binding motif prediction. GNet extracts implicit spatial contextual information with a gated highway neural mechanism, which captures large context multi-level patterns using linear shortcut connections, and the idea of it permeates the encoder and decoder parts of GNet. The improved dual external attention mechanism, which learns implicit relationships both within and among samples, and improves the performance of the model. Experimental results on 53 human TF ChIP-seq datasets and 6 chromatin accessibility ATAC-seq datasets shows that GNet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in the three tasks, and the results of cross-species studies on 15 human and 18 mouse TF datasets of the corresponding TF families indicate that GNet also shows the best performance in cross-species prediction over the competitive methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"105 1","pages":"15809-15829"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Male Body and Social Masculinity in Premodern Europe ed. by Jacqueline Murray (review)","authors":"Caitlin Dahl","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a901113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a901113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"118 1","pages":"351 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48799095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Transplantation Gothic: Tissue Transfer in Literature, Film, and Medicine by Sara Wasson (review)","authors":"B. Murnane","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a901116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a901116","url":null,"abstract":"Longhurst identifies a common particularity rarely encountered in other existentialists: concern with the dehumanization of modern man. All three posit different variations of the notion of intersubjectivity and experience, making the existence of ‘the other’ primordial even if none of them is entirely clear about whether ‘the other’ is an ontological or epistemological category. Unamuno, Berdyaev, and Marcel are all aware of the dangers of individuals ceasing to depend on others for their identity and relying on organizations. is shi results in a despiritualized individual disproportionately overwhelmed by science (p. ). e recovery of spiritual values is important to all three, none of them believing a reasonand science-based philosophy to be a holistic panacea. Longhurst does not seek to define a specifically Christian brand of existentialism, and is mindful of the specificities of three thinkers who are religious without being theologians. e book convincingly makes the case that none of the three authors writes to rationalize their belief in God (their philosophy is not a theology) or to justify Christianity. eir existential philosophy is simply informed by Christian faith and, whatever their differences and idiosyncrasies, they ‘share the view that faith is in the first place a quest taken in response to an inner drive, but an inner drive that in some obscure way presupposes the existence of a transphysical or transcendental reality. Faith is creative to the extent that it cannot rely purely on an external input’ (p. ). e book’s single greatest achievement lies in its nuancing of canonical definitions of existentialism to encompass the Christian way of thinking.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"118 1","pages":"356 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46709528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants before Tito by Samuel Foster (review)","authors":"Natasha Stoyce","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a901158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a901158","url":null,"abstract":"literature to the Gulag. At the same time, Colombo demonstrates how the perception of the hidden enemy gradually transformed from a non-proletarian individual of ‘alien’ class origin into a person with the wrong, i.e. Jewish, background. Colombo follows the same methodology in the next section, including a chapter on the single most popular author of Soviet spy thrillers, Iulian Semenov and his famous novel Seventeen Moments of Spring (), which was adapted for television in  by Tatʹiana Lioznova with outstanding success. He combines his presentation of individual writers with discussion of major contemporaneous ideas, slogans, and stereotypes absorbed by Russian spy fiction, offering a variety of intriguing facts and equally intriguing interpretations. Two aspects of Colombo’s monograph perturbed me somewhat. Firstly, in his Introduction he argues rather passionately that the subject of his study is exclusively the ‘spy thriller’. I feel he should not have insisted on this point as, from a conventional point of view, he addresses various narrative genres and their hybrids: besides the spy thriller, he draws upon adventure, detective, political, and other novels. Moreover, his attempt to isolate the spy thriller as a genre is unconvincing and time-consuming. Secondly, I found the style and structure of the book a little confusing, rather like a spy thriller itself, full of unexpected changes of time and place, plot twists, and new perspectives. But these objections are minor: crucially, Colombo’s book is new, timely, and very good. T I  R L (P H)   R A  S S P S U V V","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"118 1","pages":"426 - 428"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47317885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jealousy towards his Own Son: Rumours around Prince Henry’s Death in Fulke Greville’s Mustapha","authors":"Yuichiro Nishino","doi":"10.1353/mlr.2023.a901110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mlr.2023.a901110","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses Fulke Greville’s extensive revisions of Mustapha and, using circumstantial evidence, suggests that characteristics of Prince Mustapha bear some similarities to those of Prince Henry Stuart. In the course of the discussion, the parent–child relationship of Soliman and Mustapha is brought to bear on that of King James and Henry by way of a comparison between the earlier and the revised versions of the play. The article thus offers a new reading based on the perspective that Mustapha presents an elaborate response to the rumour of James’s involvement in the untimely death of Henry.","PeriodicalId":45399,"journal":{"name":"MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW","volume":"118 1","pages":"308 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47596701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}