104 Reviews and Responses tives’ and ‘Self-Representation: Forms and Discourses’ These could readily stand alone as highly informative studies of postmodernism, with broad references encompassing representative authors beyond Canada to include France, England, the United States and South America. Both chapters could serve as either an uncluttered introduction for the uniniti- ated or an insightful discussion for the specialist. The chapters devoted to the chosen novels are a mine of interest, serving. at once as illustrations of postmodern fiction and as individual studies in themselves. Taking the Quiet Revolution as a turning point in the social and political evolution of Quebec, Paterson convincingly unearths in the texts studied a corresponding questioning, a parallel “subversion or out- right abolition of the traditional boundaries of literary genres’ (125). In addition to her own very fine observations, Janet Paterson encourages further exploration of postmodernism in its links with feminism, national- ism and anti-colonialist discourses. University of New England Lee Brotherson Textual Poetics of German Manuscripts 1300-1500, by Sarah Westphal. Columbia: Camden House, 1993. 244pp. (£40.00 cloth) A Path for Freedom: The Liberal Project of the Swabian School in Wiirttemberg, 1806-1848, by Victor G. Doerksen. Columbia: Camden House, 1993, 244pp. (£49.50 cloth) Louise von Gall: Her World and Work, by Hugh Powell. Columbia: Camden House, 1993, 230pp. (£39.50 cloth) The Problematic Bourgeois: Twentieth-Century Criticism on Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, by Hugh Ridley. Columbia: Camden House, 1994, 193pp. (£34.50. $60.00 cloth) On First Looking into Arden’s Goethe: Adaptations and Transla- tions of Classical German Plays for the Modern English Stage, by Ewald Mengel. Columbia: Camden House. 1994. |98pp. (£40.00. $70.00 cloth) Money and Magic: a Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust, by Hans Christoph Binswanger (Postscript by Irving Fetscher. Translated by J. E. Harrison). Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1994, 133pp. Canvassing periods of Geistesgeschichte or literature, academic fossils like Horkheimer or Schwietering (to mention only two of my university teachers) managed to keep students spell-bound by extemporizing and narrating insights of reading and thinking — an art but few of theirdisciples have maintained. Summarizing the gist of research for the purpose of Ceprgh®201! Qi Ag ed (Grow Auoeaen iia: xgsgn rr Annan