Rocky Mountain Review
Volume 62, Number 2
FALL 2008
CONTENTS
Articles | Forum | Reviews
Articles
Martin Montanus
as Entertainer and Social Critic
Albrecht Classen
University of Arizona
Contrary to common assumptions, sixteenth-century German literature contains numerous
collections of Schwänke: that is, hilarious, entertaining, didactic, but
ultimately epistemological short stories. The laughter that the authors evoke
intends to teach, but also to illuminate and to help the audience to grasp
fundamental aspects of their lives. This finds strong confirmation in the humorous
tales by Martin Montanus who obviously cared little about theological issues that
seemingly dominated that century; instead he offered delightful, skillfully
developed Schwänke in which he exposed people's weakness, foolishness, failures,
and foibles. Because of the strategic employment of laughter, however, the recipient
is invited to join the learning process and to recognize basic elements of human life.
Forum
An Interdisciplinary Examination of U.S. Racism
from Mismeasure of Man to Invisible Man
Carol Anelli
Washington State University
Coming Soon.
Reviews
Books Under Suspicion:
Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late
Medieval England, by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton
Reviewer: Cindy Carlson
Gutenberg and
the Impact of Printing, by Stephan Füssel
Reviewer: Cliff Toliver
Travel Narratives from
the Age of Discovery: An Anthology, ed. Peter C. Mancall
Reviewer: McKenna Rose
Robert Southey:
Entire Man of Letters, by W.A. Speck
Reviewer: Brian C. Cooney
New Frontiers in Early American Studies
Feminist Interventions
in Early American Studies, ed. Mary C. Carruth
The Pilgrim and the Bee: Reading Rituals
and Book Culture in Early New England, by Matthew P. Brown
Reviewer: Doreen Alvarez Saar
James Fenimore Cooper:
The Early Years, by Wayne Franklin
Reviewer: Michael Pringle
Reading Melville's Pierre;
or, The Ambiguities, by Brian Higgins and Herschel Parker
Reviewer: Sura P. Rath
Mark Twain and the Spiritual
Crisis of His Age, by Harold K. Bush, Jr.
Reviewer: Jeffrey W. Miller
Working Fictions: A Genealogy
of the Victorian Novel, by Carolyn Lesjak
Reviewer: Jessica Webb
Rudyard Kipling:
The Books I Leave Behind, by David Alan Richards
Reviewer: Robert Sargent Fay
Modernist Aesthetics
and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde,
by Paul Fortunato
Reviewer: Catherine R. Mintler
Cruising with Robert Louis Stevenson:
Travel, Narrative, and the Colonial Body, by Oliver S. Buckton
Reviewer: Jack W. Shear
Cupboards of Curiosity:
Women, Recollection and Film History, by Amelie Hastie
Reviewer: Pamela T. Washington
Lovers & Beloveds: Sexual
Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961, by Gary Richards
Reviewer: Erin Clair
The Nothing Machine:
The Fiction of Octave Mirbeau, by Robert Ziegler
Reviewer: Barbara Petrosky
Don DeLillo:
The Possibility of Fiction, by Peter Boxall
Reviewer: Randy Laist
Writing the Southwest,
ed. David King Dunaway and Sara Spurgeon
Reviewer: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Hot Coffee and Cold Truth:
Living and Writing in the West, ed. W.C. Jameson
Reviewer: Marja Mogk
Chicana Creativity and Criticism:
New Frontiers in American Literature, ed. Maria Herrera-Sobek
and Helena Maria Viramontes
Reviewer: Liana M. Silva
The Politics of Life Itself:
Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century,
by Nikolas Rose
Reviewer: Troy Urquhart
Everything You Need to Know
About Creative Writing (but knowing isn't everything...),
by Heather Leach and Robert Graham
Reviewer: Helynne H. Hansen
Mexican Americans
and the Politics of Diversity, by Lisa Magaña
Reviewer: Ana Isabel Carballal
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