October 2004

After Habermas: new perspectives on the public sphere; edited by Nick Crossley and John Michael Roberts. Blackwell Publishing 2004 184p (The sociological review) pa $34.95

ISBN 1-4051-2365-6

Contributors examine Habermas’s agenda by reflecting on current social processes and events, such as anti-corporate protests and the emergence of the Internet, as well as alternative perspectives posed by thinkers such as Bakhtin, Bourdieu and Honneth.

America’s curious botanist: a tercentennial reappraisal of John Bartram 1699-1777; edited by Nancy E. Hoffman and John C. Van Horne. The American Philosophical Society 2004 227p il (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society; v. 249) $40.00

ISBN 0-87169-249-X; LC 2003-50212

Discusses the contributions John Bartram and his contemporaries made to 18th-century botany and natural science.

At the speed of light there is only illumination: a reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan: edited by John Moss and Linda M. Morra. University of Ottawa Press 2004 261p (Reappraisals, Canadian writers 27) $50.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-7766-0572-0; 0-7766-3029-6

Canadian communication thought, modernism, media and postcolonialism, and the global village are among the topics discussed.

Bloom, Harold

Where shall wisdom be found? Riverhead Books 2004 284p $24.95

ISBN 1-57322-284-4; LC 2004-43777

Authors discussed include Plato, Homer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Francis Bacon, Johnson, Goethe, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud, and Proust.

Clark, Elizabeth A.

History, theory, text: historians and the linguistic turn. Harvard Univ. Press 2004 325p $39.95; pa $19.95

ISBN 0-674-01516-9; 0-674-01584-3; LC 2004-47358

Explores such topics as Anglo-American philiosophies of history, schools of twentieth-century historiography and structuralism.

Cohen, Rachel

A chance meeting: intertwined lives of American writers and artists, 1854-1967. Random House 2004 363p $25.95

ISBN 1-4000-6164-4; LC 2003-58449

Essays discuss photographers Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz, artists Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell, and writers Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, Nora Zeale Hurston, Marianne Moore, James Baldwin, and Norman Mailer.

Dante, cinema, and television; edited by Amilcare A. Iannucci. University of Toronto Press 2004 245p il (Toronto Italian Studies) $55.00; pa $27.95

ISBN 0-8020-8601-2; 0-8020-8827-9

Analyzes such films as Pasolini’s Salo, Antonioni’s Red desert, Brakhage’s The Dante quartet, and Fellini’s La dolce vita.

Greene, Donald Johnson

The selected essays of Donald Greene; edited by John L. Abbott. Buchnell Univ. Press 2004 355p il $57.50

ISBN 0-8387-5572-0; LC 2004-2865

Discusses such authors as Johnson, Boswell, Jane Austen, and Waugh.

Gulliksen, Oyvind Tveitereid

Twofold identities: Norwegian-American contributions to midwestern literature. Lang, P. 2004 240p $65.95

ISBN 0-8204-6230-6; LC 2003-44742

Looks at the works of authors Nils Ronning, Waldemar Ager, and Ole Rolvaag, and how they balanced their Norwegian origins and their struggles to establish themselves in their new homes in places such as Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Wisconsin.

Harrow, Susan

The material, the real, and the fractured self: subjectivity and representation from Rimbaud to Reda. University of Toronto Press 2004 269p (University of Toronto romance series) $55.00

ISBN 0-8020-8722-1

Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Reda are the authors discussed.

Home-work: postcolonialism, pedagogy and Candain literature; edited by Cynthia Sugars. University of Ottawa Press 2004 533p (Reappraisals, Canadian writers 28) pa $35.00

ISBN 0-7766-0577-1

Topics include literary history as microhistory, literature and human rights, globalization, and postcolonial pedagogy.

In sickness and in health: disease as metaphor in art and popular wisdom; edited by Lurinda S. Dixon; with the assistance of Gabriel Weisberg. University of Delaware Press 2004 224p il $60.00

ISBN 0-87413-857-4; LC 2003-23518

Examines the works of such artists as Adriaen van de Venne and Thomas Eakin, as well as the art of seventeenth-century Naples, twentieth-century France, and Weimar Germany.

Leya, Michael

Looking askance: skepticism and American art from Eakins to Duchamp. University of California Press 2004 300p il $49.95

ISBN 0-520-23807-9; LC 2003-22760

Reflects on the works of Thomas Eakins, William Harnett, Marcel Duchamp, photographer William Mumler, and scientist Helen Abbott's interpretation of Monet's impressionism.

Miller, J.R.

Reflections on native-newcomers relations: selected essays. University of Toronto Press 2004 304p $65.00; pa $27.95

ISBN 0-8020-8669-1; 0-8020-8723-X

Essays discuss English-Canadian historiography, native-government relations, Indian residential schools, and other topics.

Models: the third dimension of science; edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Nick Hopwood. Stanford University Press 2004 464p il (Writing science) $65.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8047-3971-4; 0-8047-3972-2; LC 2003-25168

Wooden ships and plastic molecules, wax bodies and a perspex economy, monuments in cork and mathematics in plaster, casts of diseases, habitat dioramas, and extinct monsters rebuilt in bricks and mortar are among the models analyzed.

Morgan, Edmund S.

The genuine article: a historian looks at early America. W.W. Norton & Co. 2004 315p $26.95

ISBN 0-393-05920-0; LC 2004-43354

Topics include Winthrop, Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, sex lives of the Puritans, witch trials in Salem, and slavery in Virginia.

Net.seXXX: readings on sex, pornography, and the Internet; edited by Dennis D. Waskul. Lang, P. 2004 340p (Digital formations v. 23) 340p

ISBN 0-8204-7072-4; LC 2004-6747

Contributors assess the personal, cultured and ethical issues raised by Internet sex sites.

Robin, Ron Theodore

Scandals and scoundrels: seven cases that shook the academy. University of California Press 2004 277p $19.95

ISBN 0-520-24249-1; 0-520-24249-1; LC 2003-24854

Stephen Ambrose, Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead, Michael Bellesiles, Joseph Ellis, Napoleon Chagnon, and Rigoberta Menchú are among the scholars discussed.

Sites of violence: gender and conflict zones; edited by Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman. University of Califonia Press 2004 361p $65.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-520-23072-8; 0-520-23791-9; LC 2003-8450

Essays explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, Israel and Palestine, the "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana.

Stambovsky, Phillip

Philosophical conceptualization and literary art; inference, ereignis, and conceptual attunement to the work of poetic genius. Fairliegh Dickenson University Press 2004 231p $46.50

ISBN 0-8386-4026-5; LC 2003-28204

Includes discussions of Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, Rudolf Otto, and Martin Heidegger.

Teachout, Terry

A Terry Teachout reader. Yale Univ. Press 2004 438p $35.00

ISBN 0-300-09894-4; LC 2003-16561

Collects the authors essays on literature, film, music, and contemporary society.

Things that talk: object lessons from art and science; edited by Lorraine Daston. Zone Books 2004 447p $34.50

ISBN 1-890951-43-9; LC 2003-53811

A Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, and paintings by Jackson Pollock are the topics discussed.

Wolin, Richard

The seduction of unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism: from Nietzsche to postmodernism. Princeton Univ. Press 2004 375p $29.95

ISBN 0-691-11464; LC 2003-57955

Examines the works of C. G. Jung, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Georges Bataille, and Maurice Blanchot.

Wood, James

The irresponsible self: on laughter and the novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004 312p $24.00

ISBN 0-374-17737-6; LC 2003-22955

Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dostoyevski, Tolstoy, Italo Svevo, Giovanni Verga, Joseph Roth, Henry Green, and Saul Bellow are among the authors analyzed.

Writing for the eyes in the Spanish golden age; edited by Frederick A. de Armas. Bucknell University Press 2004 310p il $55.00

ISBN 0-8387-5571-2; LC 2004-1393

Works by Cervantes, Arguijo, Gongora, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and Velazquez among those explicated.