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BALFOUR,
Ian
The rhetoric of Romantic
prophecy. Stanford Univ. Press 2002 346p (Cultural memory in the present)
$65.00, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8047-4231-6;
0-8047-4506-4; LC 2002-70690
Wordsworth, Novalis, Blake,
Holderlin, and Coleridge are among those discussed.
BARTOLOMEO,
Joseph F.
Matched pairs: gender and
intertextual dialogue in eighteenth-century fiction. University of Del.
Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2002 242p $44.50
ISBN 0-87413-799-3; LC
2002-18056
Close readings of novels by
Eliza Haywood, Sarah Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Frances Burney, Ann
Radcliffe, and others.
CHILDREN’S
literature v30; annual of the Modern Language Association Division on
Children’s Literature and the Children’s Literature Association. Yale
Univ. Press 2002 264p $45.00, pa $20.00
ISBN 0-300-0989-2;
0-300-09490-6; ISSN 0092-8208
COMPLEXITIES:
social studies of knowledge practices; John Law and Annemarie Mol, editors.
Duke Univ. Press 2002 295p (Science and cultural theory) $59.95, pa $19.95
ISBN 0-8223-2831-3;
0-8223-2846-1; LC 2001-7279
Among the topics discussed are:
market behavior, aeronautical design, meteorology, childhood trauma, holism
in the sciences, ecology, morality, and governance.
The COOPERSTOWN symposium
on baseball and American culture, 2001; edited with an introduction by
William M. Simons. McFarland & Co. 2002 370p pa $35.00
ISBN 0-7864-1357-3
DEFINING
travel: diverse visions; edited by Susan L. Roberson. University Press of
Miss. 2001 297p $40.00
ISBN 1-57806-411-2; LC
2001-26905
Contributors include Jean
Baudrillard, Paul Fussell, Michel de Certeau, Edward W. Said, Mary Louise
Pratt, and Gloria Anzaldua.
DICKENS
studies annual, v31; essays on Victorian fiction; edited by Stanley
Friedman. AMS Press 2002 424p $121.50
ISBN 0-404-18931-8
FAULKNER
and Yoknapatawpha Conference (26th: 1999: University of
Mississippi)
Faulkner and postmodernism;
edited by John N. Duvall and Ann J. Abadie. University Press of Miss. 2002
203p $45.00
ISBN 1-57806-459-7; LC 2002-638
FEINSTEIN,
Joshua
The triumph of the ordinary:
depictions of daily life in the East German cinema, 1949-1989. University of
N. C. Press 2002 331p $59.95, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-8078-2717-7;
0-8078-5385-3; LC 2001-59826
Explores the movie industry’s
institutional history and its changing relationship to politics and society
in the German Democratic Republic.
HIGH
anxieties: cultural studies in addiction; Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc
Redfield, editors. University of Calif. Press 2002 232p $60.00, pa $24.95
ISBN 0-520-22750-6;
0-520-22751-4; LC 2002-2289
Essays explore the depiction of
substance abuse in literature, film, and cyberspace.
JOHNSON, Michael
K.
Black masculinity and the
frontier myth in American literature. University of Okla. Press 2002 293p
(Literature of the American West, v9) $34.95
ISBN 0-8061-3414-3; LC
2001-54620
Examines black writers who have
reworked the mythology of the American West to address black male
experiences.
KARELL,
Linda K.
Writing together/writing apart;
collaboration in Western American literature. University of Neb. Press 2002
219p $49.95
ISBN 0-8032-2749-3; LC
2002-24716
Close analysis of how writers
work with others. Works by Mourning Dove, Mary Austin, Ivan Doig, Mary
Clearman Blew, William Kittredge, Wallace Stegner, Louise Erdrich and
Michael Dorris are discussed.
KAY,
Sarah
Courtly contradictions: the
emergence of the literary object in the twelfth century. Stanford Univ.
Press 2001 380p (Figurae) $55.00
ISBN 0-8047-3079-2; LC
2001-20685
The author studies the
interaction of hagiography, troubadour lyric, and romance.
LUHMANN,
Niklas
Theories of distinction:
redescribing the descriptions of modernity; edited and introduced by William
Rash; translations by Joseph O’Neil [et. al]. Stanford Univ. Press 2002
(Cultural memory in the present) $49.50, pa $21.95
ISBN 0-8047-4122-0; 0-4123-9; LC
2001-49220
Nine essays by a leading German
social theorist.
NAIPAUL,
V. S.
The writer and the world:
essays; introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra. Knopf 2002 524p $30.00
ISBN 0-676-97519-4
A collection of essays and
reportage by the Nobel laureate. Topics range from the Muslim invasions of
India and Mobutu’s reign in Zaire to New York mayoral elections.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY
geographies: the transformation of space from the Victorian Age to the
American century; edited by Helena Michie [and] Ronald R. Thomas. Rutgers
Univ. Press 2002 c2003 293p $62.00, pa $26.00
ISBN 0-8135-3143-8;
0-8135-3144-6; LC 2002-17880
Mona Domosh, Philippa Levine,
Joseph Litvak, Robert L. Patten, and Jill L. Matus are among the
contributors.
REALITY
squared: televisual discourse on the real; edited by James Friedman. Rutgers
Univ. Press 2002 336p $60.00, pa $22.00
ISBN 0-8135-2988-3;
0-8135-2989-1; LC 2001-31787
Contributors explore ways in
which reality is reflected by and retracted through broadcast and cable
television.
The REEL Shakespeare;
edited by Lisa S. Starks and Courtney Lehmann. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ.
Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2002 298p $49.50
ISBN 0-8386-3939-9; LC
2002-24135
Scholars discuss the marginal,
radical, and experimental uses to which Shakespeare has been put in
non-mainstream film culture.
RUSHDIE,
Salman
Step across this line: collected
nonfiction 1992-2002. Random House 402p $25.95
ISBN 0-679-46334-8; LC
2002-21314
A collection of essays,
speeches, and opinion pieces.
STATE
of the World, 2002; a Worldwatch Institue report on progress toward a
sustainable society; foreword by Kofi A. Annan, Secretary-General, United
Nations; Christopher Flavin [et.al. contributors]; Linda Starke, editor.
Norton 2002 264p $29.95, pa $15.95
ISBN 0-393-05053-X;
0-393-32279-3
STUDIES
in bibliography v53; edited by David L. Vander Meulen; published for the
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. University Press of
Va. 2002 282p $60.00
ISBN 0-8139-2148-1
The SUPREME Court review,
2001; edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson, David A. Strauss, and Geoffrey R.
Stone. University of Chicago Press 2002 434p $54.00
ISBN 0-226-36250-7
UNDERWORLD:
perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld; edited by Joseph Dewey , Steven
G. Kellman, and Irving Malin. University of Del. Press 2002 219p $39.50
ISBN 0-87413-785-3; LC
2002-21769
Jackson R. Bryer, David Cowart,
Joanne Gass, Donald J. Greiner, and Ira Nadel are among the contributors.
WETZSTEON,
Ross
Republic of dreams: Greenwich
Village: the American Bohemia, 1910-1960. Simon & Schuster 2002 617p il
$35.00
ISBN 0-684-86995-0; LC
2001-34229
Interrelated biographical essays
on the giants of American journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, and
art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century.
WHITMAN
East and West: new contexts for reading Walt Whitman; edited by Ed Folsom.
University of Iowa Press 2002 243p ( The Iowa Whitman series) $44.95
ISBN 0-87745-821-9; LC
2002-21133
Essays cover issues ranging from
ecology to children’s literature, gay identity to China’s May 4th
Movement, Mao Zedong to American film, and 19th century New York
politics to the emerging field of normality studies.
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