November 2004

Allen, Brooke

Artistic license: three centuries of good writing and bad behavior. Dee, I.R. 2004 244p $26.00

ISBN 1-56663-595-0; LC 2004-45537

Collects the author’s essays on Hans Christian Andersen, Bram Stoker, Byron, Laurence Sterne, Wilkie Collins, William Saroyan, and others.

Bonnefoy, Yves

Shakespeare and the French poet: with an interview with Yves Bonnefoy; edited with an introduction by John Naughton. University of Chicago Press 2004 283p (Essay, english, selections) $55.00; pa $22.50

ISBN 0-226-06442-5; 0-226-06443-3; LC 2003-23393

Works analyzed include Hamlet, Lear and The winter’s tale.

Brenson, Michael

Acts of engagement: writings on art, criticism, and institutions, 1993-2002. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004 303p (Culture and politics series) $75.00; pa $27.95

ISBN 0-7425-2981-9; 0-7425-2982-7; LC 2004-6819

Examines such artists as Maya Lin, Giacometti, Daumier, and Magdalena Abakanowicz.

Essays on twentieth-century German drama and theater: and American reception 1977-1999; edited by Helmut Hal Rennert. Lang, P. 2004 321p (New German-American studies v. 19) $74.95

ISBN 0-8204-4403-0; LC 2002-30154

Discusses such playwrights as Brecht, Georg Kaiser, Ernst Toller, Arnolt Bronnen, and Peter Handke.

Gioia, Dana

Disappearing ink: poetry at the end of print culture. Graywolf Press 2004 271p pa $16.00

ISBN 1-55597-410-4

Essays analyze such poets as Kenneth Rexroth, Jack Spicer, John Haines, Weldon Kees, amd Elizabeth Bishop.

Guida, George

The peasant and the pen: men, enterprise, and the recovery of culture in Italian American narrative. Lang, P. 2003 116p (American university studies, series XXIV, American literature vol. 75) $48.95

ISBN 0-8204-6730-8; LC 2002-154661

Giovanni Verga, John Fante and Anthony Valerio are among the authors discussed.

Iconotropism: turning toward pictures; edited by Ellen Spolsky. Bucknell Univ. Press 2004 210p il $59.50

ISBN 0-8387-5542-9; LC 2003-26352

Contributors discuss artists such as Raphael, Titian and Annibale Carracci, as well as images of the Holocaust and iconic representations of the divine in Kabbalah.

Identity and the arts in diaspora communities; edited by Thomas Turino and James Lea. Harmonie Park Press 2004 144p (Detroit monographs in musicology/Studies in music no. 40) $35.00

ISBN 0-89990-124-7; LC 2004-42456

Looks at case studies from the Jewish, Armenian, Albanian, African, Asian-Indian, and Latin American diasporas.

In darkness and secrecy: the anthropology of assault sorcery and withcraft in Amazonia; edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Robin Wright. Duke Univ. Press 2004 327p il $79.95; pa $22.95

ISBN 0-8223-3345-7; 0-8223-3333-3; LC 2003-26535

Analyzes the social and political dynamics of South American shamanism assault sorcery as it is practiced in parts of Brazil, Guyana, Venezuela, and Peru.

Is nothing sacred?; edited by Ben Rogers. Routledge 2004 148p $75.00; pa $16.95

ISBN 0-415-30483-0; 0-415-30484-9

Simon Blackburn, Richard Dawkins, Ronald Dworkin, and Nigel Warburton are among the contributors.

McClary, Susan

Modal subjectivities: self-fashioning in the Italian madrigal. University of California Press 2004 374p $45.00

ISBN 0-520-23493-6; LC 2003-25287

Focuses on the works of Gesualdo, Verdelot, Arcadelt, Willaert, Wert, Marenzio, and de Rore.

Metz, Walter

Engaging film criticism: film history and contemporary American cinema. Lang, P. 2004 226p il (Studies in film, television, and video vol. 2) pa $29.95

ISBN 0-8204-7403-7; LC 2004-5491

Outbreak, The bridges of Madison County, To kill a mockingbird, and The postman are among the films discussed.

Mizejewski, Linda

Hardboiled and high heeled: the woman detective in popular culture. Routledge 2004 228p il $85.00; pa $19.95

ISBN 0-415-96970-0; 0-415-96971-9

Includes discussions on authors Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell, women detectives on television and film, and the film Silence of the lambs.

Of paradise and light: essays on Henry Vaughan and John Milton in honor of Alan Rudrum; edited by Donald R. Dickson and Holly Faith Nelson. University of Delaware Press 2004 393p $60.00

ISBN 0-87413-876-0; LC 2004-2536

Topics include Vaughn’s Silex Scintillans and Mount of Olives, Milton’s Paradise lost, and Blake’s Milton.

Price, John

Not just any land: a personal and literary journey into the American grasslands. University of Nebraska 2004 225p $20.00

ISBN 0-8032-3707-3; LC 2003-16610

Linda Hasselstrom, Dan O’Brien, William Least Heat-Moon, and Mary Swander are the authors discussed.

Racial thinking in the United States: uncompleted independence; edited by Paul Spickard and G. Reginald Daniel. University of Notre Dame 2004 361p (African American intellectual heritage series) $50.00; pa $20.00

ISBN 0-268-04103-2; 0-268-04104-0; LC 2004-1137

Examines such topics as race and modernity, mustefinos, monoracialism, the Asian American movement, Afrocentrism, and Eurocentrism.

Rosler, Martin

Decoys and disruptions: selected writings, 1975-2001. The MIT Press 2004 390p il 390p $34.95

ISBN 0-262-18231-9; LC 2003-66827

Documentary photography, feminist art, video, government patronage of the arts, censorship, and the future of digitally based photographic media are among the topics analyzed.

Rotella, Guy L.

Castings: monuments and monumentality in poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney. Vanderbilt Univ. Press 2004 225p $59.95; pa $27.95

ISBN 0-8265-1452-9; 0-8265-1453-7; LC 2004-1008

The settlement of the American continents: a multidisciplinary approach to human biography; edited by C. Michael Barton. . . [et al.]. University of Arizona Press 2004 281p $75.00

ISBN 0-8165-2323-1; LC 2003-25861

Discusses who the Pleistocene settlers were and where they came from, their likely routes of migration, and the ecological role of these pioneers and the consequences of colonization.

Shakespeare survey 54: an annual survey of Shakespeare studies and production; edited by Peter Holland. Cambridge University Press 2001 372p $90.00

ISBN 0-521-80341-1

Shakespeare survey 55: an annual survey of Shakespeare studies and production; edited by Peter Holland. Cambridge University Press 2002 372p $85.00

ISBN 0-521-81587-8

Sjoholm, Cecilia

The Antigone complex: ethics and the inventions of feminine desire. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 209p(Cultural memory in the present) $45.00

ISBN 0-8047-4892-6; LC 2005-26001

Explores readings of Antigone by Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, Judith Butler, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Theorizing historical consciousness; edited by Peter Seixas. University of Toronto Press 2004 255p $60.00

ISBN 0-8020-8713-2

Contributors examine such topics as historiography, specific narratives, memory, and Quebeck’s history.

Vendler, Helen

Poets thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats. Harvard Univ. Press 2004 142p $19.95

ISBN 0-674-01567-3; LC 2004-47338

Ziarek, Krzysztof

The force of art. Standford Univ. Press 2004 223p (Cultural memory in the present) $55.00; pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8047-5010-6; 0-8047-5011-4; LC 2004-13180

Re-examines avant-garde art and literature through Italian and Russian Futurism, Dadaism, language poetry, video and projection art, transgenic and Internet art, as well as through figures like Marinetti, Duchamp and Khlebnikov.