Abel, Marco. Violent affect: literature, cinema, and critique after representation. University of Nebraska Press 2007. 292p $45.00
The author explores violence as an ontological necessity rather than as an inconvenience that can be avoided. These essays take a fresh look at the nature of violence and the representations of it in literature, film, and media.
ISBN 978-0-8032-1118-6; 0-8032-1118-X; LCCN 2006-103289

Adamson, Walter L. Embattled avant-gardes: modernism’s resistance to commodity culture in Europe. University of California Press 2007. 435p $45.00
The author of these essays seeks to reinterpret the course of European modernism after 1900, focusing on the manifold attempts by artists to steer clear of aesthetic contamination by the demands of commercial culture.
ISBN 978-0-520-25270-7; LCCN 2007-14869

Antliff, Mark. Avant-garde fascism: the mobilization of myth, art, and culture in France, 1909-1939. Duke University Press 2007. 352p $84.95; $23.95 (pa)
The author investigates the role that avant-garde visual arts and aesthetic theory played in the development of fascism in France between 1909 and 1939. The appropriation of avant-garde aesthetics by French fascists Georges Valois, Philippe Lamour, and Thierry Maulnier is explored.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4015-7; 978-0-8223-4034-8 (pa); LCCN 2007-4105

Arendt, Hannah. Reflections on literature and culture: edited and with an introduction by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb. Stanford University Press 2007. 360p $65.00; $24.95 (pa) (Meridian, crossing aesthetics)
This collection of essays by political theorist Hannah Arendt spans her entire career, focusing on the theme of the proper uses of power and authority.
ISBN 978-0-8047-4498-0; 978-0-8047-4499-7 (pa); LCCN 2006-26914

Bechtel, Roger. Past performance: American theatre and the historical imagination. Bucknell University Press 2007. 287p $56.50
The relationship between theater and film and the historic events that they depict is the theme of these essays. Works such as Eugene O’Neill’s Emperor Jones, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, and Oliver Stone’s JFK are examined.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5649-2; 0-8387-5649-2; LCCN 2006-103294

Bulman, Gail A. Staging words, performing worlds: intertextuality and nation in contemporary Latin American theater. Bucknell University Press 2007. 276p $55.00
These essays present new perspectives on theater in Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and Venezuela, showing how nations can be re-imagined and reconstructed through performance.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5676-8; 0-8387-5676-X; LCCN 2006-27656

Embodying sociology: retrospect, progress and prospects; edited by Chris Shilling. Blackwell Pub. 2007. 167p $34.95 (Sociological review monograph series)
These essays explore the concept of “the body” and how it is being used in modern sociological studies, with attention to current theoretical, methodological and empirical analyses.
ISBN 978-1-4051-6794-9; 1-4051-6794-7 (pa); LCCN 2006-100540

Goldstein, Bluma. Enforced marginality: Jewish narratives on abandoned wives. University of California Press 2007. xxv, 206p $39.95 (The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies)
The author explores a phenomenon of modern Jewish history: the problem of the abandoned wives, or agunes, who were unable to obtain a divorce under Jewish law. The recognition of this problem in Europe and the United States and the attempts to correct it are examined.
ISBN 978-0-5202-4968-4; LCCN 2006-35371

Hernandez, Mark A. Figural conquistadors: rewriting the New World’s discovery and conquest in Mexican and River Plate novels of the 1980s and 1990s. Bucknell University Press 2006. 194p $45.00
The author examines the fiction of seven Latin American novelists who have combined authentic historical accounts of New World discovery and exploration with fictional narratives by major and minor participants in those events.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5645-4; 0-8387-5645-X; LCCN 2006-42548

The Italian gothic and fantastic: encounters and rewritings of narrative traditions; edited by Francesca Billiani and Gigliola Sulis. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2007. 243p $55.00
These essays examine the use of gothic and fantastic forms of literature in Italy in the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
ISBN 978-0-8386-4126-2; LCCN 2007-19740

Mance, Ajuan Maria. Inventing black women: African American women poets and self-representation, 1877-2000. University of Tennessee Press 2007. 202p $36.00
This historical and thematic survey of African American women’s poetry examines the key developments that have influenced the poetry by and about black women since the end of slavery and Reconstruction. Chapters focus on works by poets such as Alice B. Neal, Maggie Pogue Johnson, Alice Dunbar Nelson.
ISBN 978-1-57233-492-2; 1-57233-492-4; LCCN 2006-35355

Mimbres society; edited by Valli S. Powell-Marti and Patricia A. Gilman. University of Arizona Press 2006. 213p $50.00
The Mimbres people of southwestern New Mexico created remarkable painted pottery and developed large apartment-style housing complexes. These essays examine the artistic and archeological evidence in an attempt determine the aesthetic and sociological concerns of these early Americans.
ISBN 978-0-8165-2481-5; 0-8165-2481-5; LCCN 2006-13499

Mix, Deborah M. A vocabulary of thinking: Gertrude Stein and contemporary North American women’s innovative writing. University of Iowa Press 2007. 214p $39.95
The experimental and innovative writing of contemporary North American women is explored with reference to the groundbreaking experimental techniques developed by America author Gertrude Stein.
ISBN 978-1-58729-613-0; 1-58729-613-6; LCCN 2007-24042

Packer, Sharon. Movies and the modern psyche. Praeger 2007. 197p $49.95
Psychiatry and psychoanalysis in motion pictures, and the psychological thriller, are explored in this survey of the relationship between psychology and cinema.
ISBN 978-0-275-99359-7; LCCN 2007-27874

Place, space, and landscape in medieval narrative; edited by Laura L. Howes. University of Tennessee Press 2007. xxix, 208p $43.00 (Tennessee studies in literature, v43)
These essays explore the role that place and spatial relationships held in medieval culture, particularly as reflected in literary works. The depiction of place and environment in authors such as Boccaccio and Chaucer is examined.
ISBN 978-1-57233-586-8; 1-57233-586-6; LCCN 2006-35365

Rebel women: staging ancient drama today; edited by John Dillon and S.E. Wilmer. Methuen 2005. xxv, 272p $52.50
These essays explore the representation of the heroines of ancient Greek tragedy, both in their original theatrical contexts and in modern stage and film productions.
ISBN 0-413-77550-X; 978-0-413-77550-4

Scotland, Ireland, and the romantic aesthetic; edited by David Duff and Catherine Jones. Bucknell University Press 2007. 294p $55.00
These essays on Scottish and Irish romanticism examine the literary relations between Scotland, Ireland, and England in the period 1760-1830, a time of political upheaval and constitutional change.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5618-8; 0-8387-5618-2; LCCN 2007-8092

Shoemaker, Peter W. Powerful connections: the poetics of patronage in the age of Louis XIII. University of Delaware Press 2007. 291p $60.00
The author explores the role of patronage in shaping French literary culture between 1614 and 1661, a time marked by the rise of the modern state under Richelieu and the advent of modern literary culture in the salons and academies. The personal side of political power and its influence on literary texts is examined.
ISBN 978-0-87413-993-8; 0-87413-993-7; LCCN 2007-5844

Sleaze artists: cinema at the margins of taste, style, and politics; Jeffrey Sconce, ed. Duke University Press 2007. 340p $84.95; $23.95 (pa)
This survey of horror, exploitation, and sexploitation films focuses on the film genres that have traditionally been considered to be at the outer limits of contemporary aesthetics and politics, and the individuals involved in their creation and production.
ISBN 978-0-8223-3953-3; 978-0-8223-3964-9 (pa); LCCN 2007-14128

The strategy of campaigning: lessons from Ronald Reagan & Boris Yeltsin; by Kiron F. Skinner, Serhiy Kudelia, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Condoleezza Rice; foreword by George P. Shultz. University of Michigan Press 2007. 338p $35.00
A team of political analysts (which includes current U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice) examines the political strategy and style of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, and details their long journeys to power through the American and Russian political systems, respectively.
ISBN 978-0-4721-1627-0; 0-4721-1627-4; LCCN 2007-23387

Ta-Shma, Israel M. Creativity and tradition: studies in medieval rabbinic scholarship, literature, and thought. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies 2006. 238p $35.00

This collection of sixteen essays originally written in English focuses on leading rabbinical scholars and their writings, as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as Jewish law, spirituality, and popular religion.
ISBN 0-6740-2393-5; 978-0-6740-2393-2; LCCN 2006-49506

Trolander, Paul and Tenger, Zeynep. Sociable criticism in England, 1625-1725. University of Delaware Press 2007. 233p $49.50
These essays examine the ways in which literary works were circulated, discussed, and criticized among friends and patrons in England from 1625 to 1725, and explore how sociable or informal criticism (which had its basis in coteries or small groups) differed from public, formal, published criticism.
ISBN 978-0-87413-969-3; 0-87413-969-4; LCCN 2006-28173

Undead TV: essays on Buffy the vampire slayer; edited by Elana Levine and Lisa Parks. Duke University Press 2007. 209p $74.95; $21.95 (pa)
The television program Buffy the vampire killer offered provocative commentaries on subjects such as gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and youth, and has retained its popularity through syndication and DVD even though the final episode aired in 2003. These essays explore the content of the show and its afterlife in popular culture, television, internet, and academic criticism.
ISBN 978-0-8223-4065-2; 978-0-8223-4043-0 (pa); LCCN 2007-17113

Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner. Central at the margin: five Brazilian women writers. Bucknell University Press 2007. 214p $49.50
The author examines five modern women writers in Brazil and their place in the literary culture: Julia Lopes de Almeida, Rachel de Queiroz, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Clarice Lispector, and Carolina Maria de Jesus.
ISBN 978-0-8387-5674-4; 0-8387-5674-3; LCCN 2006-100359

Wisconsin German land and life; edited by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren. Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006. xxv, 260p $24.95
The authors of these essays researched the archival and documentary evidence both in Germany and Wisconsin to trace the patterns of migration from towns and regions in Germany to specific towns and regions in Wisconsin. The survival of local traditions in the transplanted environment is explored.
ISBN 978-0-924119-26-2; 0-924119-26-8