April 2003

Aldama, Frederick Luis.

Postethnic narrative criticism: magicorealism in Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Ana Castillo, Julie Dash, Hanif Kureishi, and Salman Rushdie. University of Tex. Press 2003 141p $30.00

ISBN 0-292-70516-6; LC 2002-12585

Examines magic realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.

"All this reading": the literary world of Barbara Pym; edited by Frauke Elisabeth Lenckos and Ellen J. Miller. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2003 247p $46.50

ISBN 0-8386-3956-9; LC 2002-71285

Themes such as autobiographical writing, heroines, classical and modern influences, and literary encounters and collaborations are discussed.

Brittan, Simon.

Poetry, symbol, and allegory: interpreting metaphorical language from Plato to the present. University of Va Press 2003 226p $55.00

ISBN 0-8139-2156-2; 0-8139-2157-0; LC 2002-155372

Topics include the Western tradition, religion in the Middle Ages, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, and Romanticism.

Cairns, Kathleen A.

Front-page women journalists, 1920-1950. University of Neb. Press 2003 182p il (Women in the West) $45.00

ISBN 0-8032-1525-8; LC 2002-31959

Looks at the impact of pioneering journalists Agness Underwood, Charlotta Bass, and Ruth Finney.

Cooper, Brenda.

Weary sons of Conrad: white fiction against the grain of Africa’s dark heart. Lang P. 2002 344p (Travel writing across the disciplines) pa $34.95

ISBN 0-8204-5682-9; LC 2002-16256

Discusses how Africa is represented in the fiction of Europe and North America. Adam Thorpe, Lawrence Norfolk, and William Boyd are among the authors covered.

Debating gender in early modern England, 1500-1700; edited by Christina Malcomson and Mihoko Suzuki. Palgrave 2002 265p (Early modern cultural studies) $55.00

ISBN 0-312-29457-3; LC 2001-56140

Explores the construction of gender ideology through manuscripts, debate, class, politics, and other topics.

Enfant terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American film; edited by Murray Pomerance. New York Univ. Press 274p il $55.00; pa $17.95

ISBN 0-8147-6706-0; 0-8147-6705-2; LC 2002-7532

Contributors discuss the impact made by Jerry Lewis as a director, actor, musician, and inventor.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in the twenty-first century; edited by Jackson R. Bryer, Ruth Prigozy, and Milton R. Stern. University of Ala. Press 2003 372p il $39.95

ISBN 0-8173-1216-1; LC 2002-9352

Essays discuss Princeton, Catholic romanticism, Fitzgerald’s treatment of youth culture, and other topics.

Hollywood comedians: the film reader; edited by Frank Krutnik. Routledge 2003 210p (Focus: Routledge film readers) $75.00; pa $22.95

ISBN 0-415-23551-0; 0-415-23552-9; LC 2002-13360

Includes discussions on silent film, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers, and comedy in the post-Civil Rights era.

The Impact of Nazism: new perspectives on the Third Reich and its legacy; edited by Alan E. Steinweis and Daniel E. Rogers. University of Neb. Press 2003 260p $49.95

ISBN 0-8032-4299-9; LC 2002-32190

Nature, history, the aftermath of the Nazi regime, and various forms of antisemitism are among the topics presented.

Ingram, Susan.

Zarathustra’s sisters: women’s autobiography and the shaping of cultural history. University of Tor. Press 2003 197p il $45.00

ISBN 0-8020-3690-2

Discusses such authors as Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi.

Kirby, David.

What is a book? University of Ga. Press 2002 221p pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8203-2478-7; 0-8203-2441-8; LC 2002-2105

In addition to autobiographical essays the author examines poetry, reading, Emerson, Poe, and other subjects.

Literary modernism and photography; edited by Paul Hanson. Praeger 2002 278p $64.95

ISBN 0-275-97130-9; LC 2002-25319

Focuses on such topics as the intersection of literary and sociological discourses, Vanessa Bell’s photographs, Alfred Stieglitz, Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs.

Marcus, Millicent.

After Fellini: national cinema in the postmodern age. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2002 377p il pa $21.50

ISBN 0-8018-6847-5; LC 2001-2201

Includes essays on such directors as Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Maurizio Nichetti, and Roberto Benigni.

McNair, Wesley.

Mapping the heart: reflections on place and poetry. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Press 2003 198p pa $24.95

ISBN 0-88748-380-1; LC 2002-2101899

Includes essays on Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Robert Francis, and other topics.

Motte, Warren.

Fables of the novel: French fiction since 1990. Dalkey Archive Press 2003 242p $49.95; pa $19.95

ISBN 1-56478-284-0; 1-56478-283-2; LC 2002-73507

Such authors as Eric Chevillard, Eric Laurrent, Jacques Jouet, and Christian Oster are discussed.

Orr, Gregory.

Poetry as survival. University of Ga. Press 2002 235p (The life of poetry: poets on their art and craft) $44.95; pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8203-2427-2; 0-8203-2427-2; LC 2002-3603

Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, and Dickinson are among the poets analyzed.

Plato’s Timaeus as cultural icon; edited by Gretchen J. Reydams-Shils. University of Notre Dame Press 2003 334p $59.95; pa $29.95

ISBN 0-268-03871-6; 0-268-03872-4; LC 2002-74215

Contributors include essays demonstrating the influence of the Timaeus on Greek and Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance.

Representations of Swift; edited by Brian A. Connery. University of Del. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2002 310p il $52.50

ISBN 0-87413-797-7; LC 2002-21765

Discusses Swift’s A tale of a tub, works about Swift, and the importance of gender and class in English literature.

Santilli, N. (Nikki).

Such rare citings: the prose poem in English literature. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2002 282p $47.50

ISBN 0-8383-3951-8; LC 2002-23039

Examines the works of Baudelaire, Blake, Wilde, Beckett, and other subjects.

Scott, Derek B.

From the erotic to the demonic: on critical musicology. Oxford Univ. Press 2003 258p il $65.00; pa $35.00

ISBN 0-19-515195-x; 0-19-515196-8; LC 2002-2844

Topics include gender, ideology, popular music, and sacred music.

Smock, Ann.

What is there to say? University of Neb. Press 2003 192p $45.00

ISBN 0-8032-4298-0; LC 2002-28528

Examines such writers as Maurice Blanchot, Hermann Melville, Marguerite Duras, and Samuel Beckett.

Unlocking the wordhord: Anglo-Saxon studies in memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.; edited by Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O’Brien O’Keefe. University of Tor. Press 2003 359p $75.00

ISBN 0-8020-4822-6; LC

Comparative studies on Old English and Latin, authorship and textual integrity, heroic poetry, and religious verse are among the essays presented.

Wilde writings: contextual conditions; edited by Joseph Bristow. University of Tor. Press 2003 334p il (UCLA memorial library series) $60.00

ISBN 0-8020-3532-9

Contributors discuss such topics as Wilde’s early dramatic criticism, his engagement with socialist thought, and his editorship of The Woman’s World.

Youth cultures: texts, images, and identities; edited by Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce. Praeger 2003 203p $64.00

ISBN 0-275-97409-X; LC 2002-29773

Popular music, film, consumerism, and fashion are some of the topics covered.