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May 2006
Cherbuliez,
Juliette
The place of
exile: leisure literature and the limits of
absolutism. Bucknell Univ. Press 2005 282p
(The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century
literature and culture) $52.50
ISBN
0-8387-5603-4; LC 2005-9236
This study of
the margins of absolutist culture in
seventeenth-century France focuses on work
by Mlle de Montpensier, Anne de La Roche-Guilhen,
Mme de Lafayette, and Mme de Villedieu.
Clark, Michael
D.
The American
discovery of tradition, 1865-1942. Louisiana
State Univ. Press 2005 268p $44.95
ISBN
0-8071-3041-9; LC 2004-17537
Includes
studies of historians John Fiske, Philip
Bruce, and Lyon G. Tyler, the neo-gothic
architect Ralph Adams Cram, and sociologist
Charles H. Cooley.
Clippinger,
David W.
The mind’s
landscape: William Bronk and
twentieth-century American poetry.
University of Delaware Press 2006 288p
$53.50
ISBN
0-87413-914-7; LC 2005-19232
Explores
Bronk’s connections to Robert Frost, Charles
Olson, George Oppen, Robert Creeley, Wallace
Stevens, Susan Howe, Rosemarie Waldrop, and
others.
Eisenhauer,
Robert
Reason and
excess from romanticism to the avant-garde.
Lang, P. 2005 404p (Studies on themes and
motifs in literature) $81.95
ISBN
0-8204-7887-3; LC 2005-6770
Readings of
works by Hart Crane, Federico Fellini,
Edward Dorn, Wallace Stevens, Hunter
Thompson, and others.
The Enduring
legacy of Old Southwest humor; edited by Ed
Piacentino. Louisiana State Univ. Press 2006
326p (Southern literary studies) $49.95
ISBN
0-8071-3086-9; LC 2005-9326
Contributors
explore frontier southern humor as
manifested in works of Faulkner, Caldwell,
O’Connor, Welty, Crews, Guthrie, Hannah,
Ellison, and Komunyakaa, among others.
Epic
revisionism: Russian history and literature
as Stalinist propaganda; Kevin M. F. Platt
and David Brandenberger, editors. University
of Wisconsin Press 2006 355p $60, pa $24.95
ISBN
0-299-21500-8; 0-299-21504-0; LC 2005-11172
Scholars focus
on historical and literary personalities who
were regarded with disdain following 1917:
Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible,
Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, and Mikhail
Lermontov.
Folks, Jeffrey
J.
Damaged lives:
Southern and Caribbean narrative from
Faulkner to Naipaul. Lang, P. 2005 137p pa
$29.95
ISBN
0-8204-7876-8; LC 2005-6862
Explicates
works by Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Agee,
O’Connor, Hood, and Naipaul.
Forgotten
empire: the world of ancient Persia; edited
by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis; with
contributions by Beatrice Andre-Salvini . .
. [et al.] University of Calif. Press 2005
272p il $48.95
ISBN
0-520-24731-0; LC 2006-295127
Includes
essays on the expansion of the Persian
Empire, arms and warfare, trade and
commerce, writing, luxury dinner services,
jewelry, religious and burial customs, and
the rediscovery of ancient Persia.
Gass, William
H.
A temple of
texts: essays. Knopf 2006 418p $26.95
ISBN
0-307-26286-3; LC 2005-45140
Among the
authors covered are: Rilke, Stein, Elkin,
Coover, Gaddis, Canetti, Rabelais, Hawkes,
and Garcia Marquez.
Gerstner,
David A.
Manly arts:
masculinity and nation in early American
cinema. Duke Univ. Press 2006 316p $79.95,
pa $22.95
ISBN
0-8223-3775-4; 0-8223-3763-0; LC 2005-28221
Considers how
Edwin Forrest, Theodore Roosevelt, Oscar
Micheaux, Paul Strand, and Vincente Minnelli
helped create a masculine ideal under
American capitalism.
Glass, I. S.
Revolutionaries of the cosmos: the
astro-physicists. Oxford Univ. Press 2006
317p il $74.50
ISBN
0-19-857099-6; LC 2006-295615
Essays on
Galileo, Newton, Herschel, Huggins, Hale,
Eddington, Shapley, and Hubble.
Hobson, Fred
The silencing
of Emily Mullen and other essays. Louisiana
State Univ. Press 2005 217p pa $24.95
ISBN
0-8071-3097-4; LC 2005-1547
Appraisals of
H. L. Mencken, W. J. Cash, Gerald W.
Johnson, James McBride Dabbs, Louis D.
Rubin, Jr., Mary Mebane, Richard Ford,
college basketball, the author’s
great-grandmother, and his great-aunt, a
missionary in China.
How nature
speaks: the dynamics of the human ecological
condition; edited by Yrjo Haila and Chuck
Dyke. Duke Univ. Press 2006 334p (New
ecologies for the twenty-first century)
$84.95, pa $23.95
ISBN
0-8223-3725-8; 0-8223-3696-0; LC 2005-28219
Case studies
focus on the origin of environmental
movements, the politicization of
environmental issues in city politics, the
development of local energy production
systems, and forest management practices.
Ichioka, Yuji
Before
internment: essays in prewar Japanese
American history; edited by Gordon H. Chang
and Eiichiro Azuma. Stanford Univ. Press
2006 360p il (Asian America) $50
ISBN
0-8047-5147-1; LC 2005-32978
Essays
focusing on such issues as Nisei nationalism
and Nisei (American-born generation)
relationship with Japan, Japanese-American
attitudes toward Japan’s prewar expansionism
in Asia, and the meaning of loyalty.
Inside Old
English: essays in honour of Bruce Mitchell;
edited by John Walmsley. Blackwell
Publishing 2006 295p $89.95
ISBN
1-4051-1483-5; LC 2005-15486
Essays by
specialists engage with literary, cultural,
intellectual, religious and historical
discourses of Old English.
The Irish in
us: Irishness, performativity, and popular
culture; Diane Negra, editor. Duke Univ.
Press 2006 379p il $84.95, pa $23.95
ISBN
0-8223-3728-2; 0-8223-3740-1; LC 2005-26006
Topics include
Van Morrison’s music, Frank McCourt’s
writing, Irish-themed merchandising, The
crying game, and the significance of red
hair.
Jordan-Lake,
Joy
Whitewashing
Uncle Tom’s cabin: nineteenth-century women
novelists respond to Stowe. Vanderbilt Univ.
Press 2005 204p $59.95, pa $27.95
ISBN
0-8265-1475-8; 0-8265-1476-6; LC 2004-21923
Looks at
writings of Toni Morrison, Eugenia Price,
Margaret Mitchell, Harriett Wilson, Mary
Eastman, Caroline Rush, V.G. Cowdin, and
others.
Lebovics,
Herman
Imperialism
and the corruption of democracies. Duke
Univ. Press 2006 172p il $74.95, pa $21.95
ISBN
0-8223-3661-8; 0-8223-3697-9; LC 2005-27151
In these
essays the author argues that empire abroad
undermines democracy at home. John Locke,
George Orwell and Pierre Bourdieu are
discussed.
Miller, David
(David William)
Out of error:
further essays on critical rationalism.
Ashgate 2006 304p $99.95
ISBN
0-7546-5068-5; LC 2005-3004
The author
discusses the role that logic and argument
play in the growth of knowledge, criticizes
argument as an instrument of justification,
and advocates the critical rationalist view
that only criticism matters.
New voices on
the Harlem Renaissance: essays on race,
gender, and literary discourse; edited by
Australia Tarver and Paula C. Barnes.
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2006 300p il
$52.50
ISBN
0-8386-4073-7; LC 2005-17149
Essays on
Alain Locke, Dorothy West, Jessie Fauset,
Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and others.
Nobody knows
where the blues come from: lyrics and
history; edited by Robert Springer.
University Press of Mississippi 2006 303p
(American made music series) $45
ISBN
1-57806-797-9; LC 2005-6883
Contributors
explore blues lyrics and the significance of
African American popular song as a neglected
form of oral history.
Reading the
Beatles: cultural studies, literary
criticism, and the Fab Four; edited by
Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis. State
Univ. of New York Press 2006 249p $74.50, pa
$24.95
ISBN
0-7914-6715-5; 0-7914-6716-3; LC 2005-11240
Scholars
discuss individual Beatles’ songs, albums,
and films and the ways in which the band has
functioned as a cultural, historical, and
economic product.
The Rhetorical
presidency of George H. W. Bush; edited by
Martin J. Medhurst. Texas A&M Univ. Press
2006 207p (Presidential rhetoric series) $40
ISBN
1-58544-471-5; LC 2005-21929
Topics
include: the first Gulf War, the fall of the
Berlin Wall, the "New World Order",
environmentalism, education policy and the
influence of the Religious Right.
Raverty,
Dennis
Struggle over
the modern: purity and experience in
American art criticism, 1900-1960. Fairleigh
Dickinson Univ. Press 2005 168p $39.50
ISBN
0-8386-4021-4; LC 2004-19815
Looks at the
criticism of John Dewey, Thomas Craven, John
Davey, Edwin Jewell, Meyer Shapiro, Clement
Greenberg, and Harold Rosenberg.
Williams,
Bernard
The sense of
the past: essays in the history of
philosophy; edited and with an introduction
by Myles Burnyeat. Princeton Univ. Press
2006 393p $39.50
ISBN
0-691-12477-9; LC 2005-47734
Subjects range
from Homer to Wittgenstein by way of
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume,
Sidgwick, Collingwood and Nietzsche.
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