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BRYSON,
Michael
A.
Visions
of
the
land:
science,
literature,
and
the
American
environment
from
the
era
of
exploration
to
the
age
of
ecology.
University
Press
of
Va.
2002
228p
(Under
the
sign
of
nature)
$45.00,
pa
$16.50
ISBN
0-8139-2106-6;
0-8139-2107-4;
LC
2001-7122
Essays
on
John
C.
Fremont,
Richard
Byrd,
Charlotte
Perkins
Gilman,
John
Wesley
Powell,
Susan
Fenimore
Cooper,
Rachel
Carson,
and
Loren
C.
Eiseley.
The
CATCHER
in
the
rye:
new
essays;
edited
by J.
P.
Steed.
Lang,
P.
2002
152p
pa
$19.95
ISBN
0-8209-5729-9;
LC
2001-38487
Scholars
demonstrate
the
continuing
relevance
of
Salinger,
The
catcher
in
the
rye,
and
Holden
Caulfield
to
American
cultural
and
literary
studies.
"A
CERTAIN
text":
close
readings
and
textual
studies
on
Shakespeare
and
others
in
honor
of
Thomas
Clayton;
edited
by
Linda
Anderson
and
Janis
Lull.
University
of
Del.
Press;
Associated
Univ.
Presses
2002
205p
$41.50
ISBN
0-87413-289-6;
LC
2002-23832
Contributors
include
Stephen
Booth,
Achsah
Guibbory,
D.M.
Dooley,
Anatoly
Liberman,
and
Richard
Proudfoot.
CRANE,
Gregg
D.
Race,
citizenship,
and
law
in
American
literature.
Cambridge
Univ.
Press
2002
299p
(Cambridge
studies
in
American
literature
and
culture)
$60.00,
pa
$22.00
ISBN
0-521-80684-4;
0-521-01093-4;
LC
2001-37853
A
study
of
nationalism
and
race
and
their
impact
on
American
law
and
literature.
Stowe,
Douglass,
and
Chesnutt
are
among
the
authors
discussed.
DERRIDA,
Jacques
Who’s
afraid
of
philosophy?:
Right
to
philosophy
1.
Stanford
Univ.
Press
2002
208p
(Meridian)
$49.50,
pa
$19.95
ISBN
0-8047-4294-4;
0-8047-4295-2;
LC
2002-70534
Essays
reflect
Derrida’s
engagement
in
the
late
1970s
with
French
political
debates
on
the
teaching
of
philosophy
and
the
reform
of
the
university
system.
EXPERIMENTING
in
tongues:
studies
in
science
and
langugage;
edited
by
Matthias
Dorries.
Stanford
Univ.
Press
2002
208p
(Writing
science)
$45.00,
pa
$21.95
ISBN
0-8047-4441-6;
0-8047-442-4;
LC
2001-57652
Contributors
discuss
the
historical,
methodological,
and
ideological
motivations
behind
scientists’
use
of
language
metaphors.
FILM
studies:
women
in
contemporary
world
cinema;
edited
by
Alexandra
Heidi
Karriker.
Lang,
P.
2002
199p
(Framing
film,
vol.
3) pa
$29.95
ISBN
0-8209-5235-1;
LC
2001-50657
Contributors
explore
the
role
of
women
in
mainstream
and
independent
films,
television
series,
and
advertising
in an
international
context.
FOREIGN
accents:
Brazilian
readings
of
Shakespeare;
edited
by
Aimara
da
Cunha
Reseude;
language
consultant:
Thomas
LaBorie
Burns.
University
of
Del.
Press;
Assocaited
Univ.
Presses
2002
230p
(International
studies
in
Shakespeare
and
his
contemporaries)
$46.50
ISBN
0-87413-753-5;
LC
2001-34696
The
tempest,
Hamlet,
Titus
Andronicus,
Macbeth,
the
taming
of
the
shrew,
King
Lear,
and
Henry
V are
discussed
from
a
Brazilian
perspective.
FORSYTH,
Alison
Gadamer,
history
and
the
classics:
Fugard,
Marowitz,
Berkoff
and
Harrison
rewrite
the
theatre.
Lang,
P.
2002
275p
(Studies
in
literary
criticism
and
theory,
vol.
15)
$59.95
ISBN
0-8024-5265-3;
LC
00-50653
Examines
the
rewriting
of
classics
as a
critical
paradigm
by
explicating
contemporary
work,
based
on
plays
by
Sophocles
and
Shakespeare.
FROM
Frege
to
Wittgenstein:
perspectives
on
early
analytic
philosophy;
edited
by
Erich
H.
Reck.
Oxford
Univ.
Press
2002
470p
$65.00
ISBN
0-19-513326-9;
LC
00-58910
Warren
Goldfarb,
Thomas
Ricketts,
Juliet
Floyd,
Hans
Sluga,
and
Steven
Gerrard
are
among
the
contributors.
The
FUTURE
of
the
city
of
intellect:
the
changing
American
university;
edited
by
Steven
Brint.
Stanford
Univ.
Press
2002
353p
$55.00,
pa
$24.95
ISBN
0-8047-4420-3;
0-80476-4531-5;
LC
2002-1560
Contributors
explore
demographic,
economic
and
political
pressures
on
universities
and
the
influence
of
the
Internet
and
other
technologies
on
teaching.
GILES,
Paul
Virtual
Americas;
transnational
fictions
and
the
transatlantic
imaginary.
Duke
Univ.
Press
2002
337p
(New
Americanists)
$64.95,
pa
$21.95
ISBN
0-8223-2954-9;
0-8223-2967-0
Focuses
on
the
interactions
of
Melville,
James,
Plath,
Nabokov,
and
Pynchon
with
British
culture.
GREENFIELD,
Susan
C.
Mothering
daughters:
novels
and
the
politics
of
family
romance
Frances
Burney
to
Jane
Austen.
Wayne
State
Univ.
Press
2002
227p
$34.95
ISBN
0-8143-2992-6;
LC
2001-4773
Close
readings
of
novels
by
Burney,
Radcliffe,
Wollstonecraft,
Edgeworth,
Opie
and
Austen.
GROSSMAN,
Jonathan
H.
The
art
of
alibi:
English
law
courts
and
the
novel.
Johns
Hopkins
Univ.
Press
2002
202p
$39.95
ISBN
0-8018-6755-X;
LC
2001-2200
Essays
discuss
how
Dickens,
Gaskell,
Bulwer-Lytton,
Godwin,
and
Mary
Shelley
used
juridical
models
to
make
innovations
in
literary
form.
GUTTING,
Gary
French
philosophy
in
the
twentieth
century.
Cambridge
Univ.
Press
2001
419p
$65.00,
pa
$23.00
ISBN
0-521-66212-5;
0-521-66559-0;
LC
00-50241
Includes
evaluations
of
Bergson;
Sartre,
Beauvoir,
Merleau-Ponty,
Foucault,
Lyotard,
Irgarary,
Levinas,
and
others.
HALL,
James
C.
Mercy,
mercy
me:
African-American
culture
and
the
American
sixties.
Oxford
Univ.
Press
2001
283p
(Race
and
American
culture)
$45.00
ISBN
0-19-509609-6;
LC
00-55774
Essays
on
Robert
Hayden,
William
Demby,
Paule
Marshall,
John
Coltrane,
Romare
Bearden,
and
W.E.B.
Du
Bois.
HUBERT,
Susan
J.
Questions
of
power:
the
politics
of
women’s
madness
narratives.
University
of
Del.
Press;
Associated
Univ.
Presses
2002
186p
$39.50
ISBN
0-87413-743-8;
LC
2001-53467
Explores
how
women
have
used
autobiographical
writing
in
response
to
psychiatric
symptoms
and
treatment.
Marian
King,
Joanne
Greenberg,
Mary
Jane
Ward,
Susanna
Kaysen,
and
Janet
Frame
are
among
the
authors
discussed.
JIMOH,
A.
Yemisi
Spiritual,
blues,
and
jazz
people
in
African
American
fiction:
living
in
paradox.
University
of
Tenn.
Press
2002
284p
$30.00
ISBN
1-57233-172-0;
LC
2001-4286
Analyzes
novels
and
short
stories
by
Toni
Morrison,
James
Baldwin,
Ralph
Ellison,
John
Edgar
Wisleman,
Zora
Neale
Hurston,
and
others.
MICHAELSON,
Patricia
Howell
Speaking
volumes:
women,
reading,
and
speech
in
the
age
of
Austen.
Stanford
Univ.
Press
2002
261p
$55.00
ISBN
0-8047-4075-5;
LC
2001-48428
Using
language
texts,
schoolbooks,
diaries,
letters,
conduct
books,
and
novels,
the
author
shows
how
eighteenth-century
English
women
strategically
used
the
stereotype
of
"woman’s
language".
PINCKNEY,
Darryl
Out
there:
mavericks
of
black
literature.
BasicCivitas
Bks.
2002
160p
(Alain
LeRoy
Locke
lectures)
$24.00
ISBN
0-465-05760-8;
LC
2002-4416
Lectures
on J.
A.
Rogers,
Vincent
O.
Carter,
and
Caryl
Phillips.
POSTCOLONIAL
cultures
and
literatures:
modernity
and
the (un)commonwealth;
edited
by
Andrew
Benjamin,
Tony
Davies,
and
Robbie
B. H.
Goh.
Lang,
P.
2002
350p
(American
university
studies,
Series
III:
Comparative
literature,
vol.
61)
463.95
ISBN
0-8204-5140-1;
LC
2001-29834
Explores
the
social,
literary,
political,
economic
and
cultural
legacies
of
British
imperialism.
ROMAN
holidays:
American
writers
and
artists
in
nineteenth-century
Italy;
edited
by
Robert
K.
Martin
and
Leland
S.
Person.
University
of
Iowa
Press
2002
256p
$44.95
ISBN
0-87745-782-4;
LC
2001-35863
Essays
on
Hawthorne,
Melville,
James,
Fuller,
Douglass,
and
Howells.
Sizemore,
Christine
Wick
Negotiating
identities
in
women’s
lives:
English
postcolonial
and
contemporary
British
novels.
Greenwood
Press
2002
190p
(contributions
in
women’s
studies,
no.
196)
$61.95
ISBN
0-313-32163-9;
LC
2001-58642
Explicates
works
by
Dangarembga,
Atwood,
Burford,
Hulme,
Emecheta,
Desai,
Drabble,
Gordimer,
Lessing,
and
others.
SKLANSKY,
Jeffrey
The
soul’s
economy:
market
society
and
selfhood
in
American
thought,
1820-1920.
University
of
North
Carolina
Press
2002
313p
$45.00,
pa
$19.95
ISBN
0-8078-2725-8;
0-8078-5398-4;
LC
2002-6408
Essays trace a shift in American
social thought that accompanied the rise of industrial capitalism. Horace
Bushnell, George Fitzhugh. John Dewy, and Thorstein Veblen are among the
thinkers discussed.
WALLACE,
Maurice O.
Constructing the balck masculine:
identity and ideality in African American man’s literature and culture,
1775-1995. Duke Univ. Press 2002 236p $54.95, pa $18.95
ISBN 0-8223-2854-2; 0-8223-2869-0;
LC 2001-6934
Subjects include black Freemasonry,
African American autobiography, and the choreographies of modern dance. Melvin
Dixon, James Baldwin, and Richard Wright are among the authors profiled.
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