September 2004

Art, glitter, and glitz: mainstream playwrights and popular theatre in 1920s America; edited by Arthur Gewirtz and James J. Kolb. Praeger 2004 243p il (Contributions in drama and theatre studies no. 100) $69.85

ISBN 0-313-32467-0; LC 2002-73467

Essays discuss readings of O'Neill and other mainstream playwrights, as well as such topics as burlesque theatre, the Ziegfeld Follies, and actor John Barrymore.

Barefield, Laura D.

Gender and history in medieval English romance and chronicle. Lang, P. 2003 135p (Studies in humanities v. 63) $53.95

ISBN 0-8204-6184-9; LC 2002-30150

Chaucer’s Man of law’s tale, Sir Gawain and the green knight and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regnum Britanniae are the works discussed.

Beyond structural listening?: postmodern modes of hearing; edited by Andrew Dell’Antonio. University of California Press 2004 335p $60.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-520-23757-9; 0-520-23760-9; LC 2004-1751

Topics include musical analysis, musical virtues, Beethoven, and MTV.

Causation and counterfactuals; edited John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul. The MIT Press 2004 481p il (Representation and mind) pa $40.00

ISBN 0-262-53256-5; LC 2003-60612

Challenges to the transitivity of causation, the distinction between dependence and production in accounts of causation, the distinction between causation and causal explanation, and a singularist theory of causation are among the topics analyzed.

Clark, Gregory

Rhetorical landscapes in America: variations on a theme from Kenneth Burke. University of South Carolina Press 2004 181p il (Studies in rhetoric/communications) $34.95

ISBN 1-57003-539-3; LC 2003-27552

Includes discussions on New York City, Shaker villages, Yellowstone National Park, and the Grand Canyon.

Critical pasts: writing criticism, writing history; edited by Philip Smallwood. Bucknell University Press 2004 212p (Apercus) pa $25.00

ISBN 0-8387-3595-X; LC 2004-11309

Explores the social dimension of Restoration criticism, the relations between poetry and criticism, the relations between eighteenth-century critical and literary history, and other topics.

Dangerous encounters: genealogy and ethnography; edited by Maria Tamboukou and Stephen J. Hall. Lang, P. 216p (Eruptions v. 17) $29.95

ISBN 0-8204-5795-7; LC 2002-16250

Examines the methodological and theoretical relationships between the epistemology and practices of ethnographic research and the epistemology and practices of Michel Foucault’s genealogical method.

Ernest, John

Liberation historiography: African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861. The University of North Carolina Press 2004 426p pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8078-2853-X; 0-8078-5521-9; LC 2003-17902

Martin R. Delany, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs are among the authors discussed.

Experimental approaches to conservative biology; edited by Malcom S. Gordon and Soraya M. Bartol. University of California Press 2004 343p $75.00

ISBN 0-520-24024-3; LC 2003-18997

Looks at a wide range of terrestrial and aquatic species, from giant pandas and tree snails, to sea turtles and Steller sea lions, demonstrates what can be done both to preserve rare species and to combat invasive organisms.

Freedom and determinism: edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rouke, and David Shier. The MIT Press 2004 329p (Topics in contemporary philiosophy) pa $35.00

ISBN 0-262-53257; LC 2003-66491

Contributors include Richard Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Carl Ginet, and John Perry.

‘A great effusion of blood’?: interpreting Medieval violence; edited by Mark D. Myerson, Daniel Thiery and Oren Falk. University of Toronto Press 2004 319p $65.00

ISBN 0-8020-8774-4

Discusses such topics as Anglo-Saxon poetry, Norse sagas, Islamic historiography, and canon law.

Hokenson, Jan Walsh

Japan, France, and East-West aesthetics: French literature, 1867-2000. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2004 520p $80.00

ISBN 0-8386-4010-9; LC 2003-19869

Explicates the works of Malraux, Bergson, Duras, and Barthes.

Home and homelessness in the medieval and Renaissance world; edited by Nicolas Howe. University of Notre Dame Press 2004 170p il $40.00; pa $20.00

ISBN 0-268-03069-3; 0-268-03070-7; LC 2004-11325

Venice, colonial Peru, Anglo-Saxon England, and Spain are the locations discussed.

Lutz, Tom

Cosmopolitan vistas: American regionalism and literary value. Cornell University Press 2004 226p $47.50; pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8014-4263-X; 0-8014-8923-7; LC 2004-1486

Discusses the works of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others.

Merwin, W.S.

The ends of the earth: essays. Shoemaker and Hoard 2004 278p $26.00

ISBN 1-9376-030-2

Essays include discussions of George Kirstein, Sydney Parkinson and Boffia Bonneval.

The nature of history reader; edited by Keith Jenkins and Alun Munslow. Routledge 2004 352p pa $28.95

ISBN 0-415-24053-0; 0-415-24054-9; LC 2003-21897

Luigi Albertini, Eric Hobsbawm, Fernand Braudel, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques Derrida, and Walter Benjamin are among the historians and philosophers discussed.

Pionke, Albert D.

Plots of opportunity: representing conspiracy in Victorian England. The Ohio State University Press 2004 188p $44.95

ISBN 0-8142-0948-3; LC 2003-27688

Topics include trade unions as secret societies, Catholic emancipation and the Indian mutiny.

Pols: great writers on American politicians from Bryan to Reagan; edited by Jack Beatty. Public Affairs 2004 463p $28.00

ISBN 1-58648-015-4; LC 2004-50591

Contributors include Norman Mailer, Robert Caro, Hodding Carter, Richard Hofstadter, and H.L. Mencken.

Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks; edited by Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley. State University of New York Press 2004 267p $62.50; pa $20.95

ISBN 0-7914-60099; 0-7914-6100-9; LC 2003-55621

Focuses on ancient rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China.

Soto, Michael

The modernist nation: generation, renaissance, and twentieth-century American literature. The Universoty of Alabama Press 2004 228p $39.95

ISBN 0-8173-1392-3; LC 2003-24635

Explores the works of W.E.B. DuBois, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and others.

Understanding anti-Americanism: its origins and impact at home and abroad; edited with an introduction by John Hollander. Dee, I.R. 2004 372p $28.95

ISBN 1-56663-564-0; LC 2004-43849

Illustrates anti-Americanism in the Middle East, Western Europe, and Latin America.

Villarejo, Amy

Lesbian rule: cultural criticism and the value of desire. Duke University Press 2003 235p il (Next wave) $74.95; pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8223-3192-6; 0-8223-3155-1; LC 2003-5955

Discusses documentaries about Cuba and lesbian pulp fiction, and films such as Sylvia Scarlett, Exile Shanghai and The Brandon Teena story.

Words that count: essays on early modern authorship in honor of MacDonald P.Jackson; edited by Brian Boyd. University of Delaware Press 2004 291p $45.00

ISBN 0-87413-868-X; LC 2003-25954

Shakespeare, Middleton, Peele, and Marlowe are among the authors analyzed.

Writing and rewriting national theatre histories; edited by S.E. Wilmer. University of Iowa Press 2004 277p (Studies in theatre history and culture) $42.95

ISBN 0-87745-906-1; LC 2004-48018

The theatres of such countries as Sweden, Russia, Canada, Slovenia, United States, and Mexico are discussed.

Zukofsky, Louis

A useful art: essays and radio scripts on American design; edited with an introduction by Kenneth Sherwood; afterword by John Taggart. Wesleyan Univ. Press 2003 233p (The Wesleyan centennial edition of the complete critical writings of Louis Zukofsky v. 6) $65.00; pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8195-6639-X; 0-8195-6640-3; LC 2002-41180

Essays discuss such topics as ironwork, tin ware, furniture maker Duncan Phyfe and friendship quilts.