April 2004

Ascott, Roy

Telematic embrace: visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness; edited and with an essay by Edward A. Shanken. University of Calif. Press 2003 427p $44.95

ISBN 0-520-21803-5; LC 2002-15444

Essays discuss how telematic art challenges traditional relationships between artist, artwork, and audience by allowing nonlocal audiences to influence the emergent qualities of the artwork, which consists of the ebb and flow of electronic information.

Blatanis, Konstantinos

Popular culture icons in contemporary American drama. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2003 195p $39.50

ISBN 0-8386-4008-7; LC 2003-5056

Shepard’s Angel city, Guare’s Kissing street, Babe’s Billy Irish, and Kopit’s Indians are among the dramas discussed.

Donnell, Sidney

Feminizing the enemy: imperial Spain, transvestite drama, and the crisis of masculinity. Bucknell Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2003 312p il $55.00

ISBN 0-8387-5513-5; LC 2002-155250

Includes essays on the works of Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Monroy y Silva.

Dudley, John

A man’s game: masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of American literary naturalism. University of Alabama Press 2004 222p $35.00

ISBN 0-8173-1347-8; LC 2003-18414

Authors discussed include Edith Wharton, Jack London, Stephen Crane, and Charles Chestnutt.

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (27th : 2000: University of Mississippi)

Faulkner in the twenty-first century; edited by Robert W. Hamblin and Ann J. Abadie. University Press of Mississippi 2003 177p $45

ISBN 1-57806-513-5; LC 2002-11650

Gillespie, Michael Patrick

The aesthetics of chaos: nonlinear thinking and contemporary literary criticism. University Press of Florida 2003 140p $55.00

ISBN 0-8130-2641-5; LC 2003-40239

Essays demonstrate how nonlinear perception enhances understanding of diverse forms of literature, including the Bible, The importance of being earnest, and Finnegans Wake.

Girard, Rene

Oedipus unbound: selected writings on rivalry and desire; edited and with an introduction by Mark R. Anspach. Stanford Univ. Press 2004 131p $55.00; pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8047-4779-2; 0-8047-4780-6; LC 2003-22278

Examines Girard’s scapegoat theory through analysis of rivalry and desire, the Greek figure of the pharmakos, and views of Shakespeare, Frye, Derrida, and Levi-Strauss.

Hanway, Nancy

Embodying Argentina: body, space and nation in 19th century narrative. McFarland & Co. 2003 184p pa $35.00

ISBN 0-7864-1457-X; LC 2002-155760

Discusses works by Marmol, Hernandez, Sarmiento, Mansilla, Guerra, and Mansilla de Garcia.

Hirschfeld, Heather Ann

Joint enterprise: collaborative drama and the institutionalization of the English Renaissance theater. University of Mass. Press 2004 204p (Massachusetts studies in modern culture) $34.95

ISBN 1-55849-434-0; LC 2003-16305

Explores such joint works as Eastward hoe, The two noble kinsmen and The changeling within a social, poltical and historic context.

Interstices: studies in late Middle English and Anglo-Latin texts in honour of A. G. Rigg; edited by Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney. University of Toronto Press 2004 219p il $50.00

ISBN 0-8020-8743-4

Includes comments on new editions of Middle English texts, an overview of various editions of Chaucer, and a codicological study of late medieval English manuscripts.

Kolakowski, Leszek

The two eyes of Spinoza and other essays on philosophers; edited by Zbigniew Janowski; translated by Agnieszka Kolakowaska and Frederic Fransen. St. Augustine’s Press 2004 311p $32.00

ISBN 1-58731-875-X; 2002-151643

Gassendi, da Costa, Marx, Heidegger, and Spinoza are among the philosophers analyzed.

Mesoamerican lithic technology: experimentation and interpretation; edited by Kenneth G. Hirth. University of Utah Press 2003 350p il $50.00

ISBN 0-87480-765-4; LC 2003-10946

Blade-making, flintnapping, biface production, and craft specialization are among the topics discussed.

Milton and the grounds of contention; edited by Mark Kelley, Michael Lieb, and John T. Shawcross. Duquense Univ. Press 2003 352p (Medieval and Renaissance studies) $60.00

ISBN 0-8207-0345-1; LC 2003-8561

Contributors include David Norbrook, Annabel Patterson, Lynne Greenberg, and John Rogers.

Nagy, Gregory

Homeric responses. University of Texas Press 2003 100p $40.00; pa $16.95

ISBN 0-292-70554-9; 0-292-70553-0; LC 2003-8792

Performance, audience-poet interaction, and the role of the rhapsode are among the topics examined.

New perspectives on prehistoric art; edited by Gunter Berghaus. Praeger 2004 269p $94.95

ISBN 0-275-97813-3; LC 2003-59645

Essays explore evolutionary biology, feminist scholarship, ritual studies, and new modes of anthropology.

Postmodern sophistry: Stanley Fish and the critical enterprise; edited by Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham; afterword by Stanley Fish. State University of New York Press 2004 312p $35.00

ISBN 0-7914-6213-7; LC 2004-41688

Essayists examine Fish's understanding of how interpretation functions, the various philosophical issues that Fish has addressed or failed to address in his work, and the political consequences of Fish's thought.

Stalinism and Nazism: history amd memory compared: edited by Henry Rousso; English-language edited and introduced by Richard J. Golsan; translated by Lucy B. Golsan, Thomas C. Hilde, and Peter S. Rogers. University of Nebraska Press 2004 324p (European horizons) $75.00; pa $39.95

ISBN 0-8032-3945-9; 0-8032-4017-4; 0-8032-4017-5; LC 2003-26805

Explores the origins, nature, and organization of Hitler’s and Stalin’s dictatorial power, the manipulation of violence by the state systems, the comparative power of the dictator’s personal will and the encompassing totalitarian system, and the legacies of the Nazi and Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe.

State of the world 2003: a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society; Gary Gardner, project director; [essays by] Chris Bright [et al.]; Linda Starke, editor. Norton 2003 241p $27.95; pa $16.95

ISBN 0-393-05173-0; 0-393-323886-2

Studies in bibliography, v 54: edited by David L. Vander Meuler; published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia . University Press of Va. 2003 334p $70

ISBN 0-8139-2262-3

Subversive subjects: reading Marguerite Yourcenar; edited by Judith Holland Sarnecki and Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2004 $48.50

ISBN 0-8386-3992-5; LC 2003-13434

Yourcenar’s paratextual writing, sexual politics, and translations of American texts are among the topics analyzed.

Surveying the archaelogy of northwest Mexico; edited by Gillian E. Newell and Emiliano Gallaga. University of Utah Press 2004 il 344p $55.00

ISBN 0-87480-767-0; LC 2003-12782

Includes discussions on the Trincheras heartland, the Casas Grandes region, central Chihuahua, and settlement and ceramics in Northern New Spain.

Thinking about feeling: contemporary philosophers on emotions; edited by Robert C. Solomon. Oxford Univ. Press 2004 297p $49.95

ISBN 0-19-515317-0; LC 2003-1427

Essayists include John Deigh, Jesse Prinz, Cheshire Calhoun, Patricia Greenspan, Martha Nussbaum, and Aaron Ben-Ze’ve.

Thomas, David Wayne

Cultivating Victorians: liberal culture and the aesthetic. University of Penn. Press 2004 229p il $45.00

ISBN 0-8122-3754-4; LC 2003-61627

Ruskin’s Venice, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Victorian Manchester, and Oscar Wilde are among the topics discussed.

True West: authenticity and the American West; edited by William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis. University of Nebraska Press 2003 (Postwestern horizons) il 370p $59.95

ISBN 0-8032-2410-9; LC 2003-19518

Essayists apply contemporary critical and cultural theory to western literary history, Native American literature, the visual West, and the imagining of place.

The Utopian fantastic: selected essays from the twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the arts; edited by Martha Bartter. Praeger 2004 157p (Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, no. 105) $64.95

ISBN 0-313-31635-X; LC 2003-53627

Analyzes works by Mamet, Vonnegut, Tepper, McKee, and others.