April 2006

Acts of criticism: performance matters in Shakespeare and his contemporaries; essays in honor of James P. Lusardi; edited by Paul Nelsen and June Schlueter. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2006 275p $50

ISBN 0-8386-4059-1; LC 2005-16273

Contributors discuss issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in two groupings: a theater history and practice section, and a performance criticism section that treats modern productions on stage and screen.

Anglo-Saxon England 34; edited by Malcolm Godden . . . [et al.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 366p il $160

ISBN 0-521-84906-3

Antiquity & photography: early views of ancient Mediterranean sites; Clair L. Lyons . . . [et al.] J. Paul Getty Museum 2005 226p il $65

ISBN 0-89236-805-5; LC 2005-5162

An exploration of the relationship between the new medium of photography and the emerging science of archaeology.

Bad modernisms; Douglas Mao & Rebecca L. Walkowitz, editors. Duke Univ. Press 2006 365p il $89.95, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8223-3784-3; 0-8223-3797-5; LC 2005-28235

Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Josef von Sternberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. H. Auden, Wyndham Lewis, Carlos Bulosan and Len Lye are among the modernists discussed.

Bone, Martyn

The postsouthern sense of place in contemporary fiction. Louisiana State Univ. Press 2005 275p (Southern literary studies) $49.95

ISBN 0-8071-3053-2; LC 2004-21169

Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom Wolfe, and Toni Cade Bambara.

The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: essays on regional history of the forty-ninth parallel; edited by Sterling Evans. University of Nebraska Press 2006 386p $49.95

ISBN 0-8032-1826-5; LC 2005-29572

This history of the borderlands region of the western U.S. and Canada includes contributions by historians, geographers, anthropologists, and scholars of criminal justice and environmental studies.

Bredehoft, Thomas A.

Early English metre. University of Toronto Press 2005 183p (Toronto Old English series) $65

ISBN 0-8020-3831-X

A reassessment of metrical rules for English poetry from Beowulf toLayamon.

Comics as philosophy; edited by Jeff McLaughlin. University Press of Mississippi 2005 246p il $45

ISBN 1-57806-794-4; LC 2005-4453

Essays focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels that exercise social realism, to European adventure classics.

The Critical waltz: essays on the work of Dorothy Parker; edited by Rhonda S. Pettit. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2005 379p $62.50

ISBN 0-8386-3968-2; LC 2004-19978

Critical essays explore the range of sensibilities in Parker’s work informed by the twin tensions of modernism and feminism.

Cuille, Tili Boon

Narrative interludes: musical tableaux in eighteenth-century French texts. University of Toronto Press 2006 284p il $75

ISBN 0-8020-3842-5

The author brings the cultural discourse on music and musicians to bear on the works of Diderot, Cazotte, Beaumarchais, Charriere, Cottin, Krudener and Stael.

Enter at your own risk: the dangerous art of Dennis Cooper; edited by Leora Lev. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press 2006 278p il $49.50

ISBN 0-8386-4088-5; LC 2005-23174

Includes a never-before-published piece by William S. Burroughs and contributions by John Waters, Michael Cunningham, Matthew Stadler, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Earl Jackson, Jr., and others.

Shapiro, Marianne

From the critic’s workbench: essays in literature and semiotics; compiled by Michael Shapiro. Lang, P. 2005 522p (Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics) $62.50

ISBN 0-8204-7915-2; LC 2005-7980

Includes essays on the Aeneid, Dante, Petrarch, Provencal poetry, John Ashbery, Vladimir Nabokov, and the Christian Trinity.

Keohane, Nannerl O.

Higher ground: ethics and leadership in the modern university. Duke Univ. Press 2006 284p $24.95

ISBN 0-8223-3786-X; LC 2005-30739

Speeches and essays on the challenges facing modern universities: rising costs, temptations of "corporatization," consumerist students, nomadic faculty members, and an ever expanding wave of new technologies.

Kogan, Frank

Real punks don’t wear black: music writing. University of Georgia Press 2006 347p $59.95, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8203-2753-0; 0-8203-2754-9; LC 2005-22124

Includes essays and reviews on rock, hip-hop, Euro pop, disco and metal. Topics range from the Rolling Stones to the New York Dolls, from Mariah Carey to the Ying Yang Twins.

Nicholas, Liza J.

Becoming western: stories of culture and identity in the cowboy state. University of Nebraska Press 2006 214p il $35

ISBN 0-8032-3350-8; LC 2005-24224

Five essays that focus on Jack Flagg, a Wyoming legend and supposed model for Owen Wister’s Virginian; an equestrian statue of Buffalo Bill; the dude ranch; the American Studies program at Yale; and Malcolm Wallop’s senate run.

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

Flint on a bright stone: a revolution of precision and restraint in American, Russian, and German modernism. Stanford Univ. Press 2006 306p (Verbal art) $60

ISBN 0-8047-5075-0; LC 2005-28988

Explores early works of Akhmatova, Rilke, H. D., and Williams. Futurism, expressionism, and dadaism are considered.

Panagia, Davide

The poetics of political thinking. Duke Univ. Press 2006 166p $74.95, pa $21.95

ISBN 0-8223-3706-1; 0-8223-3718-5; LC 2005-27154

Focuses on the role that aesthetic sensibilities play in the political theories of Hobbes, Deleuze, Rawls, Ranciere, Habermas and Hazlitt.

Parker, Roger

Remaking the song: operatic visions and revisions from Handel to Berio. University of Calif. Press 2006 165p (Ernest Bloch lectures) $29.95

ISBN 0-520-24418-4; LC 2005-20676

Considers works by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, and Berio.

The Politics of method in the human sciences: positivism and its epistemological others; George Steinmetz, editor. Duke Univ. Press 2005 620p (Politics, history, and culture) $94.95, pa $25.95)

ISBN 0-8223-3506-9; 0-8223-3518-2: LC 2004-22945

Essays investigate positivism’s mutations in form and degree across the social science disciplines.

Re-creating the American past: essays on the Colonial Revival; edited by Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta. University of Va. Press 2006 431p il $49.50

ISBN 0-8139-2348-4; LC 2005-24383

Essays explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture.

Silver, Andrew

Minstrelsy and murder: the crisis of southern humor, 1835-1925. Louisiana State Univ. Press 2006 222p (Southern literary studies) $42.95

ISBN 0-8071-3080-X; LC 2005-7680

Focuses on works by Augustus B. Longstreet, George Washington Harris, Charles Chesnutt, and Mark Twain that run counter to the more familiar American comic tradition.

Sleigh, Tom

Interview with a ghost: essays. Graywolf Press 2006 285p pa $15

ISBN 1-55597-440-6; LC 2005-932356

Works of poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Lowell, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, and Frank Bidart are examined.

Spencer, Nicholas

After utopia; the rise of critical space in twentieth-century American fiction. University of Nebraska Press 2006 271p $39.95

ISBN 0-8032-4301-4; LC 2005-30532

Readings of works by Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Mary McCarthy, Paul Goodman, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Joan Didion, and Don DeLillo.

Studies in bibliography v55; edited by David L. Vander Meulen; published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. University of Virginia Press 2005 c2004 274p $70

ISBN 0-8139-2324-7

The Yale companion to Chaucer; edited by Seth Lerer. Yale Univ. Press 2006 420p $65

ISBN 0-300-10929-6; LC 2005-25157

Essays provide information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer’s work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poet’s place in English and European literary history.