June 2005

Affect and power; essays on sex, slavery, race, and religion in appreciation of Winthrop D. Jordan; edited by David J. Libby, Paul Spickard, and Susan Ditto; foreword by Charles Joyner; introduction by Sheila L. Skemp. University Press of Mississippi 2005 233p $45.00

ISBN 1-57806-769-3; LC 2004-22119

Visiting historical locales of Puritan New England, French Louisiana, nineteenth-century New York and Mississippi, as well as Harlem swing clubs and college campuses in the twentieth century, contributors discuss a variety of issues from the viewpoints of abolitionists and white supremacists, preachers and politicos, slaves and jazz musicians, and white farm women and black sorority sisters.

Beach, J. M.

Studies in ideology; essays on culture and subjectivity. University Press of America 2005 264p pa $38.00

ISBN 0-7618-3095-2; LC 2004-116351

The author examines how the ideology of individuals are often shaped and determined by their physical, social, and political environments.

The Cambridge companion to Roman satire; edited by Kirk Freudenburg. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 352p (Cambridge companions to literature) $75.00, pa $29.99

ISBN 0-521-80359-4; ISBN 0-521-00627-9; LC 2004-57024

This volume explores Roman satire within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Horace, Seneca, Persius, and Juvenal are some of the writers covered.

The church and Galileo; edited by Ernan McMullin. University of Notre Dame 2005 391p (Studies in science and the humanities from the Reilly Center for Science) $60.00, pa $30.00

ISBN 0-268-03483-4; 0-268-03484-2; LC 2005-2602

This collection of essays presents an assessment of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo via the context of the political landscape within which he lived.

Creeber, Glen

Serial television; big drama on the small screen. British Film Institute 2004 184p $70.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 1-84457-020-7; 1-84457-021-5

The author offers analyses on the originality and innovation of such contemporary television dramas as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Twin Peaks, Queer as folk, This life, and Prime suspect.

Dante & the unorthodox; the aesthetics of transgression; James Miller, editor. Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press 2005 566p $85.00

ISBN 0-88920-457-8

Contributors examine aesthetic influences behind the theological and political reasons for Dante’s interpretations of gender, rationality, sexuality, morality, and mortality.

Gilmore, Richard A.

Doing philosophy at the movies. State Univ. of New York Press 2005 183p $75.50, pa $21.95

ISBN 0-7914-6391-5; 0-7914-6392-3; LC 2004-8050

Hitchcock’s Vertigo, John Ford’s The searchers, the Coen Brothers’ Fargo, and Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting are among the films discussed in this study of death, catharsis, the sublime, and the nature of philosophy.

Great women travel writers from 1750 to the present; Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, editors. Continuum 2005 304p $26.95

ISBN 0-8264-1683-7; LC 2004-26446

Lady Hester Stanhope, Fanny Lewald, Pandita Ramabai, Daisy Bates, Gertrude Bell, Freya Stark, and Isak Dinesen are among the women profiled.

Guroian, Vigen

Rallying the really human things; the moral imagination in politics, literature, and everyday life. ISI Books 2005 254p $25.00, pa $15.00

ISBN 1-932236-49-X; 1-932236-50-3; LC 2004-104756

The author examines the influences of contemporary culture upon human nature in works by Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk, G. K. Chesterton, Flannery O’Connor, and St. John Chrysostom.

Irving Howe and the critics; celebrations and attacks; edited and with an introduction by John Rodden. University of Neb. Press 2005 237p $50.00

ISBN 0-8032-3933-5; LC 2004-30745

A compendium of essays and reviews on the life and works of Irving Howe covering such topics as socialism, the Holocaust, Yiddish culture, European literature, and German immigration.

Jones, Wendy S.

Consensual fictions; women liberalism, and the English novel. University of Toronto Press 2005 255p $55.00

ISBN 0-8020-8717-5

Utilizing works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson, and Margaret Oliphant, the author examines representations of consensual marriage in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.

Kamuf, Peggy

Book of addresses. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 365p (Meridian) $65.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8047-5058-0; 0-8047-5059-9; LC 2004-23136

The author explores the address of speech or writing by such authors as Baudelaire, Blanchot, Cixous, Derrida, Freud, and Heidegger. Deconstruction, feminism, love, and jealousy are among the subjects covered.

Kuspit, Donald

The end of art. Cambridge Univ. Press 2004 208p $65.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-521-83252-7; 0-521-54016-X; LC 2003-55123

The author traces the decline of aesthetic experience in modern art through the works and theory of Marcel Duchamp and Barnett Newman.

Mack, Charles R.

Looking at the Renaissance; essays toward a contextual appreciation. University of Mich. Press 2005 164p $65.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-472-09890-X; 0-472-06890-3; LC 2004-19089

The author discusses the differences, in form and presentation, between the religious art of the Renaissance and the religious art of the Middle Ages.

Natural enemy, natural ally; toward an environmental history of war; edited by Richard P. Tucker and Edmund Russell. Oregon State Univ. Press 2005 280p pa $29.95

ISBN 0-87071-047-8; LC 2004-7872

Contributors investigate the relationship between war and the physical environment from various perspectives The subjects range from conflicts in pre-colonial India and early colonial South Africa to the U.S. Civil War and twentieth-century wars in Japan, Finland, and the Pacific Islands.

Notley, Alice

Coming after; essays on poetry. University of Mich. Press 2005 182p (Poets on poetry) $52.50, pa $19.95

ISBN 0-472-09859-4; 0-472-06859-8; LC 2004-25900

Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Joanne Kyger, Ron Padgett, and Lorenzo Thomas are among the second-generation New York School poets analyzed for their political and spiritual stance and refusal to criticize and theorize.

Pippin, Robert B.

The persistence of subjectivity; on the Kantian aftermath. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 369p $75.00, pa $28.99

ISBN 0-521-84858-X; 0-521-61304-3; LC 2004-62838

In this examination of modernist art and literature, as well as modern institutional practices, the author offers various perspectives on the nature and value of determining one’s own life. Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Adorno, Gadamer, and Arendt are some of the theorists studied.

Stokes, Melvyn and Richard Maltby

Hollywood abroad; audiences and cultural exchange. British Film Institute 2005 183p $70.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 1-84457-018-5; 1-84457-051-7

The authors explore the reception of U.S. films in Britain, France, Belgium, Turkey, Australia, India, Japan, and Central Africa. Among the topics covered are the impact of such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and the response of Belgian young people in the age of the multiplex.

Studies in eighteenth-century culture v34; edited by Catherine Ingrassia and Jeffrey S. Ravel. The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2005 345p $45.00

ISBN 0-8018-8192-7

Tassi, Marguerite A.

The scandal of images; iconoclasm, eroticism, and painting in early modern English drama. Susquehanna Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2005 259p (The Apple-Zimmerman series in early modern culture) $49.50

ISBN 1-57591-085-3; LC 2004-17599

This collection of essays studies the ways such Elizabethan dramatists as Shakespeare, Marston, and Lyly, interpret painting, picture tropes, and painter characters for the stage.

Tillinghast, Richard

Poetry and what is real. University of Mich. Press 2004 186p $49.50, pa $17.95

ISBN 0-472-09872-1; 0-472-06872-5; LC 2004-4959

Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, John Crowe Ransom, W. H. Auden, Louis Simpson, Philip Levine, Robert Lowell, and W. B. Yeats are among the figures discussed in this consideration of how poetry is practiced in American culture.

Turning up the flame; edited by Jay L. Halio and Ben Siegel; Philip Roth’s later novels. University of Del. Press; Associated Univ. Press 2005 223p $42.50

ISBN 0-87413-902-3; LC 2004-21038

Focusing on Roth’s fiction of the last two decades, contributors consider themes of adultery, identity, death and mourning, subjectivity, and utopia.

Voices in dialogue; reading women in the Middle Ages; edited by Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby-Fulton. University of Notre Dame Press 2005 508p $50.00

ISBN 0-268-03717-5; LC 2005-4936

Essays address issues of literacy, authorship, textual production and exchange, and women’s ministry in the lives of late medieval women.

Writers on writing; the art of the short story; edited by Maurice A. Lee. Praeger Publishers 2005 247p (Contributions to the study of world literature, no. 128) $104.95

ISBN 0-313-31592-2; LC 2005-1874

Amiri Baraka, Katherine Vaz, Velma Pollard, Merrill Joan Gerber, Lucy Ferriss, Kirpal Singh, Vicente Soto, Frederick Busch, Crystal E. Wilkinson, Chris Offutt, and Jayne Anne Phillips are among the writers covering a range of genre issues that include publishing problems, gender and cultural issues, disputes with critics, pedagogy, and form and structure.

Young, Iris Marion

On female body experience; "throwing like a girl" and other essays. Oxford Univ. Press 2005 177p (Studies in feminist philosophy) $65.00, pa $19.95

ISBN 0-19-516192-0; 0-19-516193-9; LC 2004-44842

The author describes various aspects of women’s everday bodily experiences in modern Western societies. Utilizing theories from such philosophers as Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, she covers such topics as pregnancy, menstruation, clothes, motility, and old age.