July 2005

Ankersmit, F. R.

Sublime historical experience. Stanford Univ. Press 2005 481p $70.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-8047-4935-3; 0-8047-4936-1; LC 2004-18557

The author investigates how historical experiences challenge conceptions of language, truth, and knowledge. Aristotle, Burckhardt, Gadamer, Kant, Holderlin, Rousseau, and Rorty are among the theorists studied.

The barbaric triumph; a critical anthology on the writings of Robert E. Howard; edited by Don Herron. Wildside Press 2004 200p $35.00, pa $19.95

ISBN 0-8095-1566-0; 0-8095-1567-9

Contributors offer various perspectives on who and what influenced the texts of the creator of Conan the Barbarian. Among the people and topics covered are philosophy, boxing, ancestral memory, myth, J.R.R. Tolkien, and H.P. Lovecraft.

Burge, Tyler

Truth, thought, reason; essays on Frege. Clarendon Press 2005 419p $110.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-19-927853-9; 0-19-927854-7; LC 2005-276358

The author explores Frege’s views on meaning and knowledge within the context of language structure and twentieth-century philosophy.

The Cambridge companion to The Latin American novel; edited by Efrain Kristal. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 336p $65.00, pa $30.44

ISBN 0-521-82533-7; 0-521-53219-8

This collection of essays, presenting a broad overview of the history of the Latin American novel, analyzes such works as One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The house of the spirits by Isabel Allende, and The war of the end of the world by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Confluences; studies from East to West in honor of V. H. Viglielmo; edited by Nobuko Ochner, William Ridgeway. University of Hawai’i Press 2005 272p pa $25.00

ISBN 0-8248-2966-2; LC 2004-27463

Among the topics discussed in this study of Japanese culture and literature are religious consciousness, individuality, phenomenology, beauty, grief and guilt.

Davidson, Donald

Problems of rationality. Oxford Univ. Press 2004 280p $74.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-19-823754-5; 0-19-823755-3; LC 2004-299798

The author investigates the necessity of rationality for both mind and interpretation, with special focus on the attributions of a person’s mental state and the subject of irrationality.

Davidson, Donald

Truth, language, and history. Oxford Univ. Press 2005 350p $74.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-19-823756-1; 0-19-823757-X; LC 2005-297956

Offering comparative studies between language and the world, language and mind, and speaker intention and linguistic meaning, the author questions the concept of truth in human thought.

Finch, Annie

The body of poetry; essays on women, form, and the poetic self. University of Mich. Press 2004 177p (Poets on poetry) $49.50, pa $17.95

ISBN 0-472-09895-0; 0-472-06895-4; LC 2004-24702

The author, exploring connections between poetics and the writing of poetry, covers such topics and figures as metrical diversity, poetry and music, the role of women poets in the canon, Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Audre Lorde, John Peck, and Maxine Kumin.

Frisch, Walter

German modernism; music and the arts. University of Calif. Press 2005 322p (California studies in 20th-century music) $45.00

ISBN0-520-24301-3; LC 2004-12678

Focusing on the last years and death of Richard Wagner, the author studies the relationship between classical music and the early cultures of modernism in German-speaking centers.

Impossible to hold; women and culture in the 1960s; edited by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky. New York Univ. Press 2005 342p (American history and culture) $65.00, pa $22.00

ISBN 0-8147-9909-4; 0-8147-9910-8; LC 2004-17282

In this examination of the significance of women to the culture of the 1960s, contributors trace the lives and careers of women who brought radical changes to the fields of religion, sports, literature, and music. Joan Baez, Sonia Sanchz, Judy Chicago, Katherine Dunham, Billie Jean King, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Carole King are some of the women studied.

Lee, Hermione

Virginia Woolf’s nose; essays on biography. Princeton Univ. Press 2005 141p $19.95

ISBN 0-691-12032-3; LC 2004-58457

The author explores connections between biography and myth and legends. Using various case studies, she discusses such problems faced by literary biographers as unprovable stories, ambiguities surrounding their subject, and gaps and absences within their stories.

Bridging Southern cultures; an interdisciplinary approach; edited by John Lowe. Louisiana State Univ. Press 2005 317p $49.95

ISBN 0-8071-3031-1; LC 2004-15794

Leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists offer perspectives on past and contemporary southern society. Gender, race, region, class, art forms, Africanisms, and Appalachia are among the topics examined.

Luis Bunel: new readings; edited by Peter William Evans and Isabel Santaolalla. British Film Institute 2004 212p $70.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 1-84457-003-7; 1-84457-002-9

This collection of essays studies key films and moments from the filmmaker’s career, including his early years in Spain and France, his thirty-plus years in Mexico, and his eventual return to Europe, where he created such films as Belle de jour and Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie.

Mapping the fiction of Cristina Fernandez Cubas; edited by Kathleen M. Glenn and Janet Perez. University of Del. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2005 230p $46.50

ISBN 0-87413-905-8; LC 2004-59836

Contributors discuss such themes as personal and national identity, memory and history, storytelling, and language from Fernandez Cubas’ four volumes of short stories, two novels, a play, and book of memoirs.

A matter of principle; humanitarian arguments for war in Iraq; edited by Thomas Cushman. University of Calif. Press 2005 372p $55.00, pa $24.95

ISBN 0-520-24486-9; 0-520-24555-5; LC 2004-27416

Essays examine the various debates on reasons for the war in Iraq. Special focus is given to viewpoints concerning human rights, solidarity with the oppressed, and antipathy against fascism and tyranny.

McBride, Dwight A.

Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch; essays on race and sexuality. New York Univ. Press 2005 251p (Sexual culture) $60.00, pa $19.00

In this analysis of race, gender, and sexuality, the author discusses, from the context of the black gay male experience, such topics as black gay media representations, biases in marketing, gay personal ads, and the role of African American studies at the university level.

Reisch, George A.

How the Cold War transformed philosophy of science; to the icy slopes of logic. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 418p $70.00, pa $26.99

ISBN 0-521-83797-9; 0-521-54689-3; LC 2004-52545

The author examines how intellectual, cultural, and political forces grounded in the anti-communism stance of the Cold War helped shape college curricula and research by leading philosophers.

Relihan, Constance C.

Cosmographical glasses; geographic discourse, gender, and Elizabethan fiction. Kent State Univ. Press 2004 148p $29.00

ISBN 0-87338-811-9; LC 2004-10054

The author, utilizing travelers’ reports, ethnographic texts, and geographic guides from sixteenth-century England, explores connections between the genre, colonialism, and gender.

Reyes, Israel

Humor and the eccentric text in Puerto Rican literature. University Press of Florida 2005 190p (New directions in Puerto Rican studies) $59.95

ISBN 0-8130-2820-5; LC 2004-66134

Examining works by Nemesio Canales, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Ana Lydia Vega, and Pedro Pietri, the author addresses the ways in which humor is used to parody literary canons and social conventions.

Richards, Gary

Lovers and beloveds; sexual otherness in Southern fiction, 1936-1961. Louisiana State Univ. Press 2005 243p (Southern literary studies) $44.95

ISBN 0-8071-3051-6; LC 2004-23918

Focusing on issues of sexuality and same-sex desire in southern literature during the 1940s and 1950s, the author analyzes texts by Truman Capote, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Lillian Smith, William Goyen, and Richard Wright.

Slide, Anthony

Silent topics; essays on undocumented areas of silent film. Scarecrow Press 2005 129p pa $35.00

ISBN 0-8108-5016-8; LC 2004-11667

In this study of silent films and their makers, the author addresses a variety of topics, from British silent movies in the United States through the contribution of gays and lesbians toAmerican silent film.

Stewart, Susan

The open studio; essays on art and aesthetics. University of Chicago Press 2005 307p $45.00, pa $18.00

ISBN 0-226-77446-5; 0-226-77447-3; LC 2004-7019

The author presents a compendium of her previously published articles and essays from magazines, museum and gallery publications, and edited collections. Among the subjects discussed are the installation art of Ann Hamilton, the sculptures and watercolors of Thomas Schutte, the films of Tacita Dean, and the prints and animations of William Kentridge.

Taliaferro, Charles

Evidence and faith; philosophy and religion since the seventeenth century. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005 457p (The evolution of modern philosophy) $75.00, pa $29.99

In this exploration of the philosophy of religion, the author addresses such issues as the relationship between religious and secular values, religious toleration and liberty, and religious implications concerning medicine, the economy, education, sexual ethics, and the environment.

Traces of contamination; unearthing the Francoist legacy in contemporary Spanish discourse; edited by Eloy E. Merino and H. Rosi Song. Bucknell Univ. Press; Associated Univ. Presses 2005 305p $55.00

ISBN 0-8387-5596-8; LC 2004-15231

This collection of essays investigates the existence of Francoist ideology in a variety of texts from the end and beginning of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, respectively.

Memoirs, testimonial literature, historical novels, essays, fiction, and Internet propaganda are among the discourses considered.

Unlocking the past; celebrating historical archaeology in North America; edited by Lu Ann De Conzo and John H. Jameson, Jr. University Press of Florida 2005 255p $39.95

ISBN 0-8130-2796-9; LC 2004-66138

Contributors examine the interactions of native and immigrant peoples with the environment and each other from the era of early Norse voyages to World War II.