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Wings of Acropolis

Richard Aczel & Péter Nemes, eds., The Finer Grain. Essays in honor of Mihály Szegedy-Maszák. Bloomington: Indiana UP/"Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series," ed. Denis Sinor, vol. 169, 2003; ISBN: 0933070500 (hbk.); LC call no.: PN85.F46; $49.00

Edna Aizenberg, Books and Bombs in Buenos Aires. Borges, Gerchunoff, and Argentine-Jewish writing. Hanover: UP of New England, 2002; x+195 pp.; ISBN: 1584652535 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ7634.J48 A59; $35.00

Silvia Albertazzi & Donatella Possamai, eds., Postmodernism and Postcolonialism. Proceedings of the Conference held in Bologna, October 5th, 2001. Padova: Il Poligrafo/"Sagi," no. 24, 2002; 103 pp.; ISBN: 887115262X (pbk.); €14.00

Sivia Albertazzi & Roberto Vecchi, eds., Abbecedario postcoloniale. II: Altre dieci voci per un lessico della postcolonialità. Macerata: Quodlibet/"Troposfere," diretta da Silvia Albertazzi e Barnaba Maj, 2002; 170 pp.; ISBN: 8874620993 (pbk.); €13.00

Silvia Albertazzi & Adalinda Gasparini, Il Romanzo New Global. Storie di intolleranza, fiabe di comunità. Prefazione di Antonio Faeti. Postfazione di A. Tilli. Pisa: Edizioni ETS/"Rappresentazioni: Collana di Studi Psicoanalitici," 2003; 208 pp.; ISBN: 8846707052 (pbk.); €12.00

Jorge Alcázar, La tradición emblemática en Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. México: Sistema Universidad Abierta/"Biblioteca Crítica Abierta," serie letras 2, 2002; 55 pp.; ISBN: 9683697941 (pbk.)

Branka Arsić, The Passive Eye. Gaze and subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett). Stanford: Stanford UP/"Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics," ed. Judith Butler & Frederick M. Dolan, 2003; xiii+210 pp.; ISBN: 0804746435 (pbk.); LC call no.: B846.A77; $19.95

Ian Balfour, The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Cultural Memory in the Present," ed. Mieke Bal & Hent de Vries, 2002; x+346 pp.; ISBN: 0804742316 (pbk.); LC call no.: PR585.P77 B35

Lisa Block de Behar, ed., Entre mitos & conocimiento. Montevideo: AILC/ICLA, 2003; 277 pp.; ISBN: 9974395569 (pbk.)

George Bornstein, Material Modernism. The Politics of the page. Cambridge: Cambridge UO, 2001; xii+185 pp.; ISBN: 0521661544 (hbk.)

Yomi Braester, Witness against History. Literature, film, and public discourse in twentieth-century China. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003; xii+264 pp.; ISBN: 080474792X (hbk.); LC call no.: PL2303.B73; $60.00

Janet Farrell Brodie & Marc Redfield, eds., High Anxieties. Cultural studies in addiction. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; ix+232 pp.; ISBN: 0520227514 (pbk.); LC call no.: HV4998.H54; $24.95

John D. Caputo, Mark Dooley & Michael J. Scanlon, eds., Questioning God. Bloomington: Indiana UP/"Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion," ed. Merold Westphal, 2001; viii+379 pp.; ISBN: 0253339812 (hbk.); LC call no.: BT795 Q.47

Stanley Cavell, Emerson's Transcendental Etudes. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Cultural Memory in the Present," ed. Mieke Bal & Hent de Vries, 2003; xii+277 pp.; ISBN: 0804745439 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS1638.C38; $21.95

Bruno Clément & Marc Escola, eds., Le Malentendu. Généalogie du geste herméneutique. Saint-Denis: Presses Univesitaires de Vincennes/"La Philosophie hors de soi," 2003; 215 pp.; ISBN: 2842921453 (pbk.); €22.00

Tom Cohen, Barbara Cohen, J. Hillis Miller & Andrzej Warminski, eds., Material Events. Paul de Man and the afterlife of theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2001; xxv+368 pp.; ISBN: 0816636141 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN75.D45 M38; $22.95

James Collins & Richard Blot, eds., Literacy and Literacies. Texts, power, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge UP/"Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language," ed. Judith T. Irvine & Bambi Schieffelin, 2003; xx+217 pp.; ISBN: 0521593565 (hbk.); LC call no.: LC149.C64; $60.00

Luis Correa-Díaz, Una historia apócrifa de América. El arte de la conjetura de Pedro Gómez Valderrama. Prólogo Isaías Peña Gutiérrez. Medellín: Fondo Editorial/"Colección Krenes," no. 2, 2003; 321 pp.; ISBN: 9588173531 (pbk.)

Jonathan Culler & Kevin Lamb, eds., Just Being Difficult? Academic writing in the public arena. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Cultural Memory in the Present," ed. Mieke Bal & Hent de Vries, 2003; 223 pp.; ISBN: 0804747105 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN146.J87; $19.95

David Dambrosch, What Is World Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP/"Translation/Transnation," ed. Emily Apter, 2003; xiii+324 pp.; ISBN: 0691049866 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN523.D36; $19.95

Marcelo Damiani, El sentido de la vida. Buenos Aires: Adriana Hidalgo editora/"la lengua/novella," ed. Edgardo Russo & Fabián Lebenglik, 2001; 170 pp.; ISBN: 9879396715 (pbk.)

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, The Gender of Freedom. Fictions of liberalism and the literary public sphere. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004; x+310 pp.; ISBN: 0804729417 (hbk.); LC call no.: PS169.L5 D55; $49.50

Marc Escola, Lupus in fabula. Six façons d'affabuler La Fontaine. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes/"L'Imaginaire du Texte," 2003; 251 pp.; ISBN: 2842921410 (pbk.); €22.00

Escribas: Revista de la Escuela de Letras, no. 2; Faculdad de Filosofía y Humanidades/Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; ISSN: 16660404 (pbk.)

Estudos: Lingüísticos e Literários, nos. 25-26 (Janeiro/dezembro 2000) (364 pp.) & nos. 27-28 (Janeiro/dezembro 2001); ISSN: 01025465 (pbk.) 364 pp.

Eugene Chen Eoyang, "Borrowed Plumage." Polemical essays on translation. Amsterdam: Rodopi/"Approaches to Translation Studies," ed. Henri Bloemen, Dirk Delabastita & Ton Naaijkens, vol. 19, 2003; 183 pp.; ISBN: 9042008547 (pbk.)

"Das Fantastiche/ Le Fantastique/ Il Fantastico." Special Issue of the Colloquium Helveticum, no. 33 (2002); ISSN: 01793780 (pbk.); 402 pp.

Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics," ed. Werner Hamacher, 2003; ix+181 pp.; ISBN: 0804742871 (pbk.); LC call no.: PQ2613.E53F7313; $19.95

Michael Gluzman, The Politics of Canonicity. Lines of resistance in modernist Hebrew poetry. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences," ed. Daniel Boyarin, Chana Kronfeld & Naomi Seidman, 2003; xiv+250 pp.; ISBN: 0804729840 (hbk.); LC call no.: PJ5020.G53; $49.50

Peter Uwe Hohendahl, ed., German Studies in the Unites States. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003; viii+576 pp.; ISBN: 0873529898 (pbk.); LC call no.: PF3068.U6 G38; $28.00

Interlitteraria, no. 8 (2003); ISBN: 9985566087; ISSN: 14060701 (pbk.); 431 pp.

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows. The Diasporic imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish immigrants in the United States. Foreword by David Roediger. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; viii+327 pp.; ISBN: 0520233425 (pbk.); LC call no.: JV6477.J33; $19.95

Alvin Kernan, The Fruited Plain. Fables for a postmodern democracy. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002; x+260 pp.; ISBN: 0300092903 (hbk.); LC call no.: PS3611.E76 F78; $24.95

Mi Gyung Kim, Affinity, That Elusive Dream. A Genealogy of the chemical revolution. Cambridge: The MIT Press/"Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology," ed. Jed Buchwald, 2003; xii+599 pp.; ISBN: 0262112736 (hbk.); LC call no.: Qd505.5 .K47

Literary Imagination. The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 5.2 (Spring 2003); ISSN: 15239012 (pbk.); 209 pp.

Paul M. Malone, Franz Kafka's The Trial. Four stage adaptations. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang/"German Studies in Canada," ed. Manfred Kuxdorf & Ulrich Scheck, band 13, 2003; xi+289 pp.; ISBN: 0820460990 (pbk.); LC call no.: PT2621.A26 P7; $42.95

Cynthia Marshall, The Shattering of the Self. Violence, subjectivity, and early modern texts. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2002; xii+216 pp.; ISBN: 0801867789 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR428.S82 M37; $44.95

Augusto Meyer, Os pêssegos verdes. Ed. Tânia Franco Carvalhal. Rio de Janeiro: Academia Brasiliera de Letras/"Coleção Austregésilo de Athayde," 2002; xxi+173 pp.; ISBN: 8574400564; LC call no.: B869.4 M559

Paola Mildonian, Maria Alzira Seixo & Lourdes Câncio Martins, eds., La porta d'Oriente. Viaggi e poesia. Proceedings of the International Colloquium "Oriental Gateways: Voyages and Poetry," Venice, November 1999. Lisboa: Edições Cosmos, 2002; 437 pp.; ISBN: 9727622437 (pbk.)

"Nach der Bibel — Après la Bible: Approaches to the Scriptures." Special Issue of the Colloquium Helveticum, no. 34 (2003); ISSN: 01793780 (pbk.); 340 pp.

Suzanne Nalbatian, Memory in Literature. From Rousseau to Neuroscience. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; x+185 pp.; ISBN: 0333740653 (hbk.); LC call no.: PN56.M44 N35; $69.95

"Occident/Orient." Special Issue of the Acta Iassyensia Comparationis, no. 1 (2003); ISBN: 9738344778 (pbk.); 163 pp.

Elena del Río Parra, Una era de monstrous. Representaciones de lo deforme en el Siglo de Oro español. Madrid: Vervuert/"Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica," dirección de Ignacio Arellano, vol. 27, 2003; 309 pp.; ISBN: 3893544992 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ6064.R495

Jan Patočka, Plato and Europe. Trans. Petr Lom. Stanford: Stanford UP/"Cultural Memory in the Present," ed. Mieke Bal & Hent de Vries, 2002; xxi+223 pp.; ISBN: 0804738017 (pbk.); LC call no.: B395.P3213; $19.95

Jean-Michel Racault, Nulle part et ses environs. Voyage aux confines de l'utopie littéraire classique (1657-1802). Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne/"Imago Mundi," dirigée par François Moureau, 2003; 473 pp.; ISBN: 2840502917, ISSN: 07567847 (pbk.)

Raluca L. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory's Morte Darthur. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer/"Arthurian Studies," 2003; viii+165 pp.; ISBN: 0859917851 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR2047.R33; $75.00

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, ed., Interpretation and Its Objects. Studies in the philosophy of Michael Krausz. Amsterdam: Rodopi/"Value Inquiry Book Series," ed. Robert Ginsberg & Peter A. Redpath, vol. 146, 2003; ix+392 pp.; ISBN: 904201167X (hbk.); $101.00

Tiziana de Rogatis, Montale e il classicismo moderno. Pisa: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali/"Collana di teoria letteraria, di critica e di analisi testuale," diretta da Romano Luperini, vol. 1, 2002; 194 pp.; ISBN: 8881473143 (pbk.)

"Romantic Generations: Text, authority and posterity in British Romanticism." Special issue of the Angles on the English-Speaking World, vol. 3 (2003); ISBN: 8772898607, ISSN: 09031723 (pbk.); 178 pp.

Ulrike Rotmann, Geschlechterbeziehung im utopischen Roman. Analyse männlicher Entwürfe. Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen/"Saarbrücker Beiträge zur Vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft," ed. Manfred Schmeling, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink & Klaus Martens, 2003; 249 pp.; ISBN: 3826024486 (pbk.)

Paul K. Saint-Amour, The Copywrights. Intellectual property and the literary imagination. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003; xii+281 pp.; ISBN: 0801440777 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR468.L38 S25

Claire Squires, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy. A Reader's guide. New York: Continuum/"Continuum Contemporaries," 2003; 95 pp.; ISBN: 0826414796 (pbk.); LC call no,: PR6066.U44 H57; $9.95

Jean Starobinski, Action and Reaction. The Life and adventures of a couple. Trans. Sophie Hawkes with Jeff Fort. New York: Zone Books, 2003; 468 pp.; ISBN: 189095120X (hbk.); LC call no.: B105.A35 SJ313; $35.00

Domenico Tanteri, Costretti ad essere felici. Studi sulla letteratura utopica. Catania: C.U.E.C.M., 2001; 145 pp.; C.c.p.: 10181956 (pbk.); €10.33

Grace H. Turnbull, ed., Tongues of Fire. A Bible of sacred scriptures of the non-Christian world. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1941 (1st edition 1929); xxvi+422 pp.; ISBN: 0801868580 (pbk.); $20.95

Carl Wolfe, ed., Zoontologies. The Question of the animal. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2003; xxiii+203 pp.; ISBN: 0816641056 (pbk.); LC call no.: B105.A55 Z66

John Zilcosky, Kafka's Travels. Exoticism, colonialism, and the traffic of writing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; xvi+289 pp.; ISBN: 0312232810 (hbk.); LC call no.: PT2621.A26 Z36; ₤40.00