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Walter G. Andrews & Mehmet Kalpakli, The Age of Beloveds. Love and the beloveds in early-modern Ottoman and European culture and society. Durham: Duke UP, 2005; xiii+425 pp.; ISBN: 0822334240 (pbk.); LC call no.: GT2630.A53; $24.95

Philip E. Bennett & Richard Firth Green, eds., The Singer and the Scribe. European ballad traditions and European ballad cultures. Amsterdam: Rodopi/“Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft,” no. 75, 2004; 223 pp.; ISBN: 9042018518 (pbk.); $60.00

Inge E. Boer, ed., After Orientalism. Critical entanglements, productive looks. Amsterdam: Rodopi/“Thamyris: Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race,” ed. Ernst van Alphen, n. 10, 2003; 245 pp.; ISBN: 9042009497 (pbk.); $34.00

Marianne Børch, ed., Text and Voice. The rhetoric of authority in the Middle Ages. Odense: UP of Southern Denmark, 2004; 272 pp.; ISBN: 8778388023 (pbk.); $34.00

Marcel Cornis-Pope & John Neubauer, eds., History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe. Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co./“A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages sponsored by the ICLA,” vol. XIX, 2004; xx+647 pp.; ISBN: 1588114937 (hbk.); LC call no.: PN849.E9 H577; $238.00

Edgar A. Dryden, Monumental Melville. The formation of a literary career. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004; xii+230 pp.; ISBN: 080474906x (hbk.); LC call no.: PS2387.D795; $49.50

Michael M.J. Fischer, Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges. Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry. Durham: Duke UP, 2004; x+474 pp.; ISBN: 0822332981 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN1993.5.I846 E57; $23.95

Wilfried Floeck & María Francisca Vilches de Frutos, eds., Teatro y Sociedad en la España actual. Madrid: Iberoamericana/“Teoría y práctica del teatro,” vol. 13, 2004; 391 pp.: ISBN: 8484891402 (pbk.)

Marcia McClintonck Folsom, ed., Approaches to Teaching Austen’s Emma. New York: The Modern Language Association of America/“Approaches to Teaching World Literature,” ed. Joseph Gibaldi, 2004; xliii+200; ISBN: 087352912x (hbk.); LC call no.: PR4034.E53 A67; $37.50

Ian Foster & Juliet Wigmore, eds., Neighbours and Strangers. Literary and cultural relations in Germany, Austria and Central Europe since 1989. Amsterdam: Rodopi/“German Monitor,” no. 59, ed. Ian Wallace, 2004; vii+284 pp.; ISBN: 9042018917 (hbk.); LC call no.: PT401.N45; $81.00

Michel Foucault, Death and the Labyrinth. The world of Raymond Roussel. Trans. Charles Ruas; with an intro. by James Faubion and a Postscript by John Ashbery. London: Continuum, 2004; xxviii+227 pp.; ISBN: 0826464351 (pbk.); LC call no.: PQ2635.O96168 Z6313; $17.65

Jean Genet, The Declared Enemy. Texts and interviews. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics,” ed. Werner Hamacher & David E. Wellbery, 2004; xii+384 pp.; ISBN: 0804729468 (pbk.); LC call no.: PQ2613.E53 Z46513; $15.72

Gerald Gillespie, By Way of Comparison. Reflections on the theory and practice of comparative literature. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur/“Bibliothèque de literature générale et compare,” dirigée par Jean Bessière, no. 45, 2004; 280 pp.; ISBN: 2745309390 (hbk.)

Marina Grishakova & Markku Lehtimäki, eds., Intertextuality and Intersemiosis. Tartu: Tartu UP, 2004; 312 pp.; ISBN: 9985569113 (pbk.)

Peter Haidu, The Subject Medieval/Modern. Text and governance in the Middle Ages. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture,” ed. Daniel Boyarin et al, 2004; x+446 pp.; ISBN: 080474744x (pbk.); LC call no.: PQ155.S7 H35; $27.95

Interlitteraria, no. 9 (2004); ISBN: 9985569350; ISSN: 14060701 (pbk.); 411 pp.

Julio Hans Casado Jensen, ed., The Object of Study in the Humanities. Proceedings from the Seminar at the University of Copenhagen, September, 2001. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004; 166 pp.; ISBN: 8772898313 (pbk.); $29.00

Tim Lewens, Organisms and Artifacts. Design in nature and elsewhere. Cambridge: The MIT Press/“Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology,” ed. Kim Sterelny & Robert A. Wilson, 2004; xi+183 pp.; ISBN: 0262122618 (hbk.); LC call no.: QH331.L533; $32.00

Literary Imagination. The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, vol. 5, no. 3 (Fall 2003); v+112 pp.; ISSN: 15239012 (pbk.)

Literary Imagination. The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, vol. 6, no. 3 (Fall 2004); 203 pp.; ISSN: 15239012 (pbk.)

Luiz Costa Lima, O Redemunho do Horror. São Paulo: Editora Planeta do Brasil, 2003; 455 pp.; ISBN: 8574496484 (hbk.)

Allan Lloyd-Smith, American Gothic Fiction. An introduction. New York: Continuum/“Continuum Series in Literary Genre,” 2004; ix+197 pp.; ISBN: 0826415954 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS374.G68 L58; $14.95

Suzanne Evertsen Lundquist, Native American Literatures. An introduction. New York: Continuum/“Continuum Series in Literary Genre,” 2004; vii+315 pp.; ISBN: 0826415997 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS153.I52 L86; $14.95

Irena R. Makaryk, Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn. Les Kurbas, Ukrainian modernism, and early Soviet cultural politics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004; xx+257 pp.; ISBN: 080208849x (hbk.); LC call no.: PN2859.U476K87; $55.00

Mark S. Micale, ed., The Mind of Modernism. Medicine, psychology, and the cultural arts in Europe and America. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Cultural Sitings,” ed. Elazar Barkan, 2004; xv+455 pp.; ISBN: 0804747970 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.P93 M56; $26.95

Théocharoula Niftanidou, Georges Perec et Nikos-Gabriel Pentzikis. Une poétique du minimal. Préface de Dimitris Angelatos. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2004; 284 pp.; ISBN: 2747559009 (pbk.)

John Picchione, The New Avant-Garde in Italy. Theoretical debate and poetic practices. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2004; ix+250 pp.; ISBN: 0802089941 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ4113.P43; $50.00

Susi Pietri, L’Invention de Balzac. Lectures européennes. Saint-Denis: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2004; 239 pp.; ISBN: 2842921533 (pbk.)

Kersti Tarien Powell, Irish Fiction. An introduction. New York: Continuum/“Continuum Series in Literary Genre,” 2004; v+217 pp.; ISBN: 0826415970 (pbk.); LC call no.: PR8797.P69; $14.95

Valerie Sweebey Prince, Burnin’ Down the House. New York: Columbia UP, 2005; x+153 pp.; ISBN: 031134411x (pbk.); LC call no.: PS374.N4 P75; $24.50

Stephanie Sandler, Commemorating Pushkin. Russia’s myth of a national poet. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2004; xii+416 pp.; ISBN: 0804734488 (hbk.); LC call no.: PG3355.5.S26; $65.00

Ana Del Sarto, Alicia Ríos & Abril Trigo, eds., The Latin American Cultural Studies Reader. Durham: Duke UP, 2004; ix+818 pp.; ISBN: 0822333406 (pbk.); LC call no.: F1408.3.L38; $32.95

David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity. The tragedy of colonial Enlightenment. Durham: Duke UP, 2004; 279 pp.; ISBN: 0822334445 (pbk.); $22.95

Z.I. Siaflekis, La relation comparative. Interférences et transitions dans la modernité littéraire. Paris: L’Harmattan/“Critiques Littéraires,” dirigée par Maguy Albet, 2004; 220 pp.; ISBN: 274756438x (pbk.)

Marta Tafalla, Theodor W. Adorno. Una filosofía de la memoria. Barcelona: Herder Editorial, 2003; 302 pp.; ISBN: 8425423155 (pbk.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness. The hidden role of chance in life and in the markets. 2nd edition. New York: Thomson-Texere, 2004; xxxi+277 pp.; ISBN: 158799190x (hbk.); LC call no.: HG4521.T285; $27.95

Philip Tew, The Contemporary British Novel. London: Continuum, 2004; xv+205 pp.; ISBN: 0826473504 (pbk.); LC call no.: PR881.T49; $29.95

Alfonso de Toro, ed., Estrategias postmodernas y postcoloniales en el teatro latinoamericano actual. Madrid: Iberoamericana/“Teoría y práctica del teatro,” vol. 11, 2004; 544 pp.: ISBN: 8484891259 (pbk.)

Patrick H. Vincent, The Romantic Poetess. European culture, politics, and gender. Durham: U of New Hampshire P/“Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies,” ed. Sarah Sherman et al, 2004; xxv+267 pp.; ISBN: 1584654317 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN1261.V56; $26.00

June Yip, Envisioning Taiwan. Fiction, cinema, and the nation in the cultural imaginary. Durham: Duke UP/“Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society,” ed. Rey Chow et al, 2004; ix+356 pp.; ISBN: 0822333678 (pbk.); LC call no.: HM621.Y56; $24.95