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Abbecedario postcoloniale II. Altre dieci voci per un lessico della post-colonialità. With an intro. by Silvia Albertazzi and Roberto Vecchi. Macerata: Quodlibet/“Troposfere. Biblioteca di letterature omeoglotte,” 2002; 170 pp.; ISBN: 8874620993 (pbk.); €13.00

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

Silvia Albertazzi and Donatella Possamai, eds., Postmodernism and Postcolonialism. Padova: Il Poligrafo/“Saggi,” no. 24, 2002; 103 pp.; ISBN: 887115162x (pbk.); €14.00

Luis Beltrán Almería, La imaginación literaria. La seriedad y la risa en la literatura occidental. Montesinos: Ensayo, 2002; 329 pp.; ISBN: 9577 6278 (pbk.)

Gisela Argyle, Germany as Model and Monster. Allusions in English Fiction, 1830’s-1930’s. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002; xi+257 pp.; ISBN: 0773523510 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR868.G36 A73

Josiah Blackmore, Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Empire. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002; xxvii+186 pp.; ISBN: 0816638497 (pbk.); LC call no.: G525.B57

Maurice Blanchot, Faux Pas. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001; xii+309 pp.; ISBN: 0804729352 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN71.B57413

E.D. Blodgett, Five-Part Invention. A History of Literary History in Canada. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003; ix+371 pp.; ISBN: 0802048013 (hbk.); LC call no.: PS8023.B56, PR9185.2.B62; $65.00; £42.00

Dushan Bresky, with Miroslav Malik, Literary Practice III. Esthetics of Literary Subjects. NY: Peter Lang/“American University Studies. General Literature,” series XIX, vol. 34, 2002; xi+341 pp.; ISBN: 0820455199; ISSN: 07436645 (hbk.); LC call no.: PN45.B7254

Janet Farrrell Brodie and 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

“Arturo Casas, Bibliografía sistemática de Teoría literaria.” Special Issue of the Boletín de Literatura, no. 26, 2e semestre (2001); 319 pp.; ISBN: 8497500210; ISSN: 02149117 (pbk.)

Cesare Casarino, Modernity at Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad in Crisis. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P/“Theory Out of Bounds,” no. 21, 2002; xii+271 pp.; ISBN: 0816639264 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS2387.C37

“Texto cultural y construcción de la identidad. Contribuciones a la interpretación de la ‘imaginación histórica.’” Special Issue of the CEPIHA. Avances de investigación, coord. Zulma Palermo, no. 2 (2002); 33 pp.; ISSN: 03278123 (pbk.)

Michel Chaouli, The Laboratory of Poetry: Chemistry and Aesthetics in the Work of Friedrich Schlegel. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP/“Parallax: Revisions of Culture and Society,” 2002; xiv+290 pp.; ISBN: 080186884X (hbk.); LC call no.: PT2503.S7 C43

Henryk Chudak, ed., Perspectives historiques et métacritiques sur la critique littéraire du XXe siècle. Actes du Colloque International organisé par L’Institut de Philologie Romane de L’Université de Varsovie sous la direction de Henryk Chudak. Varsovie : Uniwersitet Warszawski, 2002 ; 269 pp. ; ISBN : 8388012452 (pbk.)

Tom Cohen, Barbara Cohen, J. Hillis Miller, and Andrzej Warminski, eds., Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2000; xxv+368 pp.; ISBN 0816636141 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN75.D45 M38

John J. Coley, The Suspicion of Virtue. Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2002; xi+222 pp.; ISBN: 0801440203 (hbk.); LC call no.: B1815.C66

“Rhythmus.” Special Issue of the Colloquium Helveticum, no. 32 (2001); 342 pp.; ISSN: 01793780 (pbk.)

Peter Tracey Connor, Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; 198 pp.; ISBN: 080186268X (hbk.); LC call no.: B2430.B33954 C66

Joan Copjec, Imagine There’s No Woman. Ethics and Sublimation. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002; viii+261 pp.; ISBN: 0262032996 (hbk.); LC call no.: BJ1012.C68

Critical Inquiry, no. 2, vol. 29 (Winter 2003); 195 pp.; ISSN: 00961896

Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs. Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. 2nd ed. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2002; xxiii+242 pp.; ISBN: 0801487935 (pbk.)

Sara Danius, The Senses of Modernism. Technology, Perception, and Aesthetics. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2002; xi+247 pp.; ISBN: 08014­88001 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.M54 D36

Dialogism. An International Journal of Bakhtin Studies, no. 5 & 6 (Oct. 2000 / April 2001); 232 pp.; ISSN: 13650367 (pbk.)

Radu Dobrescu, V. Médias, démocratie, vitesse. Bucarest : Babel, 2002 ; 216 pp. ; ISBN : 9734810596 (pbk.)

Allen Douglas, War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor. The Canard Enchaîné and World War I. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; xiv+331 pp.; ISBN: 0520228766 (hbk.); LC call no.: D526.3.D68

Eric Downing, Double Exposures. Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century Germany Fiction. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000; ix+338 pp.; ISBN: 0804736782 (hbk.); LC call no.: PT763.D69

Timothy Erwin and Ourida Mostefai, eds., Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. The Geography of Enlightment, vol. 30. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2001; xi+301 pp.; ISBN: 080186674X (hbk.)

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P/“Medieval Cultures,” vol. 31, 2002; 327 pp.; ISBN: 0816636451 (pbk.); LC call no.: PR1933.P679 F73

Jennifer Margaret Fraser, Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2002; xx+255 pp.; ISBN: 08130­25419 (hbk.); LC call no.: PWQ4381.2.F73

Laura Catherine Frost, Sex Drives. Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2002; viii+197 pp.; ISBN: 08­01487641 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.F35 F76

Michael Gluzman, The Politics of Canonicity. Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Contraversions. Jews and Other Differences,” 2003; xiv+250 pp.; ISBN: 0804729840 (hbk.); LC call no.: PJ020.G53; $49.50

Joyce Goggin and Michael Burke, eds., Meaning, Frame and Metaphor. Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2002; 416 pp.; ISBN: 9076123071 (pbk.)

Joyce Goggin and Sonja Neef, eds., Travelling Concepts. Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity. Amsterdam: ASCA Press, 2001; 259 pp.; ISBN: 9076123063 (pbk.)

Hendrik van Gorp et al., Dictionnaire des termes littéraires. Paris : Honoré Champion, 2001 ; 533 pp. ; ISBN : 2745304364 ; ISSN : 1275 0387 (hbk.)

Kirsten J. Grimstad, The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus. New York: Camden House/“Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture,” 2002; xii+294 pp.; ISBN: 1571131930 (hbk.); LC call no.: PT2625.A44 D634

Eva Gundermann, Desafiando lo abyecto. Una lectura feminista de Mejor desaparece de Carmen Boullosa. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang/“European University Studies. Ibero-Romance Languages and Literatura,” Series XXIV, vol. 72, 2002; 208 pp.; ISBN: 3631369891; ISSN: 13565 (pbk.)

Yunte Huang, Transpacific Displacement. Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; xv+209 pp.; ISBN: 0520232232 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS153.C45 H83

Kevin Hutchings, Imagining Nature. Blake’s Environmental Poetics. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2002; xiv+256 pp.; ISBN: 07­523421 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR4148.N3 H88

“World Drama on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Tradition and Avant-garde.” Special Issue of the Interlitteraria, vols. I & II, no. 7 (2002); 455 pp.; ISBN: 9985566087; ISSN: 14060701 (pbk.)

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows. The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; xv+327 pp.; ISBN: 0520233425 (pbk.)

Deborah Jenson, Trauma and Its Representations. The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2001; x+294 pp.; ISBN: 0801867231 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ283.J46

Colin Jones and Dror Wahrman, eds., The Age of Cultural Revolutions. Britain and France, 1750-1820. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002; xiii+293 pp.; ISBN: 0520229665 (pbk.); LC call no.: D295.A44

Derek Jones, ed., Censorship. A World Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001; 2950 pp.; ISBN: 1579581358

Eleanor Kaufman, The Delirium of Praise: Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Foucault, Klossowsk. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP/­arallax: Revisions of Culture and Society,” 2001; xii+224 pp.; ISBN: 0801865131 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ731 K38

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

Helmut Lethen, Cool Conduct. The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany. Trans. Don Reneau. Berkeley: U of California P/“Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism,” 2001; xiv+249 pp.; ISBN: 0520201094 (hbk.); LC call no.: BJ1583.L5713

Literary Imagination. The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, vol. 4, no. 2 (Spring 2002); 128 pp.; ISSN: 15239012 (pbk.)

Rosemary Lloyd, Baudelaire’s World. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2002; xiii+248 pp.; ISBN: 0801440262 (hbk.); LC call no.: PW2191.Z5 L59

Cynthia Marshall, The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2002; xii+216 pp.; ISBN: 0801867789 (hbk.); LC call no.: PR428.S82 M37

Lori Jo Marso, Unmanly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s and Germaine de Staël’s Subversive Women. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2002; xiv+172 pp.; ISBN: 0801869226 (pbk.); LC call no.: PQ2053.M28

Lauro Martines, Strong Words: Writing & Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2001; xv+357 pp.; ISBN: 0801865743 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ4075.M345

Cristina Mazzoni, Maternal Impressions. Pregnancy and Childbirth in Literature and Theory. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2002; xii+228 pp.; ISBN: 0801440351 (hbk.); LC call no.: RG551.M396

Guido Mazzoni, Forma e solitudine. Un’idea della poesia contemporanea. Milano: Marcos y Marcos, 2002; 222 pp.; ISBN: 887168 3420 (pbk.); €13.90

Jeffrey Mehlman, Emigré New York. French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; 209 pp.; ISBN: 0801862868 (hbk.); LC call no.: DC33.7.M44

Saine Melchior-Bonnet, The Mirror. A History. Trans. Katharine H. Jewett, with a preface by Jean Delumeau. NY: Routledge, 2000; xi+308 pp.; ISBN: 0415924472 (hbk.); LC call no.: QC385.M513; $27.50; £16.99

Paola Mildonian, Maria Alzira Seixo & Lourdes Câncio Martins, eds., La porta d’Oriente: Viaggi e poesia. A porta do Oriente: Viagens e poesia. Lisboa: Edições Cosmos, 2002; 437 pp.; ISBN: 9727622437 (pbk.)

Dean A. Miller, The Epic Hero. Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2002; xiv+501 pp.; ISBN: 0801870941 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.E65 M55

Constantin Virgil Negoiţă, Post Modern Logic. Tempe: New Falcon Publications, 2002; 253 pp.; ISBN: 1561841676

Bengt Novén, René Char : interprétations, interrogations. Åbo : Åbo Akademi UP, 2002 ; 247 pp. ; ISBN : 951765099x (pbk.)

Kirby Olson, Gregory Corso. Doubting Thomist. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 2002; ix+183 pp.; ISBN: 0809324474 (hbk.); LC call no.: PS3505.O763 Z73

Jan Patočka, Plato and Europe. Trans. Petr Lom. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Cultural Memory in the Present,” 2002; xxi+223 pp.; ISBN: 080473 8017 (pbk.); LC call no.: B395.P3213

Edward M. Pavlić, Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African-American Literary Culture. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2002; xxi+314 pp.; ISBN: 0816638918 (pbk.); LC call no.: PS153.N5 P38

José Manuel Pedrosa, Bestiario. Antropología y simbolismo animal. Grupo Medusa Ediciones, 2002; 372 pp.; ISBN: 8493137499 (pbk.)

Joanna Peiron, Gombrowicz, écrivain et stratège. Un auteur « excentrique » face à la France. Paris : L’Harmattan, 2002 ; vii+344 pp. ; ISBN : 2747525066 (pbk.)

Eyal Peretz, Literature, Disaster, and the Enigma of Power. A Reading of ‘Moby-Dick.’ Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003; 176 pp.; ISBN: 0804746141 (hbk.); LC call no.: PS2384.M62 P47; $40.00

Kirk Pillow, Sublime Understanding. Aesthetic Reflection in Kant and Hegel. Cambridge: The MIT Press/“Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought,” 2000; viii+377 pp.; ISBN: 0262161923 (pbk.); LC call no.: B2799.A4 P55

Ponti / Ponts (langues literatures civilizations des Pays francophones), no . 1 (2001) ; ISBN : 8832346079 (pbk.) ; 285 pp. 

Tilottama Rajan and Michael J. O’Driscoll, eds., After Poststructuralism. Writing the Intellectual History of Theory. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002; vii+344 pp.; ISBN: 080247912 (hbk.); LC call no.: D13.A44

Jacques Rancière, Short Voyages to the Land of the People. Trans. James B. Swenson. Stanford: Stanford UP/“Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics,” 2003; 141 pp.; ISBN: 0804736820 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.V59 R3613

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Yesterday’s Self. Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002; viii+184 pp.; ISBN: 0742513602 (pbk.); LC call no.: BF575.N6 .R58

Tiziana de Rogatis, Montale e il classicismo moderno. Pisa, Roma: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali/“Collana di teoria letteraria, di critica & analisi testuale,” no. 1, 2002; 194 pp.; ISBN: 8881473143 (pbk.)

“Jorge Luis Borges. The Praise of Signs.” Special Issue of the Semiotica, vol. 140, no. 1/4 (2002); vi+223 pp.; ISSN: 00371998 (pbk.)

Shu-Mei Shih, The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937. Berkeley: U of California P/“Berkeley Series in Interdisciplinary Studies of China,” 2001; xiii+427 pp.; ISBN: 0520220641 (pbk.); LC call no.: PL2303.S57

Signa. Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, no. 11 (2002); 364 pp.; ISSN: 11333634 (pbk.)

Hugo J. Silverman, ed., Lyotard. Philosophy, Politics, and the Sublime. NY: Routledge/“Continental Philosophy,” vol. viii, 2002; xv+287 pp.; ISBN: 0415919584 (hbk.)

Juan Luis Suárez, El escenario de la imaginación: Calderón en su teatro. Pamplona: EUNSA/“Anejos de RILCE,” no. 42, 2002; 244 pp.; ISBN: 8431319836 (pbk.)

Helen Sword, Ghostwriting Modernism. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2002; xiii+212 pp.; ISBN: 0801487757 (pbk.); LC call no.: PR478.S64 S96

Lucian Turcescu, ed., Dumitru Stăniloae: Tradition and Modernity in Theology. Iaşi: The Center for Romanian Studies, 2002; 260 pp.; ISBN: 9739432298 (hbk.); LC call no.: BX320.3 D86

Orrin N. C. Wang, Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; x+232 pp.; ISBN: 0801865255 (pbk.); LC call no.: PN56.R7 W36

Mary Ann Frese Witt, The Search for Modern Tragedy: Aesthetic Fascism in Italy and France. Ithaca & London: Cornell UP, 2001; xii+259 pp.; ISBN: 0801438373 (hbk.); LC call no.: PQ4145.W58

Victoria Wohl, Love among the Ruins. The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002; xii+329; ISBN: 0691095221 (hbk.); LC call no.: JC75.D36 W64

“Fragments of Revolution.” Special Issue of the Yale French Studies, no. 101 (2001); 230 pp.; ISBN: 0300092385; ISSN: 0440078 (pbk.)