A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. For a list of all new books, see the New Title Feature Lists.
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Against all authority : anarchism and the literary imagination / Jeff Shantz. Exeter, UK ; New York : Imprint Academic, c2011.
Analyzing world fiction : new horizons in narrative theory / edited by Frederick Luis Aldama. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
The Arthur of the North : the Arthurian legend in the Norse and Rus' realms / edited by Marianne E. Kalinke. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
The Cambridge companion to European modernism / edited by Pericles Lewis. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. Also available as an e-book.
Catholic literature and secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914 / Brian Sudlow. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : New York : distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Chaucer and Italian textuality / K.P. Clarke. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
A companion to Alexander literature in the Middle Ages / edited by Z. David Zuwiyya. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Conditions of comparison : reflections on comparative intercultural inquiry / Ming Xie. New York : Continuum, c2011.
The deaths of the author : reading and writing in time / Jane Gallop. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Ecocritical theory : new European approaches / edited by Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Efficacité/efficacy : how to do things with words and images? / edited by Véronique Plesch, Catriona MacLeod and Jan Baetens. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Everything you always wanted to know about Lacan : (but were afraid to ask Hitchcock) / edited by Slavoj Žižek. London ; New York : Verso, c2010.
Les fables avant la Fontaine : actes du colloque international, organisé les 7, 8 et 9 juin 2007 dans les Universités Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III / par Jeanne-Marie Boivin, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet et Laurence Harf-Lancner. Genève : Librairie Droz, 2011.
Foundational texts of world literature / edited by Dominique Jullien. New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
From ritual to romance and beyond : comparative literature and comparative religious studies : proceedings of the ICLA conference at Jacobs University, Bremen, August 6-8, 2008 / edited by Manfred Schmeling, Hans-Joachim Backe. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2011.
Hybrid humour : comedy in transcultural perspectives / ed. by Graeme Dunphy and Rainer Emig. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2010.
The legacies of modernism : historicising postwar and contemporary fiction / edited by David James. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Literary studies in reconstruction : an introduction to literature / Marko Juvan. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.
Modernism / Michael Levenson. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2011.
Nabokov, Rushdie, and the transnational imagination : novels of exile and alternate worlds / Rachel Trousdale. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
The Oxford history of literary translation in English / general editors, Peter France, Stuart Gillespie. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005-
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay / Rashmi Varma. New York : Routledge, 2012.
The privilege of crisis : narratives of masculinities in colonial and postcolonial literature, photography, and film / Elahe Haschemi Yekani. Frankurt am Main ; New York : Campus Verlag GmbH, 2011.
Projections of paradise : ideal elsewheres in postcolonial migrant literature / edited by Helga Ramsey-Kurz ; with Geetha Ganapathy-Doré. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, c2011.
Public works : infrastructure, Irish modernism, and the postcolonial / Michael Rubenstein. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
Renaissance literature and postcolonial studies / Shankar Raman. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Die Robinsonin : Repräsentationen von Weiblichkeit in deutsch- und englischsprachigen Robinsonaden des 20. Jahrhunderts / Celia Torke. Göttingen : V&R Unipress, [2011], ©2011.
The Russian word's worth : a humorous and informative guide to Russian language, culture and translation / Michele A. Berdy. Moscow : Glas ; [Chicago, Ill.] : Distribution in North America, Northwestern University Press, c2010.
A theory of literary explication : specifying a relativistic foundation in epistemic probability, cognitive science, and second-order logic / by Kenneth B. Newell. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.
Tradition, translation, trauma : the classic and the modern / edited by Jan Parker, Timothy Mathews. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Unnatural narratives--unnatural narratology / edited by Jan Alber, Rüdiger Heinze. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2011.
Women's power in late medieval romance / Amy N. Vines. Cambridge [England] : D.S. Brewer, 2011.
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