July 02, 2008

New Books, June 2008

Comparative cinema : how American university students view foreign films / edited by Beate Allert ; with a foreword by Guy Stern. Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2008.

Culture, creativity and environment : new environmentalist criticism / edited by Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Description in literature and other media / edited by Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

The erotics of consolation : desire and distance in the late Middle Ages / edited by Catherine E. Léglu and Stephen J. Milner. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Estrangement and the somatics of literature : Tolstoy, Shklovsky, Brecht / Douglas Robinson. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Ethics through literature : ascetic and aesthetic reading in Western culture / Brian Stock. Hanover : University Press of New England, c2007.

A Glossary of literary terms/ M.H. Abrams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham. 9th ed. Boston : Wadsworth, c2009.

The golden volcano = Le volcan d'or : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript / Jules Verne ; translated and edited by Edward Baxter ; preface to the French edition by Olivier Dumas. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Imagology : the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters : a critical survey / edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Integral drama : culture, consciousness and identity / William S. Haney II. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Latin American literature in English, 1975-1978 / Bradley A. Shaw. [New York] : Center for Inter-American Relations, c1979.


Laughing with Medusa : classical myth and feminist thought / edited by Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard. Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Madame de Staël : the dangerous exile / Angelica Goodden. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Male jealousy : literature and film / Louis Lo. London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

Mouth to mouth : contemporary German poetry in translation / edited by Thomas Wohlfahrt and Tobias Lehmkuhl. Artarmon, Australia : Giramondo Pub. Co., c2004.

Re-thinking Europe : literature and (trans)national identity / edited by Nele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant and Pieter Vermeulen. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Representing France and the French in early modern English drama / edited by Jean-Christophe Mayer ; with a preface by Ton Hoenselaars. Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2008.

Romantic prose fiction / edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008. 

Les Romantiques allemands et la Révolution française = Die deutsche Romantik und die französische Revolution : colloque international / organisé par le Centre de recherches "Images de l'étranger" ; actes du colloque edités par Gonthier-Louis Fink. Strasbourg : Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg, 1989.

Stories and portraits of the self / edited by Helena Carvalhão Buescu, João Ferreira Duarte. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Strict wildness : discoveries in poetry and history / Peter Viereck. New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, c2008.

Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud between theory and politics / Alex Betancourt. Saarbrücken : VDM Müller, 2008. 

Winter facets : traces and tropes of the cold / Andrea Dortmann. Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, c2007.

June 01, 2008

Resetting your library passwords via Web form

Reset your own password - 24/7!

If your password for the proxy server, ILLiad, and the library public computers is not working, it's now possible for you to reset your password via a webform, rather than contacting the Help Desk.  After resetting it to your temporary password, use the change your password form to set it to one of your choosing.  More info.

May 27, 2008

New Books, May 2008

Everyday life as alternative space in exile writing : the novels of Anna Gmeyner, Selma Kahn, Hilde Spiel, Martina Wied, and Hermynia Zur Mühlen / Andrea Hammel. Bern : Peter Lang, c2008.

Figuren des Unmittelbaren : zur Fortschreibung der Avantgarden im digitalen Raum / Christine Scheucher. Berlin : Weidler, c2007.

The German political broadsheet, 1600-1700 / John Roger Paas. Wiesbaden : O. Harrassowitz, 1985-. 9 vols.

Gypsies and Orientalism in German literature and anthropology of the long nineteenth century / Nicholas Saul. London : Legenda, 2007.

Das Kind in der Renaissance / herausgegeben von Klaus Bergdolt, Berndt Hamm und Andreas Tönnesmann. Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2008.

The literary subversions of medieval women / Jane Chance. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

The nation across the world : postcolonial literary representations / edited by Harish Trivedi ... [et al.]. New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

New European poets / general editors: Wayne Miller and Kevin Prufer. St. Paul, Minn. : Graywolf press, 2008.

Orientdiskurse in der deutschen Literatur / Klaus-Michael Bogdal (Hg.). Bielefeld : Aisthesis-Verlag, 2007.

Phantoms of war in contemporary German literature, films and discourse : the politics of memory / Anne Fuchs. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar / Nataly Tcherepashenets. New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

The poetry of war / James Anderson Winn. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Postmodernism. What moment? / edited by Pelagia Goulimari. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.

SchattenSchriften : deutschsprachige und französische Avantgarde-Literatur nach 1945 / Andreas Puff-Trojan. Wien : Sonderzahl, 2008.

A stranger among us : stories of cross cultural collision and connection / edited by Stacy Bierlein ; foreword by Aimee Liu. Chicago : OV Books, c2007.

Teaching beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill / Jennifer Green-Lewis and Margaret Soltan. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Time and history : the variety of cultures / edited by Jörn Rüsen. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

The translation zone : a new comparative literature / Emily Apter. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.

Untimely beggar : poverty and power from Baudelaire to Benjamin / Patrick Greaney. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Visual Culture : Beiträge zur XIII. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Potsdam, 18.-21. Mai 2005 / herausgegeben von Monika Schmitz-Emans und Gertrud Lehnert. Heidelberg : Synchron, 2008.

Voices in translation : bridging cultural divides / edited by Gunilla Anderman. Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, c2007.

Walter Benjamin's Archive : images, texts, signs / translated by Esther Leslie ; edited by Ursula Marx ... [et al.]. Original German title: Walter Benjamins Archive. London ; New York : Verso, 2007.

May 22, 2008

Brian, Subj Librarian, away, 5/29-6/18 & 6/26-7/1

Due to vacation and a library conference later in June, I will be away from 5/29-6/18 & 6/26-7/1.

I will hold office hours on 6/19, 9:30-10:30 in Ridgley 123.  And I'll be happy to meet with faculty and students at other times from 6/19-6/25. My regular Thursday office hours will resume the first week in July.

For immediate reference assistance during my absence, please contact Olin Reference--email: ref@wumail.wustl.edu; IM: WULibraryAskUs; or phone: 935-5410. I will respond to email upon my return.
Thanks, Brian

May 15, 2008

A Defense of European Languages -- article in Inside HigherEd

A Defense of European Languages by Stephen Brockmann

Insider HigherEd, May 15, 2008

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/15/brockmann

May 12, 2008

Off-campus Proxy Options

If you questions about off-campus proxy options, please see the following:

http://library.wustl.edu/whatsnew/newproxyoptions.html

May 06, 2008

Brian's Office Hrs--Thursdays, 9:30-10:30, Rigdley 123

Effective immediately, my drop-in office hours for the summer will beTHURSDAYS, 9:30-10:30am in Ridgley 123. If you can't make this time, I'll be happy to meet with you at other times. I'm also available for help via email, phone, or IM.

Please contact me if you have questions about library resources or services; or general research questions. I especially encourage research assistants to stop by.

Brian

May 03, 2008

Olin Library Summer Hrs--5/8/08-8/26/08

Olin Library's Hours--May 8 through Aug. 26, 2008

  • MONDAY - THURSDAY 7:30am-10:00pm
  • FRIDAY                      7:30am-6:00pm
  • SATURDAY                 9:00am-5:00pm
  • SUNDAY                     CLOSED

Note: exceptions to the above hours:

  • Memorial Day, Monday, May 26            CLOSED
  • Independece Day, Friday, July 4           CLOSED
  • Sunday, Aug. 24                                  OPEN--12noon-5pm

More information, including hours of library departments and  other WU libraries

May 02, 2008

New Books, April 2008 (partial listing)

Alien-nation and repatriation : translating identity in Anglophone Caribbean literature / Patricia Joan Saunders. Lanham : Lexington Books, c2007.

Bi jiao wen xue xing xiang xue li lun yu shi jian : yi Zhongguo wen xue zhong de Riben xing xiang wei li / Zhang Zhibiao zhu. Beijing Shi : Min zu chu ban she, 2007.

Essays on German, American and English literature / Eugene G. Miller. Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.

European sexualities, 1400-1800 / Katherine Crawford. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Experimenting : essays with Samuel Weber / edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Gary Hall. New York : Fordham University Press, 2007.

I am black/white/yellow : an introduction to the black body in Europe / edited by Joan Anim-Addo and Suzanne Scafe. London, UK : Mango Publishing, 2007.

In praise of athletic beauty / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. Original French title: Lob des sports. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

Irritable bodies and postmodern subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi / Giorgio Mobili. New York : Peter Lang, c2008.

Literature for children : a short introduction / David L. Russell. Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, c2009.

Living with theory / Vincent B. Leitch. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Making the personal political : Dutch women writers 1919-1970 / Jane Fenoulhet. London : Legenda/Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 2007.

La mirada del ángel : en torno a las "Tesis sobre la historia" de Walter Benjamin / Bolívar Echeverría, compilador. México, D.F. : Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Ediciones Era, 2005.

Modern literary criticism and theory : a history / M.A.R. Habib. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Nativism and modernity : cultural contestations in China and Taiwan under global capitalism / Ming-yan Lai. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Poems of Paul Celan / translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. London : Anvil Press Poetry, 2007.

The poetry of war / James Anderson Winn. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Pornoboscodidascalus Latinus (1624) : Kaspar Barth's neo-Latin translation of Celestina / [Fernando de Rojas] ; a critical edition with introduction, translation and notes by Enrique Fernández.Chapel Hill : North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Proust and America / Michael Murphy. Liverpool (Eng.) : Liverpool University Press c2007.

Screening modernism : European art cinema, 1950-1980 / András Bálint Kovács. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Structuralism and poststructuralism for beginners / Donald D. Palmer. Reprint ed. [Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press] : Danbury, CT : For Beginners, [2007], c1997.

Theorizing narrativity / edited by John Pier and José Ángel García Landa. Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2008.

The traffic in poems : nineteenth-century poetry and transatlantic exchange / edited by Meredith L. McGill. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.

Tragedy in transition / edited by Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Visual Culture : Beiträge zur XIII. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Potsdam, 18.-21. Mai 2005 / herausgegeben von Monika Schmitz-Emans und Gertrud Lehnert. Heidelberg : Synchron, 2008.

Voices in translation : bridging cultural divides / edited by Gunilla Anderman. Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Multilingual Matters, c2007.

Walter Benjamins "Deutsche Menschen" / herausgegeben von Barbara Hahn und Erdmut Wizisla. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2008.

April 22, 2008

New Features in the WU Libraries' Catalog

You may have noticed some recent changes to the Catalog. Through Library Thing, some records for books include: "Recommended reads", a listing of other editions and translations, and descriptive tags from LibraryThing users.

In the future, you'll be able to rate books and add your own tags to catalog records. More info