A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, and Literary Theory. For a list of all new books, see the New Title Feature Lists.
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Autofiction : une aventure du langage / Philippe Gasparini. Paris : Seuil, c2008.
Badiou and Deleuze read literature / Jean-Jacques Lecercle. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
Children in culture, revisited : further approaches to childhood / edited by Karín Lesnik-Oberstein. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante / edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by Manfred Pfister. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
The conflagration of community : fiction before and after Auschwitz / J. Hillis Miller. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Contemporary narrative : textual production, multimodality and multiliteracies / Fiona J. Doloughan. London ; New York : Continuum International Publishing Group ; 2011.
Environmental criticism for the twenty-first century / edited and introduced by Stephanie LeMenager, Teresa Shewry, and Ken Hiltner. New York : Routledge, 2011.
Experiences of freedom in postcolonial literatures and cultures / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi. London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
Geocriticism : real and fictional spaces / Bertrand Westphal ; translated by Robert T. Tally Jr. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Individualism : the cultural logic of modernity / edited by Zubin Meer. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books/Roman & Littlefield, c2011.
Legitimizing the artist : manifesto writing and European modernism, 1885-1915 / Luca Somigli. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2003.
The literary theory toolkit : a compendium of concepts and methods / Herman Rapaport. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, ©2011.
Literature, the visual arts, and globalization in Africa and its diaspora / edited by Lokangaka Losambe and Maureen N. Eke. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.
Metalepsis in popular culture / edited by Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek. New York : De Gruyter, c2011.
New poems, 1940 : an anthology of British and American verse / edited by Oscar Williams. New York : Yardstick Press, c1941.
Our Caribbean : a gathering of lesbian and gay writing from the Antilles / edited and with an introduction by Thomas Glave. Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Reading women's worlds from Christine de Pizan to Doris Lessing : a guide to six centuries of women writers imagining rooms of their own / Sharon L. Jansen. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Reimagining the transatlantic, 1780-1890 / by Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Renaissance paratexts / edited by Helen Smith, Louise Wilson. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Strong women : life, text, and territory, 1347-1645 / David Wallace. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Telling true tales of Islamic lands : forms of mediation in English travel writing, 1575-1630 / Julia Schleck. Selinsgrove [Pa.] : Susquehanna University Press, c2011.
Theory after 'theory' / edited by Jane Elliott and Derek Attridge. New York : Routledge, 2011.
T.S. Eliot, Dante and the idea of Europe / edited by Paul Douglass. Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
Victor Halfwit / Thomas Bernhard ; translated by Martin Chalmers ; illustrated by Sunandini Banerjee. London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2011.