Library News for Comparative Literature

Need an Article? Reach Out to ILLiad!

In April, Interlibrary Loan will retire the ArticleReach interface, but speedy delivery remains!  The WU Libraries have joined a new article delivery consortium with even more research libraries which means that you will have even more articles available within hours.

What is great is that you can use ILLiad to submit these article requests!  If you need an article not owned by WU Libraries, simply submit your request via ILLiad (http://illiad.wustl.edu/illiad/logon.html).  We’ll get it fast (often within 24-48 hours) and email you when the article can be downloaded.  Same quick delivery of PDFs, email notifications, all your ILL activities in one place – ILLiad. 

Contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 5-4824 ; IM/chat) or ILL staff (ill@wumail.wustl.edu) for more information.

New Books & Periodicals (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), January 2012

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.

If you're having trouble find a book, please ask at the Olin Help Desk or contact Brian.

The artificial human : a tragical history / Horst Albert Glaser, Sabine Rossbach. Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2011.

  Blue collar, theoretically : a post-Marxist approach to working class literature / John F. Lavelle. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

 

A brief history of diaries : from Pepys to blogs / by Alexandra Johnson. London : Hesperus, 2011.

A companion to comparative literature / edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

La décadence : le mot et la chose / Jean de Palacio. Paris : Les Belles Lettres, c2011.

Fact, fiction, and form : selected essays / Ralph W. Rader ; edited by James Phelan and David H. Richter. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2011.

Des femmes écrivent la guerre / sous la direction de Frédérique Chevillot et Anna Norris. Paris : Complicités, 2007.

Ficciones verdaderas / [edited by] Tomás Eloy Martínez. Buenos Aires [Argentina] : Alfaguara, 2011.

French books III & IV : books published in France before 1601 in Latin and languages other than French / edited by Andrew Pettegree, Malcolm Walsby. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Great lengths : seven works of marathon theater / Jonathan Kalb. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2011.

La lecture insistante : autour de Jean Bollack / Colloque de Cerisy ; sous la direction de Christoph König et Heinz Wismann ; ouvrage publié avec le concours du Centre national du Livre et de la Fondation Thyssen. Paris : Albin Michel, 2011.

Littérature et ethnographie / sous la direction de Alain-Michel Boyer. Paris : Editions nouvelles Cécile Defaut, c2011.

  Magic realism in Holocaust literature : troping the traumatic real / Jenni Adams. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Memorias del silencio : literaturas en el Caribe y Centroamérica / compilación, edición y prólogo Graciela Salto. Buenos Aires : Corregidor, 2010.

Las reglas del arte : génesis y estructura del campo literario / Pierre Bourdieu ; traducción de Thomas Kauf. Barcelona : Editorial Anagrama, 2011.

Restless travellers : quests for identity across European and American time and space / edited by Antonio José Miralles Pérez. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Slouching towards Jerusalem : reactive nationalism in the Irish, Israeli and Palestinian novel, 1985-2005 / John Maher. Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2012.

La sociologie de la littérature : histoire, problématique, synthèse critique / Robert Sayre. Paris : Harmattan, c2011.

Stupefaction : a radical anatomy of phantoms / Keston Sutherland. London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2011.

Surréalisme. [Paris] Savelli, 1977-

Sympathy, sensibility and the literature of feeling in the eighteenth century / Ildiko Csengei. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Tales of seduction : the figure of Don Juan in Spanish culture / Sarah Wright. London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, c2007.

Teaching ecocriticism and green cultural studies / [edited by] Greg Garrard. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Torture and brutality in medieval literature : negotiations of national identity / Larissa Tracy. Cambridge [U.K.] : D.S. Brewer, 2012.

The unrepentant Renaissance : from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton / Richard Strier. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Victorian literature and film adaptation / edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom and Mary Sanders Pollock. Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2011.

Lecture "Rare Books in the Digital Age," Feb. 16, 2012, 7pm in Steinberg Hall Auditorium

The WU Libraries invited you to:

Rare Books in the Digital Age Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Director of Rare Book School Thursday, February 16, 2012 Steinberg Hall Auditorium, 7:00pm This event is free & open to the public. A reception follows.

Michael Suarez is uniquely qualified to speak on the topic of Rare Books in the Digital World. He directs Rare Book School—an independent, non-profit institute for the study of books, printing, and related subjects—located at the University of Virginia (UVA), where he is University Professor, Honorary Curator of Special Collections, and Professor of English. He is editor-in-chief of Oxford Scholarly Editions Online, perhaps the largest digital humanities project extant today.

His most recent publication is The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010), a million-word reference work on the history of books and manuscripts, from the invention of writing to the present day. The London Telegraph called it “colossal” and “a paradise for book lovers;” and The Wall Street Journal praised it as “a fount of knowledge where the Internet is but a slot machine.” A Jesuit priest, he is co-general editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins.

RSVP if you plan to attend. Email or call Joy Lowery, Director of Communications, Washington University Libraries, at jlowery@wustl.edu or 314-935-5418. Leave your name and the number of people in your party.