Library News for Comparative Literature

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), March 2013

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

Approaches to teaching Milton's Paradise lost / edited by Peter C. Herman. New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2012.

Baudelaire in China : a study in literary reception / Gloria Bien. Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2013.

Conversing identities : encounters between British, Irish and Greek poetry, 1922-1952 / Konstanhtina Georganta. Amsterdan ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.

Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels / Hsu-Ming Teo. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.

Dominant narratives of colonial Hokkaido and imperial Japan : envisioning the periphery and the modern nation-state / Michele M. Mason. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

Ex-changes : comparative studies in British and American cultures / edited by Katarzyna Wįeckowska and Edyta Lorek-Jezińska. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 

The international Strindberg : new critical essays / edited by Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

Homoeroticism in Imperial China : a sourcebook / edited and translated by Mark Stevenson and Wu Cuncun. New York : Routledge, 2013.

How to live together : novelistic simulations of some everyday spaces / Roland Barthes. Original title: Comment vivre ensemble: simulations romanesques de quelques espaces quotidiens. New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

 

Inhabited by stories : critical essays on tales retold / edited by Nancy A. Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco.  Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Modernism and the new Spain : Britain, cosmopolitan Europe, and literary history / Gayle Rogers. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Plots of war : modern narratives of conflict / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

The Routledge concise history of twentieth-century British literature / Ashley Dawson. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Two-timing modernity : homosocial narrative in modern Japanese fiction / J. Keith Vincent. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : distributed by Harvard University Press, 2012.

Under Western and Eastern eyes : Ost und West in der Reiseliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts / Stefan Lampadius und Elmar Schenkel (Hrsg.). Leipzig : Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2012.

Urbanism and urbanity : the Spanish bourgeois novel and contemporary customs (1845-1925) / Leigh Mercer. Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2013.

The utopia of film : cinema and its futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik / Christopher Pavsek. New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Weltliteratur : Modelle transnationaler Literaturwahrnehmung im 19. Jahrhundert / Peter Gossens. Stuttgart : Metzler, 2011.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), February 2013

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

  Authorship and first-person allegory in late medieval France and England / Ste

 

Atmosphere, mood, Stimmung : on a hidden potential of literature / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht ; translated by H. Erik Butler. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Comparative early modernities, 1100-1800 / edited by David Porter. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Collision of realities : establishing research on the fantastic in Europe / edited by Lars Schmeink, Astrid Böger. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Crusoes and other castaways in modern French literature : solitary adventures / Joseph Acquisto. Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

Écrits français / Walter Benjamin ; présentés et introduits par Jean-Maurice Monnoyer ; avec les témoignages d'Adrienne Monnier, de Gisèle Freund et de Jean Selz. Paris : Gallimard, 1991.

Encountering China : early modern European responses / edited by Rachana Sachdev and Qingjun Li. Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2012.

Fairy tale queens : representations of early modern queenship / Jo Eldridge Carney. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Family / editor, John V. Knapp. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, c2013.

The foreign in international crime fiction : transcultural representations / edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti. London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.

Good and evil / editor, Margaret Sönser Breen. Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013.

Jerusalem as narrative space : Erzählraum Jerusalem / edited by Annette Hoffmann and Gerhard Wolf. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Lectores insurgentes : la formación de la crítica literaria hispanoamericana (1810-1870) / Víctor Barrera Enderle. México, D.F. : Jus ; UANL, 2010.

Malicious objects, anger management, and the question of modern literature / Jörg Kreienbrock. New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Mémoire et subjectivité (XIVe-XVIIe siècle) : l'entrelacement de memoria, fama et historia : actes de la journée d'étude organisée par l'École nationale des chartes (Paris, 4 avril 2002) / réunis par Dominique de Courcelles. Paris : École des chartes, 2006.

Modern and contemporary Swiss poetry : an anthology / edited and with an introduction by Luzius Keller ; translated by Simon Knight... [et al.]. [Champaign. Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, c2012.

Modernism and magic : experiments with spiritualism, theosophy and the occult / Leigh Wilson. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2013.

Modernist impersonalities : affect, authority, and the subject / Rochelle Rives. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle : le livre des passages / Walter Benjamin ; traduit de l'allemand par Jean Lacoste d'après l'édition originale établie par Rolf Tiedemann. Paris : Editions du Cerf, 2009.

The promise and premise of creativity : why comparative literature matters / Eugene Eoyang. New York : Continuum, c2012.

Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton / edited by Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The shipwrecked sailor in Arabic and Western literature : Ibn Ṭufayl and his influence on European writers / Mahmud Baroud. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Short story theories : a twenty-first-century perspective / edited by Viorica Patea. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Spatiality / Robert T. Tally Jr. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

To show and to tell : the craft of literary nonfiction / Phillip Lopate. New York : Free Press, 2013.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), January 2013

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

  Authorship and first-person allegory in late medieval France and England / Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath. Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2012.

Collecting as modernist practice / Jeremy Braddock. Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

A companion to literature, film, and adaptation / edited by Deborah Cartmell. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell , 2012.

Complete poems : a bilingual edition / Pernette du Guillet ; edited, with introduction and notes, by Karen Simroth James ; poems translated by Marta Rijn Finch. Toronto : Iter Inc., 2010.

Cross-cultural history and the domestication of otherness / edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

The Facts on File dictionary of classical and biblical allusions / [edited by] Martin H. Manser ; David H. Pickering, associate editor. New York : Facts on File, c2003.

A familiar compound ghost : allusion and the uncanny / Sarah Annes Brown. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.

Fictional leaders : heroes, villains and absent friends / [edited by] Jonathan Gosling, Peter Villiers. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Generation and degeneration : tropes of reproduction in literature and history from antiquity through early modern Europe / edited by Valeria Finucci & Kevin Brownlee. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.

Imagine what it's like : a literature and medicine anthology / edited by Ruth Nadelhaft ; with Victoria Bonebakker. Honolulu : Published for the Biographical Research Center by the University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.

Una introducción a la teoría literaria / Terry Eagleton ; [traducción de José Esteban Calderón]. México : Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1998. Translation of Literary Theory.

Japanese travellers in sixteenth-century Europe : a dialogue concerning the mission of the Japanese ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590) / edited and annotated with an introduction by Derek Massarella ; translated by J.F. Moran. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.

Languages of love and hate : conflict, communication, and identity in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson. Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2012]

The lost origins of the essay / edited and introduced by John D'Agata. Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2009.

Modernist eroticisms : European literature after sexology / edited by Anna Katharina Schaffner and Shane Weller. London ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Oeuvres / Walter Benjamin ; traduit de l'allemand par Maurice de Gandillac, Rainer Rochlitz et Pierre Rusch ; presentation par Rainer Rochlitz. [Paris] : Gallimard, c2000. 3 vols.

Postcolonial fictions in the Roman de Perceforest : cultural identities and hybridities / Sylvia Huot. Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2007.

Strong voices, weak history : early women writers & canons in England, France & Italy / Pamela Joseph Benson and Victoria Kirkham, editors. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, 2005.

The unimagined in the English renaissance : poetry and the limits of mimesis / Andrew Mattison. Madison, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2013.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), December 2012

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

Available surfaces : essays on poesis / T.R. Hummer. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2012.

Constellation of genius : 1922 : modernism year one / Kevin Jackson. London : Hutchinson, 2012.

The crime fiction handbook / Peter Messent. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

Elle s'étend, l'épopée : relecture et ouverture du corpus épique = The epic expands : rereading and widening the epic corpus / [editor,] Vincent Dussol. Brussels ; New York : P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2012.

Globalization, utopia, and postcolonial science fiction : new maps of hope / Eric D. Smith. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Lingua barbara or The mystery of the other : otherness and exteriority in modern European poetry / Johanna Marie Buisson. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

Literatur inter- und transmedial : = Inter- and transmedial literature / herausgegeben von David Bathrick und Heinz-Peter Preusser ; Redaktion Andreas Ammann und Martin Brinkmann. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2012.  Also available as an e-book.

Modern German thought from Kant to Habermas : an annotated German-language reader / edited by Henk de Berg and Duncan Large. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.

Reading colonial Japan : text, context, and critique / edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J.S. Lee.  Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012, ©2012.

Representing perpetrators in Holocaust literature and film / edited by Jenni Adams and Sue Vice. Edgware, Middlesex ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2013.

Solar flares : science fiction in the 1970s / Andrew M. Butler. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

The soul of poetry redefined : vacillations of mimesis from Aristotle to Romanticism / Mats Malm. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, 2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), November 2012

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

Allegory : the theory of a symbolic mode / Angus Fletcher ; with a foreword by Harold Bloom and a new afterword by the author. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

The concept of literary application : readers' analogies from text to life / Anders Pettersson. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Creative constraints : translation and authorship / edited by Rita Wilson and Leah Gerber. Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Pub., c2012.

Critical perspectives on Indo-Caribbean women's literature / edited by Joy Mahabir and Mariam Pirbhai. New York : Routledge, 2013.

Cultural theory after the contemporary / Stephen Tumino. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Green speculations : science fiction and transformative environmentalism / Eric C. Otto. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

Lingua barbara or The mystery of the other : otherness and exteriority in modern European poetry / Johanna Marie Buisson. Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

Literary research and postcolonial literatures in English strategies and sources / H. Faye Christenberry ... [et al.]. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 2012.

The living moment : modernism in a broken world / Jeffrey Hart. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2012.

The making of romantic love : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / William M. Reddy. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Modernist futures : innovation and inheritance in the contemporary novel / David James. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Reading texts, reading lives : essays in the tradition of humanistic cultural criticism in honor of Daniel R. Schwarz / edited by Helen Maxson and Daniel Morris. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.

Reading the world : encyclopedic writing in the scholastic age / Mary Franklin-Brown. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

The Routledge companion to experimental literature / edited by Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons and Brian McHale. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Travel narratives in translation, 1750-1830 : nationalism, ideology, gender / edited by Alison E. Martin and Susan Pickford. New York : Routledge, 2012.

What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O'Shannon. New York : Continuum, 2012.

Wolfgang Iser : a companion / by Ben De Bruyn ; edited by Michael Eskin, Karen Leeder, Christopher Young. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Worlds apart? : a postcolonial reading of post-1945 East-Central European culture / by Cristina Șandru. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), October 2012

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

Against democracy : literary experience in the era of emancipations / Simon During. New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Archives of authority : empire, culture, and the Cold War / Andrew N. Rubin. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2012.

The deliverance of others : reading literature in a global age / David Palumbo-Liu. Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.

Fictions en quête d'auteur / Charline Pluvinet. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012.

From Kafka to Sebald : modernism and narrative form / edited by Sabine Wilke. New York : Continuum, c2012.

Literary theory : an anthology / edited by Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.

Literary translation and the rediscovery of reading / Clive Scott. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The lost second book of Aristotle's Poetics / Walter Watson. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.

Narrative is the essence of history : essays on the historical novel / edited by John Cameron. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

The post-Romantic predicament / Paul de Man ; edited by Martin McQuillan. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Utopian moments : reading utopian texts / edited by Miguel A. Ramiro Avilés and J.C. Davis. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

Watching war / Jan Mieszkowski. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012]

What do we tell the children? : critical essays on children's literature / edited by Ciara Ní Bhroin and Patricia Kennon. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

The writer and the overseas childhood : the third culture literature of Kingsolver, McEwan and others / Antje M. Rauwerda. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, c2012.

A writer's guide to characterization : archetypes, heroic journeys, and other elements of dynamic character development / Victoria Lynn Schmidt. Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), Sept. 2012

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

  The Cambridge companion to European novelists / edited by Michael Bell. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Colonial voices : the discourses of empire / Pramod K. Nayar. Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

A common strangeness : contemporary poetry, cross-cultural encounter, comparative literature / Jacob Edmond. New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Contemporary adolescent literature and culture : the emergent adult / edited by Mary Hilton and Maria Nikolajeva. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.

Cross-cultural connections in crime fictions / edited by Vivien Miller and Helen Oakley. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Disputable core : concepts of narrative theory / Göran Rossholm & Christer Johansson editors. New York : Peter Lang, 2012.

Editors, scholars, and the social text / edited by Darcy Cullen. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.

In defence of wonder and other other philosophical reflections / Raymond Tallis. Durham, UK ; Bristol, CT : Acumen, 2012.

Jungle fever : exploring madness and medicine in twentieth-century tropical narratives / Charlotte Rogers. Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012.

Literature in society / edited by Regina Rudaitytė. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Locating gender in modernism : the outsider female / Geetha Ramanathan. New York : Routledge, 2012.

The Northrop Frye handbook : a biographical and bibliographic guide / Robert D. Denham. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.

On the move : the journey of refugees in new literatures in English / edited by Geetha Ganapathy-Doré and Helga Ramsey-Kurz. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

The Oxford handbook of global modernisms / edited by Mark Wollaeger ; with Matt Eatough. New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Poetic language : theory and practice from the Renaissance to the present / Tom Jones. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2012

Postcolonial literatures and Deleuze : colonial pasts, differential futures / edited by Lorna Burns and Birgit M. Kaiser. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ©2012.

Tales of love, sex, and danger / Sudhir Kakar, John Munder Ross. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Travelling in different skins : gender identity in European women's oriental travelogues, 1850-1950 / Dúnlaith Bird. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Visuality and materiality in the story of Tristan and Isolde / edited by Jutta Eming, Ann Marie Rasmussen, and Kathryn Starkey. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012.

World literature : a reader / edited by Theo D'Haen, César Domínguez, and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen. London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), Aug. 2012

A selected lists of new books relevant to Comparative Literature, European Literature, and Literary Theory. 

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

Ancient symbology in fantasy literature : a psychological study / William Indick. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.

The Cambridge companion to modern Indian culture / edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Rashmi Sadana. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Don Quixote in the archives : madness and lierature in early modern Spain / Dale Shuger. Edinburgh : Edinburgh Universtiy Press Ltd., [2012], ©2012.

Fictions contemporaines de l'errance : Peter Handke, Cormac McCarthy, Claude Simon / Lambert Barthélémy. Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2011.

The future of text and image : collected essays on literary and visual conjunctures / edited by Ofra Amihay and Lauren Walsh. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Literature and terrorism : comparative perspectives / edited by Michael C. Frank and Eva Gruber. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Javier Marías's debt to translation : Sterne, Browne, Nabokov / Gareth J. Wood. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Jews and theatre in an intercultural context / edited by Edna Nahshon. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

The man who disappeared (America) / Franz Kafka ; translated with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson. Original title: Amerika. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

The material letter in early modern England : manuscript letters and the culture and practices of letter-writing, 1512-1635 / by James Daybell. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Northrop Frye in context / Diane Dubois. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Paris-Bucharest, Bucharest-Paris. Francophone writers from Romania. Anne Quinney. Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V. 2012.

Phenomenal reading : essays on modern and contemporary poetics / Brian M. Reed.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.

Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic / Robert Stam, Ella Shohat. New York : New York University Press, c2012.

Responses to modernity : essays in the politics of culture / Joseph Frank. New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Romance : the history of a genre / edited by Dana Percec. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Russian formalist criticism : four essays / translated and with an introduction by Lee T. Lemon and Marion J. Reis ; new introduction by Gary Saul Morson. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2012, ©1965.

Translating expressive language in children's literature : problems and solutions / B. J. Epstein. Oxford [England] ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.

The translation of fictive dialogue / edited by Jenny Brumme and Anna Espunya.
Amsterdam ; New York ; Rodopi, 2012.

Wittgenstein on the human spirit / Yuval Lurie. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), July 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.

Autour de la retraduction : perspectives littéraires européennes / sous la direction de Enrico Monti et Peter Schnyder ; avec un texte inédit de Jean-René Ladmiral. [Paris] : Orizons, 2011.

The Cambridge companion to existentialism / edited by Steven Crowell, Rice University. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The Cambridge companion to popular fiction / edited by David Glover and Scott McCracken. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

The closed hand : images of the Japanese in modern Peruvian literature / Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2012.

Decadence : an annotated anthology / edited by Jane Desmarais and Chris Baldick. Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Énigmes et complots : une enquête à propos d'enquêtes / Luc Boltanski. [Paris] : Gallimard, c2012.

  Dictionnaire le romantisme / sous la direction d'Alain Vaillant. Paris : CNRS éditions, c2012.

The German bestseller in the late nineteenth century / edited by Charlotte Woodford and Benedict Schofield. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.

 

In contempt : nineteenth-century women, law, and literature / Kristin Kalsem. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

Literature and the Renaissance garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II : England's paradise / Amy L. Tigner. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.

Modern animalism : habitats of scarcity and wealth in comics and literature / Glenn Willmott. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2012.

Pluralist universalism : an Asian Americanist critique of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms / Wen Jin. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

Poétique du roman postcolonial / Yves Clavaron. Saint-Etienne : Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2011.

Rage is the subtext : readings in Holocaust literature and film / Susan Derwin. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012.

The rise and fall of meter : poetry and English national culture, 1860-1930 / Meredith Martin. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

  The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature / Christopher Lee. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012].

The twilight of reason : W. Benjamin, T.W. Adorno, M. Horkheimer and E. Levinas, tested by the catastrophe / by Orietta Ombrosi ; translated from French by VIctoria Aris. Translation of: Crépuscule de la raison. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2012.

New Books (Comp Lit/Gen Lit), June 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.

An aesthetic education in the era of globalization / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

Borrowed tongues : life writing, migration, and translation / Eva C. Karpinski. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012.

Caryl Phillips : writing in the key of life / ed. by Bénédicte Ledent & Daria Tunca. Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V. 2012.

China and its others : knowledge transfer through translation, 1829-2010 / edited and with an introduction by James St. André and Peng Hsiao-yen. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2012.

Cultural studies in the future tense / Lawrence Grossberg. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

The [European] other in medieval Arabic literature and culture : Ninth-Twelfth Century AD / Nizar F. Hermes. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012.

  The forty days of Musa Dagh / Franz Werfel ; based on the translation from the German by Geoffrey Dunlop, revised & expanded by James Reidel, with a preface by Vartan Gregorian. Boston : David R. Godine Publisher, 2012.

Kant's dog : on Borges, philosophy, and the time of translation / David E. Johnson. Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.

Mobility at large : globalization, textuality and innovative travel writing / Justin D. Edwards & Rune Graulund. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2012.

The Oxford handbook of medieval Latin literature / edited by Ralph J. Hexter and David Townsend. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

The Oxford handbook of translation studies / edited by Kirsten Malmkjaer, Kevin Windle. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Poétique du roman postcolonial / Yves Clavaron. Saint-Etienne : Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne, 2011.

  Quant au féminin : [le féminin comme machine à penser] / Michèle Ramond. Paris : Harmattan, c2011.

Rereading heterosexuality : feminism, queer theory and contemporary fiction / Rachel Carroll. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Western literature in China and the translation of a nation / Shouhua Qi. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.