New Books, Aug. 2008
The abject of desire : the aestheticization of the unaesthetic in contemporary literature and culture / edited by Konstanze Kutzbach and Monika Mueller. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
The Cambridge introduction to narrative / H. Porter Abbott. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Challenging the boundaries / edited by Isil Bas and Donald C. Freeman for the Poetics and Linguistics Association. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
The Columbia literary history of Eastern Europe since 1945 / Harold B. Segel. New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Conrad in Germany / edited with an introduction by Walter Göbel, Hans Ulrich Seeber, and Martin Windisch. Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; [Chichester : John Wiley, distributor], 2007.
Crossing borders : love between women in medieval French and Arabic literatures / Sahar Amer. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
Doomsday speculation as a strategy of persuasion : a study of apocalypticism as rhetoric / Frank L. Borchardt. Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, c1990.
Entwicklungslinien der deutschen Zola-Rezeption von den Anfängen bis zum Tode des Autors / Rolf Sältzer. Berne ; New York : P. Lang, c1989.
Freud's drive : psychoanalysis, literature and film / Teresa de Lauretis. Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
The function of the poet, and other essays / by James Russell Lowell ; collected and edited by Albert Mordell. Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
Hyperion, or, The hermit in Greece / Friedrich Hölderlin ; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books : Distribution by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2008.
Interkulturalität und Intertextualität : Elias Canetti und Zeitgenossen / Maja Rasbojnikova-Frateva, Hans-Gerd Winter (Hg.). Dresden : Thelem, 2007.
Islam and Muslims in Germany / edited by Ala Al-Hamarneh and Jörn Thielmann. Leiden [The Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, c2008.
Mimesis and theory : essays on literature and criticism, 1953-2005 / René Girard ; edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Paradox, aphorism and desire in Novalis and Derrida / by Clare Kennedy. London : Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2008.
Poetic affairs : Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky / Michael Eskin. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
Romantic migrations : local, national, and transnational dispositions / Michael Wiley. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Second finding : a poetics of translation / Barbara Folkart. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2007.
Telling about society / Howard S. Becker. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Venturing upon dizzy heights : lectures and essays on philosophy, literature, and the arts / Bruce Ross. New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
Vergleichende Literaturbetrachtungen : 11 Beiträge zu Lateinamerika und dem deutschsprachigen Europa / herausgegeben von Wolfgang Cziesla und Michael von Engelhardt. München : Iudicium, c1995.
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