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Current Books Received
July 16 2008 to October 15, 2008



Arvidson, P. Sven. 2008. Teaching Nonmajors: Advice for Liberal Arts Professors. Albany: State University of New York Press. $53.50 hc. $17.95 sc. xiv + 98 pp.

Baker, Brian. 2008. Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres, 1945-2000. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. $49.95 sc. 192 pp.

Bernstein, Neil W. 2008. In the Image of the Ancestors: Narratives of Kinship in Flavian Epic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. $65.00 hc. 263 pp.

Billington, Josie. 2008. Eliot's Middlemarch. New York: Continuum. $75.00 hc. $16.95 sc. 144 pp.

Blackstone, Charles, and Jill Talbot, eds. 2008. The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together.  Austin: University of Texas Press. $60.00 hc. $24.95 sc. 232 pp.

Brunetti, Ivan, ed. 2008. An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories. New Haven: Yale University Press. $28.00 sc. 400 pp.

Davies, Michael. 2008. Hamlet: Character Studies. New York: Continuum. $90.00 hc. $16.95 sc. vii + 141 pp.

Duvall, John N., ed. 2008. The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. New York: Cambridge University Press. $75.00 hc. $24.99 sc. xii + 203 pp.

Eco, Umberto. 2008. Experiences in Translation. Trans. Alastair McEwan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. $17.95 sc. x + 135 pp.

Emerson, Caryl. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature. New York: Cambridge University Press. $85.00 hc. $29.99 sc. xiv + 292 pp.

Fenwick, Gilliian. 2008. Traveling Genius: The Writing Life of Jan Morris. Columbia: University of South Carolina. $39.95 hc. 216 pp.

Findlay, Allison. 2006. Playing Spaces in Early Women's Drama. New York: Cambridge University Press. $96.00 hc. x + 253 pp.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. 2008. The Lost Decade: Short Stories from Esquire, 1936-1941. Ed. James L.W. West, III. New York: Cambridge University Press. $99.00 hc. xxxii + 260 pp.

Foster, John Wilson. 2008. Irish Novels 1890-1940: New Bearings in Culture and Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press. $110.00 hc. 510 pp.

Gigange, Denise, ed. 2008. The Great Age of the English Essay: An Anthology. New Haven: Yale University Press. $26.00 sc. xxxiii + 427 pp.

Gottschall, Jonathan. 2008. The Rape of Tryoy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. New York: Cambridge University Press. $34.99 sc. xii + 223 pp.

Green-Lewis, Jennifer, and Margaret Soltan. 2008. Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $69.95 hc. xviii + 200 pp.

Gregson, Ian. 2006. Character and Satire in Postwar Fiction. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. 181 pp.

Griffith, R. Drew. 2008. Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusian Mysteries. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. $37.00 sc. 272 pp.

Grubisic, Brett Josef. 2008. Understanding Beryl Bainbridge. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. $39.95 hc. 187 pp.

Harley, Lauran, and Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, eds. 2008. Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change. Durham: Duke University Press. $89.95 hc. $24.95 sc. xxxviii + 382 pp.

Head, Dominic. 2008. The State of the Novel: Britain and Beyond. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. $30.00 sc. 175 pp.

Herman, Peter C. 2008. Destabilizing Milton: "Paradise Lost" and the Poetics of Incertitude. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $26.95 sc. 230 pp.

Hogan, Patrick Colm. 2008. Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press. $55.00 hc. 314 pp.

Homer. 2008. The Iliad. Trans. Herbert Jordan. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. $34.95 hc. $16.95 sc. 544 pp.

Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle. 2008. Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $45.00 hc. 190 pp.

Kim, Sang Hyun. 2008. Aleksandr Pushkin's The Tales of Belkin: Formalist and Structuralist Readings and Beyond the Literary Theories. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. $31.00 sc. 220 pp.

Kuzmanovich, Zoran, and Galya Diment, eds. 2008. Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita. New York: The Modern Language Association. $19.95 sc. 190 pp.

Levine, Robert S. 2008. Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. $21.95 sc. 336 pp.

Levy, Eric P. 2008. Hamlet and the Rethinking of Man. Cranbury: Associated University Presses. $53.50 hc. 256 pp.

Malory, Sir Thomas. 2008. Le Morte Darthur: The Seventh and Eighth Tales. Ed. and Intro. P. J. C. Field. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. $14.95 sc. 304 pp.

Murphy, Sean P., ed. 2008. Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life. New York: The Modern Language Association of America. $19.75 sc. ix + 247 pp.

Nicoll, Alladryce, ed. 2008. Chapman's Homeric Hymns and other Homerica. Intro. Stephen Scully Princeton: Princeton University Press. $16.95 sc. 228 pp.

Nikolaou, Paschalis, and Maria-Venetia Kyritsi, eds. 2008. Translating Selves: Experience and Identity Between Languages and Literature. Fwd. Mona Baker. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. 208 pp.

O'Sullivan, Michael. 2008. The Incarnation of Language: Joyce, Proust and a Philosophy of the Flesh. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. 184 pp.

Phelan, James, and Peter Rabinowitz, eds. 2008. A Companion to Narrative Theory. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. $50.00 sc. 571 pp.

Quinn, Esther Casier. 2008. Geoffrey Chaucer and the Poetics of Disguise. Lanham: University Press of America. $37.00 sc. 274 pp.

Reardon, B. P., ed. 2008. Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press. $39.95 sc. xix + 825 pp.

Riquelme, John Paul, ed. 2008. Gothic and Modernism: Essaying Dark Literary Modernity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. $25.00 sc. viii + 236 pp.

Rotman, Brian. 2008. Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts and Distributed Human Being.  Fwd. Timothy Lenoir.  Durham: Duke University Press. $74.95 hc. $21.95 sc. 216 pp.

Sepich, John, ed. 2008. Notes on Blood Meridian. Fwd. Edwin T. Arnold. Austin: University of Texas Press. $45.00 hc. $21.95 sc. 264 pp.

Shand, G.B., ed. 2008. Teaching Shakespeare: Passing It On. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. $35.00 sc. x + 241 pp.

Silliman, Ron. 2008. The Alphabet. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. $85.00 hc. $39.95 sc. 952 pp.

Simmons, Allan. 2008. Conrad's Heart of Darkness. New York: Continuum. $15.95 sc. 132 pp.

Stabakis, Nikos, ed. and trans. 2008. Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology. Austin: University of Texas Press. $65.00 hc. 430 pp.

Warwick, Alex, and Martin Willis, eds. 2008. The Victorian Literature Handbook. New York: Continuum. $120.00 hc. $29.95 sc. xiv + 258 pp.

Willard, Nancy. 2008. The Left-Handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. $18.95 sc. 160 pp.

Williams, Linda. 2008. Screening Sex. Durham: Duke University Press. $24.95 sc. 424 pp.