New Books in the Arts, Philology, Translation Studies, Lang. & Lit. of Eastern Europe/Middle East and Asia (call number ranges NX to PL), October 2015

By Brian Vetruba on 29 November 2015 in Comparative Literature

A selected lists of new books especially relevant for Comparative Literature in call number order. Click on the link for the call number and availability. If you’re having trouble find a book, please ask at the Olin Help Desk or contact Brian

Aisthetics of the spirits : spirits in early modern science, religion, literature and music : mit 28 abbildungen / Steffen Schneider (ed.).Göttingen : V&R Unipress, [2015];”©2015″

‘A very fine gift’ and other writings on theory / Roland Barthes ; translation and editorial comments by Chris Turner.London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2015.;”©2015″

‘The scandal” of Marxism’ and other writings on politics / Roland Barthes ; translation and editorial comments by Chris Turner.”London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2015.

‘Simply a particular contemporary’ : interviews 1970-79 / Roland Barthes ; translation and editorial comments by Chris Turner.London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2015.

L’âge des lettres / Antoine Compagnon.[Paris] : Gallimard, c2015.

Media pluralism and diversity : concepts, risks and global trends / edited by Peggy Valcke, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Miklós Sükösd, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Robert Picard, University of Oxford, UK.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Media, margins and civic agency / edited by Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Heather Savigny and Jenny Alexander.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Islam and the West : a love story? / edited by Sumita Mukherjee, Sadia Zulfiqar.Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

The new time and space / John Potts, Macquarie University, Australia.Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

The encyclopedia of Greek tragedy / edited by Hanna M. Roisman.Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; [Hoboken, N.J.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

The theater of war : what ancient Greek tragedies can teach us today / Bryan Doerries.New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.;”©2015″

Taking stock of German studies in the United States : the new millennium / Edited by Rachel J. Halverson and Carol Anne Costabile-Heming.Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2015.;”©2015″

Caoba / Boris Pilniak ; traducción y prólogo de Sergio Pitol.Madrid : Veintisiete Letras, 2010.

Opravdanie ; Orfografii︠a︡ ; Ostromov / Dmitriĭ Bykov. Moskva : PROZAiK, 2011.

Zavod Svoboda” / Ksenii︠a︡ Buksha ; [illi︠u︡strat︠s︡ii avtora].” Moskva : OGI, [2014];”©2014″

1993 : roman / Sergeĭ Shargunov ; redakt︠s︡ii︠a︡ Eleny Shubinoĭ. Moskva : AST, 2013.

Vyshli iz lesa dve medvedit︠s︡y : roman / Meir Shalev ; perevod s ivrita Rafaila Nudelʹmana i Ally Furman. Moskva : Tekst : Knizhniki, 2015.

Der pinḳes. Ṿilna : B.A. Ḳletsḳin, 673 [1912/1913]

Studyo.880-02 Nuyorḳ : Farlag Aleyn””

Evreĭskai︠a︡ literaturnai︠a︡ zhiznʹ Moskvy, 1917-1991 / Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh.880-03 Sankt-Peterburg : Evropeĭskiĭ Universitet v Sankt-Peterburge, 2015.

June rain / Jabbour Douaihy ; translated by Paula Haydar.Doha : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation ; London : Bloomsbury [distributor], 2013.

Beirut, Beirut / Sonallah Ibrahim ; translated by Chip Rossetti.Qatar : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, 2014.

Where pigeons don’t fly / Yousef Al-Mohaimeed ; translated by Robin Moger.Doha : Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, 2014.

Jabal al-ṭayr : riwāyah / Sūniyā Būmād. al-Qāhirah : Maktabat al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-Kitāb, 2015.

al-Azbakīyah : riwāyah / Nāṣir ʻIrāq. al-Qāhirah : al-Dār al-Miṣrīyah al-Lubnānīyah, 2015.

Dalit Literatures in India / edited by Joshil K. Abraham and Judith Misrahi-Barak.New Delhi, India ; Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

Brahmanical theories of the gift : a critical edition and annotated translation of the Dānakāṇḍa of the Kṛtyakalpataru / by David Brick.Cambridge, MA : Department of South Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2015.;”©2015″

Liking progress, loving change : a literary history of the Progressive Writers’ Movement in Urdu / Rakhshanda Jalil.New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Death by water : a novel / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.New York : Grove Press, [2015]

Translingual narration : colonial and postcolonial Taiwanese fiction and film / Bert Mittchell Scruggs.Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]

City of marvel and transformation : Chang’an and narratives of experience in Tang Dynasty China / Linda Rui Feng.Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015];”©2015″

A garden of marvels : tales of wonder from early medieval China / Robert Ford Campany.Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015];”©2015″

Chutzpah! : New voices from China / edited by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner.Norman [Oklahoma] : University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]

Shanghai literary imaginings : a city in transformation / Lena Scheen.Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]

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Brian Vetruba is Germanic Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, and European Studies Librarian at Washington University in St. Louis

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