New Print in Literary Theory/History, Comparative Literature (call number PN1-PN1040), March-April, 2017

A selected lists of new books (PN1-PN1040) especially relevant for Comparative Literature in call number order. Click on the link for the call number and availability.  For additional new books relevant to Comparative Literature, see the other posts in New Books in Comparative Literature.

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• Midwestern letters.Fairwater, Wis. : Midwestern Letters ; Markesan, Wis. : Distributed by Star Distribution, 1980-

• Fuoco e il racconto. English;”The fire and the tale / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa.”Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

• The aesthetics of clarity and confusion : literature and engagement since Nietzsche and the naturalists / Geoffrey A. Baker.Cham, Switzerland : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016];”©2016″

• La crisis de fin de siglo a la luz del “emotivismo” : sobre Alma contemporánea (1899) de Llanas Aguilaniedo / José-Carlos Mainer, Universidad de Zaragoza.[Boulder, Colorado] : [Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies], [1993]

• Einfache Formen. English;”Simple forms / André Jolles ; translated by Peter J. Schwartz.”London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.

• The writer in politics / in collaboration with the International Writers Center of Washington University in St. Louis.Kansas City, Mo. : University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1992.;”©1992″

• Exchanges between literature and science from the 1800s to the 2000s : converging realms / edited by Márcia Lemos and Miguel Ramalhete Gomes.Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

• Comparative becomings : studies in transition / edited by Michael G. Kelly and Daragh O’Connell.Oxford : Peter Lang, [2017];”©2017″

• Ville et géopoétique / sous la direction de Georges Amar, Rachel Bouvet et Jean-Paul Loubes.Paris : L’Harmattan, [2016]

• Literature and cultural memory / edited by Mihaela Irimia, Dragos Manea, Andreea Paris.Leiden ; Boston : Brill/Rodopi, [2017]

• Transiciones, memorias e identidades en Europa y América Latina / Juan Ignacio Piovani, Clara Ruvituso, Nikolaus Werz (eds.).Madrid : Iberoamericana : Vervuert, 2016.

• Crime fiction as world literature / edited by Louise Nilsson, David Damrosch, and Theo D’Haen.New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.;”©2017″

• Das Paradigma der Interkulturalität : Themen und Positionen in europäischen Literaturwissenschaften / Jeanne E. Glesener, Nathalie Roelens, Heinz Sieburg (Hg.).Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017];”©2017″

• Early modern diplomacy, theatre and soft power : the making of peace / edited by Nathalie Rivere de Carles.London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

• Voyages en exotismes : ailleurs, histoire et littérature (XIXe-XXe siècles) / Alain Quella-Villéger ; préface de Guy Dugas.Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2017.;”©2017″

• Familie und Identität in der Gegenwartsliteratur / Goran Lovrić, Marijana Jeleč (Hrsg.).Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, [2016];”©2016″

• Genre, text and language : mélanges Anne Freadman / sous la direction de Véronique Duché, Tess Do et Andrea Rizzi.Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2015.

• al-Adab al-muqāran wa-al-ʻawlamah : taḥaddīyāt wa-āfāq wa-dirāsāt ukhrá / D. Muḥammad Sayf al-Islām Būfalāqah.al-Qāhirah : al-Maktab al-ʻArabī lil-Maʻārif, 2016.

• Uniting regions and nations through the looking glass of literature / edited by Karoline Szatek-Tudor.Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

• A paixão transformada : história da medicina na literatura / Moacyr Scliar.São Paulo : Companhia das Letras, 1996.

• L’acte inqualifiable, ou le meurtre au féminin = Unspeakable acts : murder by women / Émeline Jouve, Aurélie Guillain & Laurence Talairach-Vielmas (dir./eds.).Bruxelles, Belgique : P.I.E. Peter Lang S.A., [2016];”©2016″

• Poets of protest : mythological resignification in American antebellum and German Vormärz literature / Michael Rodegang Drescher.Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017];”©2017″

• Philologische Mythosforschung / Volker C. Dörr [and fourteen others].Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, [2016]

• Late Cold War literature and culture : the nuclear 1980s / Daniel Cordle.London : Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017.

• Bestseller–gestern und heute : ein Blick vom Rand zum Zentrum der Literaturwissenschaft / Albrecht Classen, Eva Parra-Membrives (Hrsg.) = Bestseller–yesterday and today : a look from the margin to the center of literary studies / Albrecht Classen, Eva Parra-Membrives (Eds.).Tübingen : Narr Francke Attempto, [2016];”©2016″

• Plaidoyer pour un renouveau de l’émotion en littérature. English;”The seduction of fiction : a plea for putting emotions back into literary interpretation / Jean-François Vernay ; translated by Carolyne Lee”Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016];”©2016″

• Animal narratives and culture : vulnerable realism / by Anna Barcz.Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

• Shame, masculinity and desire of belonging : reading contemporary male writers / Aneta Stępień.Bern : Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, [2017];”©2017″

• The Routledge handbook of literature and space / edited by Robert T. Tally Jr.Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.;”©2017″

• The Cambridge companion to literature and the posthuman / edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini.Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.;”©2017″

• The medieval invention of travel / Shayne Aaron Legassie.Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.;”©2017″

• Utopian visions and revisions : or the uses of ideal worlds / Artur Blaim.Frankfurt am Main ; New York, NY : Peter Lang Edition, [2017];”©2017″

• Kriegserklärung an das alte Europa : literarische, historiographische und autobiographische Sichtweisen auf den Ersten Weltkrieg / Monika Kucner, Agnieszka Godzisz, Piotr Zawilski, Elżbieta Katarzyna Dzikowska (Hrsg.).Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang Edition, [2017];”©2017″

• Unter Thränen wachse ich immer mehr aus meinem Antisemitismus heraus” : Seitenhiebe auf Juden und das “Jüdische” in der europäischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts / Klaus Deterding.”Berlin : WVB, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, [2016]

• Avant-garde orientalism : the eastern ‘other’ in Twentieth-century travel narrative and poetry / David LeHardy Sweet.Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.;”©2017″

• The Narcissus theme from fin de siècle to psychoanalysis : crisis of the modern self / Niclas Johansson.Frankfurt am Main ; New York, NY : Peter Lang Edition, [2017];”©2017″

• Critique and postcritique / Elizabeth S. Anker & Rita Felski, editors.Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.;”©2017″

• Literary theory : the complete guide / Mary Klages.London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

• Rahmungen : Präsentationsformen und Kanoneffekte / herausgegeben von Philip Ajouri, Ursula Kundert und Carsten Rohde.Berlin : Erich Schmidt Verlag, [2017];”©2017″

• The fields of light : an experiment in critical reading / Reuben Arthur Brower.New York : Oxford University Press, 1962.

• Reading the past across space and time : receptions and world literature / Brenda Deen Schildgen and Ralph Hexter, Editors.New York : Palgrave Macmillan [2016]

• A global history of literature and the environment / edited by John Parham, Louise Westling.Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

• Speculative formalism : literature, theory, and the critical present / Tom Eyers.Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2017]

• The art of creative research : a field guide for writers / Philip Gerard.Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

• Good naked : reflections on how to write more, write better, and be happier / Joni B. Cole.Lebanon NH : University Press of New England, [2017]

• The writer’s reader : vocation, preparation, creation / edited by Robert Cohen and Jay Parini.New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.;”©2017″

• Thema: Plagiat / hg. v. Annette Steinsiek, Ulrike Tanzer.Innsbruck : Innsbruck University Press, 2016.

• Letters to a young writer : some practical and philosophical advice / Colum McCann.New York : Random House, [2017]

• Aproximaciones a la autotraducción / Xosé Manuel Dasilva & Helena Tanqueiro (eds.).Vigo : Academia del Hispanismo, 2011.

• At home in the world : women writers and public life, from Austen to the present / Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord.Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]

• Commentaries = Kommentare / edited by Glenn W. Most.Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.

• La merveille médiévale / Francis Dubost.Paris : Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2016.

• Nature speaks : medieval literature and Aristotelian philosophy / Kellie Robertson.Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

• Warriors and wilderness in medieval Britain : from Arthur and Beowulf to Sir Gawain and Robin Hood / Robin Melrose.Jefferson North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]

• Gufim ṿe-shemot : ḳeriʼot be-sifrut Yehudit ḥadashah = Bodies and names : readings in modern Jewish literature / Galili Shaḥar.Tel Aviv : ʻAm ʻoved, 2016.

• Post-war British literature and the ‘end of empire’ / Matthew Whittle.London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2016];”©2016″

• Schweizer Literaturpreise : Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger 2016 = Prix suisses de littérature : lauréates et lauréats 2016 = Premi svizzeri di letteratura : vincitrici e vincitori 2016 = Premis svizzers da litteratura : victuras e victurs 2016 / Herausgeber, Bundesamt für Kultur ; Redaktion Christine Chenaux, Valentina Pusterla ; Übersetzungen, Marion Graf [and 19 others].Bern : Bundesamt für Kultur, [2016];”©2016″

• Kulturen des Vergleichs / herausgegeben von Annette Simonis, Linda Simonis.Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016];”©2016″

• Komparatistische Blicke auf Lateinamerika und Europa / herausgegeben von Martina Kopf, Sascha Seiler.Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2016];”©2016″

• The Lion and the unicorn.[Baltimore, Md., etc., Johns Hopkins University Press, etc., 1977-

• Character focalization in children’s novels / Don K. Philpott.London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017];”©2017″