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New Literary History 37.3 (2006) 683-684


Books Received
The Inordinate Eye: New World Baroque and Latin American Fiction. By Lois Parkinson Zamora. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 424 pp. $49 (cloth).
Reading the Modernist Bildungsroman. By Gregory Castle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. 329 pp. $59.95 (cloth).
Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Literary History, 1875–1910. By Claudia Stokes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 256 pp. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
"Ungraspable Phantom": Essays on Moby Dick. Edited by John Bryant, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, and Timothy Marr. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006. 373 pp. $59 (cloth).
This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784–1911. By Pavel Cenkl. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. 212 pp. $34.95 (cloth).
Surprised in Transation. By Mary Ann Caws. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 128 pp. $25 (cloth).
Jorge Luis Borges. By Jason Wilson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 224 pp. $16.95 (paper).
Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual Culture. By Jonathan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $100 (cloth).
The Initials of the Earth. By Jesús Díaz. Translated by Kathleen Ross. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 456 pp. $24.95 (paper).
The Same Solitude: Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva. By Catherine Ciepiela. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 320 pp. $29.95 (cloth).
The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology. Edited by Dawn Ades. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 320 pp. $25 (paper).
Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts. By David Andrews. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006. $41.95 (cloth); $9.95 (CD).
Memory and the Modern in Celtic Literature. By Joseph Nagy. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 168 pp. $50 (cloth).
Girly Man. By Charles Bernstein. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 160 pp. $24 (cloth). [End Page 683]
When We Get to the End: Towards a Narratology of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. By Per Krogh Hansen and Marianne Wolff Lundholt. Odense: University Press of South Denmark, 2005. 390 pp. $46.25 (paper).
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