Books for Review

Books for Review [the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of the following, as well as other more recent titles, particularly that pertain to upcoming issues. I would like to encourage reviews that are short on summary and blurb-like praise, and long on analysis and reading the texts in question as symptoms of the present socio-institutional scene. For instance, rather than a review of one book of "autobiographical criticism," one might consider the trend toward personal writing in terms of the descent of theory, in terms of the current construction of academic celebrity, or in terms of individualism and contemporary ideology. I would especially like to solicit reviews that consider alternative topics —such as special issues of or significant changes in journals, notable conferences , films and video, even fashion, as well as commercial publishing trends—that sometimes expose whafs going on more saliently than notices of one specific critical book. If you are interested in proposing a review, you should look over the reviews in this and recent issues for format and focus.— JW, Editor] Balsamo, Anne. Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Durham: Duke UP, 1996. Barnard, Rita. The Great Depression and the Culture ofAbundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and the Mass Culture ofthe 1930s. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995. Bathrick, David. The Powers ofSpeech: The Politics ofCulture in the GDR. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1995. Behar, Ruth, and Deborah A. Gordon, eds. Women Writing Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995. Boehmer, Elleke. Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Bove, Paul A., ed. Early Postmodernism: Foundational Essays. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. Brown, Marshall, ed. The Uses ofLiterary History. Durham: Duke UP, 1996. Burnham, Clint. The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. Callari, Antonio, and David F. Ruccio, eds. Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: L·says in the Allhusserian Tradition. Hanover: UP of New England, 1996. Campo, Rafael. What the Body Told. Durham: Duke UP, 1996. Castle, Terry. The Female Thermometer: 18lh-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny. New York: Oxford, 1995. Charity, Arthur. Doing Public Journalism. New York: Guilford, 1995. Childers, Joseph, and Gary Hentzi, eds. The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia UP, 1995. Cohen, Margaret, and Christopher Prendergast, eds. Spectacles of Realism: Gender, Body, Genre. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Cornell, Durcilla. The Imaginary Domain: Abortion, Pornography, and Sexual Harassment. New York: Routledge, 1995 Creekmur, Corey K., and Alexander Doty, eds. Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. 328 the minnesota review Daniels, Jim, ed. tetters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1996. Davies, loan. Cultural Studies and Beyond: Fragments of Empire. New York: Routledge, 1995. Dawes, Greg. Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry 1979-1990. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. Eagleton, Mary, ed. Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Eagleton, Terry, and Drew Milne, eds. Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader. Cambridge: Blackwell, 19% Edmundson, Mark. Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. Ender, Evelyne. Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1995. Felski, Rita. The Gender ofModernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995. Fish, Stanley. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Fitter, Chris. Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. Frow, John. Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Gadamer, Hans-George. Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Essays in German Literary Theory. Trans. Robert H. Paslick. Albany: State U of New York P, 1993. Genette, Gérard. Mimologics. Trans. Thaïs E. Morgan. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1995. Golding, Alan. From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1995. Goldman, Lawrence. Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. Golsan, Richard ]., ed. Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs. Hanover: UP of New England, 1996. Gorman, Paul R. Left...