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College Literature 33.2 (2006) 203-204



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Books Received

October 16, 2005 to January 15, 2006

Ackerman, Susan. 2005. When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press. 45.00 hc. xvi + 353 pp.

Allmendinger, Blake. 2005. Imagining the African American West. Race and Ethnicity in the American West. 3. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. $49.95 hc. xix + 161 pp.

Apter, Emily. 2006. The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature. Translation/Transnation. Princeton: Princeton University Press. $19.95 sc. xii + 298 pp.

Atkinson, Ted. 2005. Faulkner and the Great Depression: Aesthetics, Ideology, and Cultural Politics. Athens: University of Georgia Press. $39.95 hc. ix + 271 pp.

Badejo, Fabian Adekunle. 2003. Salted Tongues: Modern Literature in St. Martin. Philipsburg, St. Maarten: House of Nehesi Publishers. $15.00 sc. 70 pp.

Byerman, Keith. 2005. Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. $49.95 hc. $19.95 sc. ix + 228 pp.

dePaulo, Craig, Patrick Messina, and Marc Stier, eds. 2005. Ambiguity in the Western Mind. New York: Peter Lang Publishers. $32.95 sc. xv + 248 pp.

Dickson-Carr, Darryl. 2005. The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction. Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. 2. New York: Columbia University Press. $60.00 hc. xiv + 257 pp.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. 2005. Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War. Cambridge: South End Press. $18.00 sc. x + 304 pp.

Edwards, Brian T. 2005. Morocco Bound: Disorienting America's Maghreb, From Casablanca to the Marrakech Express. New Americanists. Durham: Duke University Press. $23.95 sc. xv + 366 pp.

Ellis, David, ed. 2006. D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love: A Casebook. Casebooks in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press. $74.00 hc. $24.95 sc. viii + 282 pp.

Evans, Brad. 2005. Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. $55.00 hc. $22.00 sc. x + 244 pp.

Frank, Marcie. 2005. How To Be An Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal. Public Planet Books. Durham: Duke University Press. $17.95 sc. xiii + 156 pp.

Gibbs. A.M. 2005. Bernard Shaw, A Life. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $39.95 hc. xv + 554 pp.

Giroux, Henry. 2005. Against the New Authoritarianism. Winnipeg, MAN: Arbeiter Ring Publishing. $11.95 sc. x +214 pp. [End Page 203]

Hickman, Miranda B. 2006. The Geometry of Modernism: Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D. and Yeats. Literary Modernism Series. 7. Austin: University of Texas Press. $50.00 hc. xxiv + 332 pp.

Horsley, Lee. 2005. Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction. New York: Oxford University Press. $99.00 hc. $35.00 sc. xii + 313 pp.

Johnson, E. Patrick and Mae Henderson, eds. 2005. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press. $84.95 hc. $23.95 sc. xiii + 377 pp.

Kristeva, Julia. 2006. Murder in Byzantium. Trans. C. Jon Delogu. New York: Columbia University Press. $29.50 hc. viii + 249 pp.

Kuhns, Richard. 2005. Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp. New York: Columbia University Press. $40.00 sc. xxiii + 177 pp.

Maddrey, Joseph. 2004. Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishers. $35.00 sc. vi + 201 pp.

Myers, Tony. 2005. The Essentials of Literature in English Pre-1914. London: Arnold Publishers. $28.00 sc. xii + 284 pp.

Naremore, James, ed. and intro. 1979. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Wisconsin/Warner Brothers Screenplay Series. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. $24.95 sc. 205 pp.

Peace, Richard, ed. 2006. Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: A Casebook. Casebooks in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press. $74.00 hc. $24.95 sc. xii + 196 pp.

Phillips, Kendall R. 2005. Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. $39.95 sc. ix + 227 pp.

Rebolledo, Tey Diana. 2005. The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras: Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism. Chicana Matters Series. Austin: University of Texas Press. $50...

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