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Adams, Bruce F. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia 1863–1917. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. 320 pp. $32.00.
Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 448 pp. $39.95.
Albrow, Martin. The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. 246 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Arnheim, Rudolf. Film Essays and Criticsm. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. 253 pp. $54.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Auden, W. H.: The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose and Travel Books in Prose and Verse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 952 pp. $59.50.
Baron, Samuel H., and Nancy Shields Kollmann, eds. Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997. 224 pp. $34.00.
Beckman, Max. Self Portrait in Words. Ed. Barbara Copeland Buenger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 434 pp. $34.95.
Beer, Gillian. Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 183 pp. $16.95.
Begam, Richard. Samuel Beckett and the End of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 237 pp. $39.50.
Benedetti, Paul, and Nancy DeHart, eds. On McLuhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. 208 pp. $25.00 (paper).
Bentham, George. Autobiography, 1800–1834. Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1997. 597 pp. $100.00.
Berlin, Isaiah. The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and Their History. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1997. 278 pp. $25.00.
Bishop, Tom. From the Left Bank: Reflections on the Modern French Theater and Novel. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 314 pp. $29.95.
Booker, M. Keith. Colonial Power, Colonial Texts: India in the Modern British Novel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 233 pp. $47.50.
Boyarin, Daniel. Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 417 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
Brand, Juliane, and Christopher Hailey. Constructive Dissonance: Arnold Schoenburg and the Transformations of Twentieth-Century Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 250 pp. $42.00.
Breton, André. Communicating Vessels. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 159 pp. $12.00 (paper).
Brown, Marshall. Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 344 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Butler, Judith. The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 218 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $14.95 (paper).
Cacciari, Massimo. Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. 219 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).
Cadava, Eduardo. Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 224 pp. $29.95. [End Page 179]
Cassuto, Leonard. The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 289 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.50 (paper).
Chamoiseau, Patrick. School Days. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 146 pp. $35.00 (cloth); $13.00 (paper).
Clark, David B., ed. The Cinematic City. New York: Routledge, 1997. 252 pp. $19.95 (paper).
Clout, Hugh. After the Ruins: Restoring the Countryside of Northern France After the Great War. University of Exeter Press, 1997. 332 pp. $69.95.
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, ed. Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 315 pp. $21.95 (paper).
Collins, Bradford R., ed. 12 Views of Manet’s Bar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 318 pp.
Cowie, Elizabeth. Representing the Woman: Cinema and Psychoanalysis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 416 pp. $47.95 (cloth); 18.95 (paper).
Danson, Lawrence. Wilde’s Intentions: The Artist in his Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 198 pp. $49.95.
Derrida, Jacques. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida. Ed. John D. Caputo. New York: Fordham University Press, 1997. 202 pp. $25.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).
Dettmar, Kevin J. H., and Stephen Watt, eds. Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, and Rereading. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 374 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).
DiBattista, Maria, and Lucy McDiarmid, eds. High and Low Moderns: Literature...

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