Books Received

Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914. By Mikhail Krutihov. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 248 pp. $55 (cloth).

The Speculative Remark: One of Hegel's Bons Mots. By Jean-Luc Nancy. Translated by Céline Surprenant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 196 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Other Traditions. By John Ashbery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 168 pp. $14.95 (paper).

Invited Ghost: Southern Poetry in the Twentieth Century. Edited by David Rigsbee and Steven Ford Brown. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 312 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

The Complete Correspondence. By Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin. Edited by Henry Lonitz. Translated by Nicholas Walker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. 383 pp. $18.95 (paper).

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow: Nature Writing and Autobiography. By Mark Allister. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 208 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia.Landscape. By Stephen Adams. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 352 pp. $55 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

Chaos and Love: The Philosophy of the Icelandic Family Sagas. By Thomas Bredsdorff. Translated by John Tucker. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001. 160 pp. $33 (cloth)

The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard. Edited by Katherine E. Kelly. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 244 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature: From the Sublime to the Uncanny. By David Ellison. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 290 pp. $59.95 (paper).

Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics. By Bruce Clark. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. $59.50 (cloth).

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Edited by Peter Raby. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 272 pp. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Conversations with Christopher Isherwood. Edited by James J. Berg and Chris Freeman. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. $46 (cloth); $18 (paper).

Drowning in Fire. By Craig Womack. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. 280 pp. $35 (cloth); $17.95 (paper).

Religion in Media. Edited by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 649 pp. $69 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England. By Michael Witmore. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 224 pp. $55 (cloth).

Veils. By Hélène Cixous/Jacques Derrida. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 108 pp. $45 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Institution and Interpretation. By Samuel Weber. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 275 pp. $60 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century. By Sarah Kay. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. 380 pp. $55 (cloth).

Mapping the Ethical Turn: A Reader in Ethics, Culture, and Literary Theory. Edited by Todd F. Davis and Kenneth Womack. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001. 336 pp. $62.50 (cloth); $19.50 (paper).

The Ghost of John Wayne. By Ray Gonzalez. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. 150 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

Essays on American Literature and Culture from the Jacksonian Period to Postmodernity. By Heinz Ickstadt. Edited by Susanne Rohr and Sabine Sielke. Heidelberg: Universitätsverkag C. WINTER, 2001. 427 pp. No price given.