Books Received

Laughter: Notes on a Passion. By Anca Parvulescu. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 226 pp. $21.95 (paper).

The Novel and the Sea. By Margaret Cohen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2010. 328 pp. $39.50 (cloth).

W. B. Yeats and the Muses. By Joseph M. Hassett. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010. 258 pp. No price given.

The Real Real Thing:The Model in the Mirror of Art. By Wendy Steiner. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2010. 233 pp. $32.50 (cloth).

Locating August Strindberg’s Prose:Modernism, Transationalism, and Setting. By Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2010. 216 pp. $50 (cloth).

Gaberiel García Márquez. By Stephen M. Hart. London: Reaktion Books, 2010. 208 pp. $16.95 (paper).

Nemesis. By Philip Roth. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 304 pp. $26 (cloth).

Romantic Interactions:Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action. By Susan J. Wolfson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2010. 381 pp. No price given.

All a Novelist Needs: Colm Tóibín on Henry James. Edited by Susan M. Griffin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 149 pp. $55 (cloth); $25 (paper).

The Deaths of Seneca. By James Ker. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009. 409 pp. No price given.

South African Literature after the Truth Commission:Mapping Loss. By Shane Braham. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 235 pp. No price given.

Foreign Bodies. By Cynthia Ozick. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. 272 pp. $26 (cloth).

Wild Materialism:The Ethic of Terror and the Modern Republic. By Jacques Lezra. Bronx, NY: Fordham Univ. Press, 2010. 320 pp. $80 (cloth); $28 (paper).

Translating Slavery, vol. 2, “Ourika” and Its Progeny. Edited by Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier-Kenney. Kent, OH: Kent State Univ. Press, 2010. 188 pp. $29.95 (paper).

Parody:The Art that Plays with Art. By Robert Chambers. New York: Peter Lang, 2010. 266 pp. $79.95 (cloth).