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| Notable Books: Language & Literature |
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| A dream of stone: fame, vision, and monumentality in nineteenth-century French literary culture by Garval, Michael D. |
| A history of literary criticism: from Plato to the present by M.A.R. Habib |
| A symposium of praise: Horace returns to lyric in Odes IV by Johnson, Timothy S. |
| After Antiquity: Greek language, myth, and metaphor by Alexiou, Margaret |
| America's Asia: racial form and American literature, 1893-1945 by Lye, Colleen |
| An introduction to twentieth-century Italian literature by Robert S. C. Gordon |
| Basho's haiku: selected poems by Matsuo Basho by Basho, Matsuo |
| Berlin Alexanderplatz: radio, film, and the death of Weimar culture by Peter Jelavich |
| Can literature promote justice?: trauma narrative and social action in Latin American testimonio by Kimberley A. Nance |
| Cervantes in Algiers: a captive's tale by Garces, Maria Antonia |
| Contemporary Spanish women's narrative and the publishing industry by Henseler, Christine |
| Cosmopolitan vistas: American regionalism and literary value by Lutz, Tom |
| Diary, 1901-1969 by Kornei Chukovskii |
| Don Quixote, Don Juan, and related subjects: form and tradition in Spanish literature, 1330-1630 by Parr, James A. |
| Early Modern Japanese literature: an anthology, 1600-1900 by ed. by Haruo Shirane, tr. By James Brandon et al. |
| Early Spanish American narrative by Lindstrom, Naomi |
| Empires of the world: a language history of the world by Ostler, Nicholas |
| Erotic utopia: the decadent imagination in Russia's fin-de-siecle by Olga Matich |
| Fiction refracts science: modernist writers from Proust to Borges by Thiher, Allen |
| Flaubert: a biography by Frederick Brown |
| French gay modernism by Schehr, Lawrence R. |
| German literature of the 1990s and beyond: normalization and the Berlin Republic by Taberner, Stuart |
| H. G. Wells: traversing time by Wagar, W. Warren |
| Hans Christian Andersen: a new life by Andersen, Jens |
| History of Indian Literature in English by ed. by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra |
| Hopi Traditional Literature by Shaul, David Leedom |
| Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930-1950: bonfires in the night by Brian Moloney |
| J.M. Coetzee & the ethics of reading: literature in the event by Attridge, Derek |
| Jane Austen and the Enlightenment by Knox-Shaw, Peter |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau: restless genius by Leo Damrosch |
| Johnson's critical presence: image, history, judgement by Smallwood, Philip |
| Kafka: the decisive years by Reiner Stach |
| Killing Spanish: literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity by Sandin, Lyn Di Iorio |
| Lamentation as history: narratives by Koreans in Japan 1965-2000 by Ellen Widmer |
| Malraux: a life by Todd, Olivier |
| Meander: a rhetor in context by Heath, Malcolm |
| Paranoia and modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau by John Farrell |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley: a biography: exile of unfulfilled reknown, 1816-1822 by Bieri, James |
| Polish-Jewish Literature in the Interwar Years by Prokop-Janiec, Eugenia |
| Politique: languages of statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare by Strohm, Paul |
| Privacy: concealing the eighteenth-century self by Spacks, Patricia Meyer |
| Proletpen: America's rebel Yiddish poets by Amelia Glaser and David Weintraub |
| Properties of modernity: romantic Spain, modern Europe, and the legacies of empire by Michael Iarocci |
| Pulp fictions of medieval England: essays in popular romance by McDonald, Nicola (ed.) |
| Queer cowboys: and other erotic male friendships in nineteenth-century American literature by Packard, Chris |
| Queer Lyrics: difficulty and closure in American poetry by Vincent, John |
| Recite in the name of the red: poetic sacred making in twentieth-century Iran by Fatemeh Keshavarz |
| Relocating Agency: modernity and African letters by George, Olakunle |
| Remnants of empire in Algeria and Vietnam: women, words, and war by Pears, Pamela A. |
| Rendering the regional: local language in contemporary chinese media |
| Rendering the regional: Local language incontemporary Chinese media by Edward M. Gunn |
| Russia's dangerous texts: politics between the lines by Parthe, Kathleen F. |
| Sexual naturalization: Asian Americans and miscegenation by Koshy, Susan |
| Shining eyes, cruel fortune: the lives and loves of Italian Renaissance women poets by Jaffe, Irma B. |
| Singular Performances: reinscribing the subject in Francophone African writing by Syrotinski, Michael |
| Somerset Maugham: a life by Meyers, Jeffrey |
| Speaking in Soviet Tongues: language, culture and the politics of voice in revolutionary Russia by Gorham, Michael S. |
| Stephen Spender: a literary life by Sutherland, John |
| Susan Glaspell: her life and times by Ben-Zvi, Linda |
| Tao Yuanming & manuscript culture: the record of a dusty table by Xiaofei, Tian |
| Technology in American drama, 1920-1950: soul and society in the age of the machine by Jerz, Dennis G. |
| The beauty and the book: women and fiction in nineteenth-century China by Ellen Widmer |
| The borderlands of culture: Americo Paredes and the transnational imaginary by Ramon Saldivar |
| The Cambridge history of American literature: v. 6: Prose writing, 1910-1950 by ed. by Sacvan Bercovitch |
| The colonial moment: discoveries and settlement in modern Americna poetry by Westover, Jeffrey W. |
| The English romance in time: transforming motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the death of Shakespeare by Cooper, Helen |
| The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: v. 4 and 5: Irish women's writing and traditions by ed. by Angela Bourke et al. |
| The Holocaust and the postmodern by Eaglestone, Robert |
| The imperial sublime: a Russian poetics of empire by Ram, Harsha |
| The language of the gods in the world of men: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India by Sheldon Pollock |
| The last titan: a life of Theodore Dreiser by Loving, Jerome |
| The Letters of Charles Dickens: v. 12: 1868-1870 by Dickens, Charles |
| The Literature of ancient Sumer by Black, Jeremy |
| The monster that is history: history, violence, and fictional writing in twentieth-century China by Wang, David Der-wei |
| The Origins of Criticism: literary culture and poetic theory in classical Greece by Ford, Andrew |
| The talking Greeks: speech, animals, and the other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato by John Heath |
| The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel by Williams, Raymond Leslie |
| The world next door: South Asian American literature and the idea of America by Srikanth, Rajini |
| The world of Roman song: from ritualized speech to social order by Thomas Habinek |
| Thomas Mann: life as a work of art: a biography by Kurzke, Hermann |
| Traitors and True Poles: narrating a Polish-American identity, 1880-1939 by Majewski, Karen |
| Understanding Dante by Scott, John A. |
| Understanding W. G. Sebald by McCulloh, Mark R. |
| Unveiling Eve: reading gender in Medieval Hebrew literature by Rosen, Tova |
| Virtual Lotus: modern fiction of Southeast Asia by ed. by Teri Shaffer Yamada |
| Visions of the Land: science, literature, and the American environment of the era of exploration to the age of ecology by Bryson, Michael A. |
| Walt Whitman by Reynolds, David S. |
| Walter Benjamin: selected writings: v. 4: 1938-1940 by Benjamin, Walter |
| What happened to Abraham?: reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction by Aarons, Victoria |
| Women writing Africa: the southern region by M.J. Daymond |
| Women writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw |
| Worrying the line: black women writers, lineage, and literary tradition by Wall, Cheryl A. |
| Writing the nation in Reformation England by Shrank, Cathy |
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