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LITERATURE

Baumbach, Johnathan. D-Tours. Normal: FC2, 1998. price:$12.95

Berry, R.M. Leonardo's Horse. Normal: FC2, 1997. price:$12.95

Berry, R.M. Dictionary of Modern Anguish. Normal, IL: FC2, 2000. price: $12.95

Cixous, Helene. First Days of the Year. Translated and with a Preface by Catherine A. F. MacGillivray. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1998. Price: $16.95 Paper; $42.95 Cloth

Diaz, Tony. The Aztec Love God. Normal: FC2, 1998. price: 12.95

Dowell, Coleman. The Houses of Children. Postscript. Bradford Morrow. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $11.95 paper.

Elkin, Stanley. The Magic Kingdom. Intro. Rick Moody. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $12.95, paper.

Foos, Laurie. Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997.

Green, Henry. Concluding. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $11.95, paper.

Hynes, James. The Lecturer's Tale. New York: Picador USA, 2001.James, Lily. The Great Taste of Straight People. Normal: FC2, 1997. price:$8.95, paper.Luoma, Bill. Works & Days. West Stockbridge, MA: Hard Press, Inc. Price: $15.00

Lubasch, Lisa. How Many More of Them Are You?: Poems. Pengrove, CA: Avec Books, 1999. $14.00.

Matthias, John. Pages: New Poems and Cuttings. Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 2000.

Mosley, Nicholas. The Hesperides Tree. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2001. price:$13.95

O'Brien, Flann. Further Cuttings from Cruiskeen LawnNormal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $11.95

Reed, Ishmael. Reckless Eyeballing. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $11.50.

Roubaud, Jacques. Hortense is Abducted. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $12.50.

Sorrentino, Gilbert. Blue Pastoral. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2000. $12.95.

Venclova, Tomas. Winter Dialogue, trans. Diana Senechal. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997. price:$22.50

Wolfe, Tom. Hooking Up. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.

Zwiren, Scott. God Head. Normal: Dalkey Archive Press, 1996. price:$10.95

HYPERTEXTS

Citron, Michelle. As American as Apple Pie. Evanston, IL: Michelle Citron, 1999.

LITERARY STUDIES

Aiken, Susan Hardy, Ann Brigham, Sallie A. Marston, and Penny Waterstone. Making Worlds: Gender, Metaphor, and Materiality. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.
Contributors: Geraldine Pratt, Holly Youngbear-Tibbetts, Tessie Liu, Susan Geiger, Elizabeth Meese, Rina Swentzell, Luise White, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, Judith Roof, Maria Lugones, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Caren Kaplan, Angelika Baumer, Minrose Gwin, Janet R. Jakobsen, Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Ofelia Zepeda, Lori Scheer, Mary Poovey, Joan Dayan, Mary Pat Brady, Joan B. Landes, Cindi Katz, Nancy Mairs, Patricia Sharpe, Helena Michie, and Mary Russo. price:$17.95

Andrews, Bruce and Charles Bernstein, eds. The Language Book. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press

Bhati, Timothy. Ends of the Lyric. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Blau, Herbert. Sails on the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. $47.50, hardcover.

Goddu, Theresa A. Gothic America. New York: Columbia UP, 1997. $16.50, paper.

Hall, Donald, and Sven Birkerts. Writing Well. New York: Longman Press, 1998.

Lefort, Claude. Writing: The Political Test. Trans. David Ames Curtis. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. $18.95

Oppenheim, Lois. The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett's Dialogue with Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. $49.50, hardcover.

Seifert, Jaroslav. The Early Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert, trans. Dana Loewy. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997. price:$25.00

Sekirin, Peter. The Dostoevsky Archive. Jefferson: McFarland and Co., Inc., 1997. price:$65.00 Sofield, David and Herbert F. Tucker, ed. Under Criticism: Essays for William H. Pritchard. Athens: Ohio University Press.
List of Contributors: Herbert F. Tucker, William J. Pritchard, Roger Sale, William Youngren, Fred Pfeil, Rand Richards Cooper, Helen Deutsch, Howell Chickering, Joseph Epstein, Helen Vendler, Frank Lentricchia, Alan Lelchuk, W. E. Kennick, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Paul Alpers, David Ferry, Peter R. Pouncey, Neil Hertz, Francis Murphy, Anne Ferry, Christopher Benfry, Christopher Ricks, David Sofield. price:$39.95Strong, Beret E. The Poetic Avant-Garde: The Group of Borges, Auden, and Breton. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1997. price:$24.95

Tanner, Tony. The American Mystery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. price: $18.95

Thomas, Lorenzo. Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabamba Press, 2000. $19.95

Verdonk, Peter and Jean Jacques Weber, ed. Twentieth Century Fiction: From Text to Context. London: Routledge, 1995.
List of Contributors: Peter Verdonk, Jean Jacques Weber, Mick Short, R. A. Buck, Timothy R. Austin, Susan Ehrlich, Helen Aristar Dry, David A. Lee, Michael Toolan, Paul Simpson, Marin Montgomery, Irene R. Fairley, Paul Werth, Sara Mills, David Birch.

ELECTRONIC LITERARY STUDIES

Sobchack, Vivian, ed. Meta-Morphing: Visual Transformation and the Culture of Quick Change Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. $18.95, paper.

CULTURAL STUDIES

Agh, Atilla. The Politics of Central Europe. Sage Publications, 1998.

Borneman, John. Subversions of International Order: Studies in the Political Anthropology of Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. $19.95, paper

Caesar, Terry. Writing in Disguise: Academic Life Subordination. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1998.

Campbell, David. National Deconstruction: Violence, Identity and Justice in Bosnia. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Clarke, Susan E., and Gary L. Gaile. The Work of Cities. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Cheah, Pheng and Bruce Robbins, ed. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
List of Contributors: Bruce Robbins, Pheng Cheah, Richard Rorty, Allen W. Wood, Jonathan Ree, Rwame Anthony Appriah, Benedict Anderson, Aihwa Ong, Louisa Schein, Bonnie Honig, Etienne Balibar, Scott L. Malcomson, Bruce Robbins, Amanda Anderson, Pheng Cheah, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Rob Wilson, James Clifford. price:$21.95

Currie, Jan and Janice Angela Newson, eds. Universities and Globalization. Sage Publications, 1998.

de Mooij, Marieke. Global Marketing and Advertising: Understanding Cultural Paradoxes. London: Sage Publications, 1998. price: $25.95

Dirlik, Arif and Xudong Zhang, eds. Postmodernism and China. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. $23.95

Glover, Jonathan. Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

Jameson, Fredric and Masao Miyoshi, eds. The Cultures of Globalization. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. $18.95

Mailloux, Steven. Reception Histories: Rhetoric, Pragmatism,and American Cultural Politics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998.

Miller, Daniel, ed. Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.
List of Contributors: Jo Tacchi, Sophie Chevalier, Alison J. Clarke, Andrea Pellegram, Neil Jarman, Justin Finden-Crofts, Daniel Miller, Sigrid Rausing, Mark Johnson.

Murray, Timothy and Alan K. Smith, eds. Repossessions: Psychoanalysis and the Phantasms of Early Modern Culture. Minneapolis: Univeersity of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Rorty, Richard. Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998. $12.95.

Runciman, W.G. The Social Animal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Schiffrin, Andre. The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read. New York: Verso, 2000. $23.00, cloth.

Spanos, William V. America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. $19.95.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1999. $24.95.

Tiles, Mary and Hans Oberdiek. Living in a Technological Culture. London: Routledge,

Vizenor, Gerald. Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. price: $35.00

Thomas, Alfred. Anne's Bohemia: Czech Literature and Society, 1310-1420. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, ed. Gombrowicz's Grimaces: Modernism, Gender, and Nationality. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
List of Contributors: Tomislav Z. Longinovic, Valerie Deshoulieres, Dorota Glowacka, Hanjo Berressem, Marzena Grzegorczyk, Piotr Parlej, Katarzyna Jerzak, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Agnieszka M. Soltysik, Allen Kuharski, Beth Holmgren. price: $21.95

ART/MEDIA/COMMUNICATIONS/MUSIC

Albright, Daniel. Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Muisc, Literature, and Other Arts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. $25.00

Bee, Susan and Mira Schor,eds. M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism. Foreward Johanna Drucker. Durham: Duke UP, 2001. $22.95.

Citron, Michelle. Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Danto, Arthur C. The Madonna of the Future: Essays in a Pluralistic Art World. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.

DeCurtis, Anthony. Rocking My Life Away: Writing about Music and Other Matters. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999 $16.95

Edson, Laurie. Reading Relationally: Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Art. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. $44.50.

Horton, Sarah. Web Teaching Guide: A Practical Approach to Creating Course Web Sites. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. $14.95.

Kahin, Brian and Hal R. Varian. Internet Publishing and Beyond: The Economics of Digital Information and Intellectual Property. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.

Segel, Harold B. Egon Erwin Kisch: The Raging Reporter. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1997.

Wenner, Jann S. ed. Lennon Remembers. New York: Verso, 2000. $20, cloth.
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THEORY/PHILOSOPHY

Adorno, Theodor W. Metaphysics: Concept and Problems. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2000.

Adorno, Theodor W. Prismatic Thought. Kearney, NE: The University of Nebraska Press

Blanchot, Maurice. The Step Not Beyond. trans. Le Pas Au-Dela. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. price: $18.95

Brusseau, James. Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. price: $19.95

Longuenesse, Beatrice. Kant and the Capacity to Judge. Trans. Charles T. Wolfe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Missac, Pierre. Walter Benjamin's Passages. Cambridge: The MIT Press.

Pitkin, Hanna Fenichel. The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Ross Andrew. Real Love: In Pursuit of Cultural Justice. New York: New York University Press, 1998. price: $17.95

COGNITIVE SCIENCE/COGNITION/MODELING/METHOD

von Neumann, John. The Computer and the Brain. Foreward Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. $9.95.