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Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new 
publication(s) in Comparative Literature Studies:

*  Disclosing Intertextualities
     The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell
     Edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo
     Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 307 pp. (DQR Studies in Literature 37)
     ISBN-10: 90-420-2082-2
     ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2082-5
     Online info:  <http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=DQR+37> 
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For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, 
Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated 
critical approaches to Susan Glaspell's entire oeuvre. Glaspell's 
one-act play, "Trifles," and the short story that she constructed from 
it, "A Jury of Her Peers," have drawn the attention of many feminist 
critics, but the rest of her writing-the short stories, plays and 
novels-is largely unknown. The essays gathered here will allow students 
of literature, women's studies and theater studies an insight into the 
variety and scope of her oeuvre.Glaspell's political and literary 
thinking was radicalized by the turbulent Greenwich Village environment 
of the first decades of the twentieth century, by progressive-era 
social movements and by modernist literary and theatrical innovation. 
The focus of Glaspell studies has, till recently, been dominated by the 
feminist imperative to recover a canon of silenced women writers and, 
in particular, to restore Glaspell to her rightful place in American 
drama. Transcending the limitations generated by such a specific 
agenda, the contributors to this volume approach Glaspell's work as a 
dialogic intersection of genres, texts, and cultural phenomena-a method 
that is particularly apt for Glaspell, who moved between genres with a 
unique fluidity, creating such modernist masterpieces as The Verge or 
Brook Evans. This volume establishes Glaspell's work as an 
"intersection of textual surfaces," resulting for the first time in the 
complex aesthetic appreciation that her varied life's work merits.


*  John Gay's The Beggar's Opera 1728-2004
     Adaptations and Re-Writings
     Edited by Uwe Böker, Ines Detmers, Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos
     Amsterdam/New York, NY 2006. 347 pp.
     (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden 
Literaturwissenschaft 105)
     ISBN-10: 90-420-2113-6
     ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2113-6
     Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=Ifavl+105

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When Richard Steele remarked that "the greatest Evils in human Society 
are such as no Law can come at", he was not able to forsee the 
spectacular success of John Gay's satire of society, the administration 
of law and crime, politics, the Italian opera and other topics. Gay's 
The Beggar's Opera, with its mixture of witty dialogue and popular 
songs, was imitated by 18th century writers, criticized by those on the 
seats of power, but remained a favourite of the English theatre public 
ever since. With N. Playfair's 1920 revival and B. Brecht's and K. 
Weill's 1928 Dreigroschenoper, Gay's play has been a starting-point for 
dramatists such as V. Havel (Zebrácká opera, 1975), W. Soyinka (Opera 
Wonyosi, 1977), Ch. Buarque (Ópera do Malandro, 1978), D. Fo (L'opera 
dello sghignazzo, 1981), A. Ayckbourn (A Chorus of Disapproval, 1984), 
as well as others such as Latouche, Hacks, Fassbinder, Dear, Wasserman, 
and Lepage.Apart from contributions by international scholars analysing 
the above-named plays, the editors' introduction covers other 
dramatists that have payed hommage to Gay. This interdisciplinary 
collection of essays is of particular interest for scholars working in 
the field of drama/theatre studies, the eighteenth century, 
contemporary drama, postcolonial studies, and politics and the 
stage.twentieth centuries), with a special focus on the public sphere, 
legal culture and literature.
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