Dear list members,
I am pleased to announce a new call for reviews for Comparative Critical Studies, the journal of the BCLA published by Edinburgh University Press.
Please find below a list of the books currently available to be reviewed for the journal. The deadline to request a volume for review will be Friday 4 December. Reviews are usually between 1,000 and 1,500 words. We expect to receive reviews within 4-6 months.
Should you be interested in one of the titles, please send an email indicating your affiliation and research interests to: [log in to unmask]
Best wishes,
Rosa Mucignat
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London
Reviews Editor, Comparative Critical Studies
BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW
1. Blin-Rolland, Armelle, Adapted Voices: Transpositions of Céline’s ‘Voyage ou bout de la nuit’ and Queneau’s ‘Zazie dans le métro (Transcript, Legenda, 2015).
2. Castellani, Marie-Madeleine and Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian (eds), Répresenter le pouvoir: Images du pouvoir dans la literature et les arts (Comparatisme et société, Peter Lang, 2014).
3. Clark, Timothy, Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (Bloomsbury, 2015).
4. Cots, Montserrat, Pere Gifra-Adroher & Glyn Hambrook (eds.), Interrogating Gazes: Comparative Critical Views on the Representation of Foreigness and Otherness (European University Studies – Comparative Literature, Peter Lang, 2014).
5. Gillott, David, Samuel Butler Against the Professionals: Rethinking Lamarckism 1860-1900 (Studies in Comparative Literature, Legenda, 2015).
6. Halim, Hala, Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).
7. Israel, Nico, Spirals: The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art (Modernist Latitudes, Columbia University Press, 2015).
8. Li, Xiaofan Amy, Comparative Encounters between Artaud, Michaux and the Zhuangzi (Transcript, Legenda, 2015).
9. Minnema, Lourens, Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the Mahabharata and Bhagavadgita (Bloomsbury, 2013).
10. Moore, Nicole (ed.), Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View (Bloomsbury, 2015).
11. Mumford, Rebecca, Decadent Daughters and Monstrous Mothers: Angela Carter and European Gothic (Manchester UP, 2013).
12. Punter, David, The Literature of Pity (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
13. Robertson, Ritchie and Michael White (eds), Fontane and Cultural Mediation: Translation and Reception in Nineteenth-Century German Literature (Germanic Literatures, Legenda, 2015).
14. Spolsky, Ellen, The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
15. Viala, Fabienne , The Post-Columbus Syndrome: Identities, Cultural Nationalism, and Commemorations in the Caribbean (New Caribbean Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
16. Williams, David, Writing Postcommunism: Toward a Literature of the East European Ruins (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literatures, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
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