New Books

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Since Apr 20, 2013

Subject: Language, Literature, & Film

Items on the New Bookshelf

This listing shows the books in alphabetical order by the author's last name. On the second line of each listing you will find the date the resource was added and imprint information. Click on the title to find the book's record in the MnPALS catalog.

• A companion to the American novel
  May 28, 2013 — Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012. lxx, 633 p. ; 26 cm.
• American cinema of the 1980s : themes and variations
  Apr 22, 2013 — New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. xiv, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• American cinema of the 2000s : themes and variations
  Apr 22, 2013 — New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. xii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Centering Anishinaabeg studies : understanding the world through stories
  May 23, 2013 — East Lansing : Michigan State University Press ; Winnepeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2013. xxvii, 417 p. ; 23 cm.
• Constructions of masculinity in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present
  May 21, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. viii, 278 p. ; 22 cm.
• Horror after 9/11 : world of fear, cinema of terror
  May 20, 2013 — Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011. 263 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Old English literature and the Old Testament
  May 29, 2013 — Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2012. viii, 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Strange divisions and alien territories : the sub-genres of science fiction
  May 23, 2013 — xiv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
• Subjectivity : filmic representation and the spectator's experience
  May 20, 2013 — Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2011. 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Abravanel, Genevieve, 1975- / Americanizing Britain : the rise of modernism in the age of the entertainment empire
  May 20, 2013 — New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. xii, 206 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Andrews, Stuart, 1932- / Robert Southey : history, politics, religion
  May 28, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvii, 250 p. ; 22 cm.
• Aronstein, Susan Lynn. / An introduction to British Arthurian narrative
  May 20, 2013 — Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012. xvi, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
• Atkins, G. Douglas (George Douglas), 1943- / Reading T.S. Eliot : four quartets and the journey towards understanding
  May 28, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. ix, 185 p. ; 23 cm.
• Aĭkhenvalʹd, A. I͡U. (Aleksandra I͡Urʹevna) / The languages of the Amazon
  May 17, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. xxxiii, 514 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
• Bazin, André, 1918-1958. / French cinema from the Liberation to the New Wave, 1945-1958
  May 17, 2013 — [New Orleans, La.] : UNO Press, University of New Orleans Press c2012. 415 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
• Béjoint, Henri. / The lexicography of English : from origins to present
  May 17, 2013 — Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. xxiv, 458 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Bowers, John M., 1949- / An introduction to the Gawain poet
  May 20, 2013 — Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. xvii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.
• Cheng, John. / Astounding wonder : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America
  May 17, 2013 — Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. 392 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
• Corrigan, John Michael. / American metempsychosis : Emerson, Whitman, and the new poetry
  May 22, 2013 — New York : Fordham University Press, c2012. viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.
• Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. / Becoming Dickens : the invention of a novelist
  May 16, 2013 — Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. 389 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Eckhardt, Ned, 1940- / Documentary filmmakers handbook
  May 20, 2013 — Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2012. ix, 196 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
• Gates, Henry Louis. / The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reader
  May 29, 2013 — New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2012. xii, 644 p. ; 25 cm.
• Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956- / Fictional and historical worlds
  May 21, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012. xiii, 264 p. ; 23 cm.
• Heuston, Sean, 1971- / Modern Poetry and Ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist
  May 20, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ©2011. xii, 195 pages ; 23 cm.
• Hughes, Alan, 1939-, author. / Performing Greek comedy
  May 20, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Johnson, Claudia L., author. / Jane Austen's cults and cultures
  May 20, 2013 — xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Kendall, Tim, 1970- / The art of Robert Frost
  May 29, 2013 — New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2012. xvi, 392 p. ; 25 cm.
• Kessler-Harris, Alice. / A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman
  May 28, 2013 — New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2012. 439 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Kord, Susanne. / Contemporary Hollywood masculinities : gender, genre, and politics
  May 23, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Landy, Joshua, 1965- / How to do things with fictions
  May 23, 2013 — New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. xiii, 250 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
• Levinson, Julie R. / The American success myth on film
  May 13, 2013 — New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2012. viii, 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Markert, John, 1945- / Post-9/11 cinema : through a lens darkly
  May 17, 2013 — Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., c2011. xli, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• McLoughlin, Catherine Mary, 1970- / Authoring war : the literary representation of war from the Iliad to Iraq
  May 15, 2013 — Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. ix, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
• Park, William, 1930- / What is film noir?
  May 28, 2013 — Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011. ix, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Parrish, Timothy, 1964- / Ralph Ellison and the genius of America
  May 23, 2013 — Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012. xiv, 253 p. ; 23 cm.
• Phillips, Christopher N. / Epic in American culture : settlement to reconstruction
  May 17, 2013 — Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Plotnik, Arthur. / The elements of expression : putting thoughts into words
  May 28, 2013 — Berkeley, Calif. : Cleis Press, 2012. xvii, 330 p. ; 18 cm.
• Prince, Stephen, 1955- / Digital visual effects in cinema : the seduction of reality
  May 28, 2013 — New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2012. ix, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Samuels, Shirley. / Reading the American novel, 1780-1865
  May 28, 2013 — Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xvi, 185 p. ; 24 cm.
• Scott, Ian, 1954- / American politics in Hollywood film
  May 28, 2013 — Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2011. vii, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Silverman, Gillian D., 1967- / Bodies and books : reading and the fantasy of communion in nineteenth-century America
  May 22, 2013 — Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2012. xiii, 226 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Sitter, John E. / The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry
  May 20, 2013 — Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. xii, 246 p. ; 23 cm.
• Thornham, Sue. / What if I had been the hero? : investigating women's cinema
  May 16, 2013 — Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; London : British Film Institute, 2012. vi, 236 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Treharne, Elaine M. / Living Through Conquest : The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220
  May 21, 2013 — xv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.