BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 6, Number 1 (Winter 2007)

REVIEWS:

Theoretical Horizons:

• Gary Shapiro, Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying.
  Reviewed by Krzysztof Ziarek, SUNY - Buffalo.
  Response by Gary Shapiro, University of Richmond. 

Rethinking Traditions, Rewriting Histories:

• Jan Assmann, Religion and Cultural Memory.
  Reviewed by Richard Bernstein, New School for Social Research. 

• Thomas Pfau, Romantic Moods: Paranoia, Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790-1840.
  Reviewed by Aileen Forbes, Princeton University.  

• Marshall Brown, The Gothic Text.
  Reviewed by Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova University.
  

Modernism, History, and the Challenges of Representation:

• Nicholas Daly, Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000.
  Reviewed by Christine Ferguson, University of Alberta.
   
• Tomiko Yoda, Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity.
  Reviewed by Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University.  
   
• Andrew Leak and George Paizis, eds., The Holocaust and the Text: Speaking the Unspeakable.
  Reviewed by Margarete J. Landwehr, West Chester University.
  

The Contemporaneity of the Middle Ages:

• Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition.
  Reviewed by Maud Burnett McInerney, Haverford College.
   
• Daniel Heller-Roazen, Fortune's Faces: The Roman de la Rose and the Poetics of Contingency.
  Reviewed by Grace Armstrong, Bryn Mawr College.