BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 8, Number 1 (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)

REVIEWS:

The Frankfurt School and After:

• Gerhard Richter, Thought Images: Frankfurt School Writers' Reflections from Damaged Life.
  Reviewed by Tania Roy, National University of Singapore. 

• Amanda Anderson, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory.
  Reviewed by Robert J. Dostal, Bryn Mawr College.  

• Geoffrey Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe.
  Reviewed by Mimi Godfrey, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
   

Critical Historiographies:

• Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism; The Price of Monotheism.
  Reviewed by Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research. 

• Ian Baucom, Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History.
  Reviewed by Robin Blackburn, New School for Social Research; University of Essex, UK.
  
  

Modernity/Modernism:

• Fredric Jameson, The Modernist Papers.
  Reviewed by G. S. Sahota, University of California, Santa Cruz.    
   
• William Gardner, Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s.
  Reviewed by Kerim Yasar, Princeton University.
  

Poetry as Risk:

• Claire Chi-ah Lyu, A Sun within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry.
  Reviewed by Jeanne Minahan McGinn, Curtis Institute of Music.