BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2011)

REVIEWS:

Thinking and Believing in Dark Times:

• Julia Kristeva, This Incredible Need to Believe.
  Reviewed by Elaine P. Zickler, PhD, LCSW; Faculty, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Literary Criticism and Democracy:

• Lee Morrissey, The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism.
  Reviewed by David Mazella, University of Houston. 
  

The Dialectic between Work and Pleasure in Fiction:

• Carolyn Lesjak, Working Fictions: A Genealogy of the Victorian Novel.
  Reviewed by Daniel Nisa Cáceres, Universidad de Sevilla.    
  

Tropes of Translation--Mediation and Cross-Cultural Dialogue:

• Homay King, Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier.
  Reviewed by Ana Salzberg, PhD.   
   
• Magdalena J. Zaborowska, James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile.
  Reviewed by Keith B. Mitchell, University of Massachussets at Lowell.  

• J. J. Long, W. G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity.
  Reviewed by Margarete Johanna Landwehr, West Chester University.