BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 7, Number 1 (Fall 2008)

REVIEWS:

The Politics of Language:

• Sam Weber, Benjamin's -abilities.
  Reviewed by Carlo Salzani, University of Bonn. 

• Lydia H. Liu, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making.
  Reviewed by Jon Solomon, University of Minnesota.  

Liminal Experiences:

• Daniel Heller-Roazen, Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language; The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation.
  Reviewed by Dorian Stuber, Hendrix College. 

• Elaine Freedgood, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel.
  Reviewed by Daniel Nisa Cáceres, Universidad de Sevilla.
  

Philosophical Explorations:

• Martin Seel, Aesthetics of Appearing.
  Reviewed by Mario Wenning, University of Macau.    
   
• R. Clifton Spargo, Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death.
  Reviewed by Megan Craig, Stony Brook University.
  

Rethinking Genre:

• Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes.
  Reviewed by Gregory Byala, Temple University.
   
• Rita Felski, ed., Rethinking Tragedy.
  Reviewed by Verna A. Foster, Loyola University Chicago.