BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 2002)

REVIEWS:

Trauma, Experience, History:

• Giorgio Agamben, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive.

Reviewed by Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research.
 
• Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy.

Reviewed by Dorian Stuber, Cornell University.
 
• Ross Chambers, Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author.

Reviewed by Julia Epstein.
 
• Krzysztof Ziarek, The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event.

Reviewed by J. M. Bernstein, New School for Social Research.

Renaissance/Early Modern Interests:

• Gordon Braden, Petrarchan Love and the Continental Renaissance.

Reviewed by María Cristina Quintero, Bryn Mawr College.
 
• Mary Thomas Crane, Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory.

Reviewed by Nancy Selleck, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Poetry as Performative Act:

• Angela Esterhammer, The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism.

Reviewed by William Galperin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Women Making History in Fiction:

• Hu Ying, Tales of Translation: Composing the New Woman in China, 1899-1918.

Reviewed by Felicia Ho, University of California, Los Angeles.
 
• Eve Tavor Bannet, The Domestic Revolution: Enlightenment Feminisms and the Novel.

Reviewed by Julie Park, Princeton University.

Translation as Cultural Study:

• Silviano Santiago, The Space In-Between: Essays on Latin American Culture.

Reviewed by Eva-Lynn Alicia Jagoe, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
 
• Linda Collinge, Beckett traduit Beckett: de Malone meurt à Malone dies: L' imaginaire en traduction.
Reviewed by Adrienne Janus, Stanford University.