BRYN MAWR REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Volume 5, Number 2 (Winter 2006)

REVIEWS:

Theoretical Horizons:

• Giorgio Agamben, The Open: Man and Animal.
  Reviewed by Anat Pick, University of East London.
   
• Derek Attridge, The Singularity of Literature.
  Reviewed by Krzystzof Ziarek, SUNY - Buffalo.

• Martin Jay, Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme.
  Reviewed by Richard J. Bernstein, New School for Social Research.

• Teresa Brennan, The Transmission of Affect.
  Reviewed by Dorian Stuber, Haverford College.

Modernism/Postmodernism -- East and West:

• Edward P. Comentale, Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde.
  Reviewed by Jonathan Greenberg, Montclair State University.
   
• Maeda Ai, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity.
  Reviewed by William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College.  

• Rey Chow, ed. Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field.
  Reviewed by Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
  

Early German Romanticism:

• Manfred Frank, The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism.
  Reviewed by Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College.
   
• Frederick C. Beiser, The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism.
  Reviewed by Marianne Tettlebaum, Haverford College.