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The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon
Kathleen Forni
Pubdate: 12/27/2001

The first modern treatment of the Chaucerian Apocrypha-the 51 spurious works included in the folio editions printed between 1532 and 1721-addresses the nature of canon formation and why the apocrypha became a Chaucerian canon of its own. 		Cloth: $59.95
Science and Literature: Bridging the Two Cultures
David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen
Pubdate: 11/30/2001

In this lively and provacative book, a scientific and a humanities scholar attempt to build a bridge between the two cultures in which they work. 		Cloth: $65.00
Tracing Arachne's Web: Myth and Feminist Fiction
Kristin M. Mapel Bloomberg
Pubdate: 11/14/2001

Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing how both classical allusions and ethnic folk myth liberated these writers and enabled them to understand and experience 		Cloth: $59.95
Chaucer's Body: The Anxiety of Circulation in the Canterbury Tales
R. Allen Shoaf
Pubdate: 11/7/2001

Chaucer's Body follows the fortune of individual bodies in the Canterbury Tales to their suprising involvements in both the humor and the horror of being human. Neither wholly carnal nor wholly spiritual, bodies in Chaucer's poem emerge as sites of resis 		Cloth: $55.00
Joycean Temporalities: Debts, Promises, and Countersignatures
Tony Thwaites
Pubdate: 10/25/2001

Thwaites reframes a number of familiar critical debates and issues-Joycean aesthetics and history, the "mythic" parallels of Ulysses, the realtionship of the interior monologue to literary realism, the vexed figure of the narrator, and the endless effects 		Cloth: $59.95
Plots and Powers: Magical Structures in Medieval Narrative
Anne Wilson
Pubdate: 10/18/2001

Anne Wilson shows, through a series of case studies, how to read traditional and other kinds of narrative as 'magical'. 		Cloth: $59.95
Women Poets on the Left: Lola Ridge, Genevieve Taggard, Margaret Walker
Nancy Berke
Pubdate: 10/18/2001

Berke studies the poetry of three radical women authors who wrote in the first half of the 20th century about the compelling issues of their times. 		Cloth: $59.95
Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Brenda Deen Schildgen
Pubdate: 10/10/2001

Schildgen takes a new path in Chaucer studies by examining the Canterbury Tales set outside a Christian-dominated world-tales that pit Christian teleological ethics and history against the imagines beliefs and practices of Moslems, Jews, pagans. And Chauc 		Cloth: $59.95
Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature
Patrick Colm Hogan
Pubdate: 9/30/2001

Argues that contemporary literary studies routinely invoke philosophical concepts that are only dimly understood. The first book to explicate & apply these concepts specifically for literature students. Covers: Aristotle & classic theory; Kant & the Germa 		Paper: $24.95
Anaïs Nin's Narratives
Edited by Anne T. Salvatore
Pubdate: 9/27/2001

This collection examines in depth the narrative elements of Nin's writing utilizing close readings of her erotica, diaries, and prose poem.
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