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Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — August 2008
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Reading Cooper, teaching Cooper.

Ed. by Jeffrey Walker. (AMS studies in the nineteenth century; no.38)
AMS Press, ©2007    413 p.    $97.50    PS1437
978-0-404-64468-0

For teachers, students, and pleasure readers, scholars suggest reasons for reading the work of early American novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) along with some methods for teaching and understanding it. Their topics include whether Cooper is obsolete, an experimental novelist, his Leather-Stocking prefaces, reversing the courtship novel in The Deerslayer, and his European landscapes. Only his works are indexed. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Symbolism; an international annual of critical aesthetics; v.7.

Ed. by Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer. (Series: title)
AMS Press, ©2007    389 p.    $157.50    PN44
978-0-404-63567-1

The special theme for this volume is cinema, symbolism, and the contemporary subject. It is addressed by 10 articles on such topics as Ingmar Bergman and dream after Freud, the representation of the male body in the films of Pedro Almodévar, and Scottish national identity in Dog Soldiers. In addition, four articles explore other topics, and six recently published book are reviewed. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)