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Miller “With vigor, thoroughness, and creativity, Miller traces the treatment of Scottsboro in a variety of media—journalism, poetry, fiction, drama, and film. He demonstrates how each medium and moment constructed its own ‘Scottsboro’ and developed its own lexicon for a case that commanded the public’s attention for roughly half a century.” —Deborah McDowell, author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin Paper $27.95 978-0-691-14047-6 Cloth $55.00 978-0-691-09080-1 June The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VI: Yuddhakāṇda Translated and annotated by Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman & Barend A. van Nooten With an introduction by Robert P. Goldman & Sally J. Sutherland Goldman The sixth book of the Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Yuddhakāṇda, recounts the final dramatic war between the forces of good led by the exiled prince Rāma, and the forces of evil commanded by the arch demon Rāvaṇa. The Yuddhakāṇda contains some of the most extraordinary events and larger-than-life characters to be found anywhere in world literature. Princeton Library of Asian Translations Cloth $150.00 978-0-691-06663-9 June A Reader’s Guide to Wallace Stevens Eleanor Cook “In contrast to guides that provide long, involved commentaries, Cook’s incisiveness and brevity are impressive—she sheds light without forcing her interpretation.” —Nancy R. Ives, libraryjournal.com “This is a much-needed book. . . . [Cook’s] comments and glosses are by turns incisive, erudite, and witty, and often shed more light on the poems than much more drawn- out and elaborate commentaries.” —Roger Gilbert, Cornell University New in Paper $24.95 978-0-691-14108-4 Cultural Capitals Early Modern London and Paris Karen Newman “Newman’s handsomely produced volume is a true work of cultural history: wide- ranging and purposefully interdisciplinary. . . . In bringing early modern London and Paris together so productively, she has, as she intended, made those scholars familiar with one or the other, or even both, reconsider what they thought they knew.” —Tracey Hill, Renaissance Quarterly New in Paper $24.95 978-0-691-14110-7 800.777.4726 press.princeton.edu < Previous ad Next ad > http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1026.pdf http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1028.pdf 1028 “Reading Scriptures, Reading America: Interruptions, Orientation, and Mimicry among U.S. Communities of Color” October 15-17, 2009 Institute for Signifying Scriptures Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA For further information contact: Vincent L. Wimbush, Convener iss@cgu.edu Ph: (909) 607-9676 www.signifyingscriptures.org Keynote address by award-winning journalist, Richard Rodriguez ON THE ORIGIN OF STORIES Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction B RIAN BOYD “Fascinating…Elaborate hypotheses like this one are themselves a kind of story, and Boyd tells his on a grand scale…It is expert, though highly idiosyncratic, literary criticism.” —George Scialabba, Boston Globe Belknap Press / new in cloth LAW AND LITERATURE Third Edition RICHARD A . POSNER Hailed in its fi rst edition as an “outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished” (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post’s prediction that the book would “remain essential reading for many years to come.” new in paperback RACE AND ERUDITION MAURICE OLENDER TR ANSLATED BY JANE MARIE TODD Olender elegantly teases out the cultural history of the word “race,” a history that explains its diverse political uses and its continuing relevance to our global contemporary society. new in cloth THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF COMPUTATION DAVID GOLUMBIA Driven by a programmer’s knowledge of computers as well as by a deep engagement with contemporary literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist theory, The Cultural Logic of Computation provides a needed corrective to the uncritical enthusiasm for computers common today in many parts of our culture. new in cloth THE PROGRAM ERA Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing MARK MCGURL “What has the movement of postwar writing into the university done to our literature?…The obvious nature of this question only places the decades-long lack of a proper answer in higher relief. It is proportionately exhilarating to fi nd, in Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, a brilliant and comprehensive mind developing one at last.” —Mark Greif, Bookforum new in cloth Harvard University Press WWW.HUP.HARVARD.EDU FACEBOOK | TWITTER | YOUTUBE < Previous ad Next ad > http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1027.pdf http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1029.pdf 1029 Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde Philip E. Smith II, ed. xii & 278 pp. Cloth 978-1-60329-009-8 $37.50 • Paper 978-1-60329-010-4 $19.75 “This is an exceptionally rich and comprehensive collection. Many will consult it for scholarly insights alone; those who read it for ideas on teaching Wilde will find a gold mine.” — Julia Prewitt Brown Boston University Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Tony Magistrale, eds. xix & 241 pp. Cloth 978-1-60329-011-1 $37.50 • Paper 978-1-60329-012-8 $19.75 “The essays provide practical activities that can be readily attempted by teachers who are open to a variety of pedagogical techniques—and who have been frustrated by students’ preconceptions concerning Poe.” — Joseph Andriano University of Louisiana, Lafayette 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1789 n 646 576-5161 n Fax 646 576-5160 n www.mla.org Approaches to Teaching W O R L D L I T E R A T U R E New in the MLA series < Previous ad Next ad > http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1028.pdf http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1030.pdf 1030 26 Broadway, New York, NY 10004-1789 n 646 576-5161 n Fax 646 576-5160 n www.mla.org NEW IN THE MLA SERIES WORLD LITERATURES REIMAGINED NEW IN THE MLA SERIES TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Sarah An English Translation Deborah Jenson and Doris Y. KaDish, trans. xli & 96 pp. • Paper 978-1-60329-027-2 $9.95 Sarah The Original French Text Deborah Jenson and Doris Y. KaDish, eds. xxxvii & 93 pp. • Paper 978-1-60329-026-5 $9.95 “This edition of Sarah promises not only to expand the place of women’s writing in the colonial archive but also to help bridge the gap between nineteenth- and twentieth-century francophone studies of slavery while promoting the integration of French and francophone studies across the curriculum.” — Adrianna M. Paliyenko, editor of engendering race: romantic-era Women and French Colonial Memory Tales of Crossed Destinies The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context azaDe seYhan xii & 238 pp. • Cloth 978-1-60329-030-2 $40.00 • Paper 978-1-60329-031-9 $22.00 “A panoramic picture of the Turkish novel. This is the best book on Turkish novels that are available in English translation.” — Orhan Pamuk “A stunning achievement. This book should be a major contribu- tion to the teaching of world literature. Seyhan has, I believe, ‘reimagined’ the Turkish novel in a way that makes it accessible to classrooms.” — Walter G. Andrews University of Washington < Previous ad Next ad > http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/1029.pdf http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/misc/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.issue-3/coveriii.pdf Binder3.pdf 1003 1005 1007 1009 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030