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Joyce Boro

Lord Berners, the Neologist
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 1-8; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql115 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Goran V. Stanivukovic

"Mounting Above the Truthe": On Hyperbole in English Renaissance Literature
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 26, 2007
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 9-33; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Angelica Goodden

The Man-Woman and the Idiot: Madame de Staël's Public/Private Life
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 24, 2007
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 34-45; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql117 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Vassallo

Wounded Storyteller: Illness as Life Narrative in Nina Bouraoui's Garçon manqué
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 46-56; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql113 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rosalind Silvester

"Le Récit de vie(s)": Immobility and Fluidity in Ying Chen's Works
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 23, 2007
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Hilary Brown

Johanna Eleonora Petersen and the Reception of Molière in Germany
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 22, 2007
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 69-80; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jason Wilson

Writing for the Future: Echeverría's "El matadero" and its Secret Rewriting by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares as "La fiesta del monstruo"
Forum for Modern Language Studies Advance Access published on January 23, 2007
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Anakreontische Aufklärung. Ed. Manfred Beetz & Hans-Joachim Kertscher. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005. 323 pp. 98. ISBN 3–484–81028–9
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 93; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ARNASON, JOHANN P. & ROBERTS, DAVID. Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation. Woodbridge: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture), 2004. viii + 166 pp. £45/$65. ISBN 1–57113–160–4
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ARONOFF, MARK & FUDEMAN, KIRSTEN. What is Morphology? Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xviii + 257 pp. £50 (hardback)/£16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–631–20318–4/20319–2
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BAKER, PAUL. Public Discourses of Gay Men. London & New York: Routledge, 2004. x + 266 pp. £63. ISBN 0–415–34973–7
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BEEDHAM, CHRISTOPHER. Language and Meaning: The Structural Creation of Reality. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 55), 2005. xiv + 225 pp. $138/115. ISBN 90–272–1564–2
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BERGFELDER, TIM. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Oxford: Berghahn, 2004 (hardback), 2005 (paperback). 288 pp. $60/£36.50 (hardback); $25/£14.95 (paperback). ISBN 1–57181–539–2/–4
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BLACK, ELIZABETH. Pragmatic Stylistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics), 2006. x + 166 pp. £55 (hardback)/£18.99 (paperback). ISBN 978–0–7486–2040–1/2041–8
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 94-95; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BODEGOM, GERDA & DONALDSON, BRUCE. Colloquial Dutch 2: The Next Step in Language Learning. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xii + 208 pp. £24.46 (pack: paperback, audio cassettes, CDs). ISBN 0–415–31076–8
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 95; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CHAUDHURI, SHOHINI. Contemporary World Cinema: Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and South Asia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. vii + 199 pp. £45 (hardback)/£14.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–748–61798–1/61799–X
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CHOMSKY, NOAM. Rules and Representations (with a Foreword by Norbert Hornstein). New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. xlix + 299 pp. £42/$64.50 (hardback); £16/$24.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–231–13270–0/13271–9
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The Cinema of Canada. Ed. Jerry White. London & New York: Wallflower Press (24 Frames Series), 2006. xv + 268 pp. £45 (hardback)/£18.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–904–76460–6/76461–4
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 96; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql128 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

The Cinema of the Balkans. Ed. Dina Iordanova. London & New York: Wallflower Press (24 Frames Series), 2006. xvi + 291 pp. £45 (hardback)/£18.99 (paperback). ISBN 1–904–76481–9/76480–0
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CLERY, E. J. Women's Gothic from Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers (Writers and Their Work), 2004 (2nd edition). viii + 168 pp. £10.99. ISBN 0–7463–1144–3
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Close Reading: The Reader. Ed. Frank Lentricchia & Andrew Dubois. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2003. ix + 391 pp. £82/$95 (hardback); £19.95/$26 (paperback). ISBN 0–8223–3026–1/3039–3
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A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti. Ed. Dagmar C. G. Lorenz. Woodbridge: Camden House (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture), 2004, xiv + 350 pp. £65/$90. ISBN 1–57113–234–1
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Ed. Barbara Fischer & Thomas C. Fox. New York: Camden House, 2005. 410 pp. £55/$99. ISBN 1571132430
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Crosslinguistic Research in Syntax and Semantics: Negation, Tense, and Clausal Architecture. Ed. Raffaella Zanuttini, Héctor Campos, Elena Herburger & Paul H. Portner. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 247 pp. $49.95. ISBN 1–58901–080–9
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DE BOT, KEES, WANDER LOWIE AND MARJOLIJN VERSPOOR. Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xvi + 303 pp. £18.99. ISBN 0–415–338700–0
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DIACONOFF, SUELLEN. Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books and Sex in the French Enlightenment. State University of New York Press (SUNY Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory), Albany NY, 2005. vii + 268 pp. £14.95. ISBN 0–7914–6421–0
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DUNCAN, BRUCE. Goethe's Werther and the Critics. New York: Camden House, 2005. 200 pp. £50/$75. ISBN 1–57113–284–8
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EL-ENANY, RASHEED. Arab Representations of the Occident: East–West Encounters in Arabic Fiction. London: Routledge, 2006. x + 255 pp. £60. ISBN 0–415–33217–6
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FAULKNER, SALLY. A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. ix + 198 pp. £45. ISBN 0–7486–2160–1
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Four Restoration Libertine Plays. Ed. Deborah Payne Fisk. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2005. liv + 414 pp. £10.99/$16.95. ISBN 0–19–283294–8
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GEIGER, JEFFREY & RUTSKY, R. L. Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. New York: Norton, 2005. 960 pp. £19.99. ISBN 0–393–97983–0
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GLINERT, LEWIS. Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar (third edition). London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xx + 300 pp. £16.99. ISBN 0–415–70082–5
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GODJEVAC, SVETLANA. Focus projection in Serbo-Croatian. Stanford: CSLI Publications (Stanford Monographs in Linguistics), 2006. vi + 186 pp. $32/£20.50. ISBN 1575864789
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GÖKSEL, ASLI & KERSLAKE, CELIA. Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xl + 580 pp. £26.99. ISBN 0–415–11494–2
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 100-101; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql143 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Ed. David Basker. Cardiff: University of Wales Press (Contemporary German Writers Series, ed. Rhys W. Williams), 2004. xii + 139 pp. £19.99 (hardback); £9.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7083–1715–4/1716–2
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HIPPISLEY, ANTHONY & LUK'JANOVA, EVGENIJA. Simeon Polockij's Library: A Catalogue. Cologne, Weimar & Vienna: Böhlau, 2005. ii + 234 pp. 34.90. ISBN 3–412–22905–9
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HOFFMANN, SEBASTIAN. Grammaticalization and English Complex Prepositions: A Corpus-Based Study. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xiv + 214 pp. £65. ISBN 0–41536049–8
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IBARZ, TONI & IBARZ, ALEXANDER. Colloquial Catalan: The Complete Course for Beginners. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xx + 290 pp. £27.61 (pack: paperback, audio cassettes, CDs). ISBN 0–415–23414–X
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JORDAN, P.R. The Author in the Office: Narrative Writing in Twentieth-Century Argentina and Uruguay. Woodbridge: Tamesis (Serie A: Monografías 226), 2006. 237 pp. £50/$85. ISBN 1–85566–126–8
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 102; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql148 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Ed. Siobhan Chapman & Christopher Routledge. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005. xii + 282 pp. £55 (hardback); £16.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–7486–1757–4/1758–2
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 102-103; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql149 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

KUNDERA, LUDVÍK. Overwintering. (Text and translations: Ian Hilton) Chipping Campden: The Guild, 2004. 50 pp. ISBN 0–9548036
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LIMA, ROBERT. Stages of Evil: Occultism in Western Theater and Drama. Lexington KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. ix + 329 pp. $55. ISBN 0–8131–2362–3
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LINELL, PER. The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. ix + 256 pp. £65. ISBN 0–415–34992–3
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MAC GIOLLA CHRÍOST, DIARMAIT. The Irish Language in Ireland: From Goídel to Globalisation. London & New York: Routledge, 2005. xlvii + 259 pp. £80. ISBN 0–415–32046–1
Forum Mod Lang Stud 2007 43: 103-104; doi:10.1093/fmls/cql153 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

MACAULAY, RONALD. The Social Art: Language and its Uses (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. xii + 244 pp. £11.99. ISBN 0–19–518796–2
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MALTARICH, BILL. Samurai and Supermen: National Socialist Views of Japan. Lang: Oxford (German Life and Civilisation 42), 2005. 406 pp. 57.10/£40. ISBN 3–03910–303–2
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MARTIN, BERND. Japan and Germany in the Modern World. Oxford: Berghahn, 2006. xiv + 304 pp. £14.95/$24.95. ISBN 1–84545–047–7
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MOORE, JOHN & RODCHUE, SAOWALAK. Colloquial Thai: The Complete Course for Beginners (second edition). London & New York: Routledge, 2005. vi + 394 pp. £27.31 (pack: paperback, audio cassettes, CDs). ISBN 0–415–32977–9
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ONETTI, JUAN CARLOS. Obras Completas Vol. I: Novelas I (1939–1954). Ed. Hortensia Campanella. Madrid: Círculo de Lectores/Galaxia Gutenberg (Opera Mundi), 2006. xcvii + 970 pp. 55. ISBN 84–672–1455–4
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