Nightmares in the

Dream Sanctuary

War and the Animated Film

Donna Kornhaber

“Extraordinarily engaging, psycholog-

ically penetrating, and intellectually

absorbing. In short, this is a new classic

of topical fi lm studies and the literature

of art and war.”—Booklist

Cloth $35.

The Ruins Lesson

Meaning and Material in

Western Culture

Susan Stewart

“Th e book explores the varied, volatile

forms in which we imagine and re-

member and care for, or fail to care for,

the made and given world. Th at care

shows itself in Stewart’s own quality of

attention, the range of her curiosity, the

depth of her scholarship, the risk of her

thought.”—Kenneth Gross, University of

Rochester

Cloth $35.

Dark Lens

Imaging Germany, 1945

Françoise Meltzer

“Meltzer’s Dark Lens is based around a

couple of dozen snaps which her mother

took of ruined German cities immedi-

ately after the war. Th is personal angle

whets the reader’s appetite, as does the

reminder of just how strangely fascinated

we all are by ruins.”—Th e Spectator

Cloth $35.

Now in Paperback

Bitten by the Blues

The Alligator Records Story

Bruce Iglauer and

Patrick A. Roberts

“Iglauer and coauthor Roberts provide an

enlightening view of the music-making

process—from scouting talent in obscure

clubs to the quest for originality in the

studio to marketing and distribution.”

—DownBeat

Paper $20.

Michelangelo’s

Painting

Selected Essays

Leo Steinberg

Edited by Sheila Schwartz

With an Introduction by Alexander Nagel

Th e second in a series of writings by

Leo Steinberg, one of the most original

art historians of the twentieth century,

Michelangelo’s Painting delves into the

symbolic structures of this artist’s works.

It brings together essays and unpublished

lectures that elucidate Michelangelo’s

famed and lesser-known paintings.

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Character

Three Inquiries in Literary Studies

Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski,

and Toril Moi

“Th ree internationally famous literary

scholars have turned revolutionary gen-

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as, or learning to be, a literary critic

should read.”—Times Higher Education

Paper $20.

Wordsworth’s Fun

Matthew Bevis

“Refreshingly free from pomposity....

Th e general eff ect of the book’s thesis is

enjoyable and enlightening, and it also

produces some rewarding sidelines.”

—Times Literary Supplement

Paper $27.

The Order of Forms

Realism, Formalism, and

Social Space

Anna Kornbluh

“One of the most exciting books I’ve

read in several decades. Staging the

convergence of discourses that have

never been rigorously linked together,

Kornbluh generates a series of provoc-

ative and convincing arguments about

literature, criticism, and the agency of

form.”—Sianne Ngai, University of

Chicago

Paper $27.

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