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LITERARY CRITICISM NEW NEW Under the Sign of the Shield Semiotics and Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes Froma I. Zeitlin “This is undoubtedly the one book to read on Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes, a classic of the criticism of tragedy.The range of questions, the brilliance of the analyses, the importance of the issues raised make this a book that anyone thinking about tragedy should know intimately.” —Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge Froma I. Zeitlin is professor of classics and the Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University. Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2589-2 • 2009 • 198 pp. • $55.00 • cloth Truthful Pictures Slavery Ordained by God in the Domestic, Sentimental Novel of the Nineteenth Century South Diane N. Capitani Truthful Pictures examines novels and sermons written in the antebellum south pre-Civil War, in particular those written after the 1851 publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It begins with a historical overview of the function of women writers in American literature. It then explores the way in which Holy Scripture was perverted in Southern sermons in order to allow the continued enslavement of one group of people by another. Diane N. Capitani is supervisor of the writing center at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-1232-8 • 2009 • 156 pp. • $55.00 • cloth Audio Book Essays on Sound Technologies in Narrative Fiction Mikko Keskinen “Intelligent and compelling analyses of literary culture’s negotiation of sound reproduction ” —Philipp Schweighauser, Georg-AugustUniversität Göttingen Audio Book deals with the ways in which various technologies enabling the transmission or storing of sound and voice are figured in selected works drawn from contemporary narrative fiction.The sound technologies are shown to influence the narrative structure, metaphorics, and style of the works studied. Mikko Keskinen is adjunct professor at the University of Jyväskylä, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Tampere. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-1831-3 • 2008 • 164 pp. • $60.00 • cloth NEW Africana Critical Theory Reconstructing the Black Radical Tradition from W. E. B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral Reiland Rabaka “The book is accessibly written, and offers a useful teaching tool.” —David Theo Goldberg, University of California Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory through the works of W. E. B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, Aime Cesaire, Leopold Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and Amilcar Cabral. Reiland Rabaka is associate professor of Africana studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lexington Books 978-0-7391-2885-5 • 2009 • 452 pp. • $115.00 • cloth ORDER ONLINE AT WWW.LEXINGTONBOOKS.COM • WWW.SCARECROWPRESS.COM

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