Book Reviews

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Reviews of: Lois Parkinson Zamora and Monika Kaup, eds., Baroque New Worlds: Representation, Transculturation, Counterconquest (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010); Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James, eds., The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures (New York: Rodopi, 2011); Graeme Dunphy and Rainer Emig, eds., Hybrid Humor: Comedy in Transcultural Perspectives (Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2009); Sarah Säckel, Walter Göbel and Noha Hamdy, eds., Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2009); Marko Juvan, Literary Studies in Reconstruction: An Introduction to Literature (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011); Homay King, Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2010); Sally Chivers, The Silvering Screen: Old Age and Disability in Cinema (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2011); Nora Foster Stovel, Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2008).