2009 Spring - New Publications of Note

Reviewers:

JKL = Jeffry K. Larson

RLK = Robert L. Kusmer

French

Aziza, Claude. Guide de l’antiquité imaginaire: roman, cinéma, bande dessinée. Paris: Belles lettres, 2008. 299 p.; 21 cm. ISBN 9782251443546: 17 € An international survey of fictional treatments of antiquity in popular genres, pulp, film, and BD. The last four chapters trace selected themes, citing available fictional and historical treatments. Most bibliographical references are embedded in the text, but there is a 1-page general bibliography, and indices of characters, places, realia themes, monsters, and catastrophe movies. [JKL]

Bégaudeau, François. Antimanuel de littérature. Croissy-Beaubourg: Bréal, 2008. 295 p.; ill: 21 cm. ISBN 9782749503288: 21 € A lively deconstruction of canonical French literature, by the author (of the book), co-author (of the film scenario), and leading actor of Entre les murs, a quasi-documentary about a French class for 14-year-olds. Includes a tongue-in-cheek glossary of literary terms and an annotated list of French authors, e. g., “Montaigne – Que tout le monde l’aime devrait éveiller notre suspicion, mais rien à faire”. The publisher offers an informal series of Antimanuels: …de philosophie, …de sociologie, …d’éducation sexuelle. [JKL]

Bibliographie: études sur la prose française de l’extrême contemporain en Italie et en France, 1984-2006. Ed. Matteo Majorano. Bari: B.A. Graphis, 2007. xvi, 178 p.; 21 cm. (Marges critiques; 9) ISBN 9788875810764: 16 € Classed unannotated bibliographies of studies of recent French prose, one for each country of the critical publications; also includes annotated weblographies of relevant sites, and indices of authors discussed and of critics. [JKL]

Catalogue des exposants: 18e Salon de la Revue, Paris, les 10, 11 et 12 octobre 2008. Paris: Ent’revues, [2008]. 165 p.; 21 cm. ISBN 9782907702478: 5 €. A catalogue of (most of) the cultural reviews participating in the 2008 Salon de la Revue sponsored by Ent’revues. Arranged by title, the typical entries—four or five to a page—show the reviews’ publisher, address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail, URL, periodicity, price, ISSN, and distributor. Copies are available while supplies last at the publisher’s, 174 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris. [JKL]

Les contradictions de la globalisation éditoriale. Ed. Gisèle Sapiro. Paris: Nouveau monde, 2009. 412 p. ; 24 cm. ISBN 9782847363920: 49 € A collection of studies on the recent evolution of the global book trade, publishing strategies, and publishing of translations. [JKL]

Disfa: Dictionnaire synchronique des familles dérivationnelles de mots français. [ed. Claude Gruaz]. Limoges: Lambert-Lucas, 2008. 2 v.; 1277 p.: 21x30 cm. ISBN 9782915806625: 90 € From the CNRS-HESO (Histoire et structure des orthographes et systèmes d’écriture) & CNRS-DYALANG (Dynamiques sociolangagières), a dictionary with a “forme arborescente” that synchronically presents terms and their semantic (not etymological) derivatives, based on a corpus of 75,000 entries from Lexis (1992 [Walford7 3:5794]) and other dictionaries of current usage published since 1990. The 545 “family” entries appear to be arranged in order of frequency as determined by Juilland et al’s Frequency Dictionary of French Words (1970); each subentry indicates grammatical role and meaning, and place in the overall family structure. Etymological relations that depart from the semantic “family” are placed in a note at the end of each grouping. Includes an 8-item bibliography and an index of the “family” entries. The text is also available online at http://sites.univ-provence.fr/delic/disfa/, though the URL is not indicated in the Introduction. [JKL]

Guide des sites web francophones 2009. [rédigé par Jean-Christophe Bonalair, Grégory Levis & Olivier Monnot]. Paris: Micro application, 2008. 859 p.; 19 cm. (Super poche) ISBN 9782300014284: 17 € A quirkily classed directory of Francophone web sites, forums, and blogs, boasting more than 10,000 URLs (though it misses Exalead and Zazieweb). “Mariage” is listed under “Shopping” (making one think of Ravenhill’s play), while “Homosexualité” is under “Vie pratique”! Annotated, rated entries indicate if a site has downloadable files, audio or video material, participation or subscription possibilities, purchasing, or an array of links to other sites. A useful section (with 5 sites) is “Comment rechercher” under “Education/Travaux pratiques encadrés”, p. 201f. Includes no see-references, only occasional duplicate entries, and an index of site names. Although the coverage of literature, publishing, the book trade and libraries is lean and dispersed, I’m ordering a desk copy. [JKL]

Hamon, Philippe; & Viboud, Alexandrine. Dictionnaire thématique du roman de moeurs en France. 1814-1914. Paris: Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2008. 2 vols.: 442; 410 p.; 25 cm. 53€ The considerably augmented edition of an index of themes in 19th-century French fiction (not just novels) whose first edition was noted in our Spring 2004 issue. The chronological coverage has been extended 36 years backwards, and references to fiction of even the latter half of the century have been added, as well as to relevant studies of social and cultural history, Very useful for students of the literary treatment of specific themes. [JKL]

Histoire de la librairie française. Eds. Patricia Sorel et Frédérique Leblanc. Paris: Cercle de la librairie, 2008. 719 p.; ill.: 30 cm. ISBN 9782765409663: 159 € A history of the French book trade in the last two centuries in profusely illustrated coffee-table format. Includes a 16-page bibliography and an index of publishers, series, and persons. [JKL]

Larsonneur, Claire. La recherche internet en lettres et langues. Paris: Ophrys, 2008. 174 p.; 21 cm. ISBN 9782708012042: 16€ A pedagogical guide to finding and using philological and literary resources on the Internet. The mellifluously-named author, a Maître de Conférences at Paris VIII, starts out by warning of the limits and defects of Google, and arranges the chapters by methodical and subject topics with exercises at the end of each. Includes a 32-page annotated list of favorite sites in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English, a 4-page annotated “boîtes à outils”, a 2-page Anglo-French bibliography, and a subject index. I’m ordering a desk copy. [JKL]

Legendre, Bertrand. L’édition. Paris: Cavalier bleu, 2008. 126 p.; 18 cm. (Idées reçues. Arts & culture; 176) ISBN 9782846702355: 9.50 € A critical examination of commonplaces about French publishing, e. g., “Le numérique va tuer le livre”. In annex: a table of the seven major publishing groups in France and a 5-page bibliography. [JKL]

Varence, Marc. Le livre: enfer et paradis. Paris: Pascal, 2009. 188 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9782350190570: 17 € A frank and humorous survey of the publishing scene in France by the director of http://www.mondedulivre.com, touted as the oldest-established permanent virtual salon on the book, concluding with articles on various aspects and events. Includes a 2-page directory of useful real and virtual addresses. The chapter on vanity press makes some concrete observations and useful suggestions, but fails to mention Roger Gaillard’s systematic AUDACE, annotated in our Fall 1994 and 1997, and Spring 2001 issues (its 2007 edition is cited in my “Publishing Information for Romance Language Countries” http://wess.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Publishing_Information_for_Romance_Language_Countries). [JKL]

German

Gerstmann, Dieter. Bibliographie Französisch: Autoren. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, c2008. 713 p.; 21 cm. (Romanische Sprachen und ihre Didaktik, Bd. 18) ISBN 3898218724: 59.90 € A classed unannotated bibliography of secondary literature about French literary authors and their works. The principle of selection is not transparent. [JKL]

Nünning, Ansgar, ed. Metzler Lexikon Literatur- und Kulturtheorie: Ansätze, Personen, Grundbegriffe. 4., aktualisierte und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 808 pp. ISBN 9783476022417. € 29.95 A topical and biographical encyclopedia containing over 750 signed articles with brief bibliographies, and a 15-page general bibliography at the end of the volume. Expanded and updated since the 2004 edition. [RLK]

Stein, Peter and Hartmut Stein. Chronik der deutschen Literatur: Daten, Texte, Kontexte. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2008. 992 pp. ISBN 9783520842015. € 39.90 An interesting, chronologically arranged reference work covering the entire history of German literature and its key players, from the Hildebrandslied on up to the present time. 985 work-related articles that include biographical sketches of the authors, and 131 concept side-bars (e.g. “Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im 19. Jahrhundert”) provide concise information, including reception history and pointers to additional works by the authors. There are indexes for the side-bar articles and for authors and works. [RLK]

Conrady, Karl Otto, comp. Der große Conrady: das Buch deutscher Gedichte, von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Erw. Neuausg. Düsseldorf: Artemis & Winkler, 2008. 1,378 pp. ISBN 9783538040045. € 49.90 A familiar face on the German literature shelf for thirty years, originally published under the title Das große deutsche Gedichtbuch, Conrady’s compilation has been expanded by over seventy pages. The anthology contains over 2,200 poems by nearly 700 poets covering a span of 1,200 years. Includes table of contents detailing the authors and their poems, an index of titles and first lines, and an alphabetical index of the poets. [RLK]

Brunner, Horst and Mathias Herweg, eds. Gestalten des Mittelalters: ein Lexikon historischer und literarischer Personen in Dichtung, Musik und Kunst. Kröners Taschenausgabe, Bd. 352. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2007. 504 pp.: 73 ill. ISBN 9783520352019. € 26 Over 200 signed articles give introductions to fictional and historical figures of the Middle Ages and their influence in the modern period. Each article includes a very select bibliography. [RLK]

Deutsche Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart / Wolfgang Beutin et al. 7., erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 761 pp.: 545 ill. ISBN 9783476022479. € 29.95. Thirty years after its first publication, Beutin and company’s history of German literature continues to maintain its position among the standard works. This edition contains and additional forty pages devoted to the post-2000 period. Includes a substantial bibliography broken down by periods, and a name and works index. [RLK]

Schlitzer, Monika. Praxiswörterbuch Verlagswesen und Buchhandel. Englisch: Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch. Berlin; New York: Langenscheidt, 2007. 107 pp., illus. ISBN 9783861172727 (pbk.). € 16.95 A dictionary that will appeal to a broad spectrum of users, from librarians to faculty, writers, translators, publishers and others. Contains about 5,000 succinct translations based on the terminology of the profession. An appendix includes various sample business letters/e-mails mainly for licensing/rights issues, German and English proofreading symbols, a directory of book fairs, and various publishing-related organizations. Very handy. [RLK]

Die Zeit Literatur-Lexikon: Autoren und Begriffe in sechs Bänden, mit dem Besten aus Der Zeit. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 6 v., ill. ISBN 9783476022875 (pbk.). € 99.95. Spanning world literature from the beginnings to the present, this encyclopedia provides signed articles on 1,400 authors, as well as appendices containing forty-one original essays on authors, reproduced from Die Zeit in vols. 1-4. Vols. 5-6 serve as a topical encyclopedia of literature, comprising 3,000 signed articles on epochs, genres and topics related to rhetoric, stylistics, literary theory and publishing, with an emphasis on the European literature context. [RLK]

Weber, Ronald. Peter-Hacks-Bibliographie: Verzeichnis aller Schriften von und zu Peter Hacks, 1948 bis 2007. Edition neue Klassik, Nr. 1. Mainz am Rhein: Thiele, 2008. 267 p. ISBN 9783940884015 (pbk.): € 24.90. Organized by form (primary works) and scope (secondary works) categories, the bibliography contains 2,177 entries, including 1,300 secondary works by 700 authors. Includes indexes of titles for the primary works and authors for the secondary entries. An appendix lists the first performances of the dramatic works. [RLK]

Heinz, Jutta, ed. Wieland Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 486 pp. ISBN 9783476022226. € 64.95 Published on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of his birth, the Wieland Handbuch takes its place among a series of similar introductions to other German literary figures. Signed articles by two dozen scholars cover Wieland’s biography, intellectual milieu and contributions, and his literary work in general and with respect to individual titles. Indexes of titles and persons round out the volume. [RLK]

Schlitzer, Monika. Langenscheidt Praxiswörterbuch Verlagswesen und Buchhandel Englisch: Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Englisch. Berlin; New York: Langenscheidt, 2007. 107 pp., illus. ISBN 9783861172727 (pbk.): € 16.95 A very handy, compact dictionary that should answer every writer’s, publisher’s, or librarian’s questions about the correct word to use in the world of publishing and printing. An appendix also contains sample business letters related to publishing, publisher’s proofreading symbols, organization chart for publishers, listing of international book fairs with all pertinent access information, and a list of useful addresses in the publishing world. [RLK]

Textor, A.M. Sag es auf Deutsch: das Fremdwörterlexikon / vollständig überarbeitet und erw. von Renate Morell. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2008. 485 pp. ISBN 9783499623981 (pbk.): € 9.95 Originally published in 1958 under the title Auf Deutsch by Annemarie Weber (later going under the name A.M. Textor), this edition has been overseen by Renate Morell. Contains over 20,000 foreign words that have made their way into German, along with their German equivalents or definitions. [RLK]

Butzer, Günter and Joachim Jacob, eds. Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. 443 pp. ISBN 9783476021311. € 39.95 Over 400 signed articles explore the meaning and literary instances of symbols from antiquity to the present. Each article is replete with references to literary works and also contains a one or two entry bibliography. In addition to an alphabetic article listing, there is one by broad topical categories. A general bibliography rounds out the volume. [RLK]

Kammler, Clemens, Rolf Parr and Ulrich Johannes Schneider, eds. Foucault Handbuch: Leben, Werk, Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2008. ISBN 9783476021922. € 49.95 Provides an introduction to the wide spectrum of the French philosopher's thought, the intellectual influences that helped inform it, and its influence and reception. Several sections treat Foucault’s biography, individual works, disciplinary areas, and lectures and intersections with other thinkers and movements. Special section explore specific concepts and terms within Foucault’s thought and his reception by discipline. The volume concludes with a chronology, bibliography and name index. [RLK]

Iberian

Andioc, René; & Coulon, Mireille. Cartelera teatral madrileña del siglo XVIII: (1708-1808). 2a. ed. corr. y aum. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 2008. 2 v. (977 p.); 29 cm. (Publicaciones de la Fundación Universitaria Española. Colección de investigaciones bibliográficas sobre autores españoles; 17) ISBN: 8473926919: $111.04 The 2nd augmented edition of a catalog, noted in our Spring 1998 issue, which continues or complements Balay BE1462 and BE1463, listing play performances in 18th-century Madrid. Now includes a 4-page bibliography, as well as the title and author indices offered by the 1st edition. [JKL]

Blanco, José. Pessoana; [vol. I (924 ;.): Bibliografia passiva, selectiva e temática; vol. II (190 p.): Indices]. Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, 2008. 2 v.; 22 cm. ISBN 9789723712940: $90 An annotated selective bibliography of some 6,214 works on Fernando Pessoa published through 2004. The entries in volume I are arranged by author; volume II contains a classed thematic index and an index of personal names. [JKL]

Bugarín López, María Xesús. O galego fundamental: diccionario de frecuencias. [A Coruña]: Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, [2007]. 1109 p.; 24 cm. (Biblioteca filolóxica galega / Instituto da lingua galega) ISBN 9788495892607: $39.27 After a methodological introduction, lists of Galician words from texts from the last quarter of the 20th century, first by frequency and then in alphabetical order, concluding with an analysis of the data. Includes a 10-page bibliography. [JKL]

Carbonell Basset, Delfín. Diccionario panhispánico de citas (1900-2008). Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal, 2008. 465 p.; 22 cm. ISBN 9788476285251: $40.55 A popular dictionary collecting 8,000 quotations from 825 20th-century Spanish and Spanish American authors, according to the back cover blurb. The entries are arranged by keyword and give the author, title, and date of the source, but not the page. Instead of cross-references, quotations are repeated—but not always—under different keywords. Includes a 15-page bibliography, but no index. [JKL]

Celdrán Gomariz, Pancracio. El gran libro de los insultos: tesoro crítico, etimológico e histórico de los insultos españoles. 2a ed. Madrid: Esfera de los Libros, 2008. 1052 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9788497347341: $52.72. Léelo, cretino, y llora. Includes a 12-page bibliography, no cross-reference or index. [JKL]

Diccionario biográfico de actores del teatro clásico español (DICAT): edicion digital. Ed. Teresa Ferrer Valls. Kassel: Reichenberger, 2008. 1 CD-ROM [system requirements: PC or MAC; DVD-ROM drive, Quicktime 7.5.5 (included on disc)]; 25 cm + book of 48 pages. (Teatro del Siglo de Oro. Bibliografías y catálogos; 50) ISBN 9783937734620: no price listed. A database offering biographical notices on about 5000 actors and theatrical professionals in 16th- and 17th-century Spain. Also includes 500 digitized signatures, 250 images and videos on different aspects of Golden Age theater, as well as an electronic copy of the charter of the actors guild. The accompanying book describes the history and structure of the database. [JKL]

Dicionário de Fernando Pessoa e do Modernismo português. Ed. Fernando Cabral Martins. Lisboa: Caminho, 2008. 959 p; ill.; 26 cm. 60 € An important scholarly dictionary of literary modernism in Portugal taking Fernando Pessoa as its center, including some articles on figures in the other arts and from other countries. The articles, signed by 89 largely Portuguese academics, include occasional end bibliographies. Includes a chronology, a 6-page general bibliography, and an index of personal names. [JKL]

Dicionário Verbo Língua portuguesa: com o apoio do Ministério da Educação. [Aldina C.F. Rocha da Vaza, Emília Maria Marçal Amor]. 2.a ed. [Lisboa]: Verbo, c2008. xix, 1310 p.; 25 cm. ISBN: 9789722225717: $90 A popular monolingual school dictionary of Portuguese whose entries give parts of speech, definitions, and unsourced illustrative quotations. Includes a 3-page bibliography and, in appendix, an overview of recent orthography decrees, conjugation tables, morpholexical elements, numbers, countries, classical deities, and a periodical table. [JKL]

Eguidazu, Fernando. Del folletín al bolsilibro: 50 años de novela popular en España (1900-1950); Catálogo de la novela popular, 1900-1936 / por Jorge Tarancón Gimeno. [Guadalajara]: Silente Ediciones, [2008]. 513 p.: ill. col. & B+W ; 24 cm (Silente ciencia ficción) ISBN 9788496862128: $48.20 A survey of early 20th-century pulp fiction published in Spain, followed in appendix (though not listed in the table of contents) by Tarancón’s catalog, admittedly incomplete, which lists novels by title, indicating author, publisher, physical description and price (but not publication date), complemented by an index by publisher. Also includes a facsimile of the catalog of the publisher El Gato Negro and a 7-page bibliography. [JKL]

História e antologia da literatura Portuguesa. Ed. Isabel Allegro de Magalhães. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2007-[2008]. 3 v. in 4 (656, 701, 746, 1,073 p.): ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9789723111613: 10 €/vol. Previously issued in fascicules (ISSN: 1645-5169), a thorough presentation of Portuguese literature up through the 17th century, with the 16th century being accorded 2 tomes. Each collection of texts is accompanied by an introduction, brief analyses, a selective bibliography, and occasionally a glossary. [JKL]

López de Zuazo Algar, Antonio. Diccionario de periódicos diarios españoles del siglo XX. Madrid: Editorial Fragua, [2008]. 343 p.; 24 cm. (Biblioteca de Ciencias de la Comunicación; 19) ISBN 9788470742491: $55.10 A short-title catalog of over 1,000 20th-century Spanish daily newspapers. The entries, arranged alphabetically by title, give dates of creation and disappearance, changes of title and of frequency, as well as political tendency, along with names of directors (and their tenure) and, occasionally, other collaborators. Includes an index of directors and by province, as well as a 4-page bibliography. [JKL]

López de Zuazo Algar, Antonio. Diccionario de seudónimos periodísticos españoles del siglo XX. Madrid: Editorial Fragua, [2008]. 262 p.; 24 cm. (Biblioteca de Ciencias de la Comunicación; 20) ISBN 9788470742507: $41.32 A list of more than 5,000 pseudonyms, including symbols and initials, used in 20th-century Spanish periodicals. Entries give the real name (with dates) and media outlets, with place and dates of activity. Includes an index of ca. 3,500 (real) names and a 5-page bibliography. [JKL]

Messner, Dieter, ed. Dicionário dos dicionários portugueses; vol. XIV: Atem-Azu. Salzburg: Institut für Romanistik der Universität Salzburg, 1994-2007>. (Bibliotheca hispano-lusa [ISSN 1019-1119]; 29?) No ISBN; not in VLB; price not available. Another volume, covering the end of the letter “A”, in this ambitious exercise in historical lexicography that was noted in our Spring 1999, Fall 2003, and Spring 2006 issues. [JKL]

Penadés Martínez, Inmaculada. Diccionario de locuciones nominales adjetivas y pronominales para la enseñanza del español. [Madrid]: Arco/Libros, 2008. 292 p.; 24 cm. (Español/LE. Materiales complementarios) ISBN 9788476357316: $17.58 A dictionary of noun etc. phrases for students and teachers of Spanish as a second language. Entries explain the use and meaning of locutions, accompanied by unsourced illustrative quotations. In appendix: indices of phrases. [JKL]

Italian

Cortelazzo, Manlio. Dizionario veneziano della lingua e della cultura popolare nel XVI secolo. Limena (Padova): La linea, 2007. 1557 p.: ill.; 25 cm. (Cultura popolare veneta. Serie speciale / Regione del Veneto) ISBN 9788843900176: 100 € A scholarly lexicon of the language and popular culture of 16th-century Venice. Entries give accentuation, parts of speech, definitions, and dated, sourced illustrative quotations. Includes a 7-page bibliography. [JKL]

Davico Bonino, Guido. Novecento italiano: i libri per comporre una biblioteca di base. Torino: Einaudi, 2008. x, 388 p.; 21 cm. (ET Pop; 1513) ISBN 9788806178291: 14,50 € A selection of 500 recommended Italian literary works published between 1885 and 1990, i. e. fiction and poetry only, excluding drama (thus Pirandello’s and Fo’s plays, for example—strange for a professor of theater history!). Entries are arranged chronologically and then by author within years; they provide brief biographical and publishing information, a summary of the contents, and a “succinct critical judgment”, followed by a reference to an accessible edition. Includes an index of authors and their works. [JKL]

Gorni, Guglielmo. Repertorio metrico della canzone italiana dalle origini al Cinquecento (REMCI). Firenze: F. Cesati, 2008. 353 p.; 24 cm. (Filologia e ordinatori; 5) ISBN 9788876673566: €55 A strophe and rhyme-scheme index of a major genre of Renaissance Italian lyric poetry. Includes a 19-page bibliography of manuscript and printed sources, a first-line index, and an index of authors and anonymous works. [JKL}

Greco antico, neogreco e italiano: dizionario dei prestiti e dei parallelismi. Eds. Amalìa Kolonia, Massimo Peri. Bologna: Zanichelli, 2008. 542 p.; 22 cm. ISBN 9788808064295: 30 € A dictionary of interchanges between Italian (sometimes via Latin) and ancient, medieval and modern Greek. The 11,800 entries provide the same number of etymologies and some 100,000 equivalencies, according to the back-cover blurb. Includes a 95-page survey of the linguistic exchanges, a 14-page bibliography, transcription tables, and cross-references. [JKL]

Monti, Giangilberto. Dizionario dei comici e del cabaret. Milano: Garzanti, 2008. xiv, 620 p.; 21 cm. (Saggi [Garzanti]) ISBN 9788811740506: €25.50 A biographical dictionary of more than 530 contemporary Italian comedians and humorists. Entries sketch their careers, noting their media appearances, critical reception and awards, and publications. Includes a 1-page bibliography and an index of titles of works cited. [JKL]

Muzzioli, Francesco. Quelli a cui non piace: pamphlet sull’esercizio della critica. Roma: Meltemi, 2008. 92 p.; 19 cm. (Melusine; 82) ISBN 9788883536571: 13 € How to read book reviews in Italian. Cf. Onofri infra. Includes a 1-page bibliography. [JKL]

Onofri, Massimo. Recensire: istruzioni per l’uso. Roma: Donzelli, 2008. 152 p.; ill.: 17 cm. (Saggine; 129) ISBN 9788860363039: 15 € How to write book reviews in Italian. Cf. Muzzioli supra. Includes a 2-page bibliography and an index of names. [JKL]

Piccolo dizionario dell’editoria: le parole più comuni del mondo delle case editrici: con trentasei monografie di editori italiani. Milano: Modern Publishing House, c2008. 160 p.: ill. ; 19 cm. ISBN 9788849305449: 10 € A lexicon of terms in publishing and of publishers in Italy. In appendix: brief histories of 36 Italian publishers. Includes a 3-page bibliography, but no index nor an entry for “a spese di autore” [vanity press]. [JKL]

Russo, Domenico. LIN, lessico italiano di notorietà 2004: il lessico fondamentale. Roma: Aracne, 2008. 434 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9788854819276: 23 €. LIN, lessico italiano di notorietà 2004: il lessico di alto uso. Roma: Aracne, 2008. 458 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9788854819283: 24 € Further installments in the reports on the project studying the best-known Italian words, noted in our Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 issues. The lessico fondamentale volume provides statistical analyses of the corpus of words that constitute not less than 90% of the language and that gauge a speaker’s lexical competence. The volume on alto uso statistically analyses the most frequently used words. Both volumes include methodological introductions and 2-page bibliographies. [JKL]

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