Book Reviews

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Book Reviews

• Prepared by
• Diane Dates Casey

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Why Book Reviews?

• First wave of literary criticism after
  publication.
• Available long before journal articles or books.
• Measure of initial reception of work by
  contemporaries

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Finding Book Reviews

• Include the books title.
• Include the words, Book Review.

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Citing Book Reviews

• List alphabetically by review author.
• If unsigned, list by title of the review.
• Consider a review untitled which merely lists the
  titles of the books reviewed.
• Where no author or title of the review exists,
  list by Rev. of and alphabetize under the title
  of the work reviewed.

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Examples of Citations

• Rev. of Anthology of Danish Literature, ed.
  Billeskov Jansen and P.M. Mitchell. Times
  Literary Supplement 7 July 1972 785.

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• Bordewich, Fergus M. Rev. of Once They Moved
  Wind Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars, by
  David Roberts, and Brave Are My People Indian
  Heroes Not Forgotten, by Frank Waters.
  Smithsonian Mar. 1994 123-31.

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• The Cooling of an Admiration. Rev. of
  Pound/Joyce The Letters of Ezra Pound to James
  Joyce, with Pounds Essays on Joyce, by Frank
  Read. Times Literary Supplement 6 Mar. 1969
  239-40.

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• Socha, Thomas J. Rev. of Learning the Rules The
  Anatomy of Childrens Relationships, by B. J.
  Begelos, G. Tesson, and J. H. Lewko.
  Communication Education 47 (1998) 91-92.

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• Updike, John. Fine Points. Rev. of The New
  Fowlers Modern English Usage, ed. R. W.
  Burchfield. New Yorker 23- 30 Dec. 1996 142-49.