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Christine Johansson, The Relativizers whose and of which in Present‐day English: Description and Theory. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 90. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1995, pp. 276. Juhani Rudanko, Prepositions and Complement Clauses: A Syntactic and Semantic Study of Verbs Governing Prepositions and Complement Clauses in Present‐Day English. 1996. Albany: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0–7914–2873–7. Pp 208. Fritz Peter Knapp, Die Literatur des Früh‐ und Hochmittelalters in den Bistümern Passau, Salzburg, Brixen und Trient von den Anfängen bis zum Jahre 1273. Geschichte der Literatur in Österreich von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, 1. Akademische Druck‐ und Verlagsanstalt, Graz, 1994. 636 S. 16 Abbildungen. David Scrase, Understanding Johannes Bobrowski. Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, 1995. xvi, 149 S. Ephraïm Michael. Poémes en vers et en prose. Edités par Matthew Screech, Librairie Droz S. A., Geneve, 1994, 235 pp. Bengt Novén: Les Mots et le corps. Etude des proces d'ecriture dans I'æuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Romanica Upsaliensia, n° 53, 1996, 215 pp. Clarence Larsson's Identity Through the Other: Canadian Adventure Romance for Adolescents (Umeå University: 1996, 148 pp), examines the textual features of young‐adult books and attempts to analyze their socio‐symbolic significance. With this study Larsson enters an expanding field of inquiry where the sharp, hierarchical distinctions between adult and children's literature are called into question. Elisabeth Mårald's In Transit: Aspects of Transculturalism in Janice Kulyk Keefer's Travels (Umeå University: 1996, 182 pp) ambitiously addresses a number of difficult and complex questions. At the heart of her critical investigation is the elusive notion of transcultural perspectives and how such viewpoints depict what Mårald metaphorically expresses as “unrepresented spaces.”; Mårald selects the writing of Canadian author Janice Kulyk Keefer as her object of inquiry, deeming it a rich source of transcultural perspectives. Several of Keefer's short stories and two of her novels are examined for their multiple discourses and for their correspondingly multiple configurations of cultural experience. The book is conceptually indebted to the past two decades of postcolonial criticism and cultural studies, but specifically establishes its critical idiom through the use of key terms derived from the Russian critic and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Insley, John, 1994: Scandinavian Personal Names in Norfolk. A Survey Based on Medieval Records and Place‐Names. Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 62. xliii + 455 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91–85352–26–8.