Janet Coleman. Ancient and Medieval Memories: Studies in the Reconstruction of the Past. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1992. Pp. xx, 646. $85.00
This volume charts the development of contrastive rhetoric (CR) over the past 30 years.
Although CR has not attempted to identify developmental stages of L2 writers, it is essentially
the study of transfer: the influence of L1 writing conventions and cultural and cognitive
dimensions on L2 writing. Major strengths of this book are its critical review of the literature,
concise definitions, and documentation of the progression of CR from narrow L2 text-based
analyses to the inclusion of multiple approaches.
A. James McAdams, Judging the Past in Unified Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)Christiane Olivo, Creating a Democratic Civil Society in Eastern Germany: The Case of the Citizen Movements and Alliance 90 (New York: Palgrave, 2001)
