The Pathos of the Real On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century / by Buch, Robert

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The Total Work of Art in European Modernism by Roberts, David, 1937-

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Esthétique et recyclages culturels Explorations de la culture contemporaine /

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Poetry's Afterlife Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…[1.] On poets & aesthetic history. Paper or plastic, Pepsi or Coke, irony or sincerity? …”
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Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / by Barton, John Cyril

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.…”
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Writing National Cinema Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru / by Middents, Jeffrey

Table of Contents: “…A history of the Peruvian cinematic tradition -- Publication, authority, identity: constructing the film journal -- Shaping Peruvian taste: "good" and "bad" Peruvian movies -- Latin American dis/connections: Peru versus the new Latin American cinema -- For a few minutes: considering the short-film industry -- Creating the "Lombardi generation": the rise of an urban cinematic aesthetic -- The changing of the guard: Peruvian cinema in the twenty-first century.…”
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Would Trotsky Wear a Bluetooth? Technological Utopianism under Socialism, 1917–1989 / by Josephson, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…Technological utopianism in the Soviet Union in the 1920s -- Proletarian aesthetics : technology and socialism in Eastern Europe -- From kimchi to concrete : the North Korean experiment -- Floating reactors : nuclear hubris after the fall of communism -- Industrial deserts : technology and environmental degradation under socialism -- No hard hats, no steel-toed shoes required : worker safety in the proletarian paradise -- The gendered tractor.…”
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