Creating prehistory Druids, ley hunters and archaeologists in pre-war Britain / by Stout, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Manufacturing the past : the Victorian background -- Establishing the discipline -- Containing the amateurs -- Making progress -- The politics of socialism -- The diffusion heresy : nurture and the primitive -- Establishing diffusion -- A clash of narratives : diffusion and the archaeologists -- The esoteric revival -- The universal bond -- Stonehenge : a mecca of Celtic idealism -- The aesthetics of order -- The old straight track -- The straight track postal club -- Straight track to beyond -- Visions of civilization.…”
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Writing the love of boys origins of Bishōnen culture in modernist Japanese literature / by Angles, Jeffrey, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Blow the blood-stained bugle : Murayama Kaita and the language of personal sensation -- Treading the edges of the known world : homoerotic fantasies in Murayama Kaita's prose -- The appeal of the strange : same-sex desire in Edogawa Ranpo's mystery fiction -- (Re)discovering same-sex love : Ranpo and the creation of Queer history -- Uninscribing the adolescent body : aesthetic resistance in Taruho's writing -- Conclusion : postwar legacies.…”
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City fictions language, body, and Spanish American urban space / by Holmes, Amanda, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- By fire, water, or stone : the destruction of imagery in Octavio Paz's "Ciudad de México" series -- Aesthetics, politics, and the urban in Julio Cortázar's short stories -- Uncanny dispersions in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos -- Scripting the city : Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica and Vaca sagrada -- The spectacle as metaphor : urban disorder in Carlos Monsiváis's Los rituales del caos -- Conclusion.…”
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Voices in revolution poetry and the auditory imagination in modern China / by Crespi, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic interiorities: from civilization to nation -- Poetry off the page: sound aesthetics in print -- Inventing recitation: poetry and the idea of the sounding voice during the war of resistance -- Wartime recitals and the consolidation of a genre -- Zhu Ziqing and situational poetics: sounding out an alternative -- Calculated passions: the lyric and the theatric in Mao-era poetry recitation -- From Yundong to Huodong: the value of poetry recitation in postsocialist China.…”
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Money and modernity Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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From Ah Q to Lei Feng Freud and revolutionary spirit in 20th century China / by Larson, Wendy

Table of Contents: “…Freudian obsessions -- Psychology and Freudian sexual theory in early 20th century China -- From Ah Q to Lei Feng : revolutionary discourse and the spirit -- The spirit of the countryside : Mang Ke's Wild things and Wang Xiaobo's The golden years -- Extracting the revolutionary spirit : Jiang Wen's In the heat of the sun and Anchee Min's Red azalea -- The workspace of a new age Maoist : He Jianjun's The postman -- Conclusion : history and literary aesthetics in the study of modern Chinese culture.…”
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Touring the screen tourism and New Zealand film geographies / by Leotta, Alfio

Table of Contents: “…Early New Zealand films and western voy(ag)eurs -- 1940-1990 : New Zealand film landscapes for prospective 'cinenauts' -- The legacy of The piano : film-tourist geographies and the aesthetic of the sublime -- From Ngati to Whale rider : the filmic journey of the indigenous traveller -- From Mt. …”
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Troublemakers power, representation, and the fiction of the mass worker / by Scott, William, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The disempowering worker and the aesthetic representation of industrial unionism: "I am the book that has no end!" …”
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life / by Baldwin, Davarian L.

Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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Liberal cosmopolitan Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian, Suoqiao

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. …”
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Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of difference and the Irish theatre by Cregan, David

Table of Contents: “…Defective histories: re-presenting history in Innocence, Mary and Lizzie, and Mutabilitie -- Queer nation: homosexual representations of national identity in Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme and Dolly West's kitchen -- The wilde Irishmen: 'theatre theatrical' in Gates of gold -- Camping in utopia: Carthaginians and the queer aesthetic -- Holy irreverence: The gospel according to Judas -- There's no place like 'home': The bird sanctuary, Someone who'll what over me, and The factory girls -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: interview with Frank McGuinness -- Appendix 2: interview with Senator David Norris -- Appendix 3: interview with Patrick Mason.…”
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The liberal monument urban design and the late modern project / by Hooghe, Alexander d', 1973-

Table of Contents: “…The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? …”
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Making easy listening material culture and postwar American recording / by Anderson, Tim J.

Table of Contents: “…A tale of two ears : the concert hall aesthetic and stereo ; Space, the pliable frontier : stereo as the new spatial palette of audio -- Conclusion : the flip side (and a few concluding thoughts).…”
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Listening to Old Woman speak natives and alternatives in Canadian literature / by Groening, Laura Smyth, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : writing "Indians" and the Manichean allegory -- Representation and identification : gender and genre in the first Canadian novel(s) -- "A curiosity ... natural and feminine" : race, class, and gender in the colonial writings of Anna Jameson and Susanna Moodie -- "Poor creatures, once so benighted" : imagining race in early colonial narratives -- Inhabiting a Manicheal world view : colonialism, ideology, and discourse -- Administering/ministering to the Indians : Duncan Campbell Scott and the politics of church and state -- The temptations of Rudy Wiebe : history and postmodern Indians -- "Contamination as literary strategy" : a postcolonial ideal -- "Children of two peoples" : hybrid texts, hybrid people? -- The healing aesthetic of Basil H. Johnston -- Conclusion : finding an appropriate(d) voice.…”
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Finding God in all things celebrating Bernard Lonergan, John Courtney Murray, and Karl Rahner /

Table of Contents: “…Griener -- Rahner, von Balthasar, and the question of theological aesthetics / James Voiss -- Postscript: 1904 was a wonderful year / David Stagaman.…”
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Material events Paul de Man and the afterlife of theory /

Table of Contents: “…Clark -- Political thrillers: Hitchcock, de Man and Secret Agency in the "Aesthetic State" / Tom Cohen -- Resistance in theory / Laurence A. …”
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The uncollected Baudrillard by Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007

Table of Contents: “…Political Bankruptcy on the Left and Right -- The Divine Left -- Dropping Out of History: Interview with Sylvere Lotringer -- Our Theatre of Cruelty -- Part V. Ironic Aesthetic Disorders -- Barbara Kruger -- Olivier Mosset: The Object that is None -- Enrico Baj, or Monstrosity Laid Bare by Paint Itself -- The Transparency of Kitsch: A Conversation with Enrico Baj -- Index.…”
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Sound commitments avant-garde music and the sixties /

Table of Contents: “…: Henry Flynt and Workers World Party / Benjamin Piekut ; Forms of opposition at the "politiek-demonstratief experimenteel" concert / Robert Adlington ; Aesthetic theories and revolutionary practice : Nikolaus A. …”
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Reframing 9/11 film, popular culture and the "war on terror" /

Table of Contents: “…Fear, terrorism and popular culture / David L. Altheide -- The aesthetics of destruction : contemporary US cinema and TV culture / Mathias Nilges -- 9/11, British Muslims, and popular literary fiction / Sara Upstone -- Left behind in America : the army of one at the end of history / Jonathan Vincent -- 9/11, manhood, mourning, and the American romance / John Mead -- An early broadside : the far right raids Master and commander : the far side of the world / Jeff Birkenstein -- The sound of the "war on terror" / Corey K. …”
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Magical realism and Deleuze the indiscernibility of difference in postcolonial literature / by Aldea, Eva

Table of Contents: “…; Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry (1989): transcending the flesh through time -- Deleuze and the postcolonial politics of magical realism: introduction: magical realism and the postcolonial; a deleuzian theory of magical realism: the people are missing; Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said (1978): the stuff before the stuff that is history or culture or society or art; Amitav Ghosh's The circle of reason (1986): the reality of migrants and nomadic magic; Ben Okri's The famished road (1991): the aesthetic of possibilities.…”
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