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Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / by Williams, Tara, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of womanhood -- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood -- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis -- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid -- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe -- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.…”
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The Woman Painter in Victorian Literature / by Losano, Antonia Jacqueline

Table of Contents: “…Prevailing winds and cross-currents : public discourse and the history of Victorian women painters -- Desire and feminist aesthetics in Anne Brontë's The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- Ekphrasis and the art of courtship in Jane Eyre -- Making a living : Howitt, Eliot, Oliphant -- The afterlife of Angelica Kauffman -- Disfigurement and beauty in Dinah Craik and Charlotte Yonge -- Painting the new woman : Mary Ward and the woman artist.…”
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The Return of the Omniscient Narrator : Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction / by Dawson, Paul, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The return of omniscience in contemporary fiction -- Omniscience and narrative authority -- The direct address and the ironic moralist -- Prolepsis and the literary historian -- Style and the pyrotechnic storyteller -- Polymathic knowledge, the immersion journalist, and the social commentator -- Voice and free indirect discourse in contemporary omniscient narration -- Paralepsis and omniscient character narration -- Real authors and real readers : a discursive approach to the narrative communication model -- Conclusion.…”
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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Conjugating feminisms: African, Islamic as African-Islamic discourse -- Connecting vocabularies: a grammar of histories, politics, and priorities in African and Islamic feminisms -- Noetic education and Islamic faith: personal transformation in the stillborn -- Historical templates and Islamic disposition: personal journeys in the virtuous woman -- Spiritual legacies and worship: personal spaces in the descendants -- Frequent functions and references: personal solutions in sacred apples and destiny.…”
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Clinical Encounters in Sexuality: Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory /

Table of Contents: “…Winnicott's queer sensibilities / Michael Snediker -- Discourse. Discourse and the history of sexuality / Will Stockton -- On not thinking straight : comments on a conceptual marriage / R.D. …”
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Alter-Nations : Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / by Martin, Amy E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The condition of England" and the question of Ireland : anti-Irish racism and Saxon nationalism in Victorian writings on capitalist national crisis -- Fenianism and the state : theorizing violence and the modern hegemonic state in the writings of Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill -- Envisioning terror : anti-colonial nationalism and the modern discourse of terrorism in mid-Victorian popular culture -- "A somewhat Irish way of writing" : the genre of Fenian recollections and postcolonial critique.…”
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Writing in Limbo : Modernism and Caribbean Literature / by Gikandi, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Caribbean modernist discourse : writing, exile, and tradition -- From exile to nationalism : the early novels of George Lamming -- Beyond the Kala-pani : the Trinidad novels of Samuel Selvon -- Deformation of modernism : the allegory of history in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces -- Modernism and the masks of history : the novels of Paule Marshall -- Writing after colonialism : Crick crack, Monkey and Beka lamb -- Narration at the postcolonial moment : history and representation in Abeng.…”
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Genocide as Social Practice : Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina's Military Juntas / by Feierstein, Daniel, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Defining the concept of genocide -- Toward a typology of genocidal social practices -- Reconciling the contradictions of modernity : equality, sovereignty, autonomy, and genocidal social practices -- Discourse and politics in Holocaust studies : uniqueness, comparability, and narration -- The problem of explaining the causes of the Nazi genocides -- Reshaping social relations through genocide -- Explaining genocidal social practices in Argentina : the problem of causation -- Toward a periodization of genocide in Argentina -- Concentration camp logic -- In conclusion : the uses of memory.…”
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Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism / by Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The politics of sovereignty in postcolonial West Indian literary discourse -- "Who worked this evil, brought this distance between us?" …”
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Security/Mobility : Politics of Movement /

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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Exotic Nations : Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830–1930 / by Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the discourse of the exotic -- 4. Love in exotic places : Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie -- 5. …”
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The Rise of Euroskepticism : Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture / by Martín-Estudillo, Luis

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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Steven Pinker and the scientific sublime : how a new category of experience transformed popular science -- ch. 3. Architectonic discourses and their extremisms -- ch. 4. Science and the idea of culture -- ch. 5. …”
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Fanfiction and the Author : How FanFic Changes Popular Cultural Texts / by Fathallah, Judith

Table of Contents: “…From Foucault to Fanfic; Foucault and Language; Fanfiction in the Academy; 2. Methodology; Discourse Analysis; Internet Studies; Sampling and Process; 3. …”
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Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 / by Solomon, Claire

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: prostitution as a (meta)discourse -- Part I. The metadiscursive naturalist prostitute in Latin America (1880-1930). …”
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Reappraisals : Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory / by Hohendahl, Peter Uwe

Table of Contents: “…Habermas's philosophical discourse of modernity -- 6. The politicization of aesthetic theory : the debate in aesthetics since 1965 -- 7. …”
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Essays in the History of Ideas / by Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Arthur Oncken), 1873-1962

Table of Contents: “…The historiography of ideas -- The supposed primitivism of Rousseau's Discourse on inequality -- Monboddo and Rousseau -- "Pride" in eighteenth century thought -- "Nature" as aesthetic norm -- The parallel of deism and classicism -- The Chinese origin of a romanticism -- The first Gothic revival and the return to nature -- Herder and the Enlightenment philosophy of history -- The meaning of "romantic" in early German romanticism -- Schiller and the genesis of German romanticism -- On the discrimination of romanticisms -- Coleridge and Kant's two worlds -- Milton and the paradox of the fortunate fall -- The communism of St. …”
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Victorian Freaks : The Social Context of Freaking in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold -- Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. …”
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Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe : Beyond the Feminization Thesis /

Table of Contents: “…Polemical gender discourse in nineteenth-century Catholicism / Angela Berlis -- The cult of the Virgin Mary, or the feminization of the male element in the Roman Catholic Church? …”
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Identity Papers : Literacy and Power in Higher Education /

Table of Contents: “…Williams -- Institutions and struggles for identity -- Social class as discourse: the construction of subjectivities in English / James Zebroski -- Excellence is the name of the (ideological) game / Patricia Harkin -- The feminist WPA project: fear and possibility in the feminist "home" / Shannon Carter -- When "MS. …”
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