Search Results - "Fantasy

Fantasy and reality in history by Loewenberg, Peter, 1933-

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The idea of Galicia history and fantasy in Habsburg political culture / by Wolff, Larry

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Between Alexandria and Jerusalem the dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic culture / by Kovelʹman, A. B.

Table of Contents: “…A quest for historicism and the rhetoric of petitions -- Laughter, fantasy, and eroticism : from the scroll of Esther to Esther Midrash -- Exegesis and midrash -- Typology and pesher in the "Letter of Aristeas" -- The sages and the crowd : society behind the culture.…”
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Melancholia of freedom social life in an Indian township in South Africa / by Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality".…”
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Cambodge the cultivation of a nation, 1860-1945 / by Edwards, Penny, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : originations -- The temple complex : Angkor and the archaeology of colonial fantasy, 1860-1906 -- Urban legend : capitalising on Angkor -- Les fidèles cambodgiens and Les khmèrophiles : scripting a Khmer nation, 1870-1935 -- Colonialism and its demerits : bringing Buddhism to book, 1863-1922 -- Violent lives : disengaging Angkor, 1907-1916 -- Copy rites : Angkor and the art of authenticity -- Secularizing the Sangha, 1900-1935 -- Holy trinity : Chuon Nath, Huot Tath, and Suzanne Karpeles -- Traffic : setting Khmerism in motion, 1935-1945 -- Past colonial?…”
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Sway of the Ottoman Empire on English identity in the long eighteenth century by Kugler, Emily M. N.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The 'other' England: Ottoman influence on English identity -- Captivity, apostasy, and imperial anxieties: English fantasies and fears of the Ottoman influence -- Arabic castaways in the high and low churches: debating English Protestantism in the seventeenth-century Ibn Tufayl translations -- The Ottoman influence in Robinson Crusoe: failures of English imperial identity -- Race and romance: Othello, Oroonoko and the decline of the Ottoman influence -- "I am not what I am": reimagining Shakespeare's Moor of Venice, 1603-1787 -- Oriental princes and noble slaves: romance models of race in Oroonoko, 1688-1788 -- Conclusion: The continued anxieties of empire: after the Ottoman influence.…”
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Overcoming passion for race in Malaysia cultural studies

Table of Contents: “…Lim -- Looking through the corridor : Malaysia and the MSC / Susan Leong -- The ideological fantasy of British Malaya : a postcolonial reading of Swettenham, Cliford and Burgess / Daniel P.S. …”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Miles -- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt / Sally-Ann Ashton -- Cleopatra in Rome : facts and fantasies / Eric Gruen -- Dying like a queen : the story of Cleopatra and the asp(s) in antiquity / Robert Gurval -- Cleopatra, Isis, and the formation of Augustan Rome / Sarolta A. …”
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Exemplary bodies constructing the Jew in Russian culture, since the 1880s / by Mondry, Henrietta

Table of Contents: “…Russian anthropological and biological sciences and Jewish race -- Stereotypes of pathology: the medicalization of the Jewish body by Anton Chekhov, 1880s -- Carnal Jews of the fin-de-siècle: Vasily Rozanov, the Jewish body, and incest -- Ilya Ehrenburg and his picaresque Jewish bodies of the 1920s -- Criminal bodies and love of the yellow metal: the Jewish male and Stalinist culture, 1930s-1950s -- Sadists' bodies of the anti-Zionist campaign era: 1960s-1970s -- Glasnost and the uncensored sexed body of the Jew -- The repatriated body: a Russian Jewish woman writer in Israel or the corporeal fantasy of Dina Rubina, 1990s-2000s -- The Jewish patient: Alexander Goldstein and the postmodern Russian Jewish body in Israel, 2000s -- The real Jewish bodies of oligarchs: important Jewish personalities and post-Soviet corporophobia -- The post-Soviet assault on the Jew's body: the new racial science in the 2000s.…”
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Muslim rap, halal soaps, and revolutionary theater artistic developments in the Muslim world /

Table of Contents: “…Islamic modernity and the re-enchanting power of symbols in Islamic fantasy serials in Turkey / Ahu Yiğit -- From "evil-inciting" dance to chaste "rhythmic movements": a genealogy of modern Islamic dance-theatre in Iran / Zeinab stellar -- Suficized musics of Syria at the intersection of heritage and the War on Terror; or "a Rumi with a view" / Jonathan H. …”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.…”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Encounters and fantasies : Muslims, Jews and Christians in the North / Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Hess -- I. …”
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