Search Results - "Venus"

Voyage to Venus : perelandra / by Lewis, C. S.

Venus and Adonis by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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The birth of Venus : a novel / by Dunant, Sarah

Venus' owne clerk Chaucer's debt to the Confessio amantis / by Lindeboom, B. W. (Benjamin Willem)

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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus a biography / by Jarnot, Lisa, 1967-

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Three plays the political theater of Howard Zinn : Emma, Marx in Soho, Daughter of Venus / by Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

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Shakespeare and Spenser attractive opposites /

Table of Contents: “…Lethbridge -- Beyond binarism : Eros/death and Venus/Mars in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Spenser's Faerie Queene / Judith H. …”
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Shakespeare and queer representation / by Guy-Bray, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Cymbeline -- King John -- Macbeth -- The rape of Lucrece -- The sonnets -- Venus and Adonis.…”
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Horizon's lens my time on the turning world / by Dodd, Elizabeth Caroline, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Solstitial -- The here and now -- Belt of Venus -- Geochronicity -- Assemblage -- Standstill -- Ruin -- Megalithic north -- The middle fork -- Sinuous -- Long count -- Isogloss -- Constellation.…”
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The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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Traumatic possessions the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / by Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.…”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Dreams, visions, and realities

Table of Contents: “…The mandrake Venus / George Egerton -- A white night / Charlotte Mew -- The city of blood / Anna Kingsford -- Dream life and real life / Olive Schreiner -- An engagement / Ella D'Arcy -- The hour of her life / Mabel E. …”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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