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Household servants in early modern domestic tragedy by Sheeha, Iman

Table of Contents: “…I will kill my master: Murderous Service in The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham -- An honest knave: Servants in A Warning for Fair Women -- Down goes the house of us: Serving the Dysfunctional Household in Thomas Middleton's A Yorkshire Tragedy -- A house in a sweet pickle: Servants and Disordered Domesticity in Thomas Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness -- Conclusion.…”
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Victorian Sacrifice Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels / by Blumberg, Ilana M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heir of Redclyffe and the heiress : men, women, and Christian self-sacrifice -- Suicide, sin, and self-sacrifice in A tale of two cities -- "Love yourself as your neighbor" : guilt and the ethics of personal benefit in Adam Bede -- "Unnatural self-sacrifice" : Trollope's ethic of mutual benefit -- Collins' writerly sacrifice -- Conclusion : Robert Elsmere : the "true, best self" and the ideal of mutual service.…”
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Film as religion myths, morals, and rituals / by Lyden, John, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Part I, A method for viewing film as religion ; Existing approaches to religion and film ; The definition of religion ; Myths about myth ; Rituals and morals ; The religion-film dialogue as interreligious dialogue -- Part II, Genre and film analyses ; Westerns and action movies ; Gangster films ; Melodrama, tearjerkers, and "women's films" ; Romantic comedies ; Children's films and fantasy ; Science fiction ; Thrillers and horror movies.…”
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Music hall & modernity the late-Victorian discovery of popular culture / by Faulk, Barry J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the popular not the public -- Music hall : the middle class makes a subculture -- Camp expertise : Arthur Symons, music hall, and the defense of theory -- Spies and experts : Laura Ormiston Chant among late-Victorian professionals -- Tales of the culture industry : professional women, mimic men, and Victorian music hall -- "Spectacular" bodies : tableaux vivants at the Palace Theatre -- Conclusion : Cyrene at the Alhambra.…”
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The argumentative theatre of Joe Penhall by Boles, William C., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : from the raves to the stages of London -- Wild turkey and the new man, The new lad and the Penhall male -- Some voices and the failure of care -- Pale horse and the struggle to mourn -- Love and understanding and the demise of relationships -- The bullet and the stigma of redundancy -- Blue/orange and racism within the National Health Service -- Dumb show and Penhall's women -- Landscape with weapon and post-September 11 drama -- Afterword.…”
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John McGahern and the art of memory by McCarthy, Dermot, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…John McGahern and the art of memory -- Orpheus triumphant: recovering the lost beloved: Memoir -- Reflections of the one thing: The barracks -- In the name of the father: The dark -- Breaking the moulds part I: The leavetaking (1974; rev. 1984) -- Breaking the moulds part II: The pornographer -- The end of father history: Amongst women -- The completed circle: That they may face the rising sun -- Conclusion: violence, dislocation, truth and vision.…”
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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe by Skinner, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Stigma and Disfigurement: Putting on a Brave Face?.5. Defacing Women: the Gendering of Disfigurement.6. Ways of Seeing: Staring at and Representing Disfigurement.7. …”
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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity / by Jaji, Tsitsi

Table of Contents: “…Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- N�egritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post-)pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.…”
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Quebec national cinema by Marshall, Bill, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Producing and Envisioning the Nation -- 2 Foundational Fictions 25 -- 3 The Cinema of Modernization 46 -- 4 Quebec/France 75 -- 5 Sex and the Nation 103 -- 6 Auteurism after 1970 133 -- 7 Popular Cinema 172 -- 8 Women's Cinema 208 -- 9 The Indigenous Other 239 -- 10 The Immigrant Other 263 -- 11 Modernity and Postmodernity 285.…”
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Literary remains death, trauma, and Lu Xun's refusal to mourn / by Cheng, Eileen, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The limits of subjectivity: death, trauma, and the refusal to mourn -- In the name of the father, or the authority of the preface: filiality and the origins of writing -- Vigil before the shrine of the dead: biographers, subjects, and the failures of transmission -- Death by applause: eulogizing women -- The abandoned lover: romance in an age of mechanical reproductions -- The elusion of paradise: wanderers without a home -- Mocking the sages: "gathering vetch" -- A world devoid of enchantment: "mending heaven" and "resurrecting the dead."…”
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Dark matter : invisibility in drama, theater, and performance / by Sofer, Andrew, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…How to do things with demons: conjuring performatives in Doctor Faustus -- Quantum mechanicals: desiring bottom in A midsummer night's dream -- Unmasking women: The rover and sexual signification on the Restoration stage -- Unbecoming acts: power, performance, and the self-consuming body in Tennessee Williams's Suddenly last summer -- Bugs in the mind: The archbishop's ceiling and Arthur Miller's prismatic drama -- Invisible wounds: rehearsing trauma on the contemporary stage.…”
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Wisdom and folly in Euripides /

Table of Contents: “…Laura McClure: Hearth and home in Euripides' Alcestis -- John Gibert: The wisdom of Jason -- Justina Gregory: The education of Hippolytus -- Poulheria Kyriakou: Wisdom, nobility, and families in Andromache -- Katerina Synodinou: Wisdom through experience: Theseus and Adrastus in Euripides' Suppliant Women -- Andrea Rodighiero: "Sail with your fortune": wisdom and defeat in Euripides' Trojan Women -- Matthew Wright: The significance of numbers in Trojan Women -- Andreas Markantonatos: The Delphic school of government: Apollonian wisdom and Athenian folly in Euripides' Ion -- David Konstan: Did Orestes have a conscience? …”
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Coming after essays on poetry / by Notley, Alice, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Poets -- O'Hara in the nineties -- Joanne Kyger's poetry -- Ron Padgett's visual imagination -- Hollo's Corvus -- Elmslie's routine disruptions -- Eileen Myles in performance -- A certain slant of sunlight -- Iovis Omnia Plena -- Lorenzo Thomas : a private public space -- Douglas Oliver's New York poem -- Steve -- Topics -- American poetic music at the moment -- Voice -- Thinking and poetry -- Women and poetry -- The "feminine" epic.…”
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Rape in art cinema

Table of Contents: “…Higgins ; The fault lines of vision : Rashomon and The man left his will on film / Eugenie Brinkema ; Buñuel : storytelling, desire and the question of rape / Dominique Russell -- Materiality and metaphor : rape in Anne Claire Poirier's Mourir à tue-tête and Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend / Shana MacDonald ; Sins of permission : the union of rape and marriage in Die Marquise Von O and Breaking the waves / Victoria Anderson ; Rough awakenings : unconscious women and rape in Kill Bill and Talk to her / Adriana Novoa -- English-language independent cinemas: Jane Campion's women's films : art cinema and the postfeminist rape narrative / Shelley Cobb ; Boys don't get raped / Ann J. …”
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John Neal and nineteenth-century American literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…Carlson -- Here, there, and everywhere: the elusive regionalism of John Neal / Kerin Holt -- "He could not believe that butchering Red men was serving our maker": 'David Whicher' and the Indian hater tradition / Edward Watts -- John Neal and the early discourse of women's rights / Karen Weyler -- "A right manly man" in 1843: John Neal on women's rights and the problem of male feminism / Fritz Fleischmann -- How John Neal wrote his autobiography / Kevin J. …”
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Media and politics in the southern Mediterranean : communicating power in transition after 2011 /

Table of Contents: “…A hybrid-functional perspective on Tunisia's media sector / Roxane Farmanfarmaian -- Media in Morocco: A highly political economy: the case of press and online publications since the 1990s / Abdelfettah Benchenna, Driss Ksikes & Dominique Marchetti -- Local Media in Turkey: The growth of Islamic networks in Konya's radio landscape / Ali Sonay -- Agency: Introduction Part IV, V and VI -- Part IV: Women on the Small Screen -- Negotiating Identity: Gender and Tunisian talk shows / Zoë Petkanis -- The Representation of Women in Moroccan Television Talk Shows / Kenza Oumlil -- Understanding 'New Turkey' through Women's Eyes: Gender politics in Turkish daytime talk shows / Yeşim Burul & Hande Eslen-Ziya -- Part V. …”
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Faithful vision treatments of the sacred, spiritual, and supernatural in twentieth-century African American fiction / by Coleman, James W. (James Wilmouth), 1946-

Table of Contents: “…African American faithful belief : imposing social determinism, naturalism, and modernism -- The centrality of religious faith : communal acceptance, textual ambiguity, and paradox -- Critiquing Christian belief : the text as prophecy of different ways of seeing salvation -- Rejecting God and redefining faith : portrayals of Black women's spirituality -- Reshaping and radicalizing faith : the diasporic vision and practice of hoodoo -- Conclusion : fiction, life, and faithful vision : final thoughts on its overall portrayal and relevance.…”
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Screening Morocco contemporary film in a changing society / by Orlando, Valérie, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moroccan national cinema: the making of an industry -- Theories and polemics: Moroccan films as social-realist texts -- Issues, contexts, and "culture wars": Marocains residants é l'etranger (MREs) versus filmmakers at home -- Bad boys, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: the urban stories of Morocco -- Prison, torture, and testimony: retelling the memories of the lead years -- Women's voices: documenting Morocco through feminine lenses -- Conclusion: the future of Moroccan cinema?.…”
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Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / by Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment -- The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America -- The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy -- Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy -- Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E. …”
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