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Singing the dead a model for epic evolution / by Bertolín Cebrián, Reyes

Table of Contents: “…In the beginning was the rite -- From funeral lament to epic -- Laments and other genres -- Women's funeral lament -- Epic and sports -- Classical funeral orations and epic.…”
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Religious diversity and early modern English texts : Catholic, Judaic, feminist, and secular dimensions /

Table of Contents: “…Hebraism and the Bible -- part IV. Women and religion -- part V. Religion and secularization.…”
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Chaucer : the basics / by Tasioulas, J. A. (Jacqueline A.)

Table of Contents: “…Geoffrey Chaucer : a life in time -- Chaucer's language of poetry -- The Canterbury tales -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The book of the duchess -- The house of fame -- The parliament of fowls -- The legend of good women.…”
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Why I can't read Wallace Stegner and other essays a tribal voice / by Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Who will tell the stories? -- pt. 4. Women's lives -- pt. 5. The last word.…”
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Love's whipping boy violence & sentimentality in the American imagination / by Barnes, Elizabeth, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Wieland, familicide, and the suffering father -- Melville's fraternal melancholies -- Fathers of violence: Frederick Douglass, John Brown, and the radical reproduction of sensibility -- The death of boyhood and the making of Little women.…”
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The unspeakable : representations of trauma in Francophone literature and art /

Table of Contents: “…Constructing narrative voice and exploring generic tensions -- part III. Women and trauma -- part Ivolume Memory and amnesia in the representation of trauma.…”
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Beyond the subtitle remapping European art cinema / by Betz, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Recovering European art cinema -- The name above the subtitle: language, coproduction, transnationalism -- Wandering women: decolonization, modernity, recolonization -- Exquisite corpses: art cinema, film studies, and the omnibus film.…”
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Theater of the people spectators and society in ancient Athens / by Roselli, David Kawalko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : theater and people in Athens -- The idea of the audience and its role in the theater -- Space and spectators in the theater -- The economics of the theater : theoric distributions and class divisions -- Noncitizens in the theater -- Women and the theater audience -- Epilogue.…”
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Screening the Marquis de Sade pleasure, pain and the transgressive body in film / by Hallam, Lindsay Anne, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Serial killers -- Cannibals -- The transhuman -- Victims. Women -- Adolescents -- Sexual transgressors. Sadists -- Masochists -- Conclusion.…”
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Sandra Cisneros's woman hollering creek

Table of Contents: “…Images of masculinity -- 4. Images of women : role expectations and conflict.…”
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Unbuttoning America : a biography of "Peyton Place" / by Cameron, Ardis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : small talk -- The novel truth -- The sheep pen murder -- Scenes of writing -- The other side of writing -- The gendered eye -- Sex talk -- The women of Peyton Place -- Excitable fictions -- Epilogue : memento mori.…”
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Give the devil his due. / by Boruett, William Kibiegon

Table of Contents: “…--The cunning hare.--The women's solution.--Cut off your tails.--A big blunder.…”

Entertainment in the Old West theater, music, circuses, medicine shows, prizefighting and other popular amusements / by Agnew, Jeremy

Table of Contents: “…On with the show -- Entertainment for everyone -- Women as actresses -- Strutting their stuff -- Bright lights of the Pacific Coast -- Theaters across the Old West -- A few of the famous -- The amateurs -- Medicine shows -- Motley pleasures -- The Wild West shows -- Afterword : the stage lights dim.…”
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East Asian pop culture analysing the Korean wave /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: East Asian TV dramas: identifications, sentiments and effects / Chua Beng Huat and Koichi Iwabuchi -- The growth of Korean cultural industries and the Korean wave / Doobo Shim -- Renting East Asian popular culture for local television: regional networks of cultural production / Tania Lim -- Mediating nationalism and modernity: the transnationalization of Korean dramas on Chinese (satellite) TV / Lisa Leung -- Structure of identification and distancing in watching East Asian television drama / Chua Beng Huat -- Re-imagining a cosmopolitan 'Asian Us': Korean media flows and imaginaries of Asian modern femininities / Angel Lin and Avin Tong -- Winter sonata and cultural practices of active fans in Japan: considering middle-aged women as cultural agents / Yoshitaka M�ori -- Touring 'dramatic Korea': Japanese women as viewers of Hanryu dramas and tourists on Hanryu tours / Yukie Hirata -- Popular cultural capital and cultural identity: young Korean women's cultural appropriation of Japanese TV dramas / Dong-Hoo Lee -- Mapping out the cultural politics of "the Korean wave" in contemporary South Korea / Keehyeung Lee -- Rap(p)ing Korean wave: national identity in question / Fang-chih Irene Yang -- Existing in the age of innocence: pop stars, publics, and politics in Asia / Eva Tsai -- When the Korean wave meets resident Koreans in Japan: intersections of the transnational, the postcolonial and the multicultural / Koichi Iwabuchi.…”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Language, gender and economies in global transitions : provocative and provoking questions about how gender is articulated / Bonnie McElhinny -- Symbolically central and materially marginal : women's talk in a Tongan work group / Susan U. Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. …”
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Reading food in modern Japanese literature by Aoyama, Tomoko

Table of Contents: “…Food in the diary -- Down-to-Earth eating and writing (1) -- Down-to-Earth eating and writing (2) -- Cannibalism in modern Japanese literature -- The gastronomic novels -- Food and gender in contemporary women's literature -- Confession of obsessive textual food eater.…”
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French costume drama of the 1950s fashioning politics in film / by Hayward, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Contexts -- pt. 2. Fairytales, foxy women and swashbuckling heroes -- pt. 3. Representing history : epics, courtesans and master narratives 1796-1888 -- pt. 4. …”
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Deadwood by Hark, Ina Rae

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- It's not a western-it's an HBO western -- David Milch's Deadwood -- Language, decent and otherwise -- The social dynamics of violence and alliance -- Deadwood's political economic narrative -- Women and power -- Dirt worshippers and celestials and niggers- oh, my! …”
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Sounding real musicality and American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century / by Ruotolo, Cristina L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Not just looking: Sister Carrie's musical economy -- Listening to women playing Chopin -- Opera's "impossible country": figuring the American diva -- James Weldon Johnson's ex-colored musician -- Fictions of the American music critic -- Epilogue.…”
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Places in the bone a memoir / by Dine, Carol

Table of Contents: “…The tape in the drawer -- The locked box -- Bad girls -- The woman in my poem -- Treatments -- Sisters -- Reconstruction -- The mahogany box -- Talking to God -- Exile -- Dear mother -- Places in the bone -- A chain of women -- Lovers and sons -- In remission -- The lighthouse.…”
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