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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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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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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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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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Nightmare alley film noir and the American dream / by Osteen, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares.…”
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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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Nordic exposures Scandinavian identities in classical Hollywood cinema / by Lunde, Arne Olav

Table of Contents: “…Scandinavians, the talkie revolution, and the crisis of foreign voice -- Charlie Chan is Swedish: the Asian racial masquerades and Nordic otherness of Warner Oland -- Two-faced women: Hollywood's and Third Reich cinema's war for the Nordic female star.…”
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Critical essays on Dagaaba rhetoric by Naaeke, Anthony Y., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Dagaaba of Ghana -- The cultural relevance of myth: a reader-response analysis of the Bagre myth with reference to the role and place of women in the Dagaaba society -- African art and persuasion: the rhetoric of the bera among the Dagaaba of Ghana -- Consolatory rhetoric: persuasion in Dagaaba funeral rituals and symbolic action -- Dismantling fear and establishing ethos: missionary activity as persuasion -- Breaking the silence on domestic violence: communication for development in northwestern Ghana -- Liberating the "mistress" in Africa: the prophetic role of development communication.…”
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Fictions of dignity embodying human rights in world literature / by Anker, Elizabeth S. (Elizabeth Susan), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : constructs by which we live -- Bodily integrity and its exclusions -- Embodying human rights : toward a phenomenology of social justice -- Constituting the liberal subject of rights : Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children -- Women's rights and the lure of self-determination in Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at point zero -- J.M. …”
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Scarecrows of chivalry English masculinities after empire / by Gopinath, Praseeda, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: English masculinities in transition -- Manly independent men: (de)constructing the English gentleman -- Out of place: Evelyn Waugh and the retreating gentleman -- An orphaned manliness: George Orwell and the Bovex man -- "One of those old-type natural fouled-up guys": posting the gentleman in Philip Larkin's poetry -- "Moulded and shaped": John Wain, Ian Fleming, and threshold masculinities -- Writing women, reading men: A. S. Byatt, Barbara Pym, and the post-gentlemen -- Epilogue: The postcolonial gentleman.…”
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Performing oaths in classical Greek drama by Fletcher, Judith

Table of Contents: “…Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds; 6. Women and oaths in Euripides; 7. How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; 8. …”
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The Bohemian body gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture / by Thomas, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Maidens, barbarians, and vampires : nationality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Czech literature -- Gender, form, and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Czech women's writing -- Czech mates : homosexuality in Czech modernist short fiction, 1917-20 -- Between Paris and Moscow : sexuality and politics in interwar Czech poetry and film -- Robots, golems, and femmes fatales : the drama of Karel Čapek -- Terror and dream were my father and mother : postwar Czech fiction and film -- "The unborn" : postwar feminist fiction and film.…”
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In envy country stories / by Frank, Joan, 1949-

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Dying to know scientific epistemology and narrative in Victorian England / by Levine, George Lewis

Table of Contents: “…Wallace -- Self-effacement revisited : women and scientific autobiography -- The test of truth : Our Mutual Friend -- Daniel Deronda : a new epistemology -- The Cartesian Hardy : I think, therefore I'm doomed -- Daring to know : Karl Pearson and the romance of science -- The epistemology of science and art : Pearson and Pater.…”
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