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Messiahs and Machiavellians depicting evil in the modern theatre / by Corey, Paul, 1968-

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Apocalyptic messianism and contemporary Jewish-American poetry by Gitenstein, R. Barbara, 1948-

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A supplement to the Oxford english dictionary / by Burchfield, R.W

Masterplots :1970 annual : magill's literary annaul / by Magill, Frank N.

Masterplots : digests of world literature / by Magill, Frank N.

Masterplots : Two thousand and ten polts stories and Essay reviews from the world's fine literature / by Magill, Frank N.

Roget's thesaurus of English words and phrases / by Roget, Peter Mark

From Kabbalah to class struggle expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener / by Krutikov, Mikhail, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : why Meir Wiener? -- Failed messiahs : German Jewish culture -- Politics and scholarship in post-war Vienna -- On the way to Yiddish and emigration -- Soviet beginnings -- Folklore, language, and the haskalah -- Yiddish realism and literary history -- Soviet literature and theory -- History and fiction -- Life writing : between the usable and unusable past.…”
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Textual conspiracies Walter Benjamin, idolatry, and political theory / by Martel, James R.

Table of Contents: “…Walter Benjamin's conspiracy with language -- Kafka : the messiah who does nothing at all -- Machiavelli's conspiracy of open secrets -- Rendering the world into signs : Alexis de Tocqueville and Edgar Allan Poe -- Hannah Arendt, Federico Garcia lorca, and the place for the human -- Reconstructing the world : Frantz Fanon and Assia Djebar -- Conclusion : a faithless leap.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Disturbers of the peace : representations of madness in Anglophone Caribbean literature / by Josephs, Kelly Baker

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs: man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness: negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad": between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity": madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa will soon come home -- Epilogue: Madness and migration in the new millennia.…”
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The subject of Holocaust fiction / by Budick, E. Miller

Table of Contents: “…Voyeurism, complicated mourning, and the fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- Forced confessions: subject position, framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: re-picturing the pre-memory moment -- Bruno Schulz, The Messiah, and ghost/writing the past -- A Jewish history of blocked mourning and love -- See under: mourning -- Blacks, Jews, and southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- (re)reading the Holocaust from a German point of view: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- Mourning and melancholia in W. …”
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Hazon Gabriel new readings of the Gabriel revelation /

Table of Contents: “…Rendsburg -- Response to Israel Knohl, Messiahs and resurrection in the Gabriel revelation / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Gabriel and David: some reflections on an enigmatic text / John J. …”
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Too bold for the box office the mockumentary from big screen to small /

Table of Contents: “…: Mocking Ethnographic Film in Doris Dörrie's Enlightenment Guaranteed / Heather Merle Benbow -- The Proper Care and Feeding of An American Messiah / Christopher Hansen -- THE WAR THAT WASN'T. …”
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Indian writers transnationalisms and diasporas /

Table of Contents: “…A story of exile and dislocation / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Travels, journey, exile, movement. Pariah or messiah : Gogol Ganguly and the problematization of transnational identity / Aparajita De -- Writing South Africa in diaspora : Imraan Coovadia's The wedding / Ronit Frenkel -- The Indian diaspora in Burma and the politics of globalization in Amitav Ghosh's The glass palace and Mira Kamdar's Motiba's tattoos / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Diasporas and women. …”
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