Search Results - "lied"

The vital lie reality and illusion in modern drama / by Abbott, Anthony S.

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On the decay of the art of lying / by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

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The Civil War as a theological crisis by Noll, Mark A., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical contexts -- The crisis over the Bible -- "The Negro question lies far deeper than the slavery question" -- The crisis over providence -- Opinions of Protestants abroad -- Catholic viewpoints -- Retrospect and prospect.…”
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Devils and rebels the making of Hawthorne's damned politics / by Reynolds, Larry J. (Larry John), 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Revolution and warfare -- Witchcraft and abolitionism -- Racism, slave narratives, and the body as evidence -- Accord in Concord -- Lies, specters, and the "black man" -- Transformative violence at home and abroad -- The stationary "fall" of a public intellectual.…”
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Surprised by Shame : Dostoevsky's Liars and Narrative Explorers / by Martinsen, Deborah A.

Table of Contents: “…Surprised by shame -- Something about lying -- Shame's legacy -- General Ivolgin -- Confessional moments -- Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky -- Divided selves -- Lukian Lebedev -- Metaliterary identity -- Captain Lebiadkin -- Father and son.…”
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Poetry into song performance and analysis of lieder / by Stein, Deborah J. (Deborah Jane)

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Liberation historiography African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 / by Ernest, John

Table of Contents: “…The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.…”
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Re-dressing America's frontier past by Boag, Peter

Table of Contents: “…"Known to all police west of the Mississippi" : disrobing the female-to-male cross-dresser -- "I have done my part in the winning of the West" : unveiling the male-to-female cross-dresser -- "And love is a vision and life is a lie" : the daughters of Calamity Jane -- "He was a Mexican" : race and the marginalization of male-to-female cross-dressers in Western history -- "Death of a modern Diana" : sexologists, cross-dressers, and the heteronormalization of the American frontier -- Conclusion : Sierra Flats and haunted valleys : cross-dressers and the contested terrain of America's frontier past.…”
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History, Man, and Reason : A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought / by Mandelbaum, Maurice, 1908-1987

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