Folklore in New World Black Fiction : Writing and the Oral Tradition Aesthetics / by Ako̥ma, Chiji

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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 / by Downing, Eric

Subjects: “…Aesthetics, German 20th century. nli 152005…”
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Incapacity : Wittgenstein, Anxiety, and Performance Behavior / by Golub, Spencer

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Modernist Heresies : British Literary History, 1883-1924 / by Franke, Damon, 1968-

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The Twilight of the Avant-Garde : Spanish Poetry 1980–2000 / by Mayhew, Jonathan, 1960-

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As German as Kafka : Identity and Singularity in German Literature around 1900 and 2000 / by Rock, Lene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Constitutive outsiders -- Aesthetes between identity and opposition -- City dwellers between difference and indifference -- Family heroes between myth and storytelling -- Conclusion the fallibility of Bildung.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire / by Koenigsberger, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…The novel as zoo: animal stories and English style -- Picturing Britannia's menagerie: the aesthetics of the imperial whole -- Circuses in cabinets: the Victorian novelist as beast tamer -- Elephants in the labyrinth of empire: Arnold Bennett, modernism, and the menagerie -- Monsters on the verandah of realism: Virginia Woolf's empire exhibition -- The "Anglepoised" novel after empire: English creatures and postcolonial exhibition -- Small islands, frozen arks.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film / by Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

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Textual Contraception : Birth Control and Modern American Fiction / by Capo, Beth Widmaier, 1973-

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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon / by Glover, Kaiama L., 1972-

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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

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