Search Results - Death

Confronting the "Good Death" : Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 / by Bryant, Michael, 1962-

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La vida y la muerte ante el poder policiaco : Raza, violencia y resistencia en Puerto Rico / by LeBrón, Marisol

“…Policing life and death.…”
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Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / by Norris, Margot

Table of Contents: “…The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. Conclusion: The biocentric tradition in context.…”
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Early Film Theories in Italy, 1896-1922 /

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Bloodscripts : Writing the Violent Subject / by Gomel, Elana

Table of Contents: “…Utopia Noir -- 5. Doctor Death: From Moreau to Mengele.…”
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Murder Most Queer : The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater / by Schildcrout, Jordan

Table of Contents: “…-- Queer justice -- The closet is a deathtrap -- Rage and revelry -- Arias of love and death -- Queer evil -- Serial killers -- Afterword.…”
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Proofs of Genius : Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age / by Gailey, Amanda A.

Table of Contents: “…America collecting itself : national identity and intellectual property in the Early Republic -- Dickinson's remains -- Whitman's shrines -- Cold War editing and the rise of the "American literature industry" -- The death of the author has been greatly exaggerated.…”
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Middlebrow Modernism : Britten’s Operas and the Great Divide / by Chowrimootoo, Christopher, 1985-

Table of Contents: “…Middlebrow modernism -- Sentimentality under erasure in Peter Grimes -- The timely traditions of Albert Herring -- The turn of the screw, or : the Gothic Melodrama of modernism -- The burning fiery furnace and the redemption of religious Kitsch -- Death in Venice and the aesthetics of sublimation.…”
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Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts : Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The culture of genius at mid-century -- Of love and death in modern culture : rereading Doctor Faustus with Freud in mind -- Deus sive natura : avatars of the creative reader in Lolita -- Visionary contact in the interzone : on the Beat state in Naked lunch.…”
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Inconceivable Effects : Ethics through Twentieth-Century German Literature, Thought, and Film / by Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Table of Contents: “…: or, the vicissitudes of imagination -- "A peculiar apparatus" : Kafka's thanatopoetics -- A strike of rhetoric : Benjamin's paradox of justice -- Pernicious bastardizations : Benjamin's ethics of pure violence -- The return of the human : Germany in autumn -- A politics of enmity : Müller's Germania death in Berlin.…”
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Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard : Illinoi, 1870-1917 / by Hannah, Eleanor L.

Table of Contents: “…Illinois militia revival in the 1870s -- Manhood and citizenship on display -- Confused missions: the first twenty years of strike duty, 1870-90 -- New training practices, drill competitions, and the rise of sharpshooting -- Death, manhood, and service in the Spanish American war -- Lessons learned: the ING and strike duty, 1894-1916 -- The pursuit of state and federal support.…”
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The Vitality of Allegory : Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Johnson, Gary, 1966-

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"A Road to Peace and Freedom" : The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930-1954 / by Zecker, Robert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A practical demonstration in democracy: the IWO -- A plan for plenty: the IWO tames capitalism -- We dare entertain thoughts not to the liking of present-day bigots: race, civil rights and the IWO -- A mandolin orchestra could attract a lot of attention: interracial fun -- Foreign policy and the IWO -- A fraternal order sentenced to death!: government suppression -- Conclusion.…”
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Composing the Party Line : Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany / by Tompkins, David G.

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What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth : A Memoir of Brotherhood / by González, Rigoberto

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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

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Nurse Writers of the Great War / by Hallett, Christine E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Part I Independent ladies; 1 Heroines in Belgium and Serbia; Introduction: plucky nurses; The duchess-directrice: Millicent Sutherland and her ambulance; Escaping the German advance: a war nurse's diary; Nurse fighters on the Serbian Front; A quest too far: the death of Sarah Macnaughtan; Conclusion: heroines on Western and Eastern Fronts; Notes; 2 Le petit paradis des blesses; Introduction: the little paradise.…”
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The Eternal Dissident : Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act / by Beerman, Leonard I., 1921-2014

Table of Contents: “…Regas -- California people of faith against death penalty, Jewish Community Center, October 16, 2001 / commentary by Mike Farrell -- Piece on human condition written for the Office of the Americas, November 2, 2002 / commentary by Stephen Rhode -- A vision for a bewildering time : commencement address at Washington and Jefferson College, May 18, 2007 / commentary by Professor David Ellenson -- Letter to George W. …”
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