Search Results - "InSight"

Spirits of Defiance : National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933 / by Drowne, Kathleen Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the culture of national prohibition -- Outside the law : liquor providers of the Prohibition era -- These wild young people : drinking and youth culture -- Hidden in plain sight : the drinking joints -- "Lets stay in" : the prohibition-era house party.…”
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Collective killings in rural China during the Cultural Revolution by Su, Yang, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding atrocities in plain sight.…”
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Modern American Grotesque Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Eric Voegelin's dialogue with the postmoderns searching for foundations /

Table of Contents: “…Voegelin and Ricoeur / Peter A. Petrakis -- Sight, sound, and participatory symbolization / Murray Jardine -- Immanence/transcendence / Jeffrey A. …”
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The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject / by Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Gender complexes -- 3. Sight unseen (reading the unconscious) -- Part two. …”
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Acts of conscience World War II, mental institutions, and religious objectors / by Taylor, Steven J., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…"Work of national importance under civilian direction" -- "Religious training and belief" -- "An experiment in democracy" -- "A significant epoch in your life" -- "Detached units" -- "A working compromise between church and state" -- "Out of sight, out of mind" -- "A mind that found itself" -- "They asked for a hard job" -- "Bughousers" and "conchies" -- "The exposé as a progressive tool" -- "They were fighting everybody" -- "Mental hospitals are again under fire" -- "Another growing pain" -- "Scandal results in real reforms."…”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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American isolationism between the World Wars : the search for a nation's identity / by Rose, Kenneth D. (Kenneth David), 1946-

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