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Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Introduction -- Aide-MÃmoire: The Plot of Lucanâ’s Bellum Civile -- 1. Lucanâ’s Epic Body: Anatomizing Civil War -- 2. …”
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Dostoevsky at 200 : The Novel in Modernity /
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Entre folklore y literatura : lírica hispánica antigua /
Published 1971Subjects: Full text available:
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New World Soundings : Culture and Ideology in the Americas /
Published 1989Subjects: Full text available:
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Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions /
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction /
Published 1985Subjects: Full text available:
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy /
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 /
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The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 /
Published 1979Subjects: Full text available:
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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany /
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Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination /
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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /
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The Chekhovian Intertext : Dialogue with a Classic /
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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others : civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- ch. 2. …”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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