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Reading Death in Ancient Rome / by Erasmo, Mario

Table of Contents: “…Playing dead -- Staging death -- Disposing the dead -- Disposing the dead? …”
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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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History and Literature : New Readings of Jewish Texts in Honor of Arnold J. Band /

Table of Contents: “…What "Dances" in Agnon's "Dance of Death" /…”
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Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling /

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Clarissa's Ciphers : Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa / by Castle, Terry

Table of Contents: “…The voyage out -- 7. The death of the author: Clarissa's coffin -- 8. The death of the author: Richardson and the reader -- 9. …”
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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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War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "But what is it about?" : the life and death of Colonel Blimp -- Pistol's two bodies : Henry V at war -- Celia Johnson's face : before and after brief encounter -- Epilogue : Derek Jarman's war.…”
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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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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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Reflections of Romanity : Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome / by Alston, Richard, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Talking to strangers: classical readings and the modern self -- Home alone: terror and power -- Death and love: rationality and passion -- Private partners and family dramas -- Living with the past: tradition, invention, and history -- Imperial dreams: being Roman in a world empire.…”
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Shakespeare and Canada : Remembrance of Ourselves by Brisset, Annie

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Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity / by Chassot, Joanne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: tracing the ghost -- "Voyage through death to life upon these shores": Representing the Middle Passage -- Dusky Sallys: re-visioning the silences of history -- "You best remember them!"…”
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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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Luminol Theory by Joyce, Laura E.

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The Names of Minimalism : Authorship, Art Music, and Historiography in Dispute / by Nickleson, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: "La Monte Young Does Not Understand 'His' Work" -- One Policing Process: Music as a Gradual Process and Pendulum Music -- Two Writing Minimalism: The Theatre of Eternal Music and the Historiography of Drones -- Three The Lessons of Minimalism: The Big Four and the Pedagogic Myth -- Four Indistinct Minimalisms: Punk, No Wave, and the Death of Minimalism -- Conclusion: The Names of Minimalism…”
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Little Songs : Women, Silence, and the Nineteenth-Century Sonnet / by Billone, Amy Christine, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Silence, gender, and the sonnet revival -- Breaking "the silent Sabbath of the grave" : romantic women's sonnets and the "mute arbitress" of grief -- "In silence like to death" : Elizabeth Barrett's sonnet turn -- Sing again : Christina Rossetti and the music of silence -- "Silence, 'tis more cruel than the grave!" …”
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The Ears of Hermes : Communication, Images, and Identity in the Classical World / by Bettini, Maurizio

Table of Contents: “…Hermes' ears : places and symbols of communication in ancient culture -- Brutus the fool -- Mos, mores, and mos maiorum : the invention of morality in Roman culture -- Face to face in ancient Rome : the vocabulary of physical appearance in Latin -- Sosia and his substitute : thinking the double at Rome -- Ghosts of exile : doubles and nostalgia in Vergil's Parva troia -- Death and its double : imagines, ridiculum, and honos in the Roman aristocratic funeral -- Argumentum.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table 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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Understanding Tolstoy / by Kaufman, Andrew D. (Andrew David), 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The lost house and the little green stick : Tolstoy's journey as man and artist -- "The hero of my tale is truth" -- Seeking authenticity in an alienated age : Olenin and The Cossacks -- War and peace : life's "labyrinth of linkages" -- Andrei and Nikolai : intersecting spiritual orbits -- Patterns of disillusionment and discovery -- The dog and the globe : Pierre's journey to the truth -- From generation to generation -- Levin : "To err and to dream" -- Two lights : Anna and Levin -- Stumbling through life : the death of Ivan Ilyich -- Coming alive : Dmitry Nekhliudov and Resurrection -- Hadji-Murat : the stubborn thistle.…”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Horiguchi -- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's Frog / Lanlan Du -- Rural Chineseness Mo Yan's Work and World Literature / Chengzhou He -- The Realpolitik of Mo Yans Fiction / Sabina Knight -- Mo Yans Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a cultural and visual context / Yuhan Huang -- Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads and Lide and Death Are Wearing Me Out in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions / Chi-ying Alice Wang -- Religious Elements in Mo Yans and Yan Lianke's Works / Jinghui Wang -- Mo Yans work and the politics of literary humor / Alexa Huang and Angelica Duran -- Cosmopolitanism and the internationalization of Chinese literature / Ning Wang -- Variation study in Western and Chinese comparative literature / Shunqing Cao and Miaomiao Wang -- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society / Fenggang Yang.…”
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