Search Results - "Evolution"

Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution / by Orr, Marilyn, 1950-

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Late Sophocles : The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus / by Van Nortwick, Thomas, 1946-

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Chaos Bound : Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science / by Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943-

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Oil Fictions : World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere /

Table of Contents: “…2 Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems --…”
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A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome : Readings in Propertius and his Genre / by Johnson, W. R. (Walter Ralph), 1933-

Table of Contents: “…The d/evolution of love -- Aeneas in love -- Two portraits of the lady -- Propertius and the poetics of disgregation -- Whatever happened to Latin love elegy?…”
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The American Symphony Orchestra : A Social History of Musical Taste / by Mueller, John Henry, 1895-1965

Table of Contents: “…Tastes can be accounted for -- History of music as performance -- Social evolution of the American symphony orchestra -- Profiles of major American orchestras -- Life spans of composers in the repertoire -- National sources of the orchestral repertoire -- The orchestra, concert folkways, and social life -- Musical taste and how it is formed.…”
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Inventing Womanhood : Gender and Language in Later Middle English Writing / by Williams, Tara, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…The origins of womanhood -- Amazons and saints: Chaucer's tales of womanhood -- Beastly women and womanly men: Gower's Confessio amantis -- Lydgate's lady and Henryson's whore: womanhood in the Temple of glas and the Testament of Cresseid -- Vernacularity, femininity, and authority: reinventing motherhood in The shewings of Julian of Norwich and The book of Margery Kempe -- The evolution of womanhood in fifteenth-century discourse.…”
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Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 / by Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.…”
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Making Light : Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism / by Knapp, Raymond

Table of Contents: “…Approaching the absolute -- Idealizing music -- Haydn's difference -- Entertaining possibilities in Haydn's symphonies -- Haydn, the string quartet, and the (d)evolution of the chamber ideal -- New world dualities -- Popular music contra German idealism: Anglo-American rebellions from minstrelsy to camp -- "Popular music" qua German idealism: authenticity and its outliers -- Musical virtues and vices in the latter-day new world -- Appendix A : More extended musical examples -- Appendix B : Listing of video examples from films.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / by Andrews, David, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…-- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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The Medieval Saga / by Clover, Carol J., 1940-

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Telling the Truth : The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction / by Foley, Barbara, 1948-

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Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction / by Shippey, T. A.

Table of Contents: “…: '"People are plastic": Jack Vance and the dilemma of cultural relativism' -- SF authors really mean what they say : 'Alternate historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and me' -- A revealing failure by the critics : 'Kingsley Amis's science fiction and the problems of genre' -- A glimpse of structuralist possibility : 'The golden bough and the incorporations of magic in science fiction' -- Serious issues, serious traumas, emotional depth : 'The magic art and the evolution of words: Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" trilogy' -- SF and politics. …”
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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

Table of Contents: “…Bridging the gap : from intuitive to scientific reasoning-the case of evolution -- ch. 9. Missing links : how cladograms reify common evolutionary misconceptions -- ch. 10. …”
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The Poetics of Jacobean Drama / by Freer, Coburn

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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

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From Song to Book : The Poetics of Writing in Old French Lyric and Lyrical Narrative Poetry / by Huot, Sylvia

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