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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.…”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. …”
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The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets / by Wanner, Adrian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion…”
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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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Dostoevsky at 200 : The Novel in Modernity /

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Of Elephants and Toothaches : Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue' /

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