Search Results - Civilization

Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

Table 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 / by Frenk Alatorre, Margit

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New World Soundings : Culture and Ideology in the Americas / by Morse, Richard M. (Richard McGee), 1922-2001

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Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions / by Goldstein, Jonathan A., 1929-

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table 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 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 / by O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015

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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Ideología y política en el Japón moderno / by Tsurumi, Shunsuke, 1922-2015

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Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / by Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

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American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South /

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The Chekhovian Intertext : Dialogue with a Classic / by Parts, Lyudmila

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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table 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 / by García, David F.

Table 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 / 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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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table 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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