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The Violence of Modernity : Baudelaire, Irony, and the Politics of Form / by Sanyal, Debarati, 1969-

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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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How to Make a Human : Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages / by Steel, Karl

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War Pictures : Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945 / by Puckett, Kent

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The Economics of Fantasy : Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature / by Stockton, Sharon

Table of Contents: “…Consumer Fetishism and the Violence of the Gaze: Vladimir Nabokov and D.M. Thomas -- Chapter 6. …”
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Bloodscripts : Writing the Violent Subject / by Gomel, Elana

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Act Like A Man : Challenging Masculinities in American Drama / by Vorlicky, Robert, 1950-

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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements / by Singh, Julietta, 1976-

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Translating Troy : Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance / by Mueller, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Translating destruction into alliterative romance -- Genealogy : Trojan historiography in England -- War : reviving Troy -- Violence : the corporeal terror of the Roman Empire -- Heraldry : Arthur's Roman dragon -- Territory : the Trojan provinces of Britain -- Conclusion. …”
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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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The Fictions of Satire by Paulson, Ronald

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and representation -- Introduction ; Central symbol of violence ; Relationship : the fool and the knave ; Fiction as device : Lucian ; Satura into prose fiction ; Picaresque narrative : the servant-master relation -- From Panurge to Achitophel -- Satirist and the satirist-satirized ; Satirist as knave and as hero : Panurge and Pantagruel ; Satyr-satirist and Augustan realism ; Quixote fiction ; Turnus and Satan ; Fictions of Tory satire -- Swift : the middleman and the dean -- From rhetoric to fiction : The drapier's letters ; Swift's version of the Tory fiction ; Swiftean realism : The Bickerstaff papers ; Swiftean picaresque : Gulliver's travels ; Swiftean romanticism : the satirist as hero ; Conclusion : the fiction of Whig satire.…”
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Beasts of the Modern Imagination : Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, and Lawrence / by Norris, Margot

Table of Contents: “…Mawr -- 9. The animal and violence in Hemingway's Death in the afternoon -- 10. …”
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Kinds of Blue : The Jazz Aesthetic in African American Narrative / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…-- The remembering song : toward an aesthetic of literary jazz in Sidney Bechet's Treat it Gentle -- "Swing it, sister" : jazz time in Ann Petry's The Street -- Boping billy clubs, burning cadillacs, and wigged-out aliens : jazz and violence in short stories by Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka -- Kinds of blue : Toni Morrison, Hans Janowitz, and the jazz aesthetic -- Coda: Waiting to be the music : hybridity, afro-modernism, and critical practice.…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 4 "Make It Up and Trace It Back": Remembering Black Trans Subjectivity in Jackie Kay's TrumpetCHAPTER 5 What Grace Was: Erotic Epistemologies and Diasporic Belonging in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here; EPILOGUE Grieving the Queer: Anti-Black Violence and Black Collective Memory; Notes; Index; Series…”
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Doris Lessing : Interrogating the Times /

Table of Contents: “…: the relationship between why and how Lessing writes / Alice Ridout -- London and Kabul : assessing the politics of terrorist violence / Sandra Singer -- The porous border between fact and fiction, empathy and identification in Doris Lessing's The cleft / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis -- love, again and The sweetest dream : fiction and interleaved fictions / Virginia Tiger -- Writing in a minor key : Doris Lessing's late-twentieth-century fiction / Susan Watkins -- Domestic spaces : huts and houses in Doris Lessing's African stories / Pat Louw -- The challenge of teaching Doris Lessing's The golden notebook in the twenty-first century / Suzette Henke -- Sex after sixty : love, again and The sweetest dream / Ruth O. …”
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Empire and Environment : Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific /

Table of Contents: “…Militarized Environments -- "Nuclear Family" (poem) / Craig Santos Perez -- Environmental violence and the Vietnam War in lê thi diem thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For / Emily Cheng -- Toxic waters: Vietnamese ecologies in the afterlives of empire / Heidi Amin-Hong -- Haunted by empires: Micronesian ecopoetry against colonial ruination / Zhou Xiaojing -- Part III. …”
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Hawthorne and the Real : Bicentennial Essays /

Table of Contents: “…Reynolds -- Hawthorne and the problem of "American" fiction : the example of The scarlet letter / Lawrence Buell -- Nathaniel Hawthorne and transnationality / John Carlos Rowe -- Revisiting Hawthorne's feminism / Nina Baym -- Hawthorne's early tales : male authorship, domestic violence, and female readers / Leland S. Person -- Working women and creative doubles in Hawthorne's Tales and The marble faun / David Leverenz -- Estranged allegiances in Hawthorne's unfinished romances / Rita K. …”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

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Queer African Cinemas / by Green-Simms, Lindsey B., 1978-

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Bodyminds Reimagined : (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction / by Schalk, Samantha Dawn

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