Search Results - "InSight"

Visions of Electric Media : Television in the Victorian and Machine Ages / by Roberts, Ivy, 1982-

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Spirits of Defiance : National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933 / by Drowne, Kathleen Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the culture of national prohibition -- Outside the law : liquor providers of the Prohibition era -- These wild young people : drinking and youth culture -- Hidden in plain sight : the drinking joints -- "Lets stay in" : the prohibition-era house party.…”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject / by Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Gender complexes -- 3. Sight unseen (reading the unconscious) -- Part two. …”
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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / by Wheatley, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.…”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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