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The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens -- Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.…”
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The Court of Comedy : Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens / by Major, Wilfred E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Sicilian pioneers of comedy and rhetoric and their transmission to Athens -- Old comedy and proto-rhetoric in Athens before 425 B.C.E. : the age of Pericles -- The young comic playwrights attack, 425-421 B.C.E. -- The years of confidence, 421-414 B.C.E. -- Crawling from the wreckage, 411 B.C.E. -- Tongues, frogs, and the last stand.…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Case studies: deep intersubjectivity and genre. Comedy, film and film comedy -- Deep intersubjectivity and the subversion of comedy -- Deep intersubjectivity and masquerade.…”
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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Case studies: deep intersubjectivity and genre. Comedy, film and film comedy -- Deep intersubjectivity and the subversion of comedy -- Deep intersubjectivity and masquerade.…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. …”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce ; "'What!' …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Creoles, closure, and Cubba's comedy of pain : abolition and the politics of homecoming in eighteenth-century British farce ; "'What!' …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Fashioning Jews : Clothing, Culture and Commerce (SJC #24) /

Table of Contents: “…Ella Zirner-Zwieback, Madame d'Ora, and Vienna's New WomanPhotographers, Jews, and the Fashioning of Women in the Weimar Republic; Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany; Unbuttoned: Clothing as a Theme in American Jewish Comedy; "What a Strange Power There Is in Clothing": Women's Tallitot; Aboriginal Yarmulkes, Ambivalent Attire, and Ironies of Contemporary Jewish Identity.…”
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Three-Way Street : Jews, Germans, and the Transnational /

Table of Contents: “…Transnational Jewish Comedy: Sex and Politics in the Films of Ernst Lubitsch-From Berlin to Hollywood / Richard W. …”
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Three-Way Street : Jews, Germans, and the Transnational /

Table of Contents: “…Transnational Jewish Comedy: Sex and Politics in the Films of Ernst Lubitsch-From Berlin to Hollywood / Richard W. …”
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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

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Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage : Boy Heroines and Female Pages / by Shapiro, Michael, 1938-

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

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

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