Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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Victorian Women Writiers, Radical Grandmothers, and the Gendering of God / by Houston, Gail Turley, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : antecedents of the Victorian "goddess story" -- "Gods of the old mythology arise" : Charlotte Brontë's vision of the "goddess story" -- Feminist reincarnations of the Madonna : Anna Jameson and ecclesiastical debates on the immaculate conception -- Invoking "all the godheads" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's polytheistic aesthetic -- Eve, the female messiah, and the Virgin in Florence Nightingale's personal and public papers -- Ariadne and the Madonna : the hermeneutics of the goddess in George Eliot's Romola.…”
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George Eliot's Religious Imagination : A Theopoetics of Evolution / by Orr, Marilyn, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Incarnation and inwardness : George Eliot's early works in the context of contemporary religious debates -- "Even our failures are a prophecy" : toward a post-evangelical aesthetic -- Religion in a secular world : Middlemarch and the mysticism of the everyday -- "The religion of the future" : Daniel Deronda and the mystical imagination -- Evolutionary spirituality and the theopoetical imagination : George Eliot and Teilhard de Chardin -- Conclusion: The Word continuously incarnated.…”
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Everyday Cinema: The Films of Marc Lafia / by Lafia, Marc, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Jisu Song (TriBeCa Film Institute) -- Peter Duhon (Anthology Film Archives) -- Kevin Farrington (Mubi) -- Daniel Coffeen (The Aesthetes) -- Lior Rosenfeld (191).…”
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The world of Angela Carter a critical investigation / by Cavallaro, Dani

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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition /

Table of Contents: “…Scott Bakker -- All for Naught / Eugene Thacker -- A Horse is Being Beaten: On Nietzsche's "Equinimity" / Dominic Pettman -- The Rope-Dancer's Fall: "Going Under" as Undergoing Nietzscheo-Simondonian Transindividuation / Sarah Choukah -- The Will to Obsolescence: Nietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present / Jen Boyle -- Farmville, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will-to-Power-Ups / Dylan Wittkower -- Aesthetic States of Frenzy: Nietzsche's Aesthetic Palimpsest / Joseph Nechvatal -- "Philosophizing With a Scalpel": From Nietzsche to Nina Arsenault / Shannon Bell -- "Nietzsche in Drag": Thinking Technology through the Theater of Judith Butler / Arthur Kroker.…”
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Liberal cosmopolitan Lin Yutang and middling Chinese modernity / by Qian, Suoqiao

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: re-discovering Lin Yutang in the post-Mao era -- Chinese modernity: nationalism, imperialism, and the liberal cosmopolitan alternative -- Enlightenment and national salvation: the politics of a liberal nationalist -- "Little critic:" "returned" professionals and the cosmopolitan modern -- A cross-cultural aesthetics of life: translating "xingling" into "self-expression," "xianshi" into "leisure" and "humor" into "youmo" -- Oriental other: the business of translating Chinese and American cultures -- Cosmopolitan difference: critique of imperialism and debating "Chinahands" -- Conclusion: what a liberal cosmopolitan alternative means for contemporary Chinese intellectual dilemma -- Appendix. …”
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Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of difference and the Irish theatre by Cregan, David

Table of Contents: “…Defective histories: re-presenting history in Innocence, Mary and Lizzie, and Mutabilitie -- Queer nation: homosexual representations of national identity in Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme and Dolly West's kitchen -- The wilde Irishmen: 'theatre theatrical' in Gates of gold -- Camping in utopia: Carthaginians and the queer aesthetic -- Holy irreverence: The gospel according to Judas -- There's no place like 'home': The bird sanctuary, Someone who'll what over me, and The factory girls -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: interview with Frank McGuinness -- Appendix 2: interview with Senator David Norris -- Appendix 3: interview with Patrick Mason.…”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

Table of Contents: “…The paradox of desire -- Paradise lost : Hawthorne's traumatic narcissism -- As his mother loved him : Hawthorne's "The gentle boy" and Freud's theory of male homosexuality -- Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne : criticism and the forms of narcissism -- Struck by the mask : narcissism, shame, masculinity, and the dread of the visual -- In a pig's eye : masculinity, mastery, and the returned gaze of 'The Blithedale romance' -- The gaze in the garden : femininity, fetishism, and tradition in "Rappaccini's daughter" -- Visual identity : Hawthorne, Melville, and classical male beauty -- A certain dark beauty : narcissism, form, and race in Hawthorne's late work -- The haunted verge : aesthetics, desire, history.…”
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Faulkner and material culture Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2004 /

Table of Contents: “…Aiken -- The philosophy of furniture, or, Light in August and the material unconscious / Jay Watson -- Dematerializing culture : Faulkner's trash aesthetic / Patricia Yaeger -- Flags in the dust and the material culture of class / Kevin Railey -- "Touch me while you look at her" : stars, fashion, and authorship in Today we live / D. …”
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Arteletra : The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed / by Bartles, Jason A.

Table of Contents: “…Third Encounter: Juan's Dissent -- PART THREE The Aesthetics of Writing in Plain Sight -- Chapter Seven AY, EPOPEYA! …”
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Edith Wharton in context

Table of Contents: “…Short story markets Bonnie Shannon McMullen; Part IV. Arts and Aesthetics: 14. Stage adaptations of Wharton's fiction John Dennis Anderson; 15. …”
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Transatlantic Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe and European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Todd -- Stowe and the Byronic heroine / Caroline Franklin -- Uncle Tom's cabin and the Irish national tale / Clíona Ó Gallchoir -- Nature, magic, and history in Stowe and Scott / Monika Elbert -- The first years of Uncle Tom's cabin in Russia / John MacKay -- Stowe, Gaskell, and the woman reformer / Whitney Womack Smith -- Stowe, Eliot, and the reform aesthetic / Clare Cotugno -- Sunny memories and serious proposals / Donals Ross -- The construction of self in Sunny memories / Shirley Foster -- Art and the body in Agnes of Sorrento / Gail K. …”
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Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov /

Table of Contents: “…/ Vladimir Golstein -- Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov -- Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova -- Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich -- Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova.…”
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Cinema's alchemist the films of Péter Forgács /

Table of Contents: “…Toward a new historiography: the aesthetics of temporality / Ernst van Alphen -- Ordinary film: The maelstrom / Michael S. …”
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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and empire. by Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

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A companion to Pedro Almodóvar

Table of Contents: “…Paul Julian Smith Almodóvar's self-fashioning: the economics and aesthetics of deconstructive biography -- Francisco A. …”
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Quentin Tarantino and philosophy how to philosophize with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch /

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"The game as it is played" : essays on Theodore Dreiser / by Pizer, Donald

Table of Contents: “…American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser; Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness; American Literary Naturalism in Its "Perfected" State: An American Tragedy and The Age of Innocence; The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Dreiser's Sister Carrie; Late Nineteenth Century American Literary Naturalism: A Re-Introduction -- Dreiser's Works: Theodore Dreiser's "Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic; Toward Sister Carrie: The Sources and Nature of Dreiser's Narrative Method; Introduction to New Essays on "Sister Carrie"; An Evolutionary Reading of Sister Carrie; The Text of Sister Carrie; Introduction to Jennie Gerhardt; Otto Weininger and the Sexual Dynamics of Theodore Dreiser's The "Genius"; Crime and Punishment in Dreiser's An American Tragedy: The Legal Debate.…”
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Modernism and popular music by Schleifer, Ronald

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