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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.…”
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Le Clézio's spiritual quest by Trzyna, Thomas N., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- A moral world -- Conclusion: two dilemmas.…”
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Christian fiction and religious realism in the novels of Dostoevsky by Bercken, William Peter van den, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Religious interpretations of Dostoevsky -- The realism of Dostoevsky's fictional christianity -- Christian themes in Crime and punishment -- Religious discussions in The idiot and The adolescent -- Christian voices in The devils -- The spirituality of the Monk Zosima in the Brothers Karamazov -- The legend of the grand inquisitor: literary irony and theological seriousness -- Dostoevsky's 'grand inquisitor' and Vladimir Solovyov's 'antichrist' -- Physical and divine beauty: the aesthetical-ethical dilemma in Dostoevsky's novels.…”
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Oxford Jackson architecture, education, status, and style 1835-1924 / by Whyte, William

Table of Contents: “…'Recording our eclectic age' : Jackson and the dilemma of style -- 'The unity of art' : Jackson and the arts and crafts -- 'The maker of modern Oxford' : Jackson and the architecture of progress -- 'In the shadow of Anglo-Jackson' : Jackson and the public schools -- 'Cambridge at last!' …”
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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. Chronology of Lin Yutang.…”
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Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois / by Stewart, Carole Lynn

Table of Contents: “…Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. …”
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Quentin Tarantino and philosophy how to philosophize with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch /

Table of Contents: “…Auxier -- Coke into Pepsi : the miracle in Pulp fiction / Keith Allen Korcz -- Quentin Tarantino and the ex-convict's dilemma / Richard Greene -- Kill Bill : Tarantino's oedipal play / Mark T. …”
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Dostoevsky at 200 : The Novel in Modernity /

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Of Elephants and Toothaches : Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Decalogue' /

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