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Lyric Orientations : Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community / by Eldridge, Hannah Vandegrift

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : on orientation -- Skepticism and the struggle over finitude : Stanley Cavell -- The anxiety of theory : Hölderlin's poetology as skeptical syndrome -- Friedrich Hölderlin, "Blödigkeit," "das nächste Beste," "Andenken" -- Calls for communion : Hölderlin's late poetry -- Malevolent intimacies : Rilke and skeptical vulnerability -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonette an Orpheus (excerpts) -- Figuring finitude: Rilke's sonnets to orpheus -- Epilogue. …”
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Shakespeare, the Orient, and the critics by Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla

Table of Contents: “…Shakespeare's Orientalism and the reversal of stereotypes -- The Oriental framework of Romeo and Juliet -- Shakespeare's humanism: Hamlet, King Lear, and sufism -- Shakespeare and the Arabian nights -- Shakespeare and money -- Shakespeare's Roman world -- Method in the madness: success and failure of early Hamlet criticism.…”
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Eastern Questions : Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy / by Jeffreys, Peter

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Retaking the universe William S. Burroughs in the age of globalization /

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Gentlemen callers Tennessee Williams, homosexuality, and mid-twentieth century Broadway drama / by Paller, Michael

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The ocean of the soul man, the world, and God in the stories of Farid al-Din Attar / by Ritter, Hellmut, 1892-1971

“…Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East ;…”
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Harmony in Haydn and Mozart by Damschroder, David

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Methodological orientation -- pt. 2. Masterpieces.…”
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Knut Hamsun the dark side of literary brilliance / by Žagar, Monika

Table of Contents: “…Discourses of race and primitivism in Scandinavia -- Hamsun's women as scapegoats for modernity's sins -- Imagining the Indians -- Imagining black and white -- A taste of the Orient -- Imagining the sly magic "lapps" -- Imagining degeneration and revolution -- The rhetoric of defense in Hamsun's Paa gjengrodde stier.…”
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The beat generation and counterculture Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac / by Chandarlapaty, Raj, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Paul Bowles : countercultural beginnings, "new" studies of the orient, decolonization poetics -- pt. 2. Burroughs's "interzone intermezzo" : Naked lunch and the internationalization of countercultural narrative -- pt. 3. …”
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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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Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov /

Table of Contents: “…Brief biographies: Rozanov, Merezhkovskii and Shestov -- Rozanov on Chekhov: overcoming literature and extending horizons / Vladimir Kataev -- Kind and quiet: Vasilii Rozanov's reading of Chekhov / Aleksandr Medvedev -- Contemporaneity, competition and combat. facts and fiction about everybody and passiveness, Orientalism and anaesthesia in Rozanov's view on Chekhov / Rainer Grübel -- "Tree of life" and "dead waters": why was Rozanov afraid of Chekhov? …”
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Shakespeare's language in digital media : old words, new tools /

Table of Contents: “…Curating Scholarly Commentary in the Age of Google (Sarah Neville) Part Three: New Ways with New Tools: Performing Historicity 9. Database-oriented Annotation of Early Modern Plays (Jesaus Tronch) 10. …”
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Lafcadio Hearn in international perspectives

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In search of nature the Japanese writer Tayama Katai (1872-1930) / by Henshall, Kenneth G.

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Manyoshu a new English translation containing the original text, Kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary /

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A new English translation containing the original text, kana transliteration, Romanization, glossing and commentary by Vovin, Alexander

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Finding people in early Greece by Thomas, Carol G., 1938-

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation / by Holman, Christopher

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Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist : The Films of Suzuki Seijun / by Yacavone, Peter A. (Peter Andrew), 1978-

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