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Approaches to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey

Table of Contents: “…/ Kostas Myrsiades -- Reading Homer through oral tradition / John Miles Foley -- Res agens : towards an ontology of the Homeric self / Damian Stocking -- Feet, fate, and finitude : on standing and inertia in the Iliad / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou -- Learning lessons from the Trojan War : Briseis and the theme of force / Casey Dué -- Poulydamas and Hektor / Matthew Clark -- Aias and the gods / William Duffy -- Homer and the will of Zeus / Joe Wilson -- Assembly and hospitality in the cyclôpeia / Rick M. …”
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Lewis Nordan humor, heartbreak, and hope /

Table of Contents: “…Baker -- Life as a set of games and invented stories in Lewis Nordan's fictional memoir / Marcel Arbeit -- Happiness is a warm gun : guns and love in Lewis Nordan's work / Edward J. …”
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The Hunger games and philosophy a critique of pure treason /

Table of Contents: “…": a tribute's guide to the morality and logic of warfare -- pt. 7. "It must be very fragile if a handful of berries can bring it down": the political philosophy of Coriolanus Snow.…”
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Festivals, affect, and identity a Deleuzian apprenticeship in central Italian communities / by Crociani-Windland, Lita

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Learning, identity, duration, and the virtual -- Siena and its province: an overview -- Siena and the Palio " war and state machine": identity and becoming -- Montepulciano and Bruscello: rupture, continuity, and the "refrain" -- The "problem/idea" of Montepulciano: how to be autonomous in the face of overwhelming force -- Montepulciano's bravio delle botti and a genealogy of cunning -- Sharecropping and modernity -- Monticchiello's "problem/idea": a community under siege -- A tree with its roots in the air: Monticchiello's theatre of the "virtual" -- Conclusion.…”
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Corneille's Horace and David's Oath of the Horatii a chapter in the politics of gender in art / by Gutwirth, Madelyn

Table of Contents: “…Horace and the war of the sexes -- Sorting out gender in the age of sensibility -- Jacques-Louis David's Oath of the Horatii.…”
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The prose works of William Wordsworth. by Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850

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René Schickele and Alsace cultural identity between the borders / by McGillicuddy, Áine, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Questions of nationhood and cultural identity in France, Germany and Alsace (1870-1914) -- The wartime drama Hans im Schnakenloch -- Alsace between the wars: politics and cultural identity -- Schickele and inter-war Alsace: selected essays and the novel trilogy Das Erbe am Rhein.…”
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Anna Seward and the end of the eighteenth century by Kairoff, Claudia Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Under suspicious circumstances : the (critical) disappearance of Anna Seward -- "Fancy's shrine" : Anna Seward and Lady Miller's Batheaston poetical assemblies -- Anna Seward and the profession of poetry -- Anna Seward, British patriot -- Wartime correspondent : Seward, the French wars, and late-century patriotism -- Seward and sensibility : Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles -- Louisa and the late eighteenth-century family romance -- Seward and the sonnet I : Milton's champion -- Seward and the sonnet II : corresponding poems -- Seward and the sonnet III : the "lost" Honora -- Seward's memoirs of-- Dr. …”
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Psychology comes to Harlem rethinking the race question in twentieth-century America / by Garcia, Jay, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Richard Wright and the "the unconscious machinery of race relations" -- Richard Wright reading: the promise of social psychiatry -- "The problem of race and minorities from below": the wartime cultural criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison and C.L.R. …”
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Writing back American expatriates and narratives of return / by Winnett, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return -- Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America -- An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript.…”
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Shaw and feminisms on stage and off /

Table of Contents: “…Shavian feminism in the larger world -- 9. Mrs Warren's profession and the development of transnational Chinese feminism / Kay Li -- 10. …”
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The motherless child in the novels of Pauline Hopkins by Bergman, Jill, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the motherless child in the post-reconstruction United States -- "The blessed relief of tears": maternal redemption in Contending forces -- Motherlessness in the nation's capital: the national father in Hagar's daughter -- "Somethin's gwine happen": national warning in Winona -- Finding mother Africa: of one blood and Hopkins's national vision -- Coda.…”
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Postmodern ethics Sciascia's and Tabucchi's re-appropriation of committed writing 1975-2005 / by Wren-Owens, Elizabeth

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William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 by Hanson, Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Warriors waiting for the word -- The early romances and the transformative touch of violence -- Knightly women and the imagination of battle in the defence of Guenevere, and other poems -- Sigurd the Volsung and the parameters of manliness -- Crossing the river of violence: the Germanic antiwars and the uncivilized uses of work and play -- All for the cause: fellowship, sacrifice and fruitful war -- Afterword: Hopeful strife and blameless peace.…”
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Reading La3amon's Brut : approaches and explorations /

Table of Contents: “…: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont -- Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis -- The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler -- The language of law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum -- Fri©ʻ and Gri©ʻ: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman -- La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper -- Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts -- Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg -- La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge -- Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin -- Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss -- Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti -- La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller -- The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. …”
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The crime films of Anthony Mann / by Alvarez, Max Joseph, 1960-

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George Ohr : sophisticate and rube / by Lippert, Ellen J.

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A human necklace : the African diaspora and Paule Marshall's fiction / by Ferguson, Moira

Table of Contents: “…-- Soul clap hands and sing : sadness, resistance, redemption -- A "nation of diabetics" meets empire -- Water and nomenclature : Praisesong for the widow -- Paule Marshall's Daughters : wars of independence -- The fisher king : new beginnings and a culmination.…”
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Race and culture in New Orleans stories : Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable / by Nagel, James

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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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