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The late works of Hayao Miyazaki : a critical study, 2004-2013 / by Cavallaro, Dani, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Hayao Miyazaki: past and present -- A "war love story": Howl's Moving Castle (2004) -- "life is a wave on the sea": tales from Earthsea (2006) -- "The ocean as a living presence": Ponyo (2008) -- "The courage to live": The secret world of Arrietty (2010) -- "Destroy the old and you destroy our memory of the past": From up on Poppy Hill (2011) -- "We must try to live": The wind rises (2013) -- Filmography.…”
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Revolutionary subjects : German literatures and the limits of aesthetic solidarity with Latin America / by Trnka, Jamie H. (Jamie Helene)

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Exploring cultural identities in Jean Rhys' fiction / by Voicu, Cristina-Georgiana

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There and back again : J R R Tolkien and the origins of the Hobbit / by Atherton, Mark

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Mary Edwards Bryan : her early life and works / by Brown, Canter, Rivers, Larry E., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- "Fictitious prosperity": Florida, to 1842 -- "More poetical than true" : Florida, 1842-1850 -- "A shrinking timidity" : Georgia, 1850-1854 -- "The sleuth-hound of slander": Louisiana, 1854-1855 -- "A vent for ... abundant energies": Georgia, 1854-1858 -- "A harvest of fame": Georgia, 1859-1860 -- "The delusions of hope" : Louisiana, 1860-1863 -- "Hushed as an awe-stricken child": Georgia, 1863 -- "When at last the 'cruel war was over'": Louisiana, 1863-1868 -- "A whirlwind accompanied all this": Florida, 1868 -- "Regretting that we did not choose the other way": Louisiana, 1869-1875 -- "I am a bit of a pharisee": Georgia, 1875-1880 -- Afterword: "Sensational and dramatic enough": 1880-1913.…”
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Sebald's vision / by Jacobs, Carol

Table of Contents: “…: The Emigrants -- Frames and excursions: Rings of Saturn -- Toward an epistemology of citation: "Air war and literature" -- A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz -- Déjà vu or ... : "Like day and night": on the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp" -- A critical eye: the interviews.…”
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The cinema of Michael Winterbottom by Allison, Deborah, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Butterfly kiss: the road movie -- Jude: the heritage film -- Welcome to Sarajevo: war cinema -- Wonderland: social realist drama -- The claim: the western -- Code 46: science fiction -- The road to Guantanamo: docudrama -- The killer inside me: neo-noir -- Conclusion.…”
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Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /

Table of Contents: “…Ashford -- The South in Margaret Walker's Poetry: Harbor and Sorrow Home 164 -- Ekaterini Georgoudaki -- For My People: Notes on Visual Memory and Interpretation 179 -- Jerry W. Ward Jr. -- Poet of History, Poet of Vision: A Review of This Is My Century 187 -- Florence Howe -- PART 3 Jubilee: Folklore, History, and Vyry's Voice -- Music as Theme: The Blues Mode in the Works -- of Margaret Walker 195 -- Eleanor Traylor -- "Oh Freedom": Women and History -- in Margaret Walker's Jubilee 209 -- Phyllis R. …”
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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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Order in Disorder Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / by Runyon, Randolph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text.…”
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Fitzgerald & Hemingway works and days / by Donaldson, Scott, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The last great cause: Hemingway's Spanish Civil War writing -- Pt.10: Last things. Hemingway and suicide -- Hemingway and fame.…”
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Wrinkled deep in time aging in Shakespeare / by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and Cymbeline -- The process of growing old, especially in Macbeth -- Time the destroyer -- "Heavy" fathers -- Politic old men: Polonius, Nestor, and Menenius -- Wise old men -- Falstaff -- Othello and Leontes -- Old warriors and statesmen in the English history plays -- Fatal attraction: Antony and Cleopatra -- Strong older women -- Older loving women -- Lusty older women.…”
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Edith Wharton in context

Table of Contents: “…Wharton and Italy Robin Peel; 27. Wharton and World War I Julie Olin-Ammentorp; 28. The 1920s Gail D. …”
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Exploring the horror of supernatural fiction : Ray Bradbury's Elliott family /

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John Dryden and his readers : 1700 / by Ernst, Winifred

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Majesty and the masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe : Western anti-monarchism, the Earl of Essex challenge, and political stagecraft / by Fitter, Christopher

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Shakespeare, the Renaissance and empire. by Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Geography, Asia and otherness -- Rhetoric and English history -- The language of history, governance and of civil war -- The words of kingship and war -- Political rhetoric in Rome -- Translation and history -- Empire, Ireland and the New World -- Hamlet on film in Asia.…”
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Gender and memory in the postmillennial novels of Almudena Grandes / by Ryan, Lorraine

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Interpreting Susan Sontag's essays radical contemplative / by Fulk, Mark K., 1968-

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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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