Search Results - Civilization

Anatomizing Civil War : Studies in Lucan's Epic Technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Introduction -- Aide-MÃmoire: The Plot of Lucanâ’s Bellum Civile -- 1. Lucanâ’s Epic Body: Anatomizing Civil War -- 2. …”
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Entre folklore y literatura : lírica hispánica antigua / by Frenk Alatorre, Margit

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New World Soundings : Culture and Ideology in the Americas / by Morse, Richard M. (Richard McGee), 1922-2001

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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction / by Gellrich, Jesse M., 1942-

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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? …”
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Scotland, Britain, Empire : Writing the Highlands, 1760-1860 / by McNeil, Kenneth

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The Jazz Republic : Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany / by Wipplinger, Jonathan O.

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Ideología y política en el Japón moderno / by Tsurumi, Shunsuke, 1922-2015

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Legal Tender : Love and Legitimacy in the East German Cultural Imagination / by Urang, John Griffith, 1975-

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The Chekhovian Intertext : Dialogue with a Classic / by Parts, Lyudmila

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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / by Fawcett, Julia H.

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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others : civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- ch. 2. …”
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Listening for Africa : Freedom, Modernity, and the Logic of Black Music's African Origins / by García, David F.

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing the African origins of Negro music and dance in a time of racism, fascism, and war -- Listening to Africa in the city, in the laboratory, and on record -- Embodying Africa against racial oppression, ignorance, and colonialism -- Disalienating movement and sound from the pathologies of freedom and time -- Desiring Africa, or Western civilization's discontents -- Conclusion: dance-music as rhizome.…”
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Hemispheric Imaginations : North American Fictions of Latin America / by Breinig, Helmbrecht

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Alterity and identity : reflections on approaching the other -- Foundational narratives : some versions of Columbus -- Invasive methods : the opening of Latin America in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US literature -- Representations of the Mexican revolution in US literature -- Nature and civilization : nineteenth-century travelers and twentieth-century escapists -- Gendered perceptions of Latin America in twentieth-century US literature -- The post-Vietnam era : versions of realism -- The postmodern response : magical realism and metafiction -- Splintered foundations : postmodern and Native American versions of Columbus -- Canada and Latin America : Malcolm Lowry and the other as symbolic field -- Post-Vietnam and twenty-first-century Canadian visitors.…”
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Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / by Laffrado, Laura

Table of Contents: “…: gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.…”
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We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán / by Spener, David, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…South : blacks and whites, slavery and spirituals -- From worship to work : a spiritual is adopted by the U.S. labor movement and the left -- From union song to freedom song : civil rights activists sing an old tune for a new cause -- From English in the U.S. …”
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Figures of the World : The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form / by Hill, Christopher L., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Degenerate Body -- The Genealogy of the Naturalist Body -- Nerves and Cracks -- The Story of the Leg -- Translating Gervaise -- Jaws and Fists, the Chin and That Hair -- The Civilized Nerve -- The Transformation of Mimesis -- 3. …”
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Witness Through the Imagination : Jewish American Holocaust Literature / by Kremer, S. Lillian, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Cohen's In the Days of Simon Stern; Chapter Nine: Eternal Light: The Holocaust and the Revival of Judaism and Jewish Civilization in the Fiction of Chaim Potok; Chapter Ten: Nazism on Trial: The Holocaust Fiction of George Steiner; Conclusion; Notes; Index…”
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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

Table of Contents: “…Maddening times : Mad men in its history / Dana Polan -- Mad space / Dianne Harris -- Representing the mad margins of the early 1960s : Northern civil rights and the blues idiom / Clarence Lang -- After the sex, what? …”
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Transatlantic Correspondence : Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898–1992 / by Venegas, Jose Luis

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