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    Artists in Dylan Thomas's prose works Adam naming and Aesop fabling / by Mayer, Ann Elizabeth, 1960-

    Published 1995
    Subjects: “…Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 Prose.…”
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    Risk culture performance and danger in early America / by Fichtelberg, Joseph

    Published 2010
    Subjects: “…American prose literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism.…”
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    Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- The Aesopic challenge to Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition -- Aesop at the invention of philosophy: the problematic sociopolitics of mimetic prose; the generic affiliations of Sokratikoi logoi -- The battle over prose: fable in sophistic education and Xenophon's Memorabilia: Sophistic fables; traditional fable narration in Xenophon's Memorabilia -- Sophistic fable in Plato: parody, appropriation, and transcendence: Plato's Protagoras: debunking Sophistic fable; Plato's symposium: ringing the changes on fable -- Aesop in Plato's Sokratikoi logoi: analogy, elenchos, and disavowal: Sophia into philosophy: Socrates between the sages and Aesop; the Aesopic bricoleur and the "old Socratic tool-box"; sympotic wisdom, comedy, and Aesopic competition in Hippias major -- Historie and logopoiia: two sides of Herodotean prose: history before prose, prose before history; Aesop ho logopoios; Plutarch reading Herodotus: Aesop, ruptures of decorum, and the non-Greek -- Herodotus and Aesop: Cyrus tells a fable; Greece and (as) fable, or resignifying the hierarchy of genre; fable as history; the Aesopic contract of the histories: Herodotus teaches his readers.…”
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    Panic fiction : women and antebellum economic crisis / by Templin, Mary, 1959-

    Published 2014
    Subjects: “…American prose literature Women authors History and criticism.…”
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    Colonial writing and the New World, 1583-1671 allegories of desire / by Scanlan, Thomas

    Published 1999
    Subjects: “…American prose literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism.…”
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    Stories of the Soviet experience memoirs, diaries, dreams / by Paperno, Irina

    Published 2009
    Subjects: “…Russian prose literature 20th century History and criticism.…”
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    The French colonial imagination : writing the Indian uprisings, 1858-1859, from second Empire to third Republic / by Frith, Nicola, 1974-

    Published 2014
    Subjects: “…French prose literature 19th century History and criticism.…”
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    Melodramatic imperial writing : from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes / by Hultgren, Neil

    Published 2014
    Subjects: “…English prose literature History and criticism.…”
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    William Blake on his poetry and painting a study of A descriptive catalogue, other prose writings, and Jerusalem / by Adams, Hazard, 1926-

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A descriptive catalogue -- A vision of the Last Judgment -- A public address -- On Homer's poetry and On Virgil -- Laocoön -- On his arts : in the letters -- Retrospective : the early tractates -- On poetry, his poetry, and other poets -- From the prose to Jerusalem -- From Jerusalem and the prose to Yeats and Joyce -- Postscript.…”
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