Search Results - "InSight"

Sightings mirrors in texts -- texts in mirrors / by Lowrie, Joyce O.

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Out of sight the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895 / by Abbott, Lynn, 1946-

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Unsettling sights the fourth world on film / by Columpar, Corinn, 1970-

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Sound and sight poetry and courtier culture in the Yongming era (483-493) / by Goh, Meow Hui

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Second sight the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / by Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-

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The synergy of film and music sight and sound in five Hollywood films / by Rothbart, Peter

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Spirits of Defiance : National Prohibition and Jazz Age Literature, 1920-1933 / by Drowne, Kathleen Morgan

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the culture of national prohibition -- Outside the law : liquor providers of the Prohibition era -- These wild young people : drinking and youth culture -- Hidden in plain sight : the drinking joints -- "Lets stay in" : the prohibition-era house party.…”
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Trinity of discord the hymnal and poetic innocations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper / by Arnold, Richard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…"Controversie of singing" : historical sketch of the English hymn to 1707 -- "Sight thro' a glass" : Isaac Watts -- "I see Thee face to face" : Charles Wesley -- "The hidden life" of hymnody : William Cowper -- Paradox of contemporary response : critical reaction, artistic influence.…”
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Modern American Grotesque Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Modern American Grotesque : Literature and Photography / by Goodwin, James, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The grotesque -- American traditions of the grotesque -- The modern : depiction and description -- Grotesques in modern America : Sherwood Anderson -- "Elephantine close-ups" : Nathanael West -- All God's grotesques : Flannery O'Connor -- New York sights : Weegee -- Creatural realism : Diane Arbus -- Conclusion. …”
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Primitive Minds Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Primitive Minds : Evolution and Spiritual Experience in the Victorian Novel / by Neill, Anna, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and the dreamy mind -- Charlotte Brontë's hypochondriacal heroines -- Spirits and seizures in Bleak House and Our mutual friend -- Suspended animation and second sight : Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner -- Dreamy intuition and detective genius : Ezra Jennings and Sherlock Holmes -- The end of the novel : naturalism and reverie in Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The return of the native.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Come buy, come buy shopping and the culture of consumption in Victorian women's writing / by Lysack, Krista

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: danger, delight, and Victorian women's shopping -- Goblin markets: women shoppers and the East in London's West End -- Lady Audley's shopping disorders -- Middlemarch and the extravagant domestic spender: managing an epic life -- To those who love them best: the erotics of connoisseurship in Michael Field's Sight and song -- Votes for women and the tactics of consumption -- Afterword: Becoming Elizabeth Dalloway: the future of shopping.…”
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Africa in stereo : modernism, music, and pan-African solidarity / by Jaji, Tsitsi

Table of Contents: “…Stereomodernism and amplifying the Black Atlantic -- Sight reading: early Black South African transcriptions of freedom -- N�egritude musicology: poetry, performance and statecraft in Senegal -- What women want: selling hi-fi in consumer magazines and film -- 'Soul to soul': echo-locating histories of slavery and freedom from Ghana -- Pirate's choice: hacking into (post-)pan-African futures -- Epilogue: Singing songs.…”
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The point is to change it poetry and criticism in the continuing present / by McGann, Jerome J.

Table of Contents: “…Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.…”
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Francophone women between visibility and invisibility /

Table of Contents: “…Teixidor -- Vision, voice and the female body: Nina Bouraoui's sites-sights of resistance / Adrienne Angelo -- Mistis body: double mirror / Caroline Beschea-Fache -- Body, sexuality and the photo in l'usage de la photo / Cybelle H. …”
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The sites of Rome time, space, memory /

Table of Contents: “…Larmour -- Victim and voyeur : Rome as a character in Tacitus' Histories 3 / Rhiannon Ash -- The gates of Janus : Bakhtin and Plutarch's Roman meta-chronotope / Jason Banta -- Staging Rome : the Renaissance, Rome, and humanism's classical crisis / Jacob Blevins -- Sizing up Rome, or theorizing the overview / Caroline Vout -- Ancient Rome for little comrades : the legacy of classical antiquity in Soviet childrens' literature / Marina Balina -- The sites and sights of Rome in Fellini's films : 'not a human habitation but a psychical entity' / Elena Theodorakopoulos.…”
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Genres and Provenance in the Comedy of W.S. Gilbert : Pipes and Tabors / by Moore, Richard, 1945-

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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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