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Venus' owne clerk Chaucer's debt to the Confessio amantis / by Lindeboom, B. W. (Benjamin Willem)

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The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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Traumatic possessions the body and memory in African American women's writing and performance / by Griffiths, Jennifer L., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"The quick gasp of sympathy": trauma and interracial witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose -- Betrayal trauma and the test of complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Between women: trauma, witnessing, and the legacy of interracial rape in Robbie Mccauley's Sally's rape -- Uncanny spaces: trauma, cultural memory, and female body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- "I have never seen a movie like that": traumatic memory and the "acceleration of history" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992.…”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790 / by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus : John Burgoyne's remediated pleasures -- Out to America : performance and the politics of mediated space -- Regime Change. …”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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Enchanted evenings the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Show boat : in the beginning ; Anything goes : songs ten, book three ; Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera ; On your toes and Pal Joey : dance gets into the act and "sweet water from a foul well" ; The cradle will rock : a labor musical for art's sake ; Lady in the dark and One touch of Venus : the Broadway stranger and his American dreams ; Stage versus screen (1) : before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Act II : the Broadway musical after Oklahoma!. …”
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Documenting the Black experience : essays on African American history, culture and identity in nonfiction films /

Table of Contents: “…A "perpetual threat": unforgivable blackness and Jack Johnson as a transmedia sports icon / Michael Graves -- From Compton to center court: Venus and Serena and the black female experience in professional tennis / Novotny Lawrence -- Electronic media immortalizing Dorothy Dandridge in documentary, African American press and mainstream press / Charlene Regester -- "Rated R because it's real": discourses of authenticity in Wattstax / Mike Phillips -- A glance at her story: black female documentarians navigating beyond the Theresa / Renee White, Sara Tekle and Melanie Shaw -- Documenting grassroots history as a means to social change: 778 bullets, community engagement and the legacy of rural civil rights / Angela J. …”
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Terraforming: Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction / by Pak, Chris

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Estudios de folklore y literatura dedicados a Mercedes Díaz Roig /

Table of Contents: “…Piñero y Virtudes Atero -- En busca de El caballo robado: hacia una poetica de la poesía narrativa tradicional / Beatriz Mariscal Hay -- Andanzas de Venus y Cupido en tiempos del Romancero nuevo / Antonio Alatorre -- La metamorfosis erótica del Mambrú en el XVIII novohispano / María Águeda Mendez -- Nuevas supervivencias de la poesía tradicional / Jose María Alín -- Decimas y decimales en Mexico y Puerto Rico: variedad y tradición / Yvette Jimenez de Báez --…”
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