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Cult cinema an introduction /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Receptions and debates. Cult reception contexts -- The cult cinema marketplace -- Prestige, awards, and festivals -- Censorship and criticism -- Random and subculture -- The cult auteur -- Cult stardom -- Camp and paracinema -- Transgression and freakery -- Gender and sexuality -- Transnationalism and Orientalism -- Religion and utopia -- Themes and genres. …”
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Pindar and the cult of heroes
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Some themes in hero cult, Homer and Pindar -- pt. 2. Heroization in the fifth century BC -- pt. 3. …”
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Faster, pussycat! Kill! Kill! /
Published 2014Subjects: “…Cult films United States History and criticism.…”
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Desiring bodies Ovidian romance and the cult of form /
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Rock it come over : the folk music of Jamaica /
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Invoking Lakshmi the goddess of wealth in song and ceremony /
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Von den Toren des Hades zu den Hallen des Olymp Artemiskult bei Theokrit und Kallimachos /
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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon /
Published 2010Subjects: “…Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects. bicssc…”
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Haiti Unbound : A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon /
Published 2010Subjects: “…Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects. bicssc 161911…”
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Ignatius and Concord the background and use of the language of Concord in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…From the past to the present : the enigma of Ignatius -- Review of the ignatian problem -- Recent critiques : Hübner and Lechner -- Homonoia and the Flavians -- Overview and method -- Homonoia and Concordia : from its origins to the principate -- Origins of Homonoia -- Homonoia and hellenism -- Concordia in Rome to the end of the republic -- Concordia and Homonoia the principate -- Conflict and Concord : succeeding the reigns of Nero and Domitian -- Imperial power and provincial Concord : the imperial cult and the Homonoia-coins of the Greek East -- The imperial cult and Homonoia in the Greek East -- Coins and conflict : the imperial cult and Homonoia-coins -- Images and metaphors of the imperial cult in Ignatius -- Ignatius and the Homonoia-coins : ign. magn. 5-6 -- The literary context of Homonia in the second sophistic and related literature -- The second sophistic and Homonoia : the golden past of a silver present -- Dio chrysostom and the politics of Homonoia -- Aelius Aristides and the discord of the cities -- Ignatian Homonoia and imperial power -- Homonoia in the literature of early Judaism : Philo, Josephus and 4 Maccabees -- The use of Homonoia by Philo of Alexandria -- Josephus, the Flavians, and Homonoia -- Homonoia and 4 Maccabees -- Ignatius letters and 4 Maccabees -- Homonoia in early Christian literature : Paul and 1 Clement -- Deliberative rhetoric and the Concord-speech in antiquity -- Corinthians 1:4 : deliberative rhetoric urging Concord -- The Concord-speech and 1 Corinthians -- Homonoia and 1 Clement -- Clement's uses of Homonoia -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians : a deliberative letter urging Concord -- Homonoia in Ignatius of Antioch and his theological and historical contexts -- Homonoia in the letters of Ignatius of Antioch -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Ephesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Magnesians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Trallians -- Ignatius' Epistle to the Philadelphians -- Ignatius and the unity of God -- Ignatius and the 'peace' in Syria.…”
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The death and afterlife of Achilles /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The early life of Achilles -- The death of Achilles -- The destiny of Achilles in the Iliad -- Intertextuality and oral epic -- The death of Achilles in the Iliad -- Motif sequences in the Iliad -- Burial and afterlife of Achilles -- Tomb and cult of Achilles.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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Homeless dogs & melancholy apes humans and other animals in the modern literary imagination /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Speculative space : the rise of the animal in the modern imagination -- Mirror scene : the orangutan, the ancients, and the cult of sensibility -- Immoderate love : the lady and the lapdog -- Violent intimacy : the monkey and the marriage plot -- Dog narrative : itinerancy, diversity, and the Elysium for dogs.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? -- Corporate softcore and its discontents: weightlessness and weightiness at Playboy Enterprises -- "From skin to scream": evolution and elevation at a cult softcore label -- Whither softcore?…”
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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Life of the Dead; Chapter 6. The Cult of the New Hero; Chapter 7. Mass Culture and the Patriotic Pantheon; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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Heroes and Revolution in Vietnam, 1948-1964 /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…The Life of the Dead; Chapter 6. The Cult of the New Hero; Chapter 7. Mass Culture and the Patriotic Pantheon; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index…”
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Aesopic conversations popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose /
Published 2011Table 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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Rolf Stein's Tibetica antiqua with additional materials /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Confucian maxims in two Dunhuang manuscripts -- Annuaire 1967 -- Aspects of the sworn faith in China -- The Bonpo cosmogonies in Tibet and near the Mosso -- Annuaire 1968 -- Daoist texts relative to the transmission of revealed books -- The Bonpo accounts on the beginnings of culture -- Annuaire 1969 -- Bonpo accounts on the first men -- Some aspects of the Daoist parishes -- Annuaire 1970 -- Popular cults in organized Daoism -- Elements constitutive of the Bonpo literature -- Bibliography of Rolf A. …”
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