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The dilemma of modernity Ramón Gómez de la Serna and the Spanish modernist novel / by McCulloch, John A.

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Doppelgänger dilemmas : Anglo-Dutch relations in early modern English literature and culture / by Rubright, Marjorie

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The Black Aesthetic Unbound : Theorizing the Dilemma of Eighteenth-Century African-American Literature / by Langley, April C. E.

Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of a ghost : early African American literature and its mournings/moorings -- What a difference a "way" makes : Wheatley's ways of knowing -- Kaleidoscopic re-memory in Equiano's Interesting narrative : shifting the lens to replace the landscapes -- Reading "others" in eighteenth-century Afro-British American literature : the promise and the dilemma of new ways of reading.…”
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Paul and the ancient letter form

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Ennobling love in search of a lost sensibility / by Jaeger, C. Stephen

Table of Contents: “…Unsolvable problems-- romantic solutions : the romantic dilemma.…”
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / by Schillings, Sonja

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. …”
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The Bilingual Muse : Self-Translation among Russian Poets / by Wanner, Adrian, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction "The Trick of Doubling Oneself" -- Elizaveta Kul'man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets -- Wassily Kandinsky's Trilingual Poetry -- Marina Tsvetaeva's Self-Translation into French -- Vladimir Nabokov's Dilemma of Self-Translation -- Joseph Brodsky in English -- Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets -- Conclusion…”
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Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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Breaking the silence toward a Black male feminist criticism / by Ikard, David, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Love Jones : a black male feminist critique of Chester Himes's If he hollers let him go -- Black patriarchy and the dilemma of black women's complicity in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- "Killing the white girl first" : understanding the politics of black manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- "So much of what we know ain't so" : the other gender in Toni Cade Bambara's The salt eaters -- "Like a butterfly in a hurricane" : reconceptualizing black gendered resistance in Walter Mosley's Always outnumbered, always outgunned and Walkin' the dog.…”
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The Kashubs past and present /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński and Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- A history of the Kashubs until the end of communism / Józef Borzyszkowski -- The Kashubian language and its dialects : the range of use / Jerzy Treder -- Kashubian literature : the phenomenon, its history and its social dimension / Jerzy Treder and Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński -- Language policy and the sociolinguistics of Kashubian / Tomasz Wicherkiewicz -- Dilemmas of modern Kashubian identity and culture / Cezary Obracht-Prondzyński.…”
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Rethinking historicism from Shakespeare to Milton

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Hadfield -- Theory and practice in historical method / Michael McKeon -- Limiting history / Marshall Grossman -- The politics of Renaissance historicism : Valla, Erasmus, Colet, and More / Thomas Fulton -- Historicizing satisfaction in Shakespeare's Othello / Heather Hirschfeld -- The new presentism and its discontents : listening to Eastward ho and Shakespeare's Tempest in dialogue / Paul Stevens -- In great men's houses : playing, patronage, and the performance of Tudor history / Lawrence Manley -- Medea's dilemma : politics and passion in Milton's Divorce tracts / Sharon Achinstein -- Milton, Foucault, and the new historicism / Martin Dzelzainis -- You shall be our generalless : fashioning warrior women from Henrietta Maria to Hillary Clinton / Laura Knoppers -- War times : seventeenth-century women's writing and its afterlives / Erin Murphy.…”
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Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction / by Shippey, T. A.

Table of Contents: “…: '"People are plastic": Jack Vance and the dilemma of cultural relativism' -- SF authors really mean what they say : 'Alternate historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and me' -- A revealing failure by the critics : 'Kingsley Amis's science fiction and the problems of genre' -- A glimpse of structuralist possibility : 'The golden bough and the incorporations of magic in science fiction' -- Serious issues, serious traumas, emotional depth : 'The magic art and the evolution of words: Ursula Le Guin's "Earthsea" trilogy' -- SF and politics. …”
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