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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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    The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow / by Zurkow, Marina

    Published 2020
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    The Petroleum Manga: A Project by Marina Zurkow / by Zurkow, Marina

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    John Burroughs and the place of nature by Warren, James Perrin

    Published 2006
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    Marcel Proust in the light of William James : in search of a lost source / by Sachs, Marilyn M.

    Published 2014
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Seeing Proust in a new light -- Text in context: points of contact and circles of acquaintance -- The Jamesian stream and the Proustian art of consciousness -- Parallels in the penumbra: tracking James's psychology in Proust's novel -- From Jean to Je: experience in the first person singular -- Patterns of palimpsest: James's theories and Proust's prose in the purview of neuro-cognitive science.…”
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    Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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    Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / by Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems -- 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque -- 6. …”
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    The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors / by Shaw, Harry E., 1946-

    Published 1983
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    The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors / by Shaw, Harry E., 1946-

    Published 1983
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