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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Pt. 1. Image / Art -- Collages and narrative in Carmen Martín Gaite / Ester Bautista -- Moving beyond identification: Carmen Martín Gaite, from passionate reader to co-scriptwriter on RTVE's Celia (1993) / Jessamy Harvey -- The idea of sisterhood in Carmen Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás and the paintings of Remedios Varo / Maria Alejandra Zanetta -- Martín Gaite's Vision de Nueva York: collage of public and private space / Debra J. …”
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Business and finance performance and management /

Table of Contents: “…Pan and Tsuen-Ho Hsu -- On managing the uncertain : observations of project management / Markus Hällgren -- The adoption of laser technology in Italian art restoration firms : the role of suppliers and clients / Karen Venturinia and Chiara Verbano -- Consolidation and determinants of bank efficiency : empirical evidence from Malaysia / Fadzlan Sufian -- The changing face of international HRM and business : case studies of Japanese and Taiwanese companies operating in China / Ying Zhu, Imogen Chen and Takamichi Mito -- The microcluster value chain analysis / Josep Capó-Vicedo, Manuel Expósito-Langa and José-Vicente Tomás-Miquel -- Seeing through the eyes of clients : the link between microfinance and well-being in rural Ghanaian households / Cynthia Arku, Helen Hambly Odame and Frank S. …”
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Appalachia in the classroom teaching the region /

Table of Contents: “…Burriss -- Teaching the poetry and prose of Marilou Awiakta / Grace Toney Edwards -- Toward "crystal-tight arrays" : teaching the evolving art of Robert Morgan's poetry / Robert M. West.…”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /

Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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The significance of Sinai traditions about Sinai and divine revelation in Judaism and Christianity /

Table of Contents: “…/ Diana Lipton -- Sinai in art and architecture / David Brown -- Sinai since Spinoza : reflections on revelation in modern Jewish thought / Paul Franks.…”
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The Stewart/Colbert effect essays on the real impacts of fake news /

Table of Contents: “…Tally, Jr -- It's all about meme: the art of the interview and the insatiable ego of the Colbert bump / Kevin A. …”
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Learning from the global financial crisis creatively, reliably, and sustainably /

Table of Contents: “…Truth, beauty and the financial crisis : evaluating what works / Robert Richardson and Matt Statler -- Aesthetics and the economic meltdown / Ralph Bathurst and Margot Edwards -- Smashing moneytheist mirrors : how artists help us live with financial schizophrenia / Pierre Guillet de Monthoux -- Hence God exists / Skip McGoun -- The fine art of finance / Steve Taylor -- The play ethic / Pat Kane -- Cassim's law : a regulars' table speech about the crisis / Henrik Schrat -- Managing the global financial crisis : lessons from technological crisis management / Paul Shrivastava, Bill Gruver and Matt Statler -- Failures of high reliability in finance / Nathaniel Bush, Peter Martelli, and Karlene Roberts -- Wrong assumptions and risk cultures : deeper causes of the global financial crisis / Ian I. …”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Beyond the back room new perspectives on Carmen Martín Gaite /

Table of Contents: “…Pt. 1. Image / Art -- Collages and narrative in Carmen Martín Gaite / Ester Bautista -- Moving beyond identification: Carmen Martín Gaite, from passionate reader to co-scriptwriter on RTVE's Celia (1993) / Jessamy Harvey -- The idea of sisterhood in Carmen Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás and the paintings of Remedios Varo / Maria Alejandra Zanetta -- Martín Gaite's Vision de Nueva York: collage of public and private space / Debra J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Business and finance performance and management /

Table of Contents: “…Pan and Tsuen-Ho Hsu -- On managing the uncertain : observations of project management / Markus Hällgren -- The adoption of laser technology in Italian art restoration firms : the role of suppliers and clients / Karen Venturinia and Chiara Verbano -- Consolidation and determinants of bank efficiency : empirical evidence from Malaysia / Fadzlan Sufian -- The changing face of international HRM and business : case studies of Japanese and Taiwanese companies operating in China / Ying Zhu, Imogen Chen and Takamichi Mito -- The microcluster value chain analysis / Josep Capó-Vicedo, Manuel Expósito-Langa and José-Vicente Tomás-Miquel -- Seeing through the eyes of clients : the link between microfinance and well-being in rural Ghanaian households / Cynthia Arku, Helen Hambly Odame and Frank S. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Appalachia in the classroom teaching the region /

Table of Contents: “…Burriss -- Teaching the poetry and prose of Marilou Awiakta / Grace Toney Edwards -- Toward "crystal-tight arrays" : teaching the evolving art of Robert Morgan's poetry / Robert M. West.…”
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Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
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Civilizations beyond earth extraterrestrial life and society /

Table of Contents: “…Kuznicki ; ET phone Darwin : what can an evolutionary understanding of animal communication and art contribute to our understanding of methods for interstellar communication? …”
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Doscientos años de narrativa mexicana : siglo XIX /

Table of Contents: “…Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi: vida desgraciada y obra patriótica / María Rosa Palazón Mayoral -- El libro de las masas: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano y la novela nacional / Christopher Conway -- Ficción narrativa e ideológica en Roa Bárcena / Rafael Olea Franco-- Luis G. Inclán: el arte de la lengua hablada y escrita en la novela mexicana del siglo XIX / Manuel Sol -- Las novelas históricas de Vicente Riva Palacio / Jose Ortiz Monasterio y María Teresa Solórzano Ponce -- Un novelista actual: Manuel Payno / Margo Glantz -- "Yo nunca escribo una novela sin que me la pidan": Jose Tomás de Cuellar, escritor de novelas por entregas / Ana Laura Zavala Díaz -- "Hermano de todos los proscritos, hermano de todos los mineros": Pedro Castera, cuentista y novelista / Blanca Estela Treviño García -- Vertientes narrativas de Rafael Delgado / Adriana Sandoval -- Ángel de Campo: modalidades de la escritura / Yliana Rodríguez González -- Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, narrador eclectico / Belem Clark de Lara -- Entre la truculencia y la sencillez: la narrativa de Amado Nervo / Klaus Meyer-Minnemann -- Laura Mendez de Cuenca: una narradora moderna / Pablo Mora -- Federico Gamboa, escritor del Porfiriato / Javier Ortiz.…”
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Analyzing intelligence origins, obstacles, and innovations /

Table of Contents: “…Treverton -- Enduring challenges -- The art of strategy and analysis / Roger Z. George -- Foreign denial and deception: analytical perspectives / James B. …”
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Hong Kong connections transnational imagination in action cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Srinivas -- Hong Kong, Hollywood, Bombay : on the function of 'martial art' in the Hindi action cinema / Valentina Vitali -- Let's miscegenate : Jackie Chan and his African-American connection / Laleen Jayamanne -- The secrets of movement : the influence of Hong Kong action cinema upon the contemporary French avant-garde / Nicole Brenez -- At the edge of the cut : an encounter with the Hong Kong style in contemporary action cinema / Adrian Martin -- Wuxia redux : Crouching tiger, hidden dragon as a model of late transnational production / Stephen Teo -- Hong Kong film and the new cinephilia / David Desser -- Action cinema, labour power, and the video market / Paul Willemen -- Spectral critiques: tracking "uncanny" filmic paths towards a bio-poetics of trans-Pacific globalization / Rob Wilson -- Technoscience culture, embodiment, and wuda pian / Wong Kin-yuen.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Civilizations beyond earth extraterrestrial life and society /

Table of Contents: “…Kuznicki ; ET phone Darwin : what can an evolutionary understanding of animal communication and art contribute to our understanding of methods for interstellar communication? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Doscientos años de narrativa mexicana : siglo XIX /

Table of Contents: “…Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi: vida desgraciada y obra patriótica / María Rosa Palazón Mayoral -- El libro de las masas: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano y la novela nacional / Christopher Conway -- Ficción narrativa e ideológica en Roa Bárcena / Rafael Olea Franco-- Luis G. Inclán: el arte de la lengua hablada y escrita en la novela mexicana del siglo XIX / Manuel Sol -- Las novelas históricas de Vicente Riva Palacio / Jose Ortiz Monasterio y María Teresa Solórzano Ponce -- Un novelista actual: Manuel Payno / Margo Glantz -- "Yo nunca escribo una novela sin que me la pidan": Jose Tomás de Cuellar, escritor de novelas por entregas / Ana Laura Zavala Díaz -- "Hermano de todos los proscritos, hermano de todos los mineros": Pedro Castera, cuentista y novelista / Blanca Estela Treviño García -- Vertientes narrativas de Rafael Delgado / Adriana Sandoval -- Ángel de Campo: modalidades de la escritura / Yliana Rodríguez González -- Manuel Gutierrez Nájera, narrador eclectico / Belem Clark de Lara -- Entre la truculencia y la sencillez: la narrativa de Amado Nervo / Klaus Meyer-Minnemann -- Laura Mendez de Cuenca: una narradora moderna / Pablo Mora -- Federico Gamboa, escritor del Porfiriato / Javier Ortiz.…”
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