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Wiley AP English literature & composition by Woods, Geraldine

Table of Contents: “…II. Poetry -- pt. III. Prose and drama -- pt. IV. Open-ended and paired-passage essays -- pt. …”
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"Dew on the grass" the poetics of inbetweenness in Chekhov / by Lapushin, Radislav

Table of Contents: “…The concept of inbetweenness and the poetry of Chekhov's prose -- pt. 2. Amidst the shades of meaning : the immediate textual context -- pt. 3. …”
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Ink, stink bait, revenge, and Queen Elizabeth : a Yorkshire yeoman's household book / by May, Steven W., Marotti, Arthur F., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hanson manuscript -- The Eland-Beaumont feud -- Two lost ballads of the Armada thanksgiving celebration -- Verse and prose from other printed sources -- Other texts from manuscript sources -- Recipes for ink and stink bait plus other utilitarian items.…”
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Applying Wittgenstein by Read, Rupert J., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- Modernist performative literature : philosophy, poetry, prose -- Wittgensteinian prose -- The strong grammar of Faulkner's the sound and the fury -- Delusions of sense in the representation of derangement : the dangers of interpretation --Creative mimicry and the untranslatable metaphor --Wittgenstein and the sound of sense -- Time -- Dummett challenged : beyond realist and anti-realist renderings of time -- (Dis)solving the time-slice conception of time.…”
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Worldly acts and sentient things the persistence of agency from Stein to DeLillo / by Chodat, Robert, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : French cathedrals and other forms of life -- Sense, science, and slight contacts with other people's minds -- Embodiment and the inside -- The prose of persons -- Selves, sentences, and the styles of holism -- Embodiment and the outside -- The culture and its loaded words -- Conclusion : person and presence, stories and theories.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Supplement to "Walt Whitman, a descriptive bibliography" by Myerson, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Separate publications -- Collected editions -- Miscellaneous collections -- First book and pamphlet appearances -- First-appearance contributions to magazines and newspapers -- Proof copies, circulars, and broadsides -- Reprinted material in books and pamphlets -- Separate publication of individual poems and prose works -- Compiler's notes -- Index.…”
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Silencing the sea secular rhythms in Palestinian poetry / by Furani, Khaled, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Secular bewilderment -- Rhythms and rulers -- The land of the poem -- Memory for beginnings -- Metrical discipline and mastery -- Poets for "the people" -- Enough "screaming" -- Rhythmical freedom -- Modern poets and "conservative" people -- Redeeming prose -- When meter melts -- The laity outside poetry's temple -- Conclusions : secular prayers.…”
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Pythagorean women their history and writings / by Pomeroy, Sarah B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Introduction to the prose writings of neopythagorean women -- The letters and treatises of neopythagorean women in the east -- The letters and treatises of neopythagorean women in the west -- The neopythagorean women as philosophers / by Vicki Lynn Harper.…”
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Translation theory and practice, tension and interdependence /

Table of Contents: “…Some theoretical aspects of translation -- section 3. Translating non-prose genres -- section 4. Putting theory to practice -- section 5. …”
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Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / by Munro, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Dichtung und Wahrheit -- 'Without this nothing thinks' : the enigma of the active intellect -- Nearer to you than the sea -- Vertigo, beatitudo : Spinoza and philosophy -- The idea of prose -- Appendix A. Theses on aesthetics as first philosophy -- Appendix B. …”
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Theory Is Like a Surging Sea / by Munro, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Dichtung und Wahrheit -- 'Without this nothing thinks' : the enigma of the active intellect -- Nearer to you than the sea -- Vertigo, beatitudo : Spinoza and philosophy -- The idea of prose -- Appendix A. Theses on aesthetics as first philosophy -- Appendix B. …”
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Print, chaos, and complexity Samuel Johnson and eighteenth-century media culture / by Wildermuth, Mark E., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Textual instability, print, and complex dynamics in the Johsonian mediated cultural milieu -- Pope as a precursor to Johnson : the mediation of chaos and order in An essay on man -- Complexity and mediated culture in Johnson's moral periodical prose -- Johnson's politics in the milieu of informatics -- Samuel Johnson, mediation, representation, and the aesthetics of complex dynamics.…”
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Languages of exile : migration and multilingualism in twentieth-century literature /

Table of Contents: “…Identity and ethics : three Anglo-Slavic prose virtuosi -- part II. Shifting language, shifting thought : philosophical and stylistic effects of migration -- part III. …”
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Marcel Proust in the light of William James : in search of a lost source / by Sachs, Marilyn M.

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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The politics of women's rights in Iran by Osanloo, Arzoo, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A genealogy of "women's rights" in Iran -- Producing states: women's participation and the dialogics of rights -- Qur'anic meetings: "doing the cultural work" -- Courting rights: rights talk in Islamico-civil family court -- Practice and affect: writing/righting the law -- Human rights: the politics and prose of discursive sites -- Conclusion "women's rights" as exhibition at the brink of war.…”
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Reconfiguring the modern American lyric the poetry of James Tate / by Caleshu, Anthony

Table of Contents: “…"A fair shake or a chocolate shake": the difficulty of reading James Tate -- "Fragments of novelties": poetry about poetry -- "Out of his little civilized element": surrealizing America -- "I sent my love to the showers": love and familial dysfunction -- "A stab at conversation": communication breakdown -- "Change is good: optimism and prose poetry in recent work.…”
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Writing the love of boys origins of Bishōnen culture in modernist Japanese literature / by Angles, Jeffrey, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Blow the blood-stained bugle : Murayama Kaita and the language of personal sensation -- Treading the edges of the known world : homoerotic fantasies in Murayama Kaita's prose -- The appeal of the strange : same-sex desire in Edogawa Ranpo's mystery fiction -- (Re)discovering same-sex love : Ranpo and the creation of Queer history -- Uninscribing the adolescent body : aesthetic resistance in Taruho's writing -- Conclusion : postwar legacies.…”
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Looking back at al-Andalus the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew literature / by Elinson, Alexander E.

Table of Contents: “…The poetics of loss and nostalgia in Muslim Spain -- Written in stone : the Andalusī rithāʼ al-mudun in the Arabic elegiac tradition -- Weeping over the poetic past : poetry into prose in al-Saraqusṭī's Qayrawan maqāma -- Al-Andalus and Sefarad in the Hebrew qaṣīda -- The view from al-Andalus : looking east, west, and south for Andalusī identity -- A final look back -- Appendix: Select Arabic and Hebrew texts.…”
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