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A history of contemporary Chinese literature by Hong, Zicheng

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"Music makers" and world creators : the forms and functions of embedded poems in British fantasy narratives / by Hausmann, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theory, Methodology, and Corpus -- 2.1 Participating Genres -- 2.1.1 The Concept of Genre -- 2.1.2 Prose Narratives -- 2.1.3 Poetry -- 2.1.4 Fantasy Literature -- 2.2 Prosimetric Literature: Forms, Development, and Functions -- 2.2.1 Forms and Development -- 2.2.2 General and Narrative Functions -- 2.3 Methodological Toolset and Corpus Selection -- 2.3.1 Terms and Hypotheses -- 2.3.2 The Corpus Selection…”
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The world of Persian literary humanism by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the making of a literary humanism -- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750) -- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258) -- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194) -- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353) -- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508) -- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732) -- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924) -- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present) -- Conclusion.…”
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Trouble : Grist anthology of protest - short stories

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Noam Chomsky and language descriptions

Table of Contents: “…Genesis of generative grammar -- Systems of syntactic analysis / Noam Chomsky -- -- Some methodological remarks on generative grammar / Noam Chomsky -- Knowledge of language: its elements and origins / Noam Chomsky -- Current issues in language descriptions -- Germanic passive constructions / John Ole Askedal -- Prosodic constraints on Old English alliteration / Yasuaki Fujiwara -- The historical role of genitives in the emergence of DP / Kazuyo Miyamae -- -- The word pairs in Chaucer's verse in comparison with those in his prose / Akinobu Tani -- A short note on movement and control in the English noun phrase / Junji Hamamatsu -- Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions in spoken American English / Yoko Iyeiri, Michiko Yaguchi and Yasumasa Baba -- Complement capacities in German: three types of complements / Yasuhito Hosaka.…”
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The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / by Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? …”
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The Reverend Mark Twain : Theological Burlesque, Form, and Content / by Fulton, Joe B., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…"I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian" : conformity and critique in Mark Twain's religious dialogue -- "Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys" : God, grotesques, and Sunday-school books in Mark Twain's Roughing it -- Mark Twain's hymns in prose : doxology and burlesque in The adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Mark Twain's cruci-fictions : "The second advent" as a burlesque life of Christ -- The morphology of martyrdom : fairy tale, epic, and hagiography in Personal recollections of Joan of Arc -- Q: What do Socrates and the Shorter catechism have in common? …”
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Continent. Year 1: A Selection of Issues 1.1–1.4 /

Table of Contents: “…Staley Groves -- Anders Breivik: On Copying the Obscure / Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei -- A Playful Reading of the Double Quotation in The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley / Feliz Lucia Molina -- Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones / Timothy Morton -- Money as Media: Gilson Schwartz on the Semiotics of Digital Currency / Renata Lemos-Morais -- The Afterlives of Queer Theory / Michael O'Rourke -- Please Mind the Gap: How to Podcast Your Brain / Karen Spaceinvaders -- The Fragment as a Unit of Prose Composition: An Introduction / Ben Segal -- Mad Speculation and Absolute Inhumanism: Lovecraft, Ligotti, and the Weirding of Philosophy / Ben Woodard -- Covering Giorgio Agamben's Nudities / Gregory Kirk Murray.…”
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Becoming a reflective practitioner by Johns, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Exploring reflection -- Writing self : the 1st dialogical movement -- Surfing the reflective spiral : the 2nd dialogical movement -- Framing insights -- The dance with Sophia : the 3rd dialogical movement -- Guiding reflection : the 4th dialogical movement -- Weaving narrative and performance : the 5th & 6th dialogical movements -- The reflective curriculum -- Reflections on touch and the environment -- Reflections on caring -- Life begins at 40 -- Balancing the wind or a lot of hot air -- A reflective model of clinical practice -- Reflective leadership -- Teetering on the edge of chaos -- Ensuring quality (clinical standards and clinical audit) -- Clinical supervision -- Tales of clinical supervision -- Therapeutic journaling with patients -- The bully and the sheep : storyboard -- Reflective prose poems -- Through a glass darkly : the performance turn.…”
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Alexander Pope in the reign of Queen Anne : reconsiderations of his early career /

Table of Contents: “…6 Pope and Chaucer: Reconstructing the House of Fame in the Reign of Queen Anne -- 7 The Labours of the Passions in the Rape of the Lock -- 8 Painting Deformed Portraits: Humour in Pope's Early Prose -- 9 Renewing the Classics in the Age of Queen Anne: The Making of Pope's Iliad -- Conclusion -- Index…”
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John Donne's performances sermons, poems, letters and devotions / by Fetzer, Margret

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Evidence and Innovation in Housing Law and Policy /

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CASTRATION, IMPOTENCE, AND EMASCULATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY by Greenfield, Anne

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Continent. Year 1: A Selection of Issues 1.1–1.4 /

Table of Contents: “…Staley Groves -- Anders Breivik: On Copying the Obscure / Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei -- A Playful Reading of the Double Quotation in The Descent of Alette by Alice Notley / Feliz Lucia Molina -- Objects as Temporary Autonomous Zones / Timothy Morton -- Money as Media: Gilson Schwartz on the Semiotics of Digital Currency / Renata Lemos-Morais -- The Afterlives of Queer Theory / Michael O'Rourke -- Please Mind the Gap: How to Podcast Your Brain / Karen Spaceinvaders -- The Fragment as a Unit of Prose Composition: An Introduction / Ben Segal -- Mad Speculation and Absolute Inhumanism: Lovecraft, Ligotti, and the Weirding of Philosophy / Ben Woodard -- Covering Giorgio Agamben's Nudities / Gregory Kirk Murray.…”
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Anton Chekhov through the eyes of Russian thinkers Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov /

Table of Contents: “…/ Michal Oklot -- Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: two types of artistic-philosophical consciousness / Aleksandr Chudakov -- Negating his own negation: Merezhkovskii's understanding of Chekhov's role in russian culture / Anna Lisa Crone -- An illuminating misinterpretation: on Merezhkovskii's literary criticism of Chekhov / Karoline Thaidigsmann -- Can Merezhkovskii see the spirit in the prose of flesh? / Vladimir Golstein -- Lev Shestov on Chekhov / Andrei Stepanov -- Between tragedy and aesthetics: Shestov's reading of Chekhov / Olga Tabachnikova -- Shestov-Chekhov, Chekhov-Shestov / Savely Senderovich -- Philosophy's enemies: Chekhov and Shestov / Svetlana Evdokimova.…”
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A fury in the words love and embarrassment in Shakespeare's Venice / by Berger, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Mercifixion in The merchant of Venice: the riches of embarrassment -- Introduction -- Negotiating the bond -- Antonio's blues -- Curiositas: the two Sallies -- Negative usury and the arts of embarrassment -- Negative usury: Portia's ring trick -- Portia the embarrasser -- The archery of embarrassment -- The first Jason -- A note on verse and prose in Act 1 -- Another Jason -- Portia cheating -- Portia's hair -- The siege of Belmont -- Covinous casketeers -- Moonlit maundering -- Coigns of vantage -- Standing for judgment -- Standing for sacrifice -- "Here is the money": Bassanio in the bond market -- Twilight in Belmont: Portia's ring cycle -- Death in Venice -- Three's company: contaminated intimacy in Othello. …”
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A Story of Conquest and Adventure : The Large Faramarzname /

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The House of Death : Messages from the English Renaissance by STEIN, ARNOLD

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