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Musical cultures in seventeenth-century Russia
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…The true False Dmitrii and the death of music in Moscow -- "Wondrous singers and exceptional voices" : singers and singing in Muscovy -- "Sweet and harmonious singing" : domestic singers and domestic singing -- Tavern and wedding : the instrumental traditions at the Muscovite court -- Nikolai Diletskii : language and imagery in Muscovite music theory -- The Muscovite court theater.…”
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Liberation historiography African American writers and the challenge of history, 1794-1861 /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…The theater of history -- Scattered lives, scattered documents : writing liberation history -- Multiple lives and lost narratives : (auto)biography as history -- The assembly of history : orations and conventions -- Our warfare lies in the field of thought : the African American -- Press and the work of history -- Epilogue : William Wells Brown and the performance of history.…”
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Imagining Methodism in eighteenth-century Britain enthusiasm, belief, & the borders of the self /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Historicizing methodism -- The new man: Desire, transformation, and the methodist body -- Words made flesh: Fanny Hill and the language of passion -- Actors and ghosts: Methodism in the theater of the real -- "'My Lord, my love:' the performance of public intimacy and the Methodist hymn -- A usable past: reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and the spiritual Quixote.…”
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Increase and multiply governing cultural reproduction in early modern England /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…"Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.…”
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Opera and sovereignty transforming myths in eighteenth-century Italy /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Bourgeois theatrics, Perugia, 1781: third case study. A theater for the middle class ; What class is our genre? …”
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Science Fiction in Argentina : Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Fantasy and science between intellectuals and the masses -- Mediation and materiality in graphic fiction -- Time, technics, and the transmission of culture -- Projection, prosthesis, plasticity: literature in the age of the image -- Beyond the linguistic turn: mathematics and new materialism in contemporary literature and theater -- Modernity and cinematic time in science fiction film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Science Fiction in Argentina : Technologies of the Text in a Material Multiverse /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Fantasy and science between intellectuals and the masses -- Mediation and materiality in graphic fiction -- Time, technics, and the transmission of culture -- Projection, prosthesis, plasticity: literature in the age of the image -- Beyond the linguistic turn: mathematics and new materialism in contemporary literature and theater -- Modernity and cinematic time in science fiction film -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.…”
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Affections of the mind the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval English literature /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the politics of sacramental marriage in late medieval culture -- Married friendship : an ideology for the franklin -- Public voice, private life: marriage and masculinity in John Gower's Traité -- Performing reform : marriage, lay piety, and sacramental theater in the N-town Mary plays -- The marriage of love and sex : Margery Kempe and bourgeois lay identity.…”
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Charlie Kaufman confessions of an original mind /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Dick -- Eternal sunshine of the Academy Award -- Hope leaves the theater and what I really want to do is direct.…”
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Eugene O'Neill's America desire under democracy /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…-- "The merest sham": women and marriage -- Religion and the death of death -- "The Greek dream in tragedy is the noblest ever" -- Waiting for hickey -- The theater as temple.…”
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The subject in question early contemporary Spanish literature and Modernism /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…The Spanish literary generation and early contemporary literary history -- Modernism and Spain : aesthetics, ideology, tradition, subjectivity -- From the labyrinth : the Spanish modernist novel and the "new man" -- Modernist hieroglyphics : geographies of presence in the poetry of Jorge Guillén and Vicente Aleixandre -- Absence and experience in the poetry of Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti -- Subjective fragmentation in the theater of Federico García Lorca.…”
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873
Trial by Farce : A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage /
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Trial by Farce : A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in English for the Modern Stage /
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The claims of poverty literature, culture, and ideology in late medieval England /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Forms of need: the allegorical representation of poverty in Piers Plowman -- Poverty exposed: the evangelical and epistemological ideal of Pierce the Ploughman's crede -- "Clamerous" beggars and "nedi" knights: poverty and Wycliffite reform -- The costs of sanctity: Margery Kempe and the Franciscan imaginary -- Communal identities: performing poverty, charity, and labor in York's Corpus Christi theater -- Nickel and dimed: poverty polemic medieval and modern.…”
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Edo kabuki in transition : from the worlds of the samurai to the vengeful female ghost /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The birth of Edo kabuki -- Presenting the past: Edo kabuki and the creation of community -- The beginning of the end of Edo kabuki: Yotsuya Kaidan in 1825 -- Overturning the world: the treasury of loyal retainers and Yotsuya Kaidan -- Shades of jealousy: the body of the female ghost -- The end of the world: figures of the ubume and the breakdown of theater tradition -- The modern rebirth of kabuki -- Another history: Yotsuya Kaidan on stage and page.…”
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Papal justice subjects and courts in the Papal State, 1500-1750 /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…A complex geography -- Roman tribunals in the early modern period -- The "new" inquisition and the pope's city -- The theater of justice -- Restless nobles -- Collaboration and conflicts : governors, bishops, inquisitors -- Sins and crimes -- Inside the family -- Disciplining the clergy -- Buon governo : between Utopia and reality -- Little fatherlands : local identity and central power -- Rivers of ink : petitions, memorials, letters -- Justice represented, justice recounted.…”
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In and out of Morocco smuggling and migration in a frontier boomtown /
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Nador's Smugglers and Border Theater 110 --7. The Effects of Globalization on Contemporary Moroccan Culture 131.…”
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The price of fire resource wars and social movements in Bolivia /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…-- Occupy, resist, produce -- The wealth underground -- El Alto : the city that contains a nation -- Paradise now : street theater, hip-hop, and women creating -- Continent on a tightrope -- Bolivian movement : the Morales administration.…”
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Transcolonial Maghreb : imagining Palestine in the era of decolonization /
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Palestine as metaphor -- Souffles-Anfas : Palestine and the decolonization of culture -- Transcolonial hospitality : Kateb Yacine's experiments in popular theater -- The transcolonial exotic : allegories of Palestine in Ahlam Mosteghanemi's Algerian trilogy -- Portrait of an Arab Jew : Albert Memmi and the politics of indigeneity -- Abrahamic tongues : Abdelkebir Khatibi, Jacques Hassoun, Jacques Derrida -- Edmond Amran el Maleh and the cause of the other -- Epilogue : Palestine and the Syrian intifada.…”
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