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Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / by Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads.…”
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Born in a mighty bad land the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / by Bryant, Jerry H., 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads.…”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese

Table of Contents: “…Abrams ; The age of innocence : social semiotics, desire, and constratint / Deborah Knight ; After hours : Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. McMahon ; The pupkin gambit : rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy / Richard Greene -- Vision, salvation, and the transcendental. …”
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The philosophy of Martin Scorsese

Table of Contents: “…Abrams ; The age of innocence : social semiotics, desire, and constratint / Deborah Knight ; After hours : Scorsese on absurdity / Jennifer L. McMahon ; The pupkin gambit : rationality and irrationality in The king of comedy / Richard Greene -- Vision, salvation, and the transcendental. …”
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Theatres in the round multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama /

Table of Contents: “…Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. …”
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Theatres in the round multi-ethnic, indigenous, and intertextual dialogues in drama /

Table of Contents: “…Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam -- Celebrating indigeneity: contemporary aboriginal playwriting in Canada and Australasia / Marc Maufort -- Quoting the "other": intertextuality and indigeneity in Pacific theatre / David O'Donnell -- Beckett's Chinese progeny: absurdity, waiting, and the Godot motif in contemporary China / Rossella Ferrari -- A punk-rock Elektra: Ruth Margraff's The Elektra fugues / Kathleen L. …”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? …”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? …”
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Resentment's virtue Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive / by Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony -- Boosterism of forgiveness -- Layers and remainders -- Nested resentments -- Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court -- Tansition to part two -- Jean Améry on resentment and reconciliation -- Contextualizing "ressentiments" -- From South Africa to post-war Germany -- Jean Améry : life and works -- Beyond guilt and atonement -- Germany, 1945-1965 -- Reading "ressentiments" -- Opening moves -- From clarification to justification -- Reimagining ressentiment -- The origins of Améry's ressentiment -- Reforming ressentiment -- Facing the irreversible -- The zustand passage -- The twisted sense of time -- The absurd demand -- Changing the past or its significance--to the present? …”
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Resentment's virtue Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive / by Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony -- Boosterism of forgiveness -- Layers and remainders -- Nested resentments -- Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court -- Tansition to part two -- Jean Améry on resentment and reconciliation -- Contextualizing "ressentiments" -- From South Africa to post-war Germany -- Jean Améry : life and works -- Beyond guilt and atonement -- Germany, 1945-1965 -- Reading "ressentiments" -- Opening moves -- From clarification to justification -- Reimagining ressentiment -- The origins of Améry's ressentiment -- Reforming ressentiment -- Facing the irreversible -- The zustand passage -- The twisted sense of time -- The absurd demand -- Changing the past or its significance--to the present? …”
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Pranksters vs. Autocrats : Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism / by Popovic, Srdja, McClennen, Sophia A.

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Pranksters vs. Autocrats : Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism / by Popovic, Srdja, McClennen, Sophia A.

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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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A race of female patriots women and public spirit on the British stage, 1688-1745 / by Wilson, Brett D., 1971-

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Think Big, Start Small StreetScooter die e-mobile erfolgsstory: Innovationsprozesse radikal effizienter /

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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