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Regards croisés alternate perspectives on digital literature /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Sandy Baldwin -- Editorial / by Phillippe Bootz -- Narrative motors / by Eugenio Tisselli -- The unsatisfied reading / by Philippe Bootz -- The artist's condition -- The recursive loop between presentation and representation -- "Agents provocateurs" : codework interventions on the listservs / by Camille Paloque-Bergès -- Speak, "memory" : simulation and satire in Reagan Library / by Shuen-shing Lee -- How to read words in digital literature / by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos -- Textual material in the digital medium / by Alexandra Saemmer.…”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? …”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? …”
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Black women in sequence : re-inking comics, graphic novels, and anime / by Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Catwoman, blackness, and postracialism -- African goddesses, mixed-race wonders, and baadasssss women: black women as "signs" of Africa in US comics -- Anime dreams for African girls: Nadia: the secret of blue water -- Where I'm coming from: black female artists and postmodern comix -- Conclusion: Comic book divas and the making of sequential subjects.…”
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Black women in sequence : re-inking comics, graphic novels, and anime / by Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Catwoman, blackness, and postracialism -- African goddesses, mixed-race wonders, and baadasssss women: black women as "signs" of Africa in US comics -- Anime dreams for African girls: Nadia: the secret of blue water -- Where I'm coming from: black female artists and postmodern comix -- Conclusion: Comic book divas and the making of sequential subjects.…”
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The city besieged siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Ephʻal, Israel

Table of Contents: “…Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life.…”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

Table of Contents: “…: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.…”
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Sovereign stories : aesthetics, autonomy, and contemporary Native American writing / by Kirwan, Padraig

Table of Contents: “…Who's afraid of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: nationalism and voice in Aurelia -- "Indigenous to the land, an immigrant to the culture": Sherman Alexie and the third space of sovereignty -- "All the talk and all the silence": literary aesthetics and cultural boundaries in David Treuer's Little -- Portrait of the artist: authority, autonomy and authorship in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Choctalking: the realities of fiction in Leanne Howe's Shell shaker -- "Not a chaotic wake, not an empty space": the future of art, life & criticism in the work of Craig Womack and Greg Sarris.…”
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The city besieged siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Ephʻal, Israel

Table of Contents: “…Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life.…”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

Table of Contents: “…: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.…”
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Sovereign stories : aesthetics, autonomy, and contemporary Native American writing / by Kirwan, Padraig

Table of Contents: “…Who's afraid of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: nationalism and voice in Aurelia -- "Indigenous to the land, an immigrant to the culture": Sherman Alexie and the third space of sovereignty -- "All the talk and all the silence": literary aesthetics and cultural boundaries in David Treuer's Little -- Portrait of the artist: authority, autonomy and authorship in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Choctalking: the realities of fiction in Leanne Howe's Shell shaker -- "Not a chaotic wake, not an empty space": the future of art, life & criticism in the work of Craig Womack and Greg Sarris.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /

Table of Contents: “…Fitzpatrick -- PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer -- PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González -- IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.…”
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Performing the Iranian state : visual culture and representations of Iranian identity /

Table of Contents: “…Fitzpatrick -- PERFORMING VISUAL STRATEGIES: REPRESENTATIONAL CONCEPTS OF FEMALE IRANIAN IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO ART / Julia Allerstorfer -- PAINTED AND ANIMATED METAPHORS: AN INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST ALIREZA DARVISH / Mina Zand Siegel and Carmen Pérez González -- IN THE HOUSE OF FATEMEH: REVISITING SHIRIN NESHAT'S PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES WOMEN OF ALLAH / Staci Gem Scheiwiller.…”
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Law and ethnic plurality socio-legal perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…On cultural diversity : the importance of normative foundations for legal responses -- Immigration, diversity, and integration : the limits of EU law -- Changes in drugs policy and practice : implications for the Black Community -- Common law and common sense : juries, justice, and the challenge of ethnic plurality -- Artistic license, free speech, and religious sensibilities in a multicultural society -- Planning law and mosque development : the politics of religion and residence in Birmingham -- Alternative dispute resolution in a diasporic Muslim community in Britain -- Rituals of recognition : ethnic minority marriages in British legal systems -- Ethnicity and the senior judiciary in England and Wales.…”
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Communities of imagination : contemporary Southeast Asian theatres / by Diamond, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Mae Naak and Phra Ram : keeping company on the contemporary Thai stage -- Staging the doi moi generation and the treasures of Vietnamese tradition -- Looking within : the Balinese rwa bhineda and readjusting complementary opposites -- Cambodia : artistic renaissance or a new culture of dependency? …”
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Communities of imagination : contemporary Southeast Asian theatres / by Diamond, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Mae Naak and Phra Ram : keeping company on the contemporary Thai stage -- Staging the doi moi generation and the treasures of Vietnamese tradition -- Looking within : the Balinese rwa bhineda and readjusting complementary opposites -- Cambodia : artistic renaissance or a new culture of dependency? …”
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