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Roman Fever : Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing / by Formichella Elsden, Annamaria, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: representation and copying in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Notes in England and Italy -- Closing her lips with gentle hand : domesticated artists in Constance Fenimore Woolston's Miss Grief and The street of the hyacinth -- Roman fever revisited.…”
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Empire lost France and its other worlds /

Table of Contents: “…The centrality of language to identity and representations in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée / Kathy Richman -- Shadowing Assia Djebar / André Benhaïm -- L'esprit de corps: French civilization and the death of the colonized soldier / Karl Ashoka Britto -- Franco-African artistic and cultural cooperation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Conclusion: My mother tongue, my paternal languages / Michel Serres.…”
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Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson / by Sperb, Jason, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) -- Afterword. …”
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Souffles-Anfas : a critical anthology from the Moroccan journal of culture and politics /

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Empire lost France and its other worlds /

Table of Contents: “…The centrality of language to identity and representations in Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée / Kathy Richman -- Shadowing Assia Djebar / André Benhaïm -- L'esprit de corps: French civilization and the death of the colonized soldier / Karl Ashoka Britto -- Franco-African artistic and cultural cooperation / Jean-Loup Amselle -- Conclusion: My mother tongue, my paternal languages / Michel Serres.…”
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Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson / by Sperb, Jason, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) -- Afterword. …”
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Souffles-Anfas : a critical anthology from the Moroccan journal of culture and politics /

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Last Year at Betty and Bob's: An Adventure / by Doruff, Sher

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Last Year at Betty and Bob's: An Adventure / by Doruff, Sher

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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…IV: Eastern and Southern Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Southern Africa -- Pt V: The Diaspora -- African Artists Abroad -- Art of the African Diaspora.…”
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Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / by Lionnet, Françoise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The politics and aesthetics of Metissage -- Augustine's Confessions : poetics of harmony, or the ideal reader in the text -- Silence and circularity in Ecce homo : "Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben" -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road -- Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience -- Happiness deferred : Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and the failure of enunciation -- Privileged difference and the possibility of emancipation : The words to say it and A l'autre bout de moi -- Anamnesis and Utopia : self-portrait of the web maker in A l'autre bout de moi.…”
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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…IV: Eastern and Southern Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Southern Africa -- Pt V: The Diaspora -- African Artists Abroad -- Art of the African Diaspora.…”
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Autobiographical Voices : Race, Gender, Self-Portraiture / by Lionnet, Françoise

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The politics and aesthetics of Metissage -- Augustine's Confessions : poetics of harmony, or the ideal reader in the text -- Silence and circularity in Ecce homo : "Und so erzähle ich mir mein Leben" -- Autoethnography : the an-archic style of Dust tracks on a road -- Con artists and storytellers : Maya Angelou's problematic sense of audience -- Happiness deferred : Maryse Conde's Heremakhonon and the failure of enunciation -- Privileged difference and the possibility of emancipation : The words to say it and A l'autre bout de moi -- Anamnesis and Utopia : self-portrait of the web maker in A l'autre bout de moi.…”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Pioneer Jewish Texans by Ornish, Natalie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.…”
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Sounds of the Underground : A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music / by Graham, Stephen (Musicologist)

Table of Contents: “…Cultural Policy and Underground/Fringe Music; 6. Artists and Music, Improv and Noise; 7. The Digital Economy and Labels; 8. …”
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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : from early recognition to lasting renown -- Berlioz in the year of the Symphonie fantastique -- Berlioz and the translators : from Scott to Shakespeare -- Berlioz and Liszt in the locker room -- Berlioz's directorship of the Theâtre-Italien -- The local politics of Berlioz's Symphonie militaire -- In the shadows of Les Nuits d'ete -- Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d'Ophelie -- Berlioz's "mission" to Germany : a revealing document recovered -- Berlioz and Wagner : Épisodes de la vie des artistes -- Imperialism and the ending of Les Troyens -- Berlioz's "To be or not to be" -- Berlioz, Beatrice, and Much ado about nothing -- Berlioz writing the life of Berlioz -- Epilogue : Berlioz and the B's : Boschot, Barzun, and beyond.…”
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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : from early recognition to lasting renown -- Berlioz in the year of the Symphonie fantastique -- Berlioz and the translators : from Scott to Shakespeare -- Berlioz and Liszt in the locker room -- Berlioz's directorship of the Theâtre-Italien -- The local politics of Berlioz's Symphonie militaire -- In the shadows of Les Nuits d'ete -- Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d'Ophelie -- Berlioz's "mission" to Germany : a revealing document recovered -- Berlioz and Wagner : Épisodes de la vie des artistes -- Imperialism and the ending of Les Troyens -- Berlioz's "To be or not to be" -- Berlioz, Beatrice, and Much ado about nothing -- Berlioz writing the life of Berlioz -- Epilogue : Berlioz and the B's : Boschot, Barzun, and beyond.…”
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Sounds of the Underground : A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music / by Graham, Stephen (Musicologist)

Table of Contents: “…Cultural Policy and Underground/Fringe Music; 6. Artists and Music, Improv and Noise; 7. The Digital Economy and Labels; 8. …”
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The potentials of spaces the theory and practice of scenography & performance /

Table of Contents: “…Scenographic avant-gardes : artistic partnerships in Canada / Natalie Rewa -- Codes and overloads : the scenography of Richard Foreman / Neal Swettenham -- Spatial practices : the Wooster Group's Rhode Island Trilogy / Johan Callens -- Physicality and virtuality : memory, space and actor on the mediated stage / Thea Brejzek.…”
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