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Meng Jiangnü brings down the Great Wall ten versions of a Chinese legend /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Ballads from late-imperial China -- pt. 2. Ballads collected in the countryside.…”
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Meng Jiangnü brings down the Great Wall ten versions of a Chinese legend /

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Ballads from late-imperial China -- pt. 2. Ballads collected in the countryside.…”
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Strange bodies gender and identity in the novels of Carson McCullers / by Gleeson-White, Sarah, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Freakish adolescents : The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding -- Queer grotesques : The heart is a lonely hunter and Reflections in a golden eye -- The masquerade : The heart is a lonely hunter, The member of the wedding, and The ballad of the sad café -- Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad café.…”
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Strange bodies gender and identity in the novels of Carson McCullers / by Gleeson-White, Sarah, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Freakish adolescents : The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding -- Queer grotesques : The heart is a lonely hunter and Reflections in a golden eye -- The masquerade : The heart is a lonely hunter, The member of the wedding, and The ballad of the sad café -- Two bodies in one : The heart is a lonely hunter and The ballad of the sad café.…”
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The poet/lyricist : the aesthetics of verse. by Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Ron Hubbard -- Early verse -- The New York years -- The early ballads -- The War -- Philosophic verse -- The later songs -- A final work.…”
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The art of Nick Cave new critical essays /

Table of Contents: “…Cave, the songwriter -- pt. II. Murder ballads -- pt. III. Film and theatre -- pt. IV. Influences -- pt. …”
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The art of Nick Cave new critical essays /

Table of Contents: “…Cave, the songwriter -- pt. II. Murder ballads -- pt. III. Film and theatre -- pt. IV. Influences -- pt. …”
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The poet/lyricist : the aesthetics of verse. by Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Ron Hubbard -- Early verse -- The New York years -- The early ballads -- The War -- Philosophic verse -- The later songs -- A final work.…”
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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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Ink, stink bait, revenge, and Queen Elizabeth : a Yorkshire yeoman's household book / by May, Steven W., Marotti, Arthur F., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hanson manuscript -- The Eland-Beaumont feud -- Two lost ballads of the Armada thanksgiving celebration -- Verse and prose from other printed sources -- Other texts from manuscript sources -- Recipes for ink and stink bait plus other utilitarian items.…”
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Ink, stink bait, revenge, and Queen Elizabeth : a Yorkshire yeoman's household book / by May, Steven W., Marotti, Arthur F., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hanson manuscript -- The Eland-Beaumont feud -- Two lost ballads of the Armada thanksgiving celebration -- Verse and prose from other printed sources -- Other texts from manuscript sources -- Recipes for ink and stink bait plus other utilitarian items.…”
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The music of thought in the poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk by Weinfield, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Oppen, Bronk, and the story behind "a narrative" -- Because the known and the unknown touch : a reading of Oppen's "Of being numerous" -- In the drift of the world : a reading of Bronk's Life supports: new and collected poems -- Oppen's reoccupation of traditional lyric in "Eclogue," "Psalm," and "Ballad."…”
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The music of thought in the poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk by Weinfield, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Oppen, Bronk, and the story behind "a narrative" -- Because the known and the unknown touch : a reading of Oppen's "Of being numerous" -- In the drift of the world : a reading of Bronk's Life supports: new and collected poems -- Oppen's reoccupation of traditional lyric in "Eclogue," "Psalm," and "Ballad."…”
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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Melodramatizing the gothic : the case of Thomas Holcroft -- The gothic ballad and blood sacrifice : from Bürger to Wordsworth -- The gothic chapbook : the class-based circulation of the unexplained supernatural.…”
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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Melodramatizing the gothic : the case of Thomas Holcroft -- The gothic ballad and blood sacrifice : from Bürger to Wordsworth -- The gothic chapbook : the class-based circulation of the unexplained supernatural.…”
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Real and imagined women in British romanticism by Narayan, Gaura Shankar

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth, Keats, the possibility of the female voice -- The problem of gender in reason, feeling and sentiment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- The problem of gender in beauty, sublimity, and the imagination: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- Gender and the poet's identity in some of the Lyrical ballads: William Wordsworth -- Gender and history in The prelude: William Wordsworth -- Gender and imagination in "Lamia" and "La belle dame sans merci": John Keats.…”
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Real and imagined women in British romanticism by Narayan, Gaura Shankar

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth, Keats, the possibility of the female voice -- The problem of gender in reason, feeling and sentiment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- The problem of gender in beauty, sublimity, and the imagination: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- Gender and the poet's identity in some of the Lyrical ballads: William Wordsworth -- Gender and history in The prelude: William Wordsworth -- Gender and imagination in "Lamia" and "La belle dame sans merci": John Keats.…”
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Meter matters verse cultures of the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Star -- "But the law must be poetic": Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody / Yisrael Levin -- Popular ballads: rhythmic remediations in the nineteenth century / Michael Cohen -- Blank verse and the expansion of England: the meter of Tennyson's demeter / Cornelia Pearsall -- Prosody wars / Meredith Martin.…”
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Meter matters verse cultures of the long nineteenth century /

Table of Contents: “…Star -- "But the law must be poetic": Swinburne, Omond, and the New Prosody / Yisrael Levin -- Popular ballads: rhythmic remediations in the nineteenth century / Michael Cohen -- Blank verse and the expansion of England: the meter of Tennyson's demeter / Cornelia Pearsall -- Prosody wars / Meredith Martin.…”
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