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Land of their choice the immigrants write home /

Table of Contents: “…The immigrant image of America -- The "sloopfolk" arrive -- Westward to El-a-noy -- Wisconsin is the place -- The Atlantic crossing -- Scouting the promised land -- Spreading the gospel -- Journeying toward new horizons -- Ordeal and debate -- Appraising the American scene -- The transatlantic gold rush -- Cheerful voices at mid-century -- More than a ballad -- A humorist in Canaan -- A lady grows old in Texas -- In defense of the southwest -- From a frontier parsonage -- The beautiful land -- The glorious new Scandinavia.…”
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Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism / by Keirstead, Christopher M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Arnold, Europe, and the (future) destinations of Victorian poetry -- Letter from Europe : the epistolary interventions of Clough's Amours de voyage -- Barrett Browning and the spaces of cosmofeminism : from Casa Guidi windows to "Mother and poet" -- Browning at the border : Red cotton night-cap country -- Bodies in translation : Swinburne's Poems and ballads and the Fleshly School of cosmopolitanism -- Affinity versus isolation : cosmopolitanism and the racial dynamics of Morris's Europe -- Europe in perspective : the dynasts -- Conclusion : "Argosies of magic sails" : cosmopolitan dreams and challenges.…”
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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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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Mo Yan in context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang -- A mutually rewarding yet uneasy and sometimes fragile relationship between author and translator / Howard Goldblatt -- The Censorship of Mo Yans The Garlic Ballads / Thomas Chen -- Representations of China and Japan in Mo Yans, Hayashis and Naruse's texts / Noriko J. …”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Mo Yan in context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller / Angelica Duran and Yuhan Huang -- A mutually rewarding yet uneasy and sometimes fragile relationship between author and translator / Howard Goldblatt -- The Censorship of Mo Yans The Garlic Ballads / Thomas Chen -- Representations of China and Japan in Mo Yans, Hayashis and Naruse's texts / Noriko J. …”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Declarations of dependence the long reconstruction of popular politics in the South, 1861-1908 / by Downs, Gregory P.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Friends unseen : the ballad of political dependency -- Hungry for protection : the Confederate roots of dependence -- Slaves and the great deliverer : freedom and friendship behind Union lines -- Vulnerable at the circumference : demobilization and the limitations of the Freedmen's Bureau -- The great day of acounter : democracy and the problem of power in Republican Reconstruction -- The persistence of prayer : dependency after redemption -- Crazes, fetishes, and enthusiasms : the silver mania and the making of a new politics -- A compressive age : White supremacy and the growth of the modern state -- Coda: Desperate times call for distant friends : Franklin Roosevelt as the last good king?.…”
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Shared Space / by Griffith, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Respect and continuity : the arts of death in a border community -- The Magdalena holy picture : religious folk art in two cultures -- Cascarones : a florescent folk art form in southern Arizona -- El Tiradito and Juan Soldado : two victim intercessors of the western borderlands -- The Black Christ of ÍMuris : a study in cultural fit -- "The Mormon cowboy" : an Arizona cowboy song and its community -- Leonardo Yañez and "El moro de cumpas" : a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer -- Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.…”
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Shared Space / by Griffith, James S.

Table of Contents: “…Respect and continuity : the arts of death in a border community -- The Magdalena holy picture : religious folk art in two cultures -- Cascarones : a florescent folk art form in southern Arizona -- El Tiradito and Juan Soldado : two victim intercessors of the western borderlands -- The Black Christ of ÍMuris : a study in cultural fit -- "The Mormon cowboy" : an Arizona cowboy song and its community -- Leonardo Yañez and "El moro de cumpas" : a borderlands horse-race ballad and its composer -- Baroque principles of organization in contemporary Mexican American Arizona.…”
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Address by Willis, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Address -- Take this poem -- Nocturne -- Friday -- Ballad -- A species is an idea (1) -- F.A.Q. -- Valet of the shadow of death -- Unseasonable pastoral -- Flow chart -- Poisonous plants of America -- The witch -- Still life with tornado -- Wooded tributary -- The oldest garden in the world -- Vernacular architecture -- Ruskin -- Another life in green -- Yesness Park -- Sonnet -- You've lost your card -- This is not a poem about Katherine Harris -- Year-end review -- January -- Blasted hymn -- May day -- Exquisite replica -- Sonnet -- Extended forecast -- A species is an idea (2) -- Triptik -- Classified -- Incidental knowledge -- Blacklist -- In strength and sweetness.…”
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Address by Willis, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Address -- Take this poem -- Nocturne -- Friday -- Ballad -- A species is an idea (1) -- F.A.Q. -- Valet of the shadow of death -- Unseasonable pastoral -- Flow chart -- Poisonous plants of America -- The witch -- Still life with tornado -- Wooded tributary -- The oldest garden in the world -- Vernacular architecture -- Ruskin -- Another life in green -- Yesness Park -- Sonnet -- You've lost your card -- This is not a poem about Katherine Harris -- Year-end review -- January -- Blasted hymn -- May day -- Exquisite replica -- Sonnet -- Extended forecast -- A species is an idea (2) -- Triptik -- Classified -- Incidental knowledge -- Blacklist -- In strength and sweetness.…”
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From Hell to Breakfast /

Table of Contents: “…Lomax.--Adventures of a ballad hunter, by J.A. Lomax.--Carrie Dykes, midwife, by R.P. …”
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From Hell to Breakfast /

Table of Contents: “…Lomax.--Adventures of a ballad hunter, by J.A. Lomax.--Carrie Dykes, midwife, by R.P. …”
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Creativity/Anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Lavie -- The return of the Mexican ballad / J.E. Limon -- Pilgrimage to Meron / B. Myerhoff -- Bar Yohai, mystic / E. …”
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Creativity/Anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Lavie -- The return of the Mexican ballad / J.E. Limon -- Pilgrimage to Meron / B. Myerhoff -- Bar Yohai, mystic / E. …”
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Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.…”
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Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.…”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Reading, culture, history -- The (un)persuaded reader : Coleridge's conversation with hermeneutics -- The eye/I of the other : self and audience in Wordsworth's lyrical ballads -- Wollstonecraft and Godwin : reading the secrets of the political novel -- B. …”
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The Supplement of Reading : Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…Reading, culture, history -- The (un)persuaded reader : Coleridge's conversation with hermeneutics -- The eye/I of the other : self and audience in Wordsworth's lyrical ballads -- Wollstonecraft and Godwin : reading the secrets of the political novel -- B. …”
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