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Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / by Kosman, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Understanding, explanation and insight -- Platonic love -- Perceiving that we perceive: on the soul 3.2 -- Being properly affected: virtues and feelings in aristotle's ethics -- Necessity and explanation in aristotle's analytics -- Acting: drama as the mimesis of praxis -- What does the maker mind make -- Saving the phenomena -- Male and female in the generation of animals -- Aristotle on the desirability of friends -- Justice and virtue in the republic -- Self-knowledge and self-control in plato's charmides -- Beauty and the good: situating the kalon -- Translating ousia.…”
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What is honor? a question of moral imperatives / by Welsh, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.…”
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Keepin' it hushed the barbershop and African American hush harbor rhetoric / by Nunley, Vorris

Table of Contents: “…Beyond difference: mapping and theorizing hush harbor spatiality rhetoric and knowledge -- Hush harbors: spatiality, race, and not-so-public spheres -- Wingin' it: barbershops and the work of nommo in the novel -- Poetic hush harbors: barbershops as black paideias -- Barbers and customers as philosophers in memoir and drama -- Commodifying neoliberal blackness: faux hush harbor rhetoric in barbershop -- Hush harbor pedagogy: pathos-driven hearing and pedagogy -- A question of ethics? …”
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Virtues of thought : essays on Plato and Aristotle / by Kosman, Louis

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Understanding, explanation and insight -- Platonic love -- Perceiving that we perceive: on the soul 3.2 -- Being properly affected: virtues and feelings in aristotle's ethics -- Necessity and explanation in aristotle's analytics -- Acting: drama as the mimesis of praxis -- What does the maker mind make -- Saving the phenomena -- Male and female in the generation of animals -- Aristotle on the desirability of friends -- Justice and virtue in the republic -- Self-knowledge and self-control in plato's charmides -- Beauty and the good: situating the kalon -- Translating ousia.…”
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Repeating ourselves American minimal music as cultural practice / by Fink, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The culture of eros : repetition as desire creation -- Do it ('til you're satisfied) : repetitive musics and recombinant desires -- "A colorful installment in the twentieth-century drama of consumer subjectivity" : minimalism and the phenomenology of consumer desire -- The media sublime : minimalism, advertising, and television -- The culture of Thanatos : repetition as mood regulation -- "A pox on Manfredini" : the long-playing record, the baroque revival, and the birth of ambient music -- "I did this exercise 100,000 times" : zen, minimalism, and the Suzuki method.…”
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The weight of their votes southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / by Schuyler, Lorraine Gates

Table of Contents: “…Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.…”
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The Bohemian body gender and sexuality in modern Czech culture / by Thomas, Alfred

Table of Contents: “…Maidens, barbarians, and vampires : nationality and sexuality in nineteenth-century Czech literature -- Gender, form, and ethnicity in nineteenth-century Czech women's writing -- Czech mates : homosexuality in Czech modernist short fiction, 1917-20 -- Between Paris and Moscow : sexuality and politics in interwar Czech poetry and film -- Robots, golems, and femmes fatales : the drama of Karel Čapek -- Terror and dream were my father and mother : postwar Czech fiction and film -- "The unborn" : postwar feminist fiction and film.…”
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The meanings of social life a cultural sociology / by Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Table of Contents: “…The "holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama: Cultural trauma and collective idenitity -- 4. …”
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The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945

Table of Contents: “…Blaeser -- American Indian drama and the politics of performance / Shari Huhndorf -- Sovereignty and the struggle for representation in American Indian nonfiction / David Murray -- Imagining self and community in American Indian autobiography / Kendall Johnson.…”
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Unnatural Voices : Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Richardson, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transgressing self and voice-contemporary fiction and the death of the narrator -- "At first you feel a bit lost": the varieties of second person narration -- Class and consciousness: "We" narration from Conrad to postcolonial fiction -- I, etcetera: multiperson narration and the range of contemporary narrators -- Three extreme forms of narration and a note on postmodern unreliability -- Unnatural narration in contemporary drama -- Implied authors, historical authors, and the transparent narrator: toward a new model of the narrative transaction -- Conclusion: Voicing the unspeakable.…”
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The meanings of social life a cultural sociology / by Alexander, Jeffrey C.

Table of Contents: “…The "holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama: Cultural trauma and collective idenitity -- 4. …”
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The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945

Table of Contents: “…Blaeser -- American Indian drama and the politics of performance / Shari Huhndorf -- Sovereignty and the struggle for representation in American Indian nonfiction / David Murray -- Imagining self and community in American Indian autobiography / Kendall Johnson.…”
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Unnatural Voices : Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction / by Richardson, Brian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Transgressing self and voice-contemporary fiction and the death of the narrator -- "At first you feel a bit lost": the varieties of second person narration -- Class and consciousness: "We" narration from Conrad to postcolonial fiction -- I, etcetera: multiperson narration and the range of contemporary narrators -- Three extreme forms of narration and a note on postmodern unreliability -- Unnatural narration in contemporary drama -- Implied authors, historical authors, and the transparent narrator: toward a new model of the narrative transaction -- Conclusion: Voicing the unspeakable.…”
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Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts /

Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman / Joakim Garff -- Performing arts -- Beyond the mask : Kierkegaard's postscript as antitheatrical, anti-Hegelian drama / Howard Pickett -- A theater of ideas : performance and performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition / Martijn Boven -- Kierkegaard's notions of drama and opera : Moliere's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the question of music and sensuousness / Nils Holger Petersen -- "Let no one invite me, for I do not dance" : Kierkegaard's attitudes toward dance / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- Visual arts and film -- Painting with words : Kierkegaard and the aesthetics of the icon / Christopher B. …”
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Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts /

Table of Contents: “…Robinson -- Kierkegaard's Christian Bildungsroman / Joakim Garff -- Performing arts -- Beyond the mask : Kierkegaard's postscript as antitheatrical, anti-Hegelian drama / Howard Pickett -- A theater of ideas : performance and performativity in Kierkegaard's Repetition / Martijn Boven -- Kierkegaard's notions of drama and opera : Moliere's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the question of music and sensuousness / Nils Holger Petersen -- "Let no one invite me, for I do not dance" : Kierkegaard's attitudes toward dance / Anne Margrete Fiskvik -- Visual arts and film -- Painting with words : Kierkegaard and the aesthetics of the icon / Christopher B. …”
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Five operas and a symphony word and music in Russian culture / by Gasparov, B.

Table of Contents: “…Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.…”
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Aesthetics and modernity essays / by Heller, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…-- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: Shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece : Germans and Greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?.…”
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Aesthetics and modernity essays / by Heller, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…-- Autonomy of art or the dignity of the artwork -- The role of emotions in the reception of artworks -- Joke culture and transformations of the public sphere -- The contemporary historical novel -- The metaphysics of embodiment in the western tradition -- European master-narratives about freedom -- The three logics of modernity and the double bind of the modern imagination -- The absolute stranger: Shakespeare and the drama of failed assimilation -- The gods of Greece : Germans and Greeks -- Self representation and the representation of the other -- Where are we at home?.…”
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