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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Contemplating art essays in aesthetics / by Levinson, Jerrold

Table of Contents: “…The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? …”
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Imoinda's Shade : Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 / by Dominique, Lyndon Janson, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Altering Oroonoko and Imoinda in mid-eighteenth century British drama ; Amelioration, African women, and the soft, strategic voice of paternal tyranny in 'The grateful negro' ; "Between the saints and the rebels" : Imoinda and the resurrection of the Black African heroine -- Part two. …”
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Nabucco Nabuccodonosor = Nebuchadnezzar / by Fisher, Burton D.

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L'Italiana in Algeri The Italian girl in Algiers / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Visions of culture : an introduction to anthropological theories and theorists / by Moore, Jerry D.

Table of Contents: “…Radcliffe-Brown : the structures of society -- Edward Evans-Pritchard : social anthropology, social history -- Leslie White : evolution emergent -- Julian Steward : cultural ecology and multilinear evolution -- Marvin Harris : cultural materialism -- Eleanor Burke Leacock : feminism, Marxism, and history -- Claude Lévi-Strauss : structuralism -- Victor Turner : symbols, pilgrims, and drama -- Clifford Geertz : an interpretive anthropology -- Mary Douglas : symbols and structures, pollution and purity --James Fernandez : the play of tropes.…”

Nabucco Nabuccodonosor = Nebuchadnezzar / by Fisher, Burton D.

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L'Italiana in Algeri The Italian girl in Algiers / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Violence and civilization : studies of social violence in history and prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…Sacrifice -- Introduction to Part I -- Dramas of the dialectic : sacrifice and power in ancient polities / Edward Swenson -- (Un)dying loyalty : meditations on retainer sacrifice in ancient Egypt and elsewhere / Ellen F. …”
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Violence and civilization : studies of social violence in history and prehistory /

Table of Contents: “…Sacrifice -- Introduction to Part I -- Dramas of the dialectic : sacrifice and power in ancient polities / Edward Swenson -- (Un)dying loyalty : meditations on retainer sacrifice in ancient Egypt and elsewhere / Ellen F. …”
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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- It's a Roughneck World: Male Solidarity across Generations, Classes and Races in the TV Drama Get Up / Jacob Ki Nielsen -- Blood is thicker than water, or is it? …”
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Korean screen cultures : interrogating cinema, tv, music and online games /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- It's a Roughneck World: Male Solidarity across Generations, Classes and Races in the TV Drama Get Up / Jacob Ki Nielsen -- Blood is thicker than water, or is it? …”
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Terence between late antiquity and the age of printing : illustration, commentary and performance /

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Terence between late antiquity and the age of printing : illustration, commentary and performance /

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Images in law

Table of Contents: “…Deep structures of empire : A note on imperial machines and bodies -- Intervention and the new imagery of world order -- Key words in Chinese law -- Visual semiotics of court dress in England and Wales : failed or successful vector of professional identity? -- The drama of the courtroom -- Digital visual and multimedia software and the reshaping of legal knowledge -- A Las Menimas for the law -- Legal language in action : raising basic awareness about and understanding of competing legal system in the legal classroom -- Discourses of the ideal and the actual in the courtroom : the conflict for jurors in 'making sense' of general instructions -- Jurors' recorded deliberations : an analysis -- 'Let me see your hands' : the grammar of physical control in police directives -- Images of the Irish family : a 'slightly' constitutional arrangement -- Images of racial discrimination France -- Law's trouble with images : fetishism and seduction from Athens and Jerusalem to Madison Avenue.…”
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Reading in the wilderness private devotion and public performance in late medieval England / by Brantley, Jessica

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The performance of reading -- "Silence visible" : Carthusian devotional reading and meditative practice -- Backgrounds : the Carthusian Order -- Carthusians and books -- Carthusians and art -- The shapes of eremitic reading in the desert of religion : the desert of religion as imagetext -- "ALS wildernes is wroght þis boke" : formats of monastic books -- Reading spiritual community in the wilderness -- Lyric imaginings and painted prayers -- The eremitic lyric and Richard Rolle -- Imagining the Carthusian reader -- Liturgical pageantry in private spaces -- Reading the liturgy : two models -- Performing the holy name -- Performing the canonical hours -- Performing the seven sacraments -- Envisioning dialogue in performance -- "In maner of a dyaloge it wente" -- Allegorical dialogues : the pylgremage of the soul -- Mystical dialogues : the treatise of the seven points -- Dramatizing the cell : theatrical performances in monastic reading -- Dramatic texts, lyric voices, and private readers -- Theatrical reading in additional 37049 -- Monastic closet drama -- Conclusion: Reading performances.…”
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Victorian literature and finance

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Francis O'Gorman -- "Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side" : money in Victorian literature / Nicholas Shrimpton -- Inside out : value and display in Thomas De Quincey and Isaac Butt / Gordon Bigelow -- Edward Bulwer Lytton dreams of copyright : "It might make me a rich man" / Catherine Seville -- "Vulgar needs" : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, profit, and literary value / Alison Chapman -- The drama of capital : risk, belief, and liability on the Victorian stage / Jane Moody -- "Ladies do it?" …”
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Bones of contention the living archive of Vasil Levski and the making of Bulgaria's national hero / by Todorova, Marii͡a Nikolaeva

Table of Contents: “…Bones of contention or professionals, dilettantes, and who owns history -- A "social drama" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences -- From breach to crisis -- No redress, or where are Levski's bones? …”
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Literary art in digital performance case studies in new media art and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Funkhouser -- Geopoetics : aesthetic experience in the works of Stefan Schemat and Teri Rueb / Katja Kwastek -- Self, setting, and situation in second life / Maria Bäcke -- Looking behind the façade : playing and performing an interactive drama / Jörgen Schäfer -- Artificial poetry : on aesthetic perception in computer-aided literature / Peter Gendolla -- Screen writing : a practice-based, EuroRelative introduction to digital literature and poetics / John Cayley.…”
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Literary art in digital performance case studies in new media art and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Funkhouser -- Geopoetics : aesthetic experience in the works of Stefan Schemat and Teri Rueb / Katja Kwastek -- Self, setting, and situation in second life / Maria Bäcke -- Looking behind the façade : playing and performing an interactive drama / Jörgen Schäfer -- Artificial poetry : on aesthetic perception in computer-aided literature / Peter Gendolla -- Screen writing : a practice-based, EuroRelative introduction to digital literature and poetics / John Cayley.…”
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