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Manufacturing Middle Ages : entangled history of medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Wood -- Oehlenschlaeger and Ibsen: national revival in drama and history in Denmark and Norway c.1800-1860 / Sverre Bagge -- Romantic historiography as a sociology of liberty: Joachim Lelewel and his contemporaries / Maciej Janowski -- Part Two. …”
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Screens of blood : a critical approach to film and television violence / by Desilet, Gregory E.

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence: the ordeal of loving your enemy -- Shutter island: the ordeal of loving your enemy, take two -- Memoirs of a geisha: melodrama or tragic drama? -- Part 2: Violence in popular television-early 21st century samplings -- The Sopranos (1999-2007) -- Boardwalk empire (2010- ) -- Breaking bad (2008-2013) -- The following (2013- ) -- 24 (2001-2010) -- Homeland (2011- ) -- The walking dead (2010- ) -- The wire (2002-2008) -- The killing (2011- ) -- Hell on wheels (2011- ) -- Summary and conclusions -- Afterword.…”
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Systematic and engaging early literacy : instruction and intervention / by Culatta, Barbara, Hall-Kenyon, Kendra, Black, Sharon (Sharon J.)

Table of Contents: “…: print awareness in school, home, and community -- Exploring squiggles on the page: teaching and practicing letter knowledge skills -- Providing children with tools: phonological awareness and accompanying skills -- Using tools to make meaning: phonics and decoding strategies -- Using sounds and letters to form words: developmental spelling -- Bringing stories to life: approaches to understanding and enjoying narratives -- Learning about the world: exploring and comprehending expository texts -- Collaborating with children's first teachers: integral role of parents in children's literacy -- Enriching language and literacy: integrating visual arts, music, dance, and drama -- Assessing students' needs and progress: use of data to adjust instruction -- Learning and improving together: collaborative professional development -- Applying systematic and engaging practices: planning units and lesson activities.…”
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Imagining the fetus the unborn in myth, religion, and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus -- The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos -- The great men of Jainism in utero: a survey -- A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences -- Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature -- Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus -- Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation -- Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism -- Embryology in Babylonia and the bible -- The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature -- Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives -- A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature -- The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story -- Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory -- Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin.…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kirk Ormand -- The textual transmission of Sophocles' dramas / P.J. Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André Lardinois -- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis -- Electra / Francis Dunn -- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger -- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff -- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick -- Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders -- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann -- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. …”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Kirk Ormand -- The textual transmission of Sophocles' dramas / P.J. Finglass -- Sophocles' biography / Ruth Scodel -- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides / John Davidson -- Antigone / André Lardinois -- Polyphonic Ajax / Peter Burian -- Oedipus Tyrannus / Vayos Liapis -- Electra / Francis Dunn -- The divided worlds of Sophocles' Women of Trachis / Margaret Rachel Kitzinger -- The Philoctetes of Sophocles / Paul Woodruff -- Last things : Oedipus at Colonus and the end of tragedy / Thomas Van Nortwick -- Sophocles' Ichneutai or how to write a satyr play / Willeon Slenders -- Sophoclean fragments / Carolin Hahnemann -- Sophocles Didaskalos / C.W. …”
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Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci / by Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945

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Theorizing narrativity

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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…The weight of society -- Freedom and art -- Culture on the market -- The future of music -- The canon -- Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas -- Mozart's entry into the twentieth century -- The triumph of Mozart -- Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos -- Mozart and posterity -- Structural dissonance and the classical sonata -- Tradition without convention -- Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer -- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! …”
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Theorizing narrativity

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Freedom and the arts essays on music and literature / by Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012

Table of Contents: “…The weight of society -- Freedom and art -- Culture on the market -- The future of music -- The canon -- Dramatic and tonal logic in Mozart's operas -- Mozart's entry into the twentieth century -- The triumph of Mozart -- Drama and figured bass in Mozart's concertos -- Mozart and posterity -- Structural dissonance and the classical sonata -- Tradition without convention -- Felix Mendelssohn at 200 : prodigy without peer -- Happy birthday, Elliott Carter! …”
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Die zweite Wirklichkeit: Studien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts : Studien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts / by Kurth-Voigt, Lieselotte E., 1923-

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Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci / by Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945

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Die zweite Wirklichkeit: Studien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts : Studien zum Roman des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts / by Kurth-Voigt, Lieselotte E., 1923-

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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /

Table of Contents: “…Powers -- The view from the south : the maps of the book of curiosities and the commercial revolution of the eleventh century / Yossef Rapoport -- From artisan to courtier : sufism and social mobility in fifteenth-century Egypt / Adam Sabra -- Mini-dramas by the water : on irrigation rights and disputes in fifteenth-century Damascus / Boaz Shoshan -- Army economics : an early papyrus letter related to 'ata' payments / Petra M. …”
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Who hears in Shakespeare? auditory world, stage and screen /

Table of Contents: “…/ Andrew Gurr -- Guarded, unguarded, and unguardable speech in late Renaissance drama / James Hirsh -- Hearing complexity : speech, reticence, and the construction of character / Walter W. …”
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Liminal borderlands in Irish literature and culture

Table of Contents: “…: mapping and temporality in Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's The dancer's dancing / Susan Cahill -- Drama as liminal rites of passage. Movement as text: text as movement: the choreographic writing of Samuel Beckett / Lotta P. …”
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"The game as it is played" : essays on Theodore Dreiser / by Pizer, Donald

Table of Contents: “…American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser; Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness; American Literary Naturalism in Its "Perfected" State: An American Tragedy and The Age of Innocence; The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Dreiser's Sister Carrie; Late Nineteenth Century American Literary Naturalism: A Re-Introduction -- Dreiser's Works: Theodore Dreiser's "Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic; Toward Sister Carrie: The Sources and Nature of Dreiser's Narrative Method; Introduction to New Essays on "Sister Carrie"; An Evolutionary Reading of Sister Carrie; The Text of Sister Carrie; Introduction to Jennie Gerhardt; Otto Weininger and the Sexual Dynamics of Theodore Dreiser's The "Genius"; Crime and Punishment in Dreiser's An American Tragedy: The Legal Debate.…”
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Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- In a different guise : Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage / Richard Hawley -- Marriage, adultery, and divorce in Roman comic drama / Susanna Morton Braund -- The cold cares of Venus : Lucretius and anti-marriage literature / Warren S. …”
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