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Sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture / by Tosca, Susana

Table of Contents: “…Learning to love your stone: The aesthetics and experience of computer games -- Chapter 3. Sing, goddess, of the anger of achilles: Formal repetition in storytelling -- Chapter 4. …”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Stories of Women : Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation / by Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Motherlands, mothers and nationalist sons: theorising the en-gendered nation -- "The master's dance to the master's voice": revolutionary nationalism and women's representation in Ngugi wa Thiong'o -- Of goddesses and stories: gender and a new politics in Achebe -- The hero's story: the male leader's autobiography and the syntax of postcolonial nationalism -- Stories of women and mothers: gender and nationalism in the early fiction of Flora Nwapa -- Daughters of the house: the adolescent girl and the nation -- Transfiguring: colonial body into postcolonial narrative -- The nation as metaphor: Ben Okri, Chenjerai Hove, Dambudzo Marachera -- East is east: where postcolonialism is neo-orientalist -- the cases of Sarojini Naidu and Arundhati Roy -- Tropes of yearning and dessent: the inflection of desire in Yvonne Vera and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Beside the west: postcolonial women writers in a transnational frame -- Conclusion: defining the nation differently.…”
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Processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic

Table of Contents: “…The role of an italic goddess in the process of cultural integration in Republican Italy / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: The Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity / Elisabeth Buchet.…”
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Re-embroidering the robe faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Mythology revisited: Introduction / Peter Merchant -- The goddess and the underworld in modernism: Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux / Evans Lansing Smith -- Making it new: changing form and function in modern myth / Bradford Haas -- "In the goddess's name": symbolist and modernist revisions of the Aphrodite myth / Nora Clark -- The cult of Dionysus in the work of W.B. …”
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Processes of integration and identity formation in the Roman Republic

Table of Contents: “…The role of an italic goddess in the process of cultural integration in Republican Italy / Massimiliano Di Fazio -- Tiburnus, Albunea, Hercules Victor: The Cults of Tibur between Integration and Assertion of Local Identity / Elisabeth Buchet.…”
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Re-embroidering the robe faith, myth and literary creation since 1850 /

Table of Contents: “…Mythology revisited: Introduction / Peter Merchant -- The goddess and the underworld in modernism: Marguerite Yourcenar's Feux / Evans Lansing Smith -- Making it new: changing form and function in modern myth / Bradford Haas -- "In the goddess's name": symbolist and modernist revisions of the Aphrodite myth / Nora Clark -- The cult of Dionysus in the work of W.B. …”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. …”
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Words, worlds, and material girls language, gender, globalization /

Table of Contents: “…Philips -- "Re-employment stars" : language, gender and neoliberal restructuring in China / Jie Yang -- When Aboriginal equals "at risk" : the impact of institutional discourse on Aboriginal Head Start families / Susanne Miskimmin -- Stage goddesses and studio divas in South India : on agency and the politics of voice / Amanda Weidman -- Echoes of modernity : nationalism and the enigma of "women's language" in late nineteenth century Japan / Miyako Inoue -- Recontextualizing the American occupation of the Philippines : erasure and ventriloquism in colonial discourse around men, medicine and infant mortality / Bonnie McElhinny -- Out on video : gender, language and new public spheres in Islamic northern Nigeria / Rudolf P. …”
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African theatre.

Table of Contents: “…"I will not cry" : women's theatre in the Algerian diaspora / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Challenging the master : resisting "male" virtues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in the theatre of Taufik al / Dina Amin -- Of Suwa houses & singing contests : early urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea / Christine Matzke -- Contextualizing women's theatre in Kenya : Alakie Ainyi Mboya's Otongolia & Ari Katini Mwachofi's Mama ee / Mike Kuria -- Portraits of women in contemporary Ugandan theatre / Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare -- Drama in her life : the story of Adeline Ama Buabeng / Esi Sutherland-Addy with Ama Buabeng -- Visibility, eloquence & silence : women & theatre for development in Ghana / Esi Dogbe -- Contemporary Nigerian theatre : the plays of Stella Oyedepo / Chris Dunton -- Who can silence her drums : an analysis of the plays of Tess Onwneme / Omofolabo Ajayi -- Noticeboard / James Gibbs -- Glass house / Fatima Dike ; with an introduction by Marcia Blumberg -- Book reviews.…”
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African theatre.

Table of Contents: “…"I will not cry" : women's theatre in the Algerian diaspora / Laura Chakravarty Box -- Challenging the master : resisting "male" virtues of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis in the theatre of Taufik al / Dina Amin -- Of Suwa houses & singing contests : early urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea / Christine Matzke -- Contextualizing women's theatre in Kenya : Alakie Ainyi Mboya's Otongolia & Ari Katini Mwachofi's Mama ee / Mike Kuria -- Portraits of women in contemporary Ugandan theatre / Mercy Mirembe Ntangaare -- Drama in her life : the story of Adeline Ama Buabeng / Esi Sutherland-Addy with Ama Buabeng -- Visibility, eloquence & silence : women & theatre for development in Ghana / Esi Dogbe -- Contemporary Nigerian theatre : the plays of Stella Oyedepo / Chris Dunton -- Who can silence her drums : an analysis of the plays of Tess Onwneme / Omofolabo Ajayi -- Noticeboard / James Gibbs -- Glass house / Fatima Dike ; with an introduction by Marcia Blumberg -- Book reviews.…”
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Chinese religiosities afflictions of modernity and state formation /

Table of Contents: “…Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen -- 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.…”
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Chinese religiosities afflictions of modernity and state formation /

Table of Contents: “…Religious renaissance and Taiwan's modern middle classes / Richard Madsen -- 12. Goddess across the Taiwan Strait : matrifocal ritual space, nation-state, and satellite television footprints / Mayfair Mei-hui Yang.…”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" : narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. …”
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Fact and Fiction : Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain /

Table of Contents: “…Fact and fiction : literary and scientific cultures in Germany and Britain -- thoughts on a contentious relationship / Christine Lehleiter -- Facts are what one makes of them : constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and early German Romanticism / Jocelyn Holland -- The competing structures of signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy : between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics / Alice Kuzniar -- "She comes! the GODDESS!" : narrating nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) / Ann Shteir -- Elective affinities/Wahlverwandtschaften : the career of a metaphor / Christian P. …”
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The Place of Devotion : Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism / by Sarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-

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The Place of Devotion : Siting and Experiencing Divinity in Bengal-Vaishnavism / by Sarbadhikary, Sukanya, 1983-

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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…"How to be a domestic goddess" redux / Deirdre D'albertis -- "Long, long disappointment": maternal failure and masculine exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Laura Green -- "Bland, adoring, and gently tearful women": debunking the maternal ideal in George Eliot's Felix Holt / Heather Milton -- Elderly mothers and middle-aged daughters in Charles Dickens's Dombey and son / Teresa Mangum -- Unforgiven: drunken mothers in Hesba Stretton's Religious Tract Society and Scottish Temperance League fiction / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Infant doping and middle-class motherhood: opium warnings and Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy chain / Dara Rossman Regaignon -- Motherhood on trial: violence and unwed mothers in Victorian England / Ginger Frost -- A murdering mother: Frances Knorr / Lucy Sussex -- "My own dear sons": discursive maternity and proper British bodies in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. …”
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A Wise and Discerning Mind : Essays in Honor of Burke O. Long /

Table of Contents: “…De-doxifying Miriam / Alice Bach -- Goddess worship-ancient and modern / Gary Beckman -- Numinous Nomos: on the relationship between narrative and law / Adele Berlin -- A "literary sermon" in Deuteronomy 4 / Marc Z. …”
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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

Table of Contents: “…"How to be a domestic goddess" redux / Deirdre D'albertis -- "Long, long disappointment": maternal failure and masculine exhaustion in Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography / Laura Green -- "Bland, adoring, and gently tearful women": debunking the maternal ideal in George Eliot's Felix Holt / Heather Milton -- Elderly mothers and middle-aged daughters in Charles Dickens's Dombey and son / Teresa Mangum -- Unforgiven: drunken mothers in Hesba Stretton's Religious Tract Society and Scottish Temperance League fiction / Deborah Denenholz Morse -- Infant doping and middle-class motherhood: opium warnings and Charlotte Yonge's The Daisy chain / Dara Rossman Regaignon -- Motherhood on trial: violence and unwed mothers in Victorian England / Ginger Frost -- A murdering mother: Frances Knorr / Lucy Sussex -- "My own dear sons": discursive maternity and proper British bodies in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. …”
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