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The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran / by Olszewska, Zuzanna, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Border Crossings and Fractured Selves : A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran -- The Melancholy Modern : The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia -- Afghan Literary Organizations in Postrevolutionary Iran -- The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry -- Modern Love : Poetry, Companionate Marriage, and Recrafting the Self -- "When Your Darun Speaks to You" : Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry.…”
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The pearl of Dari : poetry and personhood among young Afghans in Iran / by Olszewska, Zuzanna, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Border Crossings and Fractured Selves : A History of the Afghan Presence in Iran -- The Melancholy Modern : The Rise of a Refugee Intelligentsia -- Afghan Literary Organizations in Postrevolutionary Iran -- The Social Lives of Poets and Poetry -- Modern Love : Poetry, Companionate Marriage, and Recrafting the Self -- "When Your Darun Speaks to You" : Ethics of Revelation and Concealment in Lyric Poetry.…”
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Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead by Dayton, Tim, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Muriel Rukeyser and the Gauley Tunnel tragedy -- Introductory poems and lyrical monologues -- The documentary poems -- The meditations and a coda -- The critical reception of The book of the dead -- The book of the dead : a vision of history -- Silicosis in our town by Martha Millett -- Muriel Rukeyser- U.S. 1 by John Wheelwright -- Radio interview of Muriel Rukeyser by Samuel Sillen.…”
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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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Intonations a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / by Moorman, Marissa Jean

Table of Contents: “…Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo: culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947-61 -- Dueling bands and good girls: gender and music in Luanda's musseques,1961-75 -- Ngongo jami (my suffering): lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956-74 -- Radios, turntables, and vinyl: technology and the imagined community, 1961-75 -- The hiatus: music, dissent, and nation building after independence, 1975-90s.…”
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The world of Persian literary humanism by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the making of a literary humanism -- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750) -- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258) -- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194) -- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353) -- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508) -- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732) -- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924) -- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present) -- Conclusion.…”
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Intonations a social history of music and nation in Luanda, Angola, from 1945 to recent times / by Moorman, Marissa Jean

Table of Contents: “…Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo: culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947-61 -- Dueling bands and good girls: gender and music in Luanda's musseques,1961-75 -- Ngongo jami (my suffering): lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956-74 -- Radios, turntables, and vinyl: technology and the imagined community, 1961-75 -- The hiatus: music, dissent, and nation building after independence, 1975-90s.…”
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The world of Persian literary humanism by Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the making of a literary humanism -- The making of an Iranian world in an Islamic universe: the rise of Persian language and literature (632-750) -- The Persian presence in the Abbasid empire: resisting Arabic literary imperialism (750-1258) -- The prose and poetry of the world: the rise of literary humanism in the Seljuqid empire (1038-1194) -- The triumph of the word: the perils and promises of the Mongol empire (1256-1353) -- The lure and lyrics of a literature: the center and periphery of the Timurid empire (1314-1508) -- The making of a literary cosmopolitanism: treading over multiple empires (1501-1732) -- The dawn of new empires: literary humanism in search of itself (1736-1924) -- The final frontiers: new Persian literary humanism (1906-present) -- Conclusion.…”
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Echoes from Dharamsala music in the life of a Tibetan refugee community / by Diehl, Keila

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Theory at home and in the field -- Dharamsala : a resting place to pass through -- "There is a tension in our hearts" : constructing the rich cultural heritage of Tibet -- Taking refuge in (and from) India : film songs, angry mobs, and other exilic pleasures and fears -- The West as surrogate Shangri-La : rock and roll and rangzen as style and ideology -- The nail that sticks up gets hammered down : making modern Tibetan music -- Little jolmo bird in the willow grove : crafting Tibetan song lyrics -- A peek through ragged tent flaps and Heaven's door : concerts that rupture and bond -- Conclusion : Cycles, echoes, and their implications.…”
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Red stars personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 / by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Soviet popular song after Stalin -- Lyric or civic: personality and theatricality -- Why sing estrada? …”
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Red stars personality and the Soviet popular song, 1955-1991 / by MacFadyen, David, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The Soviet popular song after Stalin -- Lyric or civic: personality and theatricality -- Why sing estrada? …”
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Mad for Foucault rethinking the foundations of queer theory / by Huffer, Lynne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Why we need Madness -- Introduction: Mad for Foucault -- How we became queer -- First interlude : Nietzsche's dreadful attendant -- Queer moralities -- Second interlude: wet dreams -- Unraveling the queer psyche -- Third interlude: of meteors and madness -- A queer nephew -- Fourth interlude: a shameful lyricism -- A political ethic of Eros -- Postlude: A fool's laughter.…”
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Real and imagined women in British romanticism by Narayan, Gaura Shankar

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth, Keats, the possibility of the female voice -- The problem of gender in reason, feeling and sentiment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- The problem of gender in beauty, sublimity, and the imagination: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- Gender and the poet's identity in some of the Lyrical ballads: William Wordsworth -- Gender and history in The prelude: William Wordsworth -- Gender and imagination in "Lamia" and "La belle dame sans merci": John Keats.…”
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Mad for Foucault rethinking the foundations of queer theory / by Huffer, Lynne, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: Why we need Madness -- Introduction: Mad for Foucault -- How we became queer -- First interlude : Nietzsche's dreadful attendant -- Queer moralities -- Second interlude: wet dreams -- Unraveling the queer psyche -- Third interlude: of meteors and madness -- A queer nephew -- Fourth interlude: a shameful lyricism -- A political ethic of Eros -- Postlude: A fool's laughter.…”
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Real and imagined women in British romanticism by Narayan, Gaura Shankar

Table of Contents: “…Wordsworth, Keats, the possibility of the female voice -- The problem of gender in reason, feeling and sentiment: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- The problem of gender in beauty, sublimity, and the imagination: Mary Wollstonecraft and Edmund Burke -- Gender and the poet's identity in some of the Lyrical ballads: William Wordsworth -- Gender and history in The prelude: William Wordsworth -- Gender and imagination in "Lamia" and "La belle dame sans merci": John Keats.…”
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Faithful to Fenway believing in Boston, baseball, and America's most beloved ballpark / by Borer, Michael Ian

Table of Contents: “…Boston believes : Fenway Park, a "lyrical little bandbox" -- The birth of an urban ballpark : leisure, nostalgia, and the baseball creed -- The ballpark at rest : the civic partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway faithful -- Objects of faith and consumption : souvenirs, replicas, and other representations of Fenway Park -- Some diamonds are not forever : debating the future of Fenway Park -- Believe in Boston : Red Sox nation and the cultural power of place.…”
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Voices in revolution poetry and the auditory imagination in modern China / by Crespi, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic interiorities: from civilization to nation -- Poetry off the page: sound aesthetics in print -- Inventing recitation: poetry and the idea of the sounding voice during the war of resistance -- Wartime recitals and the consolidation of a genre -- Zhu Ziqing and situational poetics: sounding out an alternative -- Calculated passions: the lyric and the theatric in Mao-era poetry recitation -- From Yundong to Huodong: the value of poetry recitation in postsocialist China.…”
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Voices in revolution poetry and the auditory imagination in modern China / by Crespi, John A.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic interiorities: from civilization to nation -- Poetry off the page: sound aesthetics in print -- Inventing recitation: poetry and the idea of the sounding voice during the war of resistance -- Wartime recitals and the consolidation of a genre -- Zhu Ziqing and situational poetics: sounding out an alternative -- Calculated passions: the lyric and the theatric in Mao-era poetry recitation -- From Yundong to Huodong: the value of poetry recitation in postsocialist China.…”
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Faithful to Fenway believing in Boston, baseball, and America's most beloved ballpark / by Borer, Michael Ian

Table of Contents: “…Boston believes : Fenway Park, a "lyrical little bandbox" -- The birth of an urban ballpark : leisure, nostalgia, and the baseball creed -- The ballpark at rest : the civic partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway faithful -- Objects of faith and consumption : souvenirs, replicas, and other representations of Fenway Park -- Some diamonds are not forever : debating the future of Fenway Park -- Believe in Boston : Red Sox nation and the cultural power of place.…”
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Lingua barbara, or, The mystery of the other otherness and exteriority in modern European poetry / by Buisson, Johanna Marie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-song: "barbare" -- Introduction -- Going barbaric language: myth and regeneration -- Lyric esperanto and the myth of babel: Michaux, Celan and Hughes -- Michaux: turning cratylistic -- Hughes: rough and mimologic barbarism, primitivism and myth -- Centre-fugue: from centre to centre -- On the centre and the barbarian -- Michaux: in search of a centre -- Celan: edgeward -- Hughes: a world of inclusion -- Becoming other -- Out and raucous -- Metamorphoses -- The mystical journey -- Conclusion.…”
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