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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
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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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Black resonance : iconic women singers and African American literature / by Lordi, Emily J., 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Black resonance -- Vivid lyricism: Richard Wright and Bessie Smith's blues -- The timbre of sincerity: Mahalia Jackson's gospel sound and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- Understatement: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday -- Haunting: Gayl Jones's Corregidora and Billie Holiday's "strange Fruit" -- Signature voices: Nikki Giovanni, Aretha Franklin, and the Black Arts movement -- Epilogue: "At Last": Etta James, poetry, hip hop.…”
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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…The trauma of lyric: Shelley's missed encounter with poetry in Alastor -- Shelley's Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. …”
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Romantic narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…The trauma of lyric: Shelley's missed encounter with poetry in Alastor -- Shelley's Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…The trauma of lyric: Shelley's missed encounter with poetry in Alastor -- Shelley's Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. …”
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Romantic Narrative : Shelley, Hays, Godwin, Wollstonecraft / by Rajan, Tilottama

Table of Contents: “…The trauma of lyric: Shelley's missed encounter with poetry in Alastor -- Shelley's Promethean narratives: gothic anamorphoses in Zastrozzi, St. …”
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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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West Side story : cultural perspectives on an American musical / by Wells, Elizabeth Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: West Side story and the Hispanic -- "I and Velma ain't dumb" : the women of West Side story -- "A boy like that" : the gangs of West Side story -- From the West Side to the East Side : reception and revision -- "Finale" -- Appendix A: Lyrics to select songs -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Cast and crew of various productions, including award nominations and wins.…”
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The traditions of invention Romanian ethnic and social stereotypes in historical context / by Drace-Francis, Alex

Table of Contents: “…Representations of the Romanian peasant from ancient stereotype to modern symbol -- A provincial imperialist and a curious account of Wallachia: Ignaz von Born -- "At ten minutes past two, I gazed ecstatically on both lighthouses": -- Time, self and object in early Romanian travel texts -- "Like a member of a free nation, he spoke without shame": foreign travellers as a trope in Romanian cultural tradition -- Dinicu Golescu's Account of my travels (1826): Eurotopia as manifesto -- National ideology between lyrics and metaphysics: the political writings of Mihai Eminescu -- Ion Luca Caragiale: the tall tale of the Romanian nation -- Eugen Ionescu's Selves, 1934-60 -- Beyond the land of green plums: Romanian language and culture in Herta -- Muller's work -- Sex, lies and stereotypes: images of Romania in British literature 1945-2000 -- Paradoxes of occidentalism: on travel and travel writing in Ceausescu's Romania.…”
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West Side story : cultural perspectives on an American musical / by Wells, Elizabeth Anne, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…: West Side story and the Hispanic -- "I and Velma ain't dumb" : the women of West Side story -- "A boy like that" : the gangs of West Side story -- From the West Side to the East Side : reception and revision -- "Finale" -- Appendix A: Lyrics to select songs -- Appendix B: Chronology -- Appendix C: Cast and crew of various productions, including award nominations and wins.…”
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Cries of joy, songs of sorrow Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations / by Moskowitz, Marc L.

Table of Contents: “…The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.…”
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Cries of joy, songs of sorrow Chinese pop music and its cultural connotations / by Moskowitz, Marc L.

Table of Contents: “…The tail wags the dog : Taiwan's musical counter-invasion of China -- China's mandopop roots and Taiwan's gendered counter-invasion of the PRC -- Hybridity and its discontents : popular music in Taiwan -- Message in a bottle : lyrical laments and emotional expression in mandopop -- Men writing songs for women who complain about men : mandopop's gender construction in Taiwan and the PRC -- A man for all occasions : charisma and differing masculinity in mandopop -- Mandopop under siege : culturally bound criticisms of Taiwan's pop music.…”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…South Asian diaspora in Africa: collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Revisiting the past: memory and identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's story and Playing in the light / Fiona McCann -- Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot -- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski -- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust -- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. …”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing

Table of Contents: “…South Asian diaspora in Africa: collective and individual memory in Fatima Meer's and Sita Gandhi's texts / Jaspal Kaur Singh -- Revisiting the past: memory and identity in Elleke Boehmer's Bloodlines and Zoë Wicomb's David's story and Playing in the light / Fiona McCann -- Truth, reconciliation, resistance and reconstruction. Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot -- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski -- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust -- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. …”
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From stage to page critical reception of Irish plays in the London theatre, 1925-1996 / by Harris, Peter James

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Richard Allen Cave -- Introduction -- Juno and the Paycock (Royalty Theatre, 16 November 1925) -- The Big House (Playhouse Theatre, 21 February 1934) -- Red Roses for Me (Embassy Theatre, 26 February 1946) -- The Hostage (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 14 October 1958) -- Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Lyric Theatre, 20 September 1967) -- The Freedom of the City (Royal Court Theatre, 27 February 1973) -- Translations (Hampstead Theatre, 12 May 1981) -- Portia Coughlan (Royal Court Theatre, 14 May 1996) -- Afterword.…”
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From stage to page critical reception of Irish plays in the London theatre, 1925-1996 / by Harris, Peter James

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Richard Allen Cave -- Introduction -- Juno and the Paycock (Royalty Theatre, 16 November 1925) -- The Big House (Playhouse Theatre, 21 February 1934) -- Red Roses for Me (Embassy Theatre, 26 February 1946) -- The Hostage (Theatre Royal, Stratford East, 14 October 1958) -- Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Lyric Theatre, 20 September 1967) -- The Freedom of the City (Royal Court Theatre, 27 February 1973) -- Translations (Hampstead Theatre, 12 May 1981) -- Portia Coughlan (Royal Court Theatre, 14 May 1996) -- Afterword.…”
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Romantic Sobriety : Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / by Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory -- Part III: Texts. Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. …”
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Narrative Causalities / by Kafalenos, Emma, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading narrative causalities: functions and functional polyvalence -- The princess and the pea(s): two versions, different causalities -- Nonchronological narration: Poe's "The assignation" and Browning's "My last duchess" -- The comforts that function c brings: Shakespeare's Hamlet, Racine's Phaedra, and James's Daisy Miller -- Lingering at functions d, e, and f: James's The ambassadors and Kafka's "Before the law" -- Sequential perception: James's The turn of the screw and Balzac's Sarrasine -- Narrative borderlands I: the lyric, the image, and the isolated moment as temporal hinge -- Narrative borderlands II: the image where stories proliferate in novels by Robbe-Grillet and others.…”
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Romantic Sobriety : Sensation, Revolution, Commodification, History / by Wang, Orrin Nan Chung, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…De man, Marx, Rousseau, and the machine; against theory beside romanticism: mute bodies, fanatical seeing; the sensation of the signifier; ghost theory -- Part III: Texts. Lyric Ritalin: time and history in Ode to the west wind; no satisfaction: high theory, cultural studies, and Don Juan; Gothic thought and surviving romanticism in Zafloya and Jane Eyre; coming attractions: Lamia and cinematic sensation -- Coda. …”
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