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The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Satire around 1800: Jean Paul -- Prolegomena -- The case of Jean Paul: unreadable writing, unwritable readings 16 -- Part One: Inversion -- The carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World (1965) -- Perspective and repetition in Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters (1984) -- Destructive negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986) -- Part Two: Mythification -- Between theory and literature: Roland Barthes' Mythologies (1957) -- Elfriede Jelinek's Mythic Lust (1989) -- Viennese paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983) -- Part Three: Citation -- From stage to page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990) -- Performing theory in literature: Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy (1998) -- Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke's Music (2004) -- Conclusion: Satire after Satire.…”
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Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics by James, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.…”
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"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" the poetics of Boris Slutsky / by Grinberg, Marat, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe -- Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation -- The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion -- Pt. 1. …”
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The ends of satire : legacies of satire in postwar German writing / by Bowles, Daniel James, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Satire around 1800: Jean Paul -- Prolegomena -- The case of Jean Paul: unreadable writing, unwritable readings 16 -- Part One: Inversion -- The carnivalesque in Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World (1965) -- Perspective and repetition in Thomas Bernhard's Woodcutters (1984) -- Destructive negativity: Thomas Bernhard and Extinction (1986) -- Part Two: Mythification -- Between theory and literature: Roland Barthes' Mythologies (1957) -- Elfriede Jelinek's Mythic Lust (1989) -- Viennese paradigms in Elfriede Jelinek's The Piano Teacher (1983) -- Part Three: Citation -- From stage to page: Judith Butler and Gender Trouble (1990) -- Performing theory in literature: Thomas Meinecke's Tomboy (1998) -- Infinite Paradise of the Infinite Text: Thomas Meinecke's Music (2004) -- Conclusion: Satire after Satire.…”
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Crime culture figuring criminality in fiction and film /

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Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / by Andrews, James T., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 -- Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.…”
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Red cosmos K.E. Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry / by Andrews, James T., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Tsiolkovskii, Russian public culture, and the mythology of Soviet cosmonautics, 1857-1964 -- Beginnings, teaching science in a provincial context: Tsiolkovskii's years in the Russian locale, 1857-1917 -- Dreaming of the cosmos: early scientific and technical experimentation in pre-1917 Kaluga, Russia -- Getting serious about rocket flight in revolutionary Russia, 1917-1928 -- Cross-fertilizing futuristic literary genres: utopian science fiction or didactic popular technology in revolutionary Russia, 1890-1928 -- Stalin, Khrushchev, and the spaceman: technology, Soviet national identity, and the memorialization of a local hero in the dawn of Sputnik, 1928-1957 -- Epilogue and conclusion: chudo (wonder) or chudak (crank), the legacy of Tsiolkovskii in the Khrushchev era and beyond 1964.…”
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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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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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Friendship and empire Roman diplomacy and imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC) / by Burton, Paul J., 1969-

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Friendship and empire Roman diplomacy and imperialism in the Middle Republic (353-146 BC) / by Burton, Paul J., 1969-

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Kate Bush and Hounds of love by Moy, Ron, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Her early work -- The kick inside -- Lionheart -- Never for ever -- The dreaming -- Hounds of love -- Commercial context and critical reception of Hounds of love -- The conceptual work -- Ideas and influences -- Hounds of love -- Summary -- A daughter of Albion? : Kate Bush and mythologies of Englishness -- Genealogy -- Creative influences -- Accent and 'the grain of the voice' -- Language and register -- Style indicators -- Kate Bush and auteur theory -- From ingénue to auteur -- Shades and degrees of authorship -- Audio texts, video texts : extensions or detractions? …”
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Kate Bush and Hounds of love by Moy, Ron, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Her early work -- The kick inside -- Lionheart -- Never for ever -- The dreaming -- Hounds of love -- Commercial context and critical reception of Hounds of love -- The conceptual work -- Ideas and influences -- Hounds of love -- Summary -- A daughter of Albion? : Kate Bush and mythologies of Englishness -- Genealogy -- Creative influences -- Accent and 'the grain of the voice' -- Language and register -- Style indicators -- Kate Bush and auteur theory -- From ingénue to auteur -- Shades and degrees of authorship -- Audio texts, video texts : extensions or detractions? …”
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Representations and communications creating an archaeological matrix of late prehistoric rock art /

Table of Contents: “…García Quintela -- Rock art and religion : the sun journey in Indo-European mythology and Bronze Age rock art / Kristian Kristiansen -- To excavate images : some results from the Tanum Rock Art Project, 1997-2004 / Lasse Bengtsson -- Perspectives in European rock art : the archaeology of glance / Felipe Criado Boado -- The spaces of representation and the domestication of landscape in rock art societies / Manuel Santos Estévez.…”
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Representations and communications creating an archaeological matrix of late prehistoric rock art /

Table of Contents: “…García Quintela -- Rock art and religion : the sun journey in Indo-European mythology and Bronze Age rock art / Kristian Kristiansen -- To excavate images : some results from the Tanum Rock Art Project, 1997-2004 / Lasse Bengtsson -- Perspectives in European rock art : the archaeology of glance / Felipe Criado Boado -- The spaces of representation and the domestication of landscape in rock art societies / Manuel Santos Estévez.…”
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Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö /

Table of Contents: “…Lowe -- Sense and sensibility : Old English semantics and the lexicographer's point of view / Antoinette DiPaolo Healey -- Spatial understanding of time in early Germanic cultures: the evidence of Old English time words and Norse mythology / Lilla Kopár -- The development of the basic colour terms of English / Carole P. …”
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Interfaces between language and culture in medieval England a festschrift for Matti Kilpiö /

Table of Contents: “…Lowe -- Sense and sensibility : Old English semantics and the lexicographer's point of view / Antoinette DiPaolo Healey -- Spatial understanding of time in early Germanic cultures: the evidence of Old English time words and Norse mythology / Lilla Kopár -- The development of the basic colour terms of English / Carole P. …”
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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology -- "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo -- The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa -- From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth -- The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage -- A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror -- Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring -- Mirroring in Text -- ch. 2 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad -- A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process -- Captive to the Male Gaze -- The Mirror as an Eye -- The Mirror of the Heart -- The Otherness of the Self-image -- The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination -- The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image -- The Mirror and the Window -- Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror -- The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror -- Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad -- ch. 3 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath.…”
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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mirroring in Mythology and Psychology -- "I am That!": Doubling in the Myth of Narcissus and Echo -- The Petrifying Look: The Myth of Medusa -- From Narcissus to Narcissism: Freud's Psychological Exegesis of the Myth -- The Subject as an Alienated Construct: Lacan's Theory of the Mirror Stage -- A Spatiotemporal Site of Psychological Interiority: Memory as a Mirror -- Mother-Daughter: The Mutual Mirroring -- Mirroring in Text -- ch. 2 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Forugh Farrokhzad -- A Herstory of a Subject-in-Process -- Captive to the Male Gaze -- The Mirror as an Eye -- The Mirror of the Heart -- The Otherness of the Self-image -- The Mirror of the Memory and of the Imagination -- The Grotesquery of the Mirror Image -- The Mirror and the Window -- Mother-Daughter Reciprocity in the Mirror -- The Emancipated and Emancipating Mirror -- Self-Mirroring in the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad -- ch. 3 Mirror Imagery in the Works of Sylvia Plath.…”
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