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The Body of Writing : An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction / by Chevaillier, Flore, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Erotic etudes : theory of the self and language -- Semiotics and erotics in Joseph McElroy's Plus -- "A certain pulsing" : the erotic page in Carole Maso's AVA -- Erotics and corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE -- Bodily and literary modifications in Steve Tomasula's VAS : an opera in Flatland.…”
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Borrowed Forms : The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction / by Lachman, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…From Mikhail Bakhit to Maryse Conde : the problems of literary polyphony -- Edward Said and Assia Djebar : Counterpoint and the practice of comparative literature -- Glenn Gould and the birth of the author : variation and performance in Nancy Huston's Les variations Goldberg -- Opera and the limits of representation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Music in other words Victorian conversations / by Solie, Ruth A.

Table of Contents: “…Beethoven as secular humanist : ideology and the Ninth symphony in 19th-century criticism -- Music in a Victorian mirror : MacMillan's magazine in the Grove years -- "Girling" at the parlor piano -- Biedermeier domesticity and the Schubert circle : a rereading -- Tadpole pleasures" : George Eliot's Daniel Deronda as music historiography -- Fictions of the opera box.…”
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Andrew Lloyd Webber by Snelson, John

Table of Contents: “…multiple personalities in The phantom of the opera -- "I'm ready for my close-up" : Lloyd Webber on screen -- "Memory" : musical reminiscences in Lloyd Webber -- "Now and forever" : canons and challenges.…”
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Andrew Lloyd Webber by Snelson, John

Table of Contents: “…multiple personalities in The phantom of the opera -- "I'm ready for my close-up" : Lloyd Webber on screen -- "Memory" : musical reminiscences in Lloyd Webber -- "Now and forever" : canons and challenges.…”
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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Gothic riffs : songs in the key of secularization -- Gothic mediations : Shakespeare, the sentimental, and the secularization of virtue -- "Rescue operas" and providential deism -- Ghostly visitants : the gothic drama and the coexistence of immanence and transcendence -- Entr'acte. …”
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Gothic Riffs : Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780–1820 / by Hoeveler, Diane Long

Table of Contents: “…Gothic riffs : songs in the key of secularization -- Gothic mediations : Shakespeare, the sentimental, and the secularization of virtue -- "Rescue operas" and providential deism -- Ghostly visitants : the gothic drama and the coexistence of immanence and transcendence -- Entr'acte. …”
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Enchanted evenings the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the park with George : happily ever after West side story with Sondheim ; The Phantom of the opera : the reigning champion of Broadway.…”
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Enchanted evenings the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / by Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the park with George : happily ever after West side story with Sondheim ; The Phantom of the opera : the reigning champion of Broadway.…”
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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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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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French theatre today the view from New York, Paris, and Avignon / by Turk, Edward Baron

Table of Contents: “…Great classics revisited -- Boulevard, experimental, and in-between -- Three prodigious artists -- Cultural diversity (I): ethnicities -- Cultural diversity (II): operas and circuses -- Avignon. A festival turns sixty -- Recap and coda : French theatre tomorrow.…”
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Now a terrifying motion picture! twenty-five classic works of horror adapted from book to film / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The exorcist -- The fly -- Frankenstein -- Freaks -- From hell -- Ghost story -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Jaws -- The masque of the red death -- The night stalker -- The ninth gate -- Nosferatu -- The phantom of the opera -- Psycho -- Re-animator -- The serpent and the rainbow -- The shining -- Sleepy Hollow -- The thing from another world -- Village of the damned.…”
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Remaking Chinese cinema through the prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood / by Wang, Yiman, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong -- Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama -- The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake -- Mr. Phantom goes to the East : history and its afterlife from Hollywood to Shanghai and Hong Kong -- Conclusion : Mr. …”
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Planet Beethoven : classical music at the turn of the millennium / by Yang, Mina

Table of Contents: “…The little orange dress -- Moulin Rouge! and the undoing of opera -- Interlude 4. The digital concert hall -- El sistema L.A.…”
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French theatre today the view from New York, Paris, and Avignon / by Turk, Edward Baron

Table of Contents: “…Great classics revisited -- Boulevard, experimental, and in-between -- Three prodigious artists -- Cultural diversity (I): ethnicities -- Cultural diversity (II): operas and circuses -- Avignon. A festival turns sixty -- Recap and coda : French theatre tomorrow.…”
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Now a terrifying motion picture! twenty-five classic works of horror adapted from book to film / by Broderick, James F., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Hyde -- The exorcist -- The fly -- Frankenstein -- Freaks -- From hell -- Ghost story -- The hound of the Baskervilles -- Jaws -- The masque of the red death -- The night stalker -- The ninth gate -- Nosferatu -- The phantom of the opera -- Psycho -- Re-animator -- The serpent and the rainbow -- The shining -- Sleepy Hollow -- The thing from another world -- Village of the damned.…”
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