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Prehistoric digital poetry an archaeology of forms, 1959-1995 / by Funkhouser, Chris

Table of Contents: “…A chronology of works in digital poetry, 1959-1995 -- Introduction : evolving circuits of digital poetry -- Origination : text generation -- Visual and kinetic digital poems -- Hypertext and hypermedia -- Alternative arrangements for digital poetry -- Techniques enabled : (pro)fusions after poetry computerized.…”
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Constructions of childhood and youth in old French narrative by Gaffney, Phyllis

Table of Contents: “…: a repertoire of traditional images -- Changing models of childhood and youth in the chanson de geste -- Childhood and youth in romance : love, learning and the drama of identity -- Childhood and youth in enfances poems -- A slow conversion of sensibility.…”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Classical Background and Critical Reception of His Work / by Bender, Todd K.

Table of Contents: “…The critical response to the first and second editions of the poems -- The publication of the prose and a note on the unpublished notebooks -- The non-logical structure of "the wreck of the Deutschland": Hopkins and Pindar -- Non-logical syntax: Latin and Greek hyperbaton -- Metaphysical imagery and explosive meaning: Crashow, Hopkins, and Martial.…”
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Supplement to "Walt Whitman, a descriptive bibliography" by Myerson, Joel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Separate publications -- Collected editions -- Miscellaneous collections -- First book and pamphlet appearances -- First-appearance contributions to magazines and newspapers -- Proof copies, circulars, and broadsides -- Reprinted material in books and pamphlets -- Separate publication of individual poems and prose works -- Compiler's notes -- Index.…”
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American Risorgimento : Herman Melville and the Cultural Politics of Italy / by Berthold, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Italy in the American imagination : a divided vision -- Mardi's Dantean intertext -- Fleeing revolution : the rise and fall of the Roman republic -- Machiavellian aesthetics : from Pierre to the Confidence-man -- The triumph of nationality : early poems and Battle-pieces -- "The Italian turn of thought" : Clarel and late writings.…”
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Oscar Wilde Revalued : An Essay on New Materials and Methods of Research / by Small, Ian

Table of Contents: “…Criticism, Lectures, Reviews. De Profundis. Poems. Epigrams. Manuscript Holdings by Library. …”
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Rimbaud : The Cost of Genius / by Oxenhandler, Neal

Table of Contents: “…Overview : Rimbaud and Psychocriticism -- Defiance in "Les Poetes de sept ans" -- Poem of the Uncanny : "Le Bateau ivre" -- Figures of Desire in "Memoire" -- What Happened in Babylone? …”
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Poetry's Afterlife : Verse in the Digital Age / by Stein, Kevin, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…The hammer -- Voice: what you say and how readers hear it -- Why kids hate poetry -- Whitman's sampler: an assortment of youth poems -- [4.] After silence. (Hidden track): poetry in public places.…”
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Philosophy for Militants / by Munro, M. (Michael)

Table of Contents: “…Note toward a theory of the militant -- The untranslatable : triptych on a sentence by Rey Chow -- The thing itself -- The return to philology -- The lion and the ball : on the secret of language -- Place without description, or, thinking with poems -- "Utopia is the very topia of things" : on parables -- "To believe in this world" : immanence and militancy.…”
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The future without a past the humanities in a technological society / by Russo, John Paul

Table of Contents: “…The future of the humanities in a technological society -- The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas -- The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling -- Belief and sincerity -- The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism -- The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography -- Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology.…”
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The Nibelungenlied Today : Its Substance, Essence, and Significance / by Mueller, Werner A. (Werner Achilles), 1903-1999

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The trickster comes west Pan-African influence in early Black diasporan narratives / by M'Baye, Babacar, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…African and Puritan dimensions of Phillis Wheatley's poems and letters -- Pan-Africanism in Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's liberation discourse -- Pan-Africanism in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Africanism and Methodism in the works of Elizabeth Hart Thwaites and Anne Hart Gilbert -- African and Caribbean patterns in Mary Prince's resistance.…”
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The demon & the damozel dynamics of desire in the works of Christina Rossetti and Dante Gabriel Rossetti / by Waldman, Suzanne M. (Suzanne Maureen), 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The transcendental tendency in Christina Rossetti's poetry of love and devotion -- The superegoic demon in Christina Rossetti's gothic and fantasy writings -- Imaginary oscillation in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's illustrations of Dante -- The symbolic perfection of the imaginary in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The house of life -- Hysterical desire in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's narrative poems and portraiture.…”
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Indian angles English verse in colonial India from Jones to Tagore / by Gibson, Mary Ellis, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Languages, tropes, and landscape in the beginnings of English language poetry: Contact poetics in eighteenth-century Calcutta: Sir William Jones, John Horsford, and Anna Maria; Bards and sybils: landscape, gender, and the culture of dispute in the poems of H. L. V. Derozio and Emma Roberts -- Part two. …”
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William Morris and the uses of violence, 1856-1890 by Hanson, Ingrid

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Warriors waiting for the word -- The early romances and the transformative touch of violence -- Knightly women and the imagination of battle in the defence of Guenevere, and other poems -- Sigurd the Volsung and the parameters of manliness -- Crossing the river of violence: the Germanic antiwars and the uncivilized uses of work and play -- All for the cause: fellowship, sacrifice and fruitful war -- Afterword: Hopeful strife and blameless peace.…”
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Tonality as drama closure and interruption in four twentieth-century American operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Money and modernity Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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A Story of Conquest and Adventure : The Large Faramarzname /

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Tonality as Drama : Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-Century American Operas / by Latham, Edward David

Table of Contents: “…Tonality as drama: an introduction -- Dramatic closure: the Stanislavsky system and the attainment of character objectives -- Tonal closure: a Schenkerian approach to tonal drama -- The completed background line with open-ended coda: Scott Joplin's grand opera Treemonisha (1911) -- The multi-movement Anstieg or initial ascent: George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935) -- The multi-movement initial arpeggiation: Kurt Weill's Broadway opera Street scene (1947) -- The prolonged permanent interruption: Aaron Copland's operatic tone poem The tender land (1954).…”
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Pictorial Victorians the inscription of values in word and image / by Thomas, Julia, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture -- Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations -- Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson -- Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady -- Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting -- Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's In memoriam -- Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.…”
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