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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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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading and the theory of reading -- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading -- Dante and the invention of the novel reader -- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading -- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. …”
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The dark side of literacy literature and learning not to read / by Bennett, Benjamin, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Reading and the theory of reading -- Poems, myths, and the advent of modern reading -- Dante and the invention of the novel reader -- Boccaccio, Cervantes, and the path to solitary reading -- Magic and history : the roots and branches of Dr. …”
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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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Kindler of souls Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas / by Cohen, Henry, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…From Torah to Tennyson -- Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Little Jerusalem -- Planting roots -- The storm and its impact -- From health to horror -- "Through the gateway of Galveston" -- "Dear graduates" : on being a rabbi -- From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Prison reform : the rabbi and the convict -- Family matters and memory : 1930-1950 -- The rabbi and his times -- Appendix : selected poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen.…”
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Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion by Henriksen, Erin

Table of Contents: “…: rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems -- The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost -- Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation -- Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes -- Epilogue: Broken and whole.…”
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Milton and the Reformation aesthetics of the passion by Henriksen, Erin

Table of Contents: “…: rewriting the Protestant elegy in Milton's early poems -- The art of omission and supplement in Paradise lost -- Paradise regained and the art of the incarnation -- Rewriting the Christus patiens tradition in Samson agonistes -- Epilogue: Broken and whole.…”
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Kindler of souls Rabbi Henry Cohen of Texas / by Cohen, Henry, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…From Torah to Tennyson -- Being Jewish in Jamaica -- Little Jerusalem -- Planting roots -- The storm and its impact -- From health to horror -- "Through the gateway of Galveston" -- "Dear graduates" : on being a rabbi -- From the Kaiser to the Klan -- Prison reform : the rabbi and the convict -- Family matters and memory : 1930-1950 -- The rabbi and his times -- Appendix : selected poems by Rabbi Henry Cohen.…”
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Blue studios poetry and its cultural work / by DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Table of Contents: “…Reader, I married me : becoming a feminist critic -- F-words : an essay on the essay -- Blue studio : gender arcades -- Manifests -- Marble paper : toward a feminist "history of poetry" -- Propounding modernist maleness : how Pound managed a muse -- Lorine Niedecker, the anonymous : gender, class, genre, and resistances -- The gendered marvelous : Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception -- "Uncannily in the open" : in light of Oppen -- On Drafts : a memorandum of understanding -- Haibun : "draw your draft" -- Inside the middle of a long poem.…”
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Crazy wisdom saves the world again! handbook for a spiritual revolution : featuring "The evolution sutra" and "Be here wow!" / by Nisker, Wes

Table of Contents: “…-- The fact of the matter -- DNA by the numbers -- Sub-subatomic physics -- A fool's paradise -- Busy dying -- "Poem": why I meditate -- The evolution sutra -- Hello earthling -- The divine DNA -- Survive or die -- Your mama is a germ -- Past and future lives -- New animal on the block -- The kisser -- Humans double-wise, double wise -- Be here wow! …”
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A voice for Earth American writers respond to the Earth Charter /

Table of Contents: “…Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.…”
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Crazy wisdom saves the world again! handbook for a spiritual revolution : featuring "The evolution sutra" and "Be here wow!" / by Nisker, Wes

Table of Contents: “…-- The fact of the matter -- DNA by the numbers -- Sub-subatomic physics -- A fool's paradise -- Busy dying -- "Poem": why I meditate -- The evolution sutra -- Hello earthling -- The divine DNA -- Survive or die -- Your mama is a germ -- Past and future lives -- New animal on the block -- The kisser -- Humans double-wise, double wise -- Be here wow! …”
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A voice for Earth American writers respond to the Earth Charter /

Table of Contents: “…Rockefeller -- The Earth Charter -- Principle into imagination : literary responses to the Earth Charter -- Owning the imperatives : a poem for the Earth Charter / Alison Hawthorne Deming -- Learning to see the stars : the Earth Charter as a compass for the new century / Mary Evelyn Tucker -- Remembering the ancient path : the original instructions and the Earth Charter / Chief Jake Swamp -- Lake Conestee / John Lane -- Restoration : a plan / Rick Bass -- Wilderness as a Sabbath for the land / Scott Russell Sanders -- Who / Robert Michael Pyle -- Broad water, distant land / Stuart Ching -- Possibility begins here / Lauret Savoy -- Hope for democracy / Janisse Ray -- Imagination and principle into a new ethic -- The ethic of care / Leonardo Boff, translated by Philip Berryman -- Afterword / Kamla Chowdhry.…”
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Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 by Strouse, A. W.

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Ballad of the Buried Life / by Hagelstange, Rudolf

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Blue studios poetry and its cultural work / by DuPlessis, Rachel Blau

Table of Contents: “…Reader, I married me : becoming a feminist critic -- F-words : an essay on the essay -- Blue studio : gender arcades -- Manifests -- Marble paper : toward a feminist "history of poetry" -- Propounding modernist maleness : how Pound managed a muse -- Lorine Niedecker, the anonymous : gender, class, genre, and resistances -- The gendered marvelous : Barbara Guest, surrealism, and feminist reception -- "Uncannily in the open" : in light of Oppen -- On Drafts : a memorandum of understanding -- Haibun : "draw your draft" -- Inside the middle of a long poem.…”
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Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 by Strouse, A. W.

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Ballad of the Buried Life / by Hagelstange, Rudolf

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