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Mutilation and transformation damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture / by Varner, Eric R.

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Mutilation and transformation damnatio memoriae and Roman imperial portraiture / by Varner, Eric R.

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The modern portrait poem from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound / by Dickey, Frances, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Portraiture in the Rossetti circle: window, object, or mirror -- Ezra Pound: portraiture and originality -- T. …”
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The modern portrait poem from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ezra Pound / by Dickey, Frances, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Portraiture in the Rossetti circle: window, object, or mirror -- Ezra Pound: portraiture and originality -- T. …”
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Violence and serenity late Buddhist sculpture from Indonesia / by Reichle, Natasha, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The development of Buddhism in Sumatra and Java -- Joko Dolok and the politics of royal asceticism -- Ideas of portraiture: Prajñāpāramitā in Java and Sumatra -- The many roles of the Amoghapāśa Maṇḍala -- A charnel house of images: the Padang Lawas Heruka -- The National Museum's monumental Bhairava.…”
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Violence and serenity late Buddhist sculpture from Indonesia / by Reichle, Natasha, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The development of Buddhism in Sumatra and Java -- Joko Dolok and the politics of royal asceticism -- Ideas of portraiture: Prajñāpāramitā in Java and Sumatra -- The many roles of the Amoghapāśa Maṇḍala -- A charnel house of images: the Padang Lawas Heruka -- The National Museum's monumental Bhairava.…”
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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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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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The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / by Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.…”
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The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / by Smith, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.…”
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"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / by Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.…”
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"Not even past" race, historical trauma, and subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten / by Stringer, Dorothy, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: nation, home, women, and violence in Requiem for a nun -- "Anyone with half an eye": blackness and the disaster of narcissism in Quicksand -- "A having way": fetishism and the black bourgeoisie in Passing -- "To glorify the negro": photographic shock and blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture.…”
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The art of professing in Bourbon Mexico : crowned-nun portraits and reform in the convent / by Córdova, James M., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Women's Religious Pathways in New Spain -- Chapter 2. New Spanish Portraiture and Portraits of Nuns -- Chapter 3. Euro-Christian Precedents in the Crowned-Nun Image -- Chapter 4. …”
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The art of professing in Bourbon Mexico : crowned-nun portraits and reform in the convent / by Córdova, James M., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Women's Religious Pathways in New Spain -- Chapter 2. New Spanish Portraiture and Portraits of Nuns -- Chapter 3. Euro-Christian Precedents in the Crowned-Nun Image -- Chapter 4. …”
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Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China / by Guo, Li, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning a nascent feminine agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of rebirth) -- Disguised scholar, fox spirit, and moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the bush) -- Ethics, filial piety, and narrative sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, image, destiny) -- Gender, spectatorship, and literary portraiture in Mengyingyuan -- Cross-dressing as a collective act in Xianü qunying shi (A history of women warriors) -- Illustrating a new woman in Fengliu zuiren (The valiant and the culprit) -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China / by Guo, Li, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Envisioning a nascent feminine agency in Zaishengyuan (Destiny of rebirth) -- Disguised scholar, fox spirit, and moralism in Bishenghua (Blossom from the bush) -- Ethics, filial piety, and narrative sympathy in Mengyingyuan (Dream, image, destiny) -- Gender, spectatorship, and literary portraiture in Mengyingyuan -- Cross-dressing as a collective act in Xianü qunying shi (A history of women warriors) -- Illustrating a new woman in Fengliu zuiren (The valiant and the culprit) -- Conclusion -- Appendix. …”
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The autobiographical documentary in America by Lane, Jim, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 3 -- I The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: -- Historical Connections I I -- 2 David Holzman's Diary: An Unlikely Beginning 33 -- 3 The Journal Entry Approach: Narrative, Chronology, and -- Autobiographical Claims 48 -- 4 Autobiographical Portraiture: Family and Self 94 -- 5 Women and the Autobiographical Documentary: Historical -- Intervention, Writing, Alterity, and the Dialogic Engagement 145 -- Afterword I9I -- Notes 197 -- Filmography 222 -- Works Cited 224 -- Index 233.…”
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The autobiographical documentary in America by Lane, Jim, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction 3 -- I The Convergence of Autobiography and Documentary: -- Historical Connections I I -- 2 David Holzman's Diary: An Unlikely Beginning 33 -- 3 The Journal Entry Approach: Narrative, Chronology, and -- Autobiographical Claims 48 -- 4 Autobiographical Portraiture: Family and Self 94 -- 5 Women and the Autobiographical Documentary: Historical -- Intervention, Writing, Alterity, and the Dialogic Engagement 145 -- Afterword I9I -- Notes 197 -- Filmography 222 -- Works Cited 224 -- Index 233.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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