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Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature : Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics /

Table of Contents: “…Rosenfeld -- Heidegger and tragedy / Michael Gelvin -- From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Joseph N. …”
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Performance, iconography, reception studies in honour of Oliver Taplin /

Table of Contents: “…Zeitlin -- Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker -- Scenes at the door in Aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown -- The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles -- Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne -- The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno -- Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague -- Wagner's Greeks : the politics of Hellenism / Simon Goldhill -- Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? …”
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Martin Heidegger and the Question of Literature : Toward a Postmodern Literary Hermeneutics /

Table of Contents: “…Rosenfeld -- Heidegger and tragedy / Michael Gelvin -- From Heidegger to Derrida to chance : doubling and (poetic) language / Joseph N. …”
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Along Navajo Trails : Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 / by Evans, Will, b. 1877

Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- Antic dispositions : mental and intellectual disabilities in early modern revenge tragedy / Lindsey Row-Heyveld -- Disabling allegories in Edmund Spenser's Faerie queene / Rachel E. …”
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Along Navajo Trails : Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 / by Evans, Will, b. 1877

Table of Contents: “…Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.…”
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Mercury pollution : a transdisciplinary treatment /

Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Shakespeare without boundaries essays in honor of Dieter Mehl /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The problematization of generic boundaries : lyrical inroads into Shakespeare's dramatic dialogue / Alexander Shurbanov -- William and Geoffrey / Catherine Belsey -- "It will have blood they say; blood will have blood" : proverb usage and the vague and undetermined places of Macbeth / Martin Orkin -- The fall of a sparrow : Shakespearean tragedy and the Bible / Piero Boitani -- Foundational myth in Cymbeline / David Bevington -- Shakespeare and Velázquez / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Crossing the dotted line : Shakespeare and geography / Chee-Seng Lim -- "There's the rub" : translating Hamlet's thought process / Werner Habicht -- "Bottom, thou art translated" : translation as a boundary and a bridge / Marta Gibinska -- Hamlet across boundaries of language and genre in Jacinto Benavente's comedy Hamlet's jester / Jesús Tronch -- Hamlet's furniture : Shakespeare sat here / Catherine M.S. …”
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Renaissance go-betweens cultural exchange in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Szönyi -- John Wolfe and the impact of exemplary go-betweens on early modern print culture / Sonia Massai -- Hybrids : learning from a gilded silver beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) / Carlo Ginzburg -- British cultural history and church history for the continent : John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) / Herbert Grabes -- Machiavellian dissimulation and allegory : the writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney / John Roe -- Moses as go-between : John Spencer's theory of religious translation / Jan Assmann -- Another country : Marlowe and the go-between / Richard Wilson -- Spirits, ghosts, demons in Shakespeare and Milton / Aleida Assmann -- A membrane has broken : returning from the dead in The Spanish tragedy / Alexander Leggatt -- The words of Mercury : Shakespeare's love ambassadors / François Laroque -- Incising Venice : the violence of cultural incorporation in The merchant of Venice / Philippa Berry -- Iago the essayist : Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Whitton -- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody -- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Part IV. …”
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Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / by Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927 -- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900 -- I want to save these girls : single black women's protectors--the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 1895-1911 -- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933 -- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931 -- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928 -- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928 -- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935 -- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935 -- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.…”
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Shakespeare without boundaries essays in honor of Dieter Mehl /

Table of Contents: “…Smith -- The problematization of generic boundaries : lyrical inroads into Shakespeare's dramatic dialogue / Alexander Shurbanov -- William and Geoffrey / Catherine Belsey -- "It will have blood they say; blood will have blood" : proverb usage and the vague and undetermined places of Macbeth / Martin Orkin -- The fall of a sparrow : Shakespearean tragedy and the Bible / Piero Boitani -- Foundational myth in Cymbeline / David Bevington -- Shakespeare and Velázquez / Hugh Macrae Richmond -- Crossing the dotted line : Shakespeare and geography / Chee-Seng Lim -- "There's the rub" : translating Hamlet's thought process / Werner Habicht -- "Bottom, thou art translated" : translation as a boundary and a bridge / Marta Gibinska -- Hamlet across boundaries of language and genre in Jacinto Benavente's comedy Hamlet's jester / Jesús Tronch -- Hamlet's furniture : Shakespeare sat here / Catherine M.S. …”
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Renaissance go-betweens cultural exchange in early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Szönyi -- John Wolfe and the impact of exemplary go-betweens on early modern print culture / Sonia Massai -- Hybrids : learning from a gilded silver beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530) / Carlo Ginzburg -- British cultural history and church history for the continent : John Bale's Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557-59) / Herbert Grabes -- Machiavellian dissimulation and allegory : the writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney / John Roe -- Moses as go-between : John Spencer's theory of religious translation / Jan Assmann -- Another country : Marlowe and the go-between / Richard Wilson -- Spirits, ghosts, demons in Shakespeare and Milton / Aleida Assmann -- A membrane has broken : returning from the dead in The Spanish tragedy / Alexander Leggatt -- The words of Mercury : Shakespeare's love ambassadors / François Laroque -- Incising Venice : the violence of cultural incorporation in The merchant of Venice / Philippa Berry -- Iago the essayist : Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare / Catherine Belsey.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Whitton -- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody -- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Part IV. …”
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William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedy in Malone -- The making of a "cultivated" man -- Love and the new district attorney -- "Here lies an honest man" -- "Old hunkerism" is dead -- A "mere act of justice" -- "Grinding" it out in Albany -- A pen "dipped in gall" -- An early morning knock on the door -- Suddenly, a "junior partner" -- A sporting gentleman gets the itch -- "True to our trust, true to ourselves, and true to the truth" -- "Ho! …”
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Mercury pollution : a transdisciplinary treatment /

William Almon Wheeler : political star of the north country / by Hallas, Herbert C., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Tragedy in Malone -- The making of a "cultivated" man -- Love and the new district attorney -- "Here lies an honest man" -- "Old hunkerism" is dead -- A "mere act of justice" -- "Grinding" it out in Albany -- A pen "dipped in gall" -- An early morning knock on the door -- Suddenly, a "junior partner" -- A sporting gentleman gets the itch -- "True to our trust, true to ourselves, and true to the truth" -- "Ho! …”
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Collapse of an empire lessons for modern Russia / by Gaĭdar, E. T. (Egor Timurovich)

Table of Contents: “…The grandeur and the fall of empires -- Modern economic growth and the era of empires -- Crisis and the dismantling of overseas empires -- Problems of dissolving territorially integrated empires -- The yugoslav tragedy -- Authoritarian regimes: the causes of instability -- Challenges in the early stages of modern economic growth and authoritarianism -- The instability of authoritarian regimes -- Mechanics of the collapse of authoritarianism -- The oil curse -- The Spanish prologue -- Resource wealth and economic development -- Specifics of the oil market -- Regulating the oil market in the twentieth century -- Challenges related to price fluctuations of commodities: Mexico and Venezuela -- In search of a way out: a response to the dangers of unstable commodity pricing -- Cracks in the foundation: the Soviet Union in the early 1980s -- Growing problems and bad decisions -- Food supply problems -- Food shortages-a strategic challenge -- The USSR as the largest importer of food -- Oil in Western Siberia: the illusion of salvation -- A drop in oil prices: the final blow -- The collapse of the USSR: the unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political alternatives -- The ussr and the drop in oil prices: the essence of the choice -- A series of mistakes -- Mounting problems in the soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard currency and financial problems -- Development of the crisis of the socialist system -- Political credits -- The price of compromise -- The crisis of the empire and the nationality question -- Loss of control over the economic and political situation -- The currency crisis -- From crisis to catastrophe -- "Extraordinary efforts" instead of reforms -- On the brink of default -- On the path to state bankruptcy -- The grain problem -- Prices skyrocket -- Money and the fate of the empire -- The fall -- The political economy of the failed coup -- Political death throes -- Political disintegration: economic consequences -- A civilized divorce.…”
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