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The Pacific arts of Polynesia and Micronesia by Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to Polynesian and Micronesian art -- Artistic visions, rituals, and sacred containers -- Aesthetics, carving, metaphor, and allusion -- Genealogical connections: the texts of textiles -- Adorning the adorned: tattoo, ornaments, clothing, fashion -- Ritual spaces, cultural landscapes: space, and the aesthetic environment.…”
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A sourcebook of Nasca ceramic iconography reading a culture through its art / by Proulx, Donald A., 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the Nasca culture -- Nasca pottery and its artistic canons -- The discovery of the Nasca style and its chronological placement -- Approaches to the interpretation of Nasca iconography -- A description and interpretation of the major themes in Nasca ceramic iconography -- New insights on Nasca society.…”
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Portraits of the new Negro woman visual and literary culture in the Harlem Renaissance / by Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…"A plea for color" : Nella Larsen's textual tableaux -- Jessie Fauset's new Negro woman artist and the passing market -- "Black beauty betrayed" : the modernist mulatta in black and white -- The geography of the mulatta in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Redressing the new Negro woman.…”
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Ebla : Archaeology and History / by Matthiae, Paolo

Table of Contents: “…From Tell Mardikh to Ebla : archaeological exploration -- Ebla and early urbanization in Syria -- Ebla, Mari, Akkad : from city-states to empire -- The Royal Palace in the age of the Archives space and function -- Early Syrian religion, the Red Temple, and the Temple of the Rock -- The State Archives : Economy, Culture, and Society -- Artistic expressions and material culture in the mature Early Syrian period -- The crisis in the Early Syrian world and the archaic Old Syrian renaissance -- From Ebla to Yamkhad : the territorial states of the Amorite Age -- Town planning and architecture in the Old Syrian city -- Old Syrian artistic culture : originality and continuity -- Old Syrian material culture : characteristics and development -- From Ebla to Tell Mardikh : decline of a great urban centre.…”
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Trinity of discord the hymnal and poetic innocations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper / by Arnold, Richard, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…"Controversie of singing" : historical sketch of the English hymn to 1707 -- "Sight thro' a glass" : Isaac Watts -- "I see Thee face to face" : Charles Wesley -- "The hidden life" of hymnody : William Cowper -- Paradox of contemporary response : critical reaction, artistic influence.…”
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Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / by Gannon, Jack R.

Table of Contents: “…Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to 2011 edition -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue : a journey begins -- Chronology -- The early years -- The 1880s -- The1890s -- Artists -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- Humor -- The 1940s -- Publications of the deaf -- The 1950s -- Sports -- The 1960s -- American sign language : our natural language.…”
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Japanese animation : East Asian perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Animation Studies and Animation History in Japan -- Pioneers of Japanese Animation -- Popular Culture, East-West Expressions, and Tezuka Osamu -- Female Characters and Transnational Identities -- Artistic Animation and Expression in Japan -- Japan's First Commercial Animation Studio after the Second World War: Toei.…”
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Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914 / by Cameron, Brooke, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Educating new women for feminist futures -- Sisterly kinship and the modern sexual contract -- Cosmopolitan communities of female professionals -- Women's artistic connoisseurship and the pleasures of a lesbian aesthetic -- Virginia Woolf's post-Victorian feminism -- Coda : The post-Victorian legacy of women's work.…”
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Not of Woman Born : Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture / by Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Caesarean Birth in the Artistic Imagination -- 3. The Marginalization of Women in Obstetrics -- 4. …”
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The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture / by Watts, Steven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist -- 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary -- 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation -- 5. …”
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Joyce a guide for the perplexed / by Mahon, Peter, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Joyce: realism and epiphany in Dubliners -- A portrait of the artist as a young man: the sexual politics of art -- Reading Ulysses I: from 'Telemachus' to 'The wandering rocks' -- Reading Ulysses II: 'Sirens' to 'Penelope' -- The language(s) and structure(s) of Finnegans wake -- Conclusion: 'Where are we at all?'.…”
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Between self and society : inner worlds and outer limits in the British psychological novel / by Rodden, John

Table of Contents: “…Smollett's Roderick Random : in love with Narcissa -- Godwin's Caleb Williams : "A half-told and mangled tale" -- Hardy's The mayor of Casterbridge : the infernal triangle -- Ford's The good soldier : movements of the heart -- Lewis's Tarr : portraits of the failed artist -- Lawrence's Women in love : the role of miss "Dawington".…”
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The Beatles image and the media / by Frontani, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…: introducing the image -- "Preparing our teenagers for riot and ultimate revolution" : the touring years, 1964-66 -- "The mood of the sixties" : the Beatles as artists, 1966-68 -- "Beatlepeople" : Rolling Stone, 1967-70 -- "Beautiful people" : the Beatles' idealized past.…”
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Chinese art and its encounter with the world negotiating alterity in art and its historical interpretation / by Clarke, David

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Bessie Head the road of peace of mind : a critical appreciation / by Johnson, Joyce

Table of Contents: “…The context of Bessie Head's fiction -- A portrait of the artist as a young woman : The cardinals -- Escaping "the heat of the sun" : When rain clouds gather -- The moon's sphere : Maru -- In a twilight zone : A question of power -- Dredging the river : The collector of treasures -- Sunrise at sunset : A bewitched crossroad.…”
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Too beautiful to picture Zeuxis, myth, and mimesis / by Mansfield, Elizabeth, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Myth and Mimesis in western art history -- Art history as myth -- The Zeuxis myth -- Myth and Mimesis in the Renaissance -- Painting (like) Zeuxis -- Zeuxis in the academy -- Women artists and the Zeuxis myth -- Painting in the philosophical brothel -- Zeuxis in the operating room: Orlan's carnal art -- Conclusion: Zeuxis selecting models and the cultural unconscious.…”
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Contemporary art 1989 to the present /

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Melville's Thematics of Form : The Great Art of Telling the Truth / by Dryden, Edgar A.

Table of Contents: “…A note on texts -- Metaphysics and the art of the novel -- Portraits of the artist as a young man: narrative form in Melville's early novels -- Ishmael as teller: self-conscious form in Moby-Dick -- The failure of the author-hero: narrative form in Pierre and Israel Potter -- The novelist as impostor: subversive form in The confidence-man -- Epilogue.…”
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Self-Help, Inc makeover culture in American life / by McGee, Micki

Table of Contents: “…: survivalism and the inward turn -- From having it all to simple abundance : gender and the logic of diminished expectations -- The self at work : from job-hunters to artist-entrepreneurs -- At work on the self : the making of the belabored self -- All you can be, or some conclusions.…”
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