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Masculinist impulses Toomer, Hurston, Black writing, and modernity / by Grant, Nathan, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Modernism and the masculinist impulse -- Toomer's male prison and the spectatorial artist -- Of silent strivings : Cane's mute and dreaming dictie -- Hurston's masculinist critique of the South -- Zora Neale Hurston and the romance of the supernature -- Promised lands : the new Jerusalem's inner city and John Edgar Wideman's Philadelphia story -- Where and when we enter : closing the gap in Morrison's Beloved and Naylor's Mama Day.…”
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Mystics by Harmless, William, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…A theology called mystical : Jean Gerson and William James -- Mystic as fire watcher : Thomas Merton -- Mystic as experienced exegete : Bernard of Clairvaux -- Mystic as multimedia artist : Hildegard of Bingen -- Mystic as cartographer : Bonaventure -- Mystic as mystagogue : Meister Eckhart -- Mystic as desert calligrapher : Evagrius Ponticus -- Mysticism and Islam : Rumi -- Mysticism and Zen Buddhism : Dōgen -- Reading mystics : text, community, experience.…”
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Bytes and Backbeats : Repurposing Music in the Digital Age / by Savage, Steve, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Application study : jazz piano trio ; Studio study : capturing the unintentional performance ; Artist or artisan? -- Repurposing participation. Application study : African folklore and music communities ; Studio study : from iPod to GarageBand ; Integration or (dis)integration?…”
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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Breathing new life into old stones : the poets and artists of the Mughal monument in the eighteenth century -- From Cunningham to Curzon : producing the Mughal monument in the era of high imperialism -- Between fantasy and phantasmagoria : the Mughal monument and the structure of touristic desire -- Rebuilding Indian Muslim space from the ruins of the Mughal "moral city" -- Tryst with destiny : Nehru's and Gandhi's Mughal monuments -- The ethics of monumentality in postindependence India.…”
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Remixthebook by Amerika, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Source material everywhere (the Alfred North Whitehead remix) -- Mind bank network (the Allen Ginsberg remix) -- Artist, medium, instrument (the Nam June Paik remix) -- The renewable tradition (extended play remix) -- Why video games suck (the Ad Reinhardt remix) -- Mark Amerika nature photography (studio remix) -- Situationist comedy (alternative laugh track remix) -- Premonition algorithm (the big kahuna remix).…”
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Healing presence the essence of nursing / by Koerner, JoEllen Goertz

Table of Contents: “…Nursing : a sacred work -- A healing journey between two cultures : an experience of wholeness -- Vibrant health : the energetics of dynamic balance -- Healing presence : the impact of engagement -- Quantum healing : the power of integration -- Balanced living : the path of becoming -- Ways of knowing : expressions of the soul -- The noetic scientist : a holistic world -- The creative artist : composing a life -- The human spirit : unfolding inner potential.…”
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The Tangierman's lament, and other tales of Virginia / by Swift, Earl, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The immortal dismalites -- The unexpected artist -- The Tangierman's lament -- Bang the drum loudly -- When the rain came -- Playing the last round -- Where is the fabulous Dewey diamond? …”
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Appropriation as practice art and identity in Argentina / by Schneider, Arnd, 1960-

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Salome's modernity Oscar Wilde and the aesthetics of transgression / by Dierkes-Thrun, Petra, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Richard Strauss's operatic modernism in Salome -- Perverts in court : Maud Allan's the vision of Salome and the Pemberton-Billing trial -- Alla Nazimova's Salome : an historical phantasy by Oscar Wilde -- Portraits of the artist as a gay man and Salome as a feminist icon : Wilde and Salome in popular culture since the 1980s.…”
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Arabic literary salons in the Islamic Middle Ages poetry, public performance, and the presentation of the past / by Ali, Samer M.

Table of Contents: “…Literary salons : from ancient symposion to Arabic mujālasat -- Adab principles of artistic speech in assembly -- Poetry performance and the reinterpreting of tradition -- The mujālasat as forum for reception. …”
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Regards croisés alternate perspectives on digital literature /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Sandy Baldwin -- Editorial / by Phillippe Bootz -- Narrative motors / by Eugenio Tisselli -- The unsatisfied reading / by Philippe Bootz -- The artist's condition -- The recursive loop between presentation and representation -- "Agents provocateurs" : codework interventions on the listservs / by Camille Paloque-Bergès -- Speak, "memory" : simulation and satire in Reagan Library / by Shuen-shing Lee -- How to read words in digital literature / by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos -- Textual material in the digital medium / by Alexandra Saemmer.…”
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Entrepreneurship the Disney Way. by Goldsby, Michael G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART 1 Walt Disney, Entrepreneur; 1 The Artist Years; 2 The Scientist Years; 3 The Builder Years; 4 The Evangelist Years; PART 2 Corporate Entrepreneurship at the Walt Disney Company; 5 Leaders in the Post-Walt Disney Era; 6 The Entrepreneurial Spirit of Disney Parks and Resorts; 7 Guest Engagement and Experience at Disney Parks and Resorts; Index.…”
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Contemporary radical film culture : networks, organisations and activists /

Table of Contents: “…Admin will make or break the rebellion: Building the Radical Film Network / Steve Presence -- Imagining change: A history of radical film in the USA / Chuck Kleinhans -- Feminist documentary: Distribution, exhibition and interactive platforms / Julia Lesage -- Video activism on the social web / Jens Eder and Chris Tedjasukmana -- TV interventions: Artists, activists and alternative media / Ieuan Franklin -- Interventions in practice and politics. …”
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Crafting the woman professional in the long nineteenth century artistry and industry in Britain /

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword / Linda Peterson -- Introduction -- Industrious amateurism -- Women's work : the history of the Victorian domestic handicraft / Talia Schaffer -- Light work : feminine leisure and the making of transparencies / John Plunkett -- Pertinacious industry : the keyboard étude and the female amateur in E ngland, 1804-20 / Elizabeth Morgan -- Dresses and drapery : female self-fashioning in muslin, 1800-50 / Alice Barnaby -- The artistic career -- Contrary to the habits of their sex? …”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Black women in sequence : re-inking comics, graphic novels, and anime / by Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Catwoman, blackness, and postracialism -- African goddesses, mixed-race wonders, and baadasssss women: black women as "signs" of Africa in US comics -- Anime dreams for African girls: Nadia: the secret of blue water -- Where I'm coming from: black female artists and postmodern comix -- Conclusion: Comic book divas and the making of sequential subjects.…”
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The city besieged siege and its manifestations in the ancient Near East / by Ephʻal, Israel

Table of Contents: “…Ch 1 Introduction -- What is siege warfare -- Purpose of the book and method of discussion -- Ch 2 Sources -- Literary sources -- Non-literary documents -- Artistic representations of siege warfare -- Archaeological evidence -- Ch 3 Military aspects -- Blockade -- Breakthrough -- Ch 4 Legal and economic aspects -- Introduction -- Babylonian siege documents -- Documents of siege and hardship from Emar -- Legal significance of the hardship formulae -- "Charitable deeds" -- Ch 5 Social aspects -- Between man and God -- Public life.…”
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When sex changed : birth control politics and literature between the world wars / by Craig, Layne Parish

Table of Contents: “…: the woman rebel in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland saga -- Six sons at Eton: birth control and the medical model in Joyce and Woolf -- That means children to me: the birth control review in Harlem -- Unbridled lust and calamitous error: religion, eugenics, and contraception in 1930s family sagas -- She takes good care that the matter will end there: the artist's douche bag in three guineas and if I forget thee, Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Birth control's narrative afterlives.…”
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Sovereign stories : aesthetics, autonomy, and contemporary Native American writing / by Kirwan, Padraig

Table of Contents: “…Who's afraid of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: nationalism and voice in Aurelia -- "Indigenous to the land, an immigrant to the culture": Sherman Alexie and the third space of sovereignty -- "All the talk and all the silence": literary aesthetics and cultural boundaries in David Treuer's Little -- Portrait of the artist: authority, autonomy and authorship in Louise Erdrich's Shadow tag -- Choctalking: the realities of fiction in Leanne Howe's Shell shaker -- "Not a chaotic wake, not an empty space": the future of art, life & criticism in the work of Craig Womack and Greg Sarris.…”
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Necessary Luxuries : Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770–1815 / by Erlin, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Wieland's Der goldne Spiegel -- Karl Philipp Moritz and the system of needs -- Products of the imagination: mining, luxury, and the Romantic artist in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Symbolic economies in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften -- Conclusion: Useful subjects?…”
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