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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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The gothic vision three centuries of horror, terror and fear / by Cavallaro, Dani

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction vii -- The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear 1 -- Part 1: Darkness -- Introduction 21 -- 1 Dark Places 27 -- 2 Dark Times 38 -- 3 Dark Psyches 48 --Part 2: Haunting -- Introduction 61 -- 4 The Rhetoric of Haunting 65 -- 5 Spectral Forms 75 -- 6 Haunting Settings 85 --Part 3: Narrative and the Self -- Introduction 97 -- 7 Words and Visions 103 -- 8 Textual Identities 113 -- 9 Storytelling as Therapy 123 --Part 4: Child and Adult -- Introduction 135 -- 10 Families 141 -- 11 The Abandoned Child 150 -- 12 Childhood and Otherness 160 --Part 5: Monstrosity -- Introduction 171 -- 13 Vampires 179 -- 14 Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 190 -- 15 The Abject 199 -- Epilogue 207.…”
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Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Ghost wolf -- I, Bruno -- Jeremy and the enchanted theater -- Jeremy and the fantastic flying machine -- Jeremy and the golden fleece -- Jeremy in the underworld -- Kelly's cabin -- Marsh island -- Maybe later -- Monster lunch -- A noodle up your nose -- Out and about with the big tree gang -- Over the rainbow with Googol and Googolplex -- The papere wagon -- A puppy is for loving -- The raspberry room -- Rhyme stones -- Sam and Nate -- Sea dog -- Sharing Snowy -- Theodora Bear -- Timberwolf challenge -- Timberwolf chase -- Timberwolf hunt -- Timberwolf revenge -- Timberwolf tracks -- Timberwolf trap -- The true story of George -- Under the sea with Googol and Googolplex -- What a hippopota-mess!…”
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Orca echoes resource guide / by Van Tol, Alex, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…-- Ghost wolf -- I, Bruno -- Jeremy and the enchanted theater -- Jeremy and the fantastic flying machine -- Jeremy and the golden fleece -- Jeremy in the underworld -- Kelly's cabin -- Marsh island -- Maybe later -- Monster lunch -- A noodle up your nose -- Out and about with the big tree gang -- Over the rainbow with Googol and Googolplex -- The papere wagon -- A puppy is for loving -- The raspberry room -- Rhyme stones -- Sam and Nate -- Sea dog -- Sharing Snowy -- Theodora Bear -- Timberwolf challenge -- Timberwolf chase -- Timberwolf hunt -- Timberwolf revenge -- Timberwolf tracks -- Timberwolf trap -- The true story of George -- Under the sea with Googol and Googolplex -- What a hippopota-mess!…”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Hinton's The outsiders -- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline -- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war -- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions -- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street -- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster -- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running -- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son -- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon -- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.…”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Hinton's The outsiders -- Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline -- Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war -- Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions -- 1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street -- South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster -- Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running -- Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son -- Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon -- Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.…”
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The uncollected Baudrillard by Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007

Table of Contents: “…Ironic Aesthetic Disorders -- Barbara Kruger -- Olivier Mosset: The Object that is None -- Enrico Baj, or Monstrosity Laid Bare by Paint Itself -- The Transparency of Kitsch: A Conversation with Enrico Baj -- Index.…”
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The uncollected Baudrillard by Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007

Table of Contents: “…Ironic Aesthetic Disorders -- Barbara Kruger -- Olivier Mosset: The Object that is None -- Enrico Baj, or Monstrosity Laid Bare by Paint Itself -- The Transparency of Kitsch: A Conversation with Enrico Baj -- Index.…”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Sex, Lies, and YouTube / Kay S. Hymowitz -- Monster Mashup: How Our Culture's Heroes and Villains Have Traded Places / Tony Woodlief -- Chick Lit and the Master-Slave Dialectic / Meghan Cox Gurdon -- Lonely Hearts Online: Why I'm Glad I Didn't Meet My Husband on Match.com / Megan Basham -- In My Humble Opinion: Why Americans Still Need Advice Columnists / Margo Howard -- All the President's Friends: The Challenge of Loyalty in Politics / Pia Catton -- Smells Like Teen Spirit. …”
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Henry VIII and history

Table of Contents: “…Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII / Glen Richardson -- Drama king: the portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A man for all seasons / Ruth Ahnert -- "Anne taught him how to be cruel": Henry VIII in modern historical fiction / Megan Hickerson -- Booby, baby or classical monster? Henry VIII in the writings of G.R. Elton and J.J. …”
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Acculturated

Table of Contents: “…Sex, Lies, and YouTube / Kay S. Hymowitz -- Monster Mashup: How Our Culture's Heroes and Villains Have Traded Places / Tony Woodlief -- Chick Lit and the Master-Slave Dialectic / Meghan Cox Gurdon -- Lonely Hearts Online: Why I'm Glad I Didn't Meet My Husband on Match.com / Megan Basham -- In My Humble Opinion: Why Americans Still Need Advice Columnists / Margo Howard -- All the President's Friends: The Challenge of Loyalty in Politics / Pia Catton -- Smells Like Teen Spirit. …”
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Henry VIII and history

Table of Contents: “…Maxwell Anderson's Henry VIII / Glen Richardson -- Drama king: the portrayal of Henry VIII in Robert Bolt's A man for all seasons / Ruth Ahnert -- "Anne taught him how to be cruel": Henry VIII in modern historical fiction / Megan Hickerson -- Booby, baby or classical monster? Henry VIII in the writings of G.R. Elton and J.J. …”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Reception -- Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation / Harry O. Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Reception -- Nero in Jewish and Christian Tradition from the First Century to the Reformation / Harry O. Maier -- Haec monstra edidit : Translating Lucan in the early seventeenth century / Yanick Maes -- Haunted by Horror : The Ghost of Seneca in Renaissance Drama / Susanna Braund -- "Fantasies so varied and bizarre" : The Domus Aurea, the Renaissance, and the "grotesque" / Michael Squire -- Epilogue -- Nachwort: Nero from Zero to Hero / Miriam Griffin.…”
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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / by Bell, Shannon Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…: Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety -- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters -- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland -- You gotta go and do everything you can--fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections -- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter -- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky -- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks -- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school -- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain -- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal -- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! …”
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Our roots run deep as ironweed : Appalachian women and the fight for environmental justice / by Bell, Shannon Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…: Maria Gunnoe's fight for her children's health and safety -- We became two determined women : Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller become the sylvester dustbusters -- Let us live in our mountains : Joan Linville's fight for her homeland -- You gotta go and do everything you can--fight for your kids : Donetta Blankenship speaks out against underground slurry injections -- It's just a part of who I am : Maria Lambert and the movement for clean water in Prenter -- I'm not an activist against coal, I'm an activist for the preservation of my state : Teri Blanton and the fight for justice in Kentucky -- I'm not going to be run out, I'm not going to be run over, I'm not going out without a fight : Patty Sebok's battle against monster coal trucks -- Our roots run so deep, you can't distinguish us from the earth we live on : Debbie Jarrell and the campaign to move Marsh Fork elementary school -- It's not just what I choose to do, it's also, I think, what I have to do : Lorelei Scarboro's drive to save coal river mountain -- Money cannot recreate what nature gives you : Donna Branham's struggle against mountaintop removal -- I want my great-great-grandchildren to be able to live on this earth! …”
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Order in Disorder : Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / by Runyon, Randolph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text.…”
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Order in Disorder : Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne’s “Essais” / by Runyon, Randolph, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : marginal symmetry -- Of means and ends: I: 1 and I: 57 -- The less said: I: 1 and I: 56 -- Something to hide: I: 3 and I: 55 -- Frivolous and vain: I: 4 and I: 54 -- In or out: I: 5 and I: 53 -- Trouble back home: I: 6 and I: 52 -- Words, in effect: I: 7 and I: 51 -- Of idleness and horses: I: 8 and I: 50 -- Lying, after a fashion: I: 9 and I: 49 -- Excess baggage: I: 10 and I: 48 -- Enough already: I: 11 and I: 47 -- Anagrams: I: 12 and I: 46 -- A waiting game: I: 13 and I: 45 -- More than one port in a storm: I: 14 and I: 44 -- Custom and princely grandeur: I: 15 and I: 43 -- Judging Julian judging: I: 16 and I: 42 -- Glory, given and taken: I: 17 and I: 41 -- Empty signs: I: 18 and I: 40 -- Prolonging life: I: 19 and I: 39 -- Unmasking masks: I: 20 and I: 38 -- Powers of attraction: I: 21 and I: 37 -- Complementarities and buried allusions: I: 22 and I: 36 -- Here and there: I: 23 and I: 35 -- How to paint a dog: I: 24 and I: 34 -- Well-nourished daughters: I: 25 and I: 33 -- God's wrath and the weather: I: 26 and I: 32 -- Things to come: I: 27 and I: 31 -- Of immoderation: I: 28 and I: 30 -- Sorting out the pieces: II: 1 and II: 37 -- Slipping it in: II: 2 and II: 36 -- Suicide is painless: II: 3 and II: 35 -- Caesar the procrastinator: II: 4 and II: 34 -- Suffering innocence: II: 5 and II: 33 -- Parallel deaths: II: 6 and II: 32 -- Rewards and punishments: II: 7 and II: 31 -- Hidden monsters: II: 8 and II: 30 -- Only when you need it: II: 9 and II: 29 -- Act your age: II: 10 and II: 28 -- Doubly cruel: II: 11 and II: 27 -- Opposable thumbs: II: 12 and II: 26 -- Eyes wide shut: II: 13 and II: 25 -- Equivalent equivalents: II: 14 and II: 24 -- Civil war vs. civil war: II: 15 and II: 23 -- Spreading the news: II: 16 and II: 22 -- Spitting images: II: 17 and II: 21 -- Consubstantial consubstantiality: II: 18 and II: 20 -- Distant harmonies: III: 1 and III: 13 -- Distant theft: III: 2 and III: 12 -- Intercourse with the lame: III: 3 and III: 11 -- The little things: III: 4 and III: 10 -- Sexual vanity, vain sex: III: 5 and III: 9 -- Borrowed wealth: III: 5 and III: 8 -- Journey to the center of the book: I: 29, II: 19, and III: 7 -- Epilogue: the playful text.…”
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Loyola's greater narrative the architecture of the spiritual exercises in golden age and Enlightenment literature / by Conrod, Frédéric

Table of Contents: “…Baroque orders of corruption -- The spiritual exercises, or the formation of mental territories and orders of corruption -- Totalitarian structures and orders of corruption -- The formation of an image reservoir -- Imitatio Christi and baroque inversions -- Ego vobis romae propitius ero : diffusion of the spiritual exercises in Rome (1550-1650) -- The first mission of new apostle -- an image reservoir in the multiple-layer urban fabric -- Corresponding dynamics -- Roman churches after the spiritual exercises -- The mother church of Il Gesù and Sant Andrea al Quirinale -- The Roma ignaziana -- Transformation of the visual dynamics of the spiritual exercises in the late works of Miguel de Cervantes -- Cervantes, corruption, the urban and the company -- Don Quixote, an excessive projection in a greater narrative -- Last pilgrimage : Cervantes representation of Rome in Persiles -- Transforming the orders of corruption in El criticón : the case of Baltasar Gracián, a Jesuit preparing the way for the Enlightenment -- Pre-Enlightenment coming out of the exercises -- The exercise of decoding monstrosity -- Contemplating eternal arts beyond the Roma ignaziana -- The enigmatic parallel writing of El comulgatorio -- From Loyolan imagination to Sadean Enlightenment : the parodying inversions of the spiritual exercises in the novels of the Marquis de Sade -- Philosophical criticism of Loyolan system in Enlightenment -- Sadean inversions -- Collecting the tableaux in the cent vingt journées -- Melting down the concept of spiritual directors -- Forcing the exercitant in desiring the opposite -- Revisiting the Roma ignaziana in Juliette.…”
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Loyola's greater narrative the architecture of the spiritual exercises in golden age and Enlightenment literature / by Conrod, Frédéric

Table of Contents: “…Baroque orders of corruption -- The spiritual exercises, or the formation of mental territories and orders of corruption -- Totalitarian structures and orders of corruption -- The formation of an image reservoir -- Imitatio Christi and baroque inversions -- Ego vobis romae propitius ero : diffusion of the spiritual exercises in Rome (1550-1650) -- The first mission of new apostle -- an image reservoir in the multiple-layer urban fabric -- Corresponding dynamics -- Roman churches after the spiritual exercises -- The mother church of Il Gesù and Sant Andrea al Quirinale -- The Roma ignaziana -- Transformation of the visual dynamics of the spiritual exercises in the late works of Miguel de Cervantes -- Cervantes, corruption, the urban and the company -- Don Quixote, an excessive projection in a greater narrative -- Last pilgrimage : Cervantes representation of Rome in Persiles -- Transforming the orders of corruption in El criticón : the case of Baltasar Gracián, a Jesuit preparing the way for the Enlightenment -- Pre-Enlightenment coming out of the exercises -- The exercise of decoding monstrosity -- Contemplating eternal arts beyond the Roma ignaziana -- The enigmatic parallel writing of El comulgatorio -- From Loyolan imagination to Sadean Enlightenment : the parodying inversions of the spiritual exercises in the novels of the Marquis de Sade -- Philosophical criticism of Loyolan system in Enlightenment -- Sadean inversions -- Collecting the tableaux in the cent vingt journées -- Melting down the concept of spiritual directors -- Forcing the exercitant in desiring the opposite -- Revisiting the Roma ignaziana in Juliette.…”
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