W.E.B. Du Bois, American prophet by Blum, Edward J.

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Adam Usk's secret by Justice, Steven, 1957-

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Framing the environmental humanities

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The art of confession : the performance of self from Robert Lowell to reality TV by Grobe, Christopher

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Raising Your Kids Right : Children's Literature and American Political Conservatism. by Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-

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The American H.D. by Debo, Annette, 1964-

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The burdens of perfection : on ethics and reading in nineteenth-century British literature by Miller, Andrew H., 1964-

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Literature and understanding : the value of a close reading of literary texts by Phelan, J. W.

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Producing Indonesia : the State of the Field of Indonesian Studies

Table of Contents: “…Cohn and Jolanda Pandin -- Indonesian among Indonesia's Languages / Joseph Errington -- Constructing a New Grammar of Indonesian: From Expectation to Reality / Bambang Kaswanti Purwo -- Indonesian Literatures and Literary Criticism / Tineke Hellwig -- Government, Political Science. -- Introduction: State of Indonesian Political Studies / Thomas B. …”
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Comparative Hungarian cultural studies

Table of Contents: “…Contemporary Hungarian Literary Criticism and the Memory of the Socialist PastThe Absurd as a Form of Realism in Hungarian Literature; On the German and English Versions of Márai's A gyertyák csonkig égnek (Die Glut and Embers); Exile, Homeland, and Milieu in the Oral Lore of Carpatho-Rusyn Jews; Part Three: Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies and the Other Arts; Nation, Gender, and Race in the Ragtime Culture of Millennial Budapest; Jewish (Over)tones in Viennese and Budapest Operetta; Curtiz, Hungarian Cinema, and Hollywood; Lost Dreams and Sacred Visions in the Art of Ámos.…”
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Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems : a reading of the fragments in light of the researches of new classical archaeology by Almeida, Joseph A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Chapter I Solon: Historical Sources and Scholarship: What We Do and Do Not Know -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Solon in the Athenaion Politeia and Plutarch's Life of Solon -- Section 2: The Contours of Modern Scholarship on Solon -- Chronology -- Hectemorage: Land, Society, and Economy -- Popular Citizenship -- Summation -- Chapter II Literary Criticism of Solon's Political Poems after Jaeger -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Werner Jaeger on the ""Elegy on the Polis:"" A Natural Law of Justice.…”
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Body Language in Literature. by Korte, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- PRELIMINARY NOTE -- PART I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Rationale and Purpose -- Chapter 2: Body Language in Literature and the Arts: Past and Present Research -- PART II: A Critical Framework for the Analysis of Body Language in (Narrative) Literature -- Chapter 3: Categories of Body Language -- 3.1 'Body Language' and 'Non-verbal Communication': A Definition of Terms -- 3.2 The Modal and Functional Classification of Non-verbal Communication -- Chapter 4: Body Language in the Narrative Text: A Literary-Critical Perspective -- 4.1 Textual Status and Semiotic Quality -- 4.2 The Presentation of Body Language in the Narrative Text -- 4.3 Literary Functions and Effects of Body Language in the Narrative Text -- 4.4 Artistic Concepts of Body Language -- 4.5 Specifics of Genre and Author -- 4.6 Body Language in George Eliot's Adam Bede and Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart -- 4.7 A Catalogue of Questions for the Analysis of Body Language in the Narrative Text -- PART III: Body Language in the English Novel: Trends in Historical Development -- Chapter 5: Body Language and the Aesthetic of the Novel -- 5.1 Body Language in Prose Fiction before Richardson -- 5.2 Body Language in the Novel since Richardson -- 5.3 The Attention to Detail -- 5.4 Dramatization -- 5.5 Authentication -- 5.6 Indication of Mental States -- 5.7 Indication of Interpersonal Relationships -- 5.8 Body Language in the Structure of Narrative Transmission -- 5.9 Body Language in the Twentieth-Century Novel -- Chapter 6: Literary Body Language in Context -- 6.1 Changes of Body Language in Real Life -- 6.2 Body Language Theories -- 6.3 The Context of Other Literary Genres and Art Forms -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.…”
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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : a Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom by Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)

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Breaking the Rule of Cool : Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers. by Grace, Nancy McCampbell

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Breaking the Rule of Cool : Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers. by Grace, Nancy McCampbell

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Ways of being male : representing masculinities in children's literature and film

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A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture. by Tucker, Herbert F.

Table of Contents: “…Coda: The Threat and Promise of Scientific History28: Literary Criticism; Criticism of the Literature of the Past; Theories of Poetry and Fiction; Gender, and the Woman Critic; Aesthetic; Conclusion; Part Five: Borders; 29: Permeable Protections: The Working Life of Victorian Skin; Permeable Membranes; Second Skins; Sunshine; 30: On the Parapets of Privacy; I; II; III; IV; V; 31: "Then on the Shore of this Wide World": The Victorian Nation and its Others; 32: On the Neo-Victorian, Now and Then; Index of Works Cited; General Subject Index.…”
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Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

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The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism & American literary modernism by Levin, Jonathan, 1960-

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Word and music studies : essays on performativity and on surveying the field

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The Routledge handbook of music signification

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Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines : journeys through the Elizabethan underground by Kendall, Roy, 1943-

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Discourse. by Goddard, Angela

Table of Contents: “…Speeches and ContextsAristotle's Rhetorical Categories and Structures; The Power of Language Choices; A Practical Example; Modern Rhetorical Studies; 7 Discourse and Interactivity; Aims of This Chapter; 'Little D' Discourse and 'Big D' Discourses; Interactivity and Spoken Language; Interactivity and Written Language; Interactivity and New Forms of Communication; 8 Discourse and Narrative; Aims of This Chapter; The Centrality of Narrative; Telling a Story; William Labov's 'Natural Narratives'; Literary Criticism, Formalism and Stylistics; Critical Linguistics; Life-Writing.…”
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Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : a Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom by Barber, C. L. (Cesar Lombardi)

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Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen by Miller, Christopher R., 1968-

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Victorian literature and the Victorian state : character and governance in a liberal society by Goodlad, Lauren M. E.

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Democritus : science, the arts, and the care of the soul : proceedings of the International Colloquium on Democritus, Paris, 18-20 September 2003

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The Laghukatha : a historical and literary analysis of a modern Hindi prose genre by Sarma, Ira Valeria, 1967-

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Surprise : the poetics of the unexpected from Milton to Austen by Miller, Christopher R., 1968-

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press and the networks of modernism

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Narrative ethics by Newton, Adam Zachary

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Christopher Marlowe and Richard Baines : journeys through the Elizabethan underground by Kendall, Roy, 1943-

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Edward Said : a legacy of emancipation and representation

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Popular music, gender, and postmodernism : anger is an energy by Nehring, Neil, 1957-

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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability by Hall, Alice

Table of Contents: “…Black speculative fiction: an overview -- Approaches to analyzing disability in black speculative fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 3 t4t: Toward a crip ethics of trans literary criticism -- Reading disability/transgender -- Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones -- t4t -- Works cited -- 4 Challenging phonocentrism: Writing signs and bilingual Deaf literatures -- "The hearing line" in literature -- Phonocentric norms and the disconstruction of sign language -- Breaking English: reclaiming and remaking literature -- Vexing the print page…”
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The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe.

Table of Contents: “…Wells in Russian Literary Criticism, 1890s-1940s -- 5 Future Perfect: H. …”
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Tolkien studies. Volume V

Table of Contents: “…""Book Reviews""""The Children of Húrin""; ""Works Cited""; ""Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets""; ""Works Cited""; ""The Evolution of Tolkienâ€s Mythology""; ""The Frodo Franchise""; ""The History of The Hobbit""; ""Hither Shore""; ""Inside Language""; ""Work Cited""; ""Roots and Branches""; ""Works Cited""; ""Tolkien and Modernity 1 & 2""; ""Works Cited""; ""Tolkien and Shakespeare""; ""Tree of Tales""; ""Book Notes""; ""The Yearâ€s Work in Tolkien Studies 2005""; ""Works by Tolkien""; ""General Works, Biography, and Reference""; ""General Literary Criticism""…”
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Joshua 24 as poetic narrative. by Koopmans, William T.

Table of Contents: “…1.7.5 Limitations of archaeology at Shechem1.7.6 Summary; 1.8 Textual criticism of Josh. 24:1-28; 2 An Analysis of Previous Research in Josh. 24:1-28; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Textual criticism of Josh. 24:1-28; 2.3 Literary-critical diversity and consensus; 2.3.1 An Elohist source; 2.3.2 An Elohist and a Yahwist source; 2.3.3 A Yahwist source; 2.3.4 A Dtic or Dtistic composition; 2.3.5 Ancient tradition with later redaction; 2.3.6 Authorship contemporaneous with or relatively soon after the events described; 2.3.7 Inadequacy of the literary-critical approaches.…”
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Black writing, culture, and the state in Latin America

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Violence : 'mercurial gestalt'

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