Dante in Deutschland : An Itinerary of Romantic Myth. by DiMassa, Daniel

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No requiem for the space age : the Apollo moon landings and American culture by Tribbe, Matthew D.

Table of Contents: “…The Thunder of Apollo: A Benevolent Endeavor in a Century of Brutality -- Part Three: On Rationalism and Neo-Romanticism -- 5. Turning a Miracle into a Bummer: Squareland, Potland, and the Psychedelic Moon -- 6. …”
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Stars and stardom in French cinema by Vincendeau, Ginette, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The French star system -- Max Linder : the world's first film star -- Jean Gabin : from working-class hero to godfather -- Brigitte Bardot : the old and the new : what Bardot meant to 1950s France -- Jeanne Moreau and the actresses of the new wave : new wave, new stars -- Louis de Funès : le gendarme et les cinéphiles -- Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon : one smiles, the other doesn't -- Catherine Deneuve : from ice maiden to living divinity -- Gérard Depardieu : the axiom of contemporary French cinema -- Juliette Binoche : the face of neo-romanticism.…”
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Ballads. by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

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Ted Hughes : Alternative Horizons.

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Foreword -- 1 The Deterministic Ghost in the Machine of Birthday Letters -- Words to "Patch the Havoc:" The Imagination of Ted Hughes in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath -- 3 Complicated with Old Ghosts: The Assia Poems -- 4 "Dead Farms, Dead Leaves:" Culture as Nature in Remains of Elmet & Elmet -- 5 Ted Hughes's Crying Horizons: "Wind" & the Poetics of Sublimity -- Beyond the horizon of language -- Within the poem's horizon -- 6 Poetry & Magic -- Afterword -- 7 Self-Revelation, Self-Concealment & the Making of the Ted Hughes Archive -- 8 Drives & their Vicissitudes in the Poetry of Ted Hughes -- 9 Hughes & the Female Addressee -- 10 Ted Hughes's Anti-Mythic Method -- 11 In Search of the Autobiography of Ted Hughes -- 12 "Earth-Moon:" Ted Hughes's Books for Children (& Adults) -- 13 Ted Hughes & the Folk Tale -- Neo-Romanticism -- A national legend, the legend of nationality-Hughes on poet, myths and nation -- Folk tales, myths and legends -- List of Contributors -- Works Cited -- Abbreviations -- Index of Names and Titles.…”
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Music in Germany since 1968 by Williams, Alastair

Table of Contents: “…Refusal of habitHuber; Spahlinger; Ferneyhough; Historical reflection; Neo-Romanticism; Zimmermann; Goldmann; Heightened perception: the younger generation; Mahnkopf; Mundry; Saunders; Pintscher; Epilogue; Notes; Introduction; 1 Contexts and institutions; 2 Expanded horizons: established composers after 1968; 3 The refusal of habit: Helmut Lachenmann; 4 Music and signs: Wolfgang Rihm; 5 Contemporaries of Lachenmann and Rihm: the younger generation; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.…”
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