Russian village prose the radiant past / by Parthé, Kathleen, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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A natural history of pragmatism : the fact of feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein / by Richardson, Joan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…In Jonathan Edwards's room of the idea -- Emerson's moving pictures -- William James's feeling of if -- Henry James's more than rational distortion -- Wallace Stevens's radiant and productive atmosphere -- Gertrude Stein, James's melancthon/a.…”

Vagrant writing : social and semiotic disorders in the English renaissance / by Taylor, Barry, JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…Mortality and the Utility of Courtship: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier; 6. The Radiant and the Reflective: Courtly Authority and Crisis in Jonson's Masques and Cynthia's Revels; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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History matters : contemporary poetry on the margins of American culture / by Sadoff, Ira

Table of Contents: “…On the margins: verse poems -- On the margins: prose poems -- Mixed messages: hearing voices -- Form: neoformalism revisited -- History matters: a minority report -- Louise Glück: the death of romanticism -- Trafficking in the radiant: the spiritualizing of American poetry -- Czesław Miłosz: the late style -- Strategic fictions: the mobile architecture of Frank O'Hara's poetry -- C.K. …”

Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment : philosophical perspectives / by Oxford Scholarship Online

Table of Contents: “…Hagberg -- Love, suffering, and gratitude for existence : moral and existential emotions in Crime and punishment / Rick Anthony Furtak -- Crime and expression : Dostoevsky on the nature of agency / Robert Guay -- Metaphysical motivation : Crime and punishment in the light of Schelling / Sebastian Gardner -- The family in Crime and punishment : realism and utopia / Susanne Fusso -- Raskolnikov beyond good and evil / Randall Havas -- Bakhtin's radiant polyphonic novel, Raskolnikov's perverse dialogic world / Caryl Emerson.…”
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The Writer's Way in France / by Cohn, Robert Greer

Table of Contents: “…I. Poetry of Light and Radiant Darkness --…”
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Patterns of epiphany : from Wordsworth to Tolstoy, Pater, and Barrett Browning / by Bidney, Martin, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : how epiphanies are made -- A pilgrim's dream of apocalypse : radiant geometry in Wordsworthian epiphanies -- Fitful motions, fragil forms : elemental conflict in Coleridge -- Duplicitous welcomers : water-fire epiphanies in Arnold -- Love and liminality in Tennyson : the aweful dawn-rose and the wheel -- Beauty and pain in Pater : the red-yellow fire flower, the dying white bird -- Epiphanies from Odin to Teufelsdrockh : Carlylean heroism and the gospel of fire -- Water, movement, roundness : epiphanies and history in Tolstoy's War and peace -- Turning stones to fire : the apocalypse according to Barrett Browning -- Conclusion : fifteen theses.…”
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Dystopian fiction east and west : universe of terror and trial / by Gottlieb, Erika

Table of Contents: “…The answers of utopia, tragedy, and dystopia -- Nineteenth-century precursors of the dystopian vision -- The dictator behind the mask : Zamiatin's We, Huxley's Brave new world, and Orwell's Nineteenth eighty-four -- Dictatorship without a mask : Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut's Player piano, and Atwood's The handmaid's tale -- The writer on trial: socialist realism and the exile of speculative fiction -- The dystopia of revolutionary justice : Serge's Conquered city, Zazubrin's "The chip," and Rodionov's Chocolate -- The legalization of Terror: Platonov's The foundation pit, Ribakov's Children of the Arbat, and Koestler's Darkness at noon -- Tertz Sinyavski's The trial begins, and Daniel's This is Moscow speaking -- Collective paranoia: the persecutor and the persecuted Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek -- Kafka's ghost: The trial as theatre : Klima's The castle, Karvas's The big wig, and Havel''s Memorandum -- From terror to entropy : the downward spiral: Konwicki's A minor apocalypse, Déry's Mr G.A. in X and Zinoviev's The radiant future -- Speculative fiction returns from exile : Dystopian vision with a sneer: Voinovich's Moscow 2042, Aksyonov's The island of Crimea, Dalos's 1985, and Moldova's Hitler in Hungary -- Dystopia East and West : conclusion.…”

Babel and Babylon : spectatorship in American silent film / by Hansen, Miriam, 1949-2011, ACLS Humanities Ebook

Table of Contents: “…s Intolerance (1916)""; ""4 Reception, Textual System, and Self-Definition""; ""5 “A Radiant Crazy-Quiltâ€?: Patterns of Narration and Address""; ""6 Genesis, Causes, Concepts of History""…”
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Murales, figuras, fronteras : narrativa e historia en el Caribe y Centroamérica /

Table of Contents: “…Historia y memoria de la figura literaria : Una línea indecisa de Ricardo Gil Otaiza / Carmen Ruiz Barrionuevo -- Fabricando a la faber (sobre Antonio Benítez Rojo y su Mujer en traje de batalla) / Patrick Collard -- ... el cobre puro de la cabellera radiante : Del amor y otros demonios / Jacques Joset -- Sobre el testimonio y la literatura / Dante Llano -- El "entre-lugar" genérico : el cruce de la novela histórica y el relato detectivesco en Castigo divino de Sergio Ramírez / Magdalena Perkowska-Alvarez -- Historias menudas "El cerro maravilla," crónica de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá / María Julia Daroqui -- La imagen histórica en José Lezama Lima / René Vázquez Díaz.…”

The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250 : a literary history / by Mallette, Karla

Table of Contents: “…/ Al-Atrabanishi -- "Pass round the golden carnelian-red [wine]" / Al-Buthayri and Ibn Bashrun -- "The radiant moon has been extinguished" / Abu al-Dawʼ -- "He sought solace" / Abu Hafs -- Introduction to al-Idrisi's Geography -- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr -- The daughter of Ibn ʻAbbad and Frederick II -- Henricus Aristippis's preface to his translation of Plato's Phaedo, ca. 1156 -- Preface to a translation of Ptolemy's Almagest / by an unknown translator, ca. 1160 -- On the death of William and the arrival of the Germans / Hugo Falcandus -- Lament on the death of William II / Peter of Eboli -- Hunting with birds / Frederick II -- Frederick II and Lucera -- Innocent IV excommunicates Frederick -- The destruction of Lucera -- Introduction to the Book of Sydrac -- "Maravigliosamente" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Armor non vole" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Or come pote sí gran donna intrare" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "A l'aire claro ò vista ploggia dare" / Giacomo da Lentini -- "Dolze meo drudo" / Frederick II -- "Sei anni ò travagliato" / Mazzeo di Ricco -- "Già mai non mi conforto" / Rinaldo d'Aquino -- "Ancor che l'aigua per lo foco lassi" / Guido delle Colonne -- "Oi lassa 'namorata" / Anonymous.…”
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