Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries /

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The novel and the new ethics / by Hale, Dorothy J.

Table of Contents: “…The new ethics and contemporary fiction -- Henry James and the development of the novelistic aesthetics of alterity -- Zadie Smith's On beauty : an ethical aesthetic as the problem of perspectivalism -- J.M. …”
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Theory of the gimmick : aesthetic judgment and capitalist form / by Ngai, Sianne

Table of Contents: “…Theory of the gimmick -- Transparency and magic in the gimmick as technique -- Readymade ideas -- It follows, or financial imps -- Visceral abstractions -- Rødland's gimmick -- The color of value: Stan Douglas's Suspiria -- Henry James's "same secret principle"…”
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Theory of the gimmick : aesthetic judgment and capitalist form / by Ngai, Sianne

Table of Contents: “…Theory of the gimmick -- Transparency and magic in the gimmick as technique -- Readymade ideas -- It follows, or financial imps -- Visceral abstractions -- Rødland's gimmick -- The color of value: Stan Douglas's Suspiria -- Henry James's "same secret principle"…”
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Vote with a bullet : assassination in American fiction / by Pöhlmann, Sascha

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Individual and Society -- Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1886) -- Jack London, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (1910/63) -- Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946) -- Philip K. …”
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Transnationalism in practice : essays on American studies, literature and religion / by Giles, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Matthiessen : comparative criticism and the rhetoric of violence (2001, revised 2009) -- Henry James Athwart : deterritorialization in The sacred fount (2003) -- "The magnet attracting" : Dreiser's literary style (2004) -- The literary culture of colonial America : theology and aesthetics (2005) -- The abjection of American literature : Jamaica Kincaid and the ghosts of postcolonialism (2009) -- [pt.] …”
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In a prominent bar in Secaucus : new and selected poems, 1955-2007 / by Kennedy, X. J.

Table of Contents: “…Cunningham -- On being accused of wit -- Emily Dickinson leaves a message to the world now that her homestead in Amherst has an answering machine -- The withdrawn gift -- On the square -- Dump -- Summer children -- Tableau intime -- Finis -- Black velvet art -- "The purpose of time is to prevent everything from happening at once" -- Jimmy Harlow -- Naomi Trimmer -- Five-and-dime, late thirties -- Sailors with the clap -- For Allen Ginsberg -- Thebes: in the robber village -- Close call -- Street moths -- Décor -- The ballad of Fenimore Woolson and Henry James -- A scandal in the suburbs -- To his lover, that she be not overdressed -- The blessing of the bikes -- Sharing the score -- A curse on a thief -- Pie -- Shriveled meditation -- Meditation in the bedroom of General Francisco Franco -- Maples in January -- September Twelfth, 2001 -- Panic in the carwash -- At Paestum -- Rites -- Small house torn down to build a larger -- Uncertain burial -- Innocent times -- Epiphany -- Furnished rental -- Brotherhood -- Death of a window washer -- Pacifier -- Geometry -- Silent cell phones -- Fireflies -- Mrs. …”
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