High-tech trash : glitch, noise, and aesthetic failure / by Kane, Carolyn L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Welcome to the failure age" -- Colors of error : from Plato to digital signal processing -- Avant-garde glitch : red noise, purple haze, black box -- Color as signal/noise -- Visual noise in the new photography -- Chroma glitch : data as style -- The X-ray sublime -- Landscape as data : from the classical to the consumer-mathematical -- Postscript : miraculous plastic's retrograde sublime.…”
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Between remembrance and repair : commemorating racial violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi / by Whitlinger, Claire

Table of Contents: “…A Philadelphia (Mississippi) story: remembering in black and white -- From countermemory to collective memory -- Prosecuting Edgar Ray Killen -- Legislating civil and human rights education -- Commissioning truth and reconciliation -- The transformative capacity of commemorating racial violence: comparing the 1989 and 2004 commemorations -- Commemorating racial violence as intergroup contact -- Commemoration is a constant struggle -- Fifty years forward.…”
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American furniture designers : 1900-2020 / by Fitzgerald, Oscar P.

Table of Contents: “…Mid-century modern : 1940 through the 1970s -- George Nelson -- Charles and Ray Eames -- Florence Knoll -- Edward J Wormley -- Russel Wright -- Paul Evans -- IV. …”
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Ecopoetics : essays in the field /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Ecopoetics as expanded critical practice / Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne -- Making art "under these apo-calypso rays": crisis, apocalypse, and contemporary ecopoetics / Lynn Keller -- The idiot stone: George Oppen's geological imagination, or, objectivist realism as ecopoetics / Rob Halpern -- Visceral ecopoetics in Charles Olson and Michael McClure: proprioception, biology, and the writing body / Jonathan Skinner -- Playing in the planetary field: vulnerability and syncretic myth-making in Robert Duncan's ecopoetics / Michelle Niemann -- "Beyond the vomiting dark": toward a Black hydropoetics / Joshua Bennett -- Writing with the salamander: an ecopoetic community performance project / Petra Kuppers -- Toxic recognition: coloniality and ecocritical attention / Matt Hooley -- Toward an antiracist ecopoetics: waste and wasting In the poetry of Claudia Rankine / Angela Hume -- "Hung up in the flood": resilience, variability, and the poetry of Lorine Niedecker / Samia Rahimtoola -- Toward a conceptual ecopoetics / Joshua Schuster -- Hard day's nights in the anthropocene / Joan Retallack.…”
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Hollow Crown, The by Peel, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Twilight of the Amateur: 1945-52 -- Walter Hammond -- Norman Yardley -- Gubby Allen -- Kenneth Cranston -- George Mann -- Freddie Brown -- Nigel Howard -- Donald Carr -- The Victorious Fifties: Hutton and May in Charge -- Len Hutton -- David Sheppard -- Peter May -- The Age of Attrition: 1961-80 -- Ted Dexter -- Colin Cowdrey -- Mike Smith -- Brian Close -- Tom Graveney -- Ray Illingworth -- Tony Lewis -- Mike Denness -- John Edrich -- Tony Greig -- Mike Brearley -- Geoff Boycott…”
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Neo-Victorian humour : comic subversions and unlaughter in contemporary historical re-visions /

Table of Contents: “…5 Looking at Victorian Fashion: Not a Laughing Matter6 Neo-Victorian Feminist History and the Political Potential of Humour; 7 Good Vibrations: Hysteria, Female Orgasm, and Medical Humour in Neo-Victorianism; 8 "People keep giving me rings, but I think a small death ray might be more practical": Women and Mad Science in Steampunk Comics; Part 3: Humour and Postmodernism; 9 "Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!"…”
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The ink in the grooves : conversations on literature and rock 'n' roll /

Table of Contents: “…Dragging ancient ballads into the twentieth century, and what that can do to fragile young minds / Richard Thompson -- Two blue suedes / Laura Cantrell -- When we all get to Heaven / Randall Kenan -- English as a second language / Warren Zanes -- Cosmic ray / Peter Guralnick -- Ain't it always Stephen Stills / Lorrie Moore -- Black cowboys and Jimi Hendrix (interview) / Dom Flemons -- Anatomy of a Canned Heat hit: "Let's Work Together" by Wilbert Harrison / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- John Prine: The reluctant genius (interview) / Dave Jacques, Jason Wilbur, Fats Kaplin,and Pat McLaughlin -- The day the live concert returns / Dave Grohl -- Unknown band on a forgotten stage / Greil Marcus -- Right on time (interview) / Amy Helm…”
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Pop When the World Falls Apart : Music in the Shadow of Doubt /

Table of Contents: “…Vazquez -- Divided byline: how a student of Leslie Fiedler and a colleague of Charles Keil became the ghostwriter for everybody from Ray Charles to Cornel West / David Ritz -- Boring and horrifying whiteness: the rise and fall of reaganism as prefigured by the career arcs of Carpenters, Lawrence Welk, and the Beach Boys in 1973-74 / Tom smucker -- Perfect is dead: Theodor Adorno, Karen Carpenter, and the radio, or if hooks could kill / Eric Lott -- Agents of orange: Studio K and Cloud 9 / Karen Tongson -- Belliphonic sounds and indoctrinated ears: the dynamics of military listening in wartime Iraq / J. …”
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La pluralidad narrativa : escritores españoles contemporáneos (1984-2004) /

Table of Contents: “…Altisent -- Melodrama, laberinto y memoria en la novelística de Juana Salabert / Alvaro Romero Marco -- Belén Gopegui entre la búsqueda y la denuncia de la realidad / Biruté Ciplijauskaité -- Entre la ironía y el desencanto : la narrativa de Angela Vallvey / Luis García Jambrina -- En busca del secreto de la narrativa de Luisa Castro / Angeles Encinar -- El pasado no está muerto : la memoria histórica en la novela de guerra, El nombre de los nuestros Lorenzo Silva / Silvia Bermúdez -- La nostalgia del futuro : amnesia global y hábitos de consumo en Tokio ya no nos quiere de Ray Loriga / José F. Colmeiro -- Silencios que cuentan : la narrativa de Marcos Giralt Torrente / Kathleen M. …”
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New border voices : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…The rain parade / Paul Pedroza -- One pinto bean ; When I was younger ; Ancient houses / Ray Gonzalez -- Voyeurism, or, The third-party politician / Dalel Serda -- Ojos de dios : that's what I said / Tammy Melody Gomez -- Coyotes / Cooper Renner -- Invocation ; El amor prohibido el paso / Abigail Carl-Klassen -- Southbound / Genaro Gonzalez -- How to be la llorona for the city of Sullivan that has no sidewalks / Veronica Sandoval -- Escalera / Ben Roberts -- Ursular ; Calm licks the night / Joseph Daniel Haske -- Popeye was an American citizen and so am I / René Saldaña Jr. -- Border illusion ; Silence / Gene Keller -- The window / Brian Van Reet -- Serape ; Prospective titles for a border thesis / Rodney Gomez -- La huesera, or, Flesh to bone / Irene Lara Silva -- Ode por el amor imprevisto / John D. …”
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Men at play : masculinities in Australian theatre since the 1950s / by Bollen, Jonathan

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Best monologues from the best American short plays.

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