Macbeth. by Owens, Rebekah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Shakespeare's Macbeth -- Polanski and Horror: Rosemary's Baby -- Violence in Macbeth -- The Presentation of the Supernatural -- Polanskis Macbeth as Social Commentary -- Macbeth and Horror Cinema.…”
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Early Spanish American narrative / by Lindstrom, Naomi, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and background : the framework of this study ; Research into Native American writing systems and narrative -- Narrative accounts of the encounter and conquest -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : literary life in the Colonies -- The struggle for nationhood and the rise of fiction -- The mid-nineteenth century : romanticism, realism, and nationalism -- Late-nineteenth-century narratives of social commentary and national self-reflection -- Naturalism and modernismo -- Conclusion : then and now.…”
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Children of the yellow kid : the evolution of the American comic strip / by Harvey, Robert C.

Table of Contents: “…Harvey -- Origin of a new species -- Fine-tuning the form and widening the focus -- Continuity: soap opera and adventure and the advent of the illustrator -- Of infinite jest: a gag-a-day -- Comics with a conscience: satire and social commentary -- Comics as "Ding an Sich:" a note on means and media / Richard V. …”

Social Dimensions in the Novels of Barbara Pym, 1949-1963 : the Writer as Hidden Observer. by Raz, Orna

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Raz; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; "Out of Touch with Life": Representation of the Post-War Church; "Daring and Romish": Anglo-Catholicism in the Novels; "An Unselfish and Tireless Worker": Women and the Church; "Going up to Oxford": Women's Higher Education; "Clearly Labelled": Women's Roles; "Dreary Cosiness": Domestic Life; "One of Those": Ambiguous Treatment of Male Sexuality; "The Sympathy of Other Women": Personal Friendship between Women; "Change is a Bad Thing": On Pym's Social Commentary; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Common lines and city spaces : a critical anthology of Arthur Yap /

Table of Contents: “…Common lines and city spaces / Gui Weihsin -- The transformation of objects into things in Arthur Yap's poetry / Gui Weihsin -- The same tableau, intrinsically still, Arthur Yap, poet-painter / Boey Kim Cheng -- Go to bedok, you bodoh, Arthur Yap's mapping of Singaporean space / Angus Whitehead -- On places and spaces, the possibilities of teaching Arthur Yap / Eddie Tay -- Arthur Yap's ecological poetics of the daily / Zhou Xiaojing -- Except for a word, Arthur Yap's unspoken homoeroticism / Cyril Wong -- A long way from what? Folkways and social commentary in Arthur Yap's short stories / Angus Whitehead and Joel Gwynne.…”
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Mark Twain, the world, and me : Following the equator, then and now / by Harris, Susan K., 1945-

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Notional identities : ideology, genre and national identity in popular Scottish fiction since the seventies / by Christie, Thomas A.

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Understanding Alice Adams / by Mangum, Bryant, 1943-

Hip-hop in Africa : prophets of the city and dustyfoot philosophers / by Clark, Msia Kibona

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Abolishing White masculinity from Mark Twain to hiphop : crises in whiteness / by Rose, Stephany, 1978-

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Humour and politics in Africa : beyond resistance / by Hammett, Daniel, Martin, Laura, S., Nwankwọ E., Izuu

Table of Contents: “…Humour as coping and (political) self-reflexivity -- Humour as meaning-making and social commentary -- Humour in taboo-breaking and awareness-raising roles -- THREE Beyond the Symbolic -- No laughing matter: humour and/as violence -- Ambiguities in the power of humour -- Stripping power? …”
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Rude citizenship : Jamaican popular music, copyright, and the reverberations of colonial power / by Mann, Larisa Kingston

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Spike Lee / by McGowan, Todd

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Henri-Georges Clouzot / by Lloyd, Christopher, 1953-

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Befriending the commedia dell'arte of Flaminio Scala : the comic scenarios / by Schmitt, Natalie Crohn

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In a rugged land : Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon towns collaboration, 1953-1954 / by Swensen, James R.

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The works of Alain Locke / by Locke, Alain, 1885-1954

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Rock, counterculture and the avant-garde, 1966/1970 : how the Beatles, Frank Zappa and the Velvet Underground defined an era / by Greene, Doyle, 1962-

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Clint Eastwood and issues of American masculinity / by Cornell, Drucilla

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How we understand the Beats : the reception of the Beat generation in the United States and the Czech lands / by Zita, Antonín

Table of Contents: “…4.1 The Beat Generation as a Subculture in the Public Image4.2 The Beat Generation as Enabling Social Commentary; 4.3 The Depravity of William S. Burroughs; 4.4 The Criticism of Academia; 4.5 The Changing Landscape of American Poetry; 5 THE RECEPTION IN THE UNITED STATES: CURRENT RECEPTION; 5.1 Popular Culture and the Mythology of the Beats; 5.2 Obituaries; 5.3 The Beat Generation and Contemporary Academia; 5.4 Critiquing the Beats; 6 CZECHOSLOVAKIA OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES: AN INTRODUCTION; 6.1 Art and Socialist Realism; 6.2 Changing the Tide…”
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