New Orleans jazz & heritage festival.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs : new perspectives on production, reception, legacy /

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The literary life of Cairo : one hundred years in the heart of the city /

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History without borders : the making of an Asian world region (1000-1800) / by Gunn, Geoffrey C.

Table of Contents: “…"Long Orient-first" Periodization (From Song to the Opium Wars) --…”
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Love lessons selected poems of Alda Merini / by Merini, Alda, 1931-2009

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The literary life of Cairo : one hundred years in the heart of the city /

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Romance fiction and American culture : love as the practice of freedom? /

Table of Contents: “…Love prevailed despite what American history said : agape and eros in Beverly Jenkins's Night song and Through the storm /…”

The teddy bear chronicles / by Xi, Xi

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Classic old-time music from Smithsonian Folkways.

Table of Contents: “…Sugar hill (The Iron Mountain String Band) (3:36) --…”
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Writing Europe : what is European about the literatures of Europe? : essays from 33 European countries /

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Simple versions of disaster / by Bradley, Jerry, 1948-

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The origins of Israel, 1882-1948 : a documentary history /

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Beyond oneness and difference : Li and coherence in Chinese Buddhist thought and its antecedents / by Ziporyn, Brook, 1964-

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Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel : Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin / by Benson, Josef, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…An Ironic Contention: The Heroic Failure of the Kid in Blood Meridian -- A Hero by Default: John Grady Cole as Hypermasculine Heroic Failure in All the Pretty Horses -- Black Masculinities and Cultural Incest in Song of Solomon -- Staggerlee in the Closet: Rufus Scott as Failed Ironic Hero in Another Country.…”

A new literary history of modern China /

Table of Contents: “…Hei Ying'S "Pagan Love Song" --…”
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Ventures into childland : Victorians, fairy tales, and femininity / by Knoepflmacher, U. C.

Table of Contents: “…Entering childhood : the double perspectives of generation and sex -- Resisting growth : Ruskin's The king of the golden river -- Growing up ironic : Thackeray's The rose and the ring -- Mixing levity and the grave : MacDonald's "The light princess" -- Expanding Alice : from Underground to Wonderland -- Shrinking Alice : from Wonderland to Looking-glass land -- Erasing borders : MacDonald's At the back of the north wind -- Sundering women from boys : Ingelow's Mopsa the fairy -- Razing male preserves : from "Goblin market" to Sing-Song -- Avenging Alice : from Sing-Song to Speaking likenesses -- Repairing female authority : Ewing's "Amelia and the dwarfs".…”

Hypermasculinities in the contemporary novel : Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin / by Benson, Josef, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…1. An Ironic Contention: The Heroic Failure of the Kid in Blood Meridian -- The Origins of American Frontier Hypermasculinities -- Hypermasculinities on the Frontier -- The Judge as Narrative Force -- Images of Dead Children -- Christian Imagery -- The Kid as Ironic Hero -- Notes -- 2.A Hero by Default: John Grady Cole as Hypermasculine Heroic Failure in All the Pretty Horses -- Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses -- Cowboy Hypermasculinities -- The Tenuousness of Identities Based on Myth -- An America with No Room for a Cowboy -- Mexican Context -- Homosexuality -- Failed Heroism -- Notes -- 3. …”
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From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic / by Bachvarova, Mary R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Hurro-Hittite narrative song at Hattusa -- Gilgamesh at Hattusa: written texts and oral traditions -- The Hurro-Hittite ritual context of Gilgamesh at Hattusa -- The plot of the Song of release -- The place of the Song of release in its eastern Mediterranean context -- The function and prehistory of the Song of release -- Sargon the Great: from history to myth -- Long-distance interactions: theory, practice, and myth -- Festivals: a milieu for cultural contact -- The context of epic in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece -- Cyprus as a source of Syro-Anatolian epic in the Early Iron Age -- Cultural contact in Late Bronze Age western Anatolia -- Continuity of memory at Troy and in Anatolia -- The history of the Homeric tradition -- The layers of Anatolian influence in the Iliad.…”
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T.S. Eliot / by MacCabe, Colin

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Adventures of a ballad hunter / by Lomax, John A. 1867-1948

Table of Contents: “…Boyhood in Bosque -- College -- Hunting cowboy songs -- Twenty years interim -- American ballads and folk songs -- Penitentiary negroes -- Iron head and Clear Rock -- Alabama red land -- Burials, baptizings and a penitentiary sermon -- Chanteys, ballads, work songs and calls -- Some interesting people -- Melodies and memories.…”
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