Shining through / Twentieth Century Fox ; produced by Howard Rosenman and Carol Baum ; written for the screen and directed by David Seltzer.

Community at Loose Ends. by Collective, Miami Theory

Table of Contents: “…""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Of Being-in-Common""; ""On the Limit""; ""Community and the Limits of Theory""; ""Communism, the Proper Name""; ""A l'insu (Unbeknownst)""; ""Communal Crisis""; ""Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community""; ""Community and Its Paradoxes: Richard Rorty's ""Liberal Utopia""""; ""Laclau's and Mouffe's Secret Agent""; ""On the Dialectics of Postdialectical Thinking Richard Terdiman""; ""Recalling a Community at Loose Ends""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""…”
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L'improbable espionne: Au service de la lutte anti-apartheid. by Kasrils, Ronnie

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Something completely different : British television and American culture / Jeffrey S. Miller. by Miller, Jeffrey S.

Table of Contents: “…Here not there: American imperialists and British invaders. -- Danger men: Secret agent and The prisoner. -- Mrs. Peel goes to Washington: The avengers. -- Down the up staircase: The Forsyte saga, Masterpiece theatre, and Upstairs, downstairs. -- (Naughty) bits of Limey eccentricity: That was the week that was and Monty Python's flying circus. -- All in the Anglo-American family: Hollywood reproductions of the originals. -- British television and American culture: something completely different?…”
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A political genealogy of Joseph Conrad / Richard Ruppel. by Ruppel, Richard J. (Richard Jeffrey), 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' (1897), Almayer's Folly (1895), and An Outcast of the Islands (1896) -- Lord Jim (1900) -- Heart of Darkness (1899-1900) -- Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (1904) -- "An Anarchist" (1906), "The Informer" (1906), and The Secret Agent (1907) -- A Personal Record (1912) and Under Western Eyes (1911) -- Chance (1912) -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.…”
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Essays on Conrad / Ian Watt. by Watt, Ian, 1917-1999

Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Frank Kermode -- Joseph Conrad: alienation and commitment -- Almayer's Folly: introduction -- Conrad criticism and The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Conrad's Heart of Darkness and the critics -- Comedy and humour in Typhoon -- Political and social background of The Secret Agent -- The Secret Sharer: introduction -- Conrad, James and Chance -- Story and idea in The Shadow-Line -- The decline of the decline: notes on Conrad's reputation -- Around Conrad's grave -- 'The Bridge over the River Kwai' as myth.…”
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Critical approaches to Joseph Conrad / edited by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer.

Table of Contents: “…The Writing and Rewriting of The Secret Agent / Andrew Glazzard; "The Secret Sharer": When the Other Is the Self / Anna Krauthammer; Sensationalized Stories of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism in Under Western Eyes / Jennifer Malia; Chance and Betrayal in Under Western Eyes / Robert McParland.…”
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The importance of being famous : behind the scenes of the celebrity-industrial complex / Maureen Orth. by Orth, Maureen

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : I love Laci : welcome to America's number one reality soap opera -- Part I : the DNA of fame -- Proud Tina : Tina Turner -- No way to treat a lady : Margaret Thatcher -- Part II : reinventions, second acts, grand finales -- The diva lets her hair down : Madonna -- The emperor's new clothes : Karl Lagerfeld -- Desperately striving Susan : Susan Gutfreund -- Cult favorite : Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington -- Part III : political theater -- The rich is different : Denise Rich and Pardongate -- Revolutionary war : Gerry Adams -- The secret agent : Vladimir Putin -- Quien es mas macho? …”

Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America / Jaime Harker. by Harker, Jaime

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Christopher and his readers -- Isherwood's American incarnation and the gay protest novel -- "Too queer to be Quaker" : gay protest and camp -- "Fagtrash" : pulp paperbacks and Cold War queer readers -- Sixties' literature and the ascension of camp middlebrow -- "A delicious purgatory" : sex and "salvation" -- Secret agents and gay identity : Cold War queerness -- Spiritual trash : Hindus, homos, and gay pulp -- Christopher Isherwood, gay liberation, and the question of style.…”
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Forgery and impersonation in imperial China : popular deceptions and the high Qing state / Mark McNicholas. by McNicholas, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: crimes, commoners, and the state -- Meng Guangzu: the Prince's tour and the struggle for the throne -- Secret agents: high tide and disappearance, 1723-1800 -- "En route to my post" and other tall tales: phony officials on the move -- Phony cops: the persistence of police impersonation -- Forgery: gaining trust in a land of documents and seals -- Bad proxies and bogus credentials: forgery and the purchase of official rank -- From politics to money: legal reckoning in the high Qing -- Conclusion.…”
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June Cleaver was a feminist! : reconsidering the female characters of early television / Cary O'Dell ; foreword by Yvonne Craig. by O'Dell, Cary, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Introduction: "I'll be your mirror" -- "Here, there and everywhere": the big picture -- "Mama said": television's wives and moms -- "She's a rebel": Lucy and her kind -- "Bewitched, bothered and bewildered": the rise of the "magi-com" and the women who dominated it -- "She works hard for the money": television's women at work -- "Sisters are doin' it for themselves": Single in the city -- "Femme fatale": television's secret agents and super heroines -- "Voices carry": a conclusion -- Appendix-the myths of a medium."…”

The black windmill / Universal presents ; a Siegel film ; a Zanuck/Brown production ; screenplay by Leigh Vance ; produced and directed by Don Siegel.

The school on Heart's Content Road / Carolyn Chute. by Chute, Carolyn

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Conrad, language, and narrative / Michael Greaney. by Greaney, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic dystopia: The Secret Agent. 9. 'Gossip tales, suspicions': language and paranoia in Under Western Eyes.…”
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The politics of equality : professionals, states and activists / guest editors, Shona Hunter and Elaine Swan.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; The politics of equality: professionals, states and activists; Change agents, double agents, secret agents: EEO in New Zealand; Oscillating politics and shifting agencies: equalities and diversity work and actor network theory; Touching the intangible? …”
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Conradian contracts : exchange and identity in the immigrant imagination / Tamás Juhász. by Juhász, Tamás, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Commerce and return in Almayer's folly -- "Trans-ports of love": exchange as practice and narrative -- Never keeping to oneself: a total social fact in "Typhoon" and "The secret sharer" -- Paternal discourse and contractual revision in Under western eyes -- "The duel": rules and reciprocities, or blows for sheer love -- A "supreme illusion": acts of recognition in The secret agent -- Trade, meaning and the prospects of self-transformation in Lord Jim -- The end of potlatching: gift and prestige in Nostromo -- Sympathy, generosity and the business of womanhood in Chance -- Conclusions and words after Conrad's.…”
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Conrad's shadow : catastrophe, mimesis, theory / Nidesh Lawtoo. by Lawtoo, Nidesh

Table of Contents: “…Metaphysics of tragedy -- Surrealist mimetism: fear of the dark in The nigger of the 'Narcissus' -- Rebirth of tragedy: Almayer's Folly to Apocalypse now -- Hypermimesis: horrorism redux in The secret agent -- Conclusion.…”
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The horse that leaps through clouds : a tale of espionage, the Silk Road and the rise of modern China / Eric Enno Tamm. by Tamm, Eric Enno

Table of Contents: “…Eurasia -- St. Petersburg: The Secret Agent -- Azerbaijan: The Nobels' Prize -- Turkmenistan: Fear and Loathing -- Uzbekistan: The Great Game Redux -- Kyrgyzstan: Travels on the Synthetic Road -- Western China -- Kashgar: Mission Impossible -- To Khotan: Oases and -- To dunhuang: Treasure Hunt -- Hexi Corridor: Barbarians Inside the Gate -- Lanzhou: The Chinese Renaissance -- Labrang: Stoned -- Northern China -- Xi'an: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics -- Henan: The Harmonious Countryside -- Taiyuan: Opium of the People -- Wutai Shan: The Wanderer -- Inner Mongolia: The Soot Road -- Beijing: Reawakening -- Epilogue: To the Finland Station.…”
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Joseph Conrad. by Hampson, Robert

Table of Contents: “…The Americas, Nationalism and Empire -- 7. Anarchists and Secret Agents -- 8. Betrayal and Breakdown -- 9. Poland Revisited -- 10. …”
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