The world of Elizabeth Inchbald : essays on literature, culture, and theatre in the long eighteenth century / edited by Daniel J. Ennis, E. Joe Johnson.

Table of Contents: “…"That Unnatural Mixture": Nostalgia and Anxiety in Late Restoration Tragicomedy / Cynthia J. Lowenthal -- 9. Speculum Mundi: Caricature and the Stage / Heather McPherson -- 10. …”
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George Cukor : Hollywood master / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer.

Table of Contents: “…Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance -- 1. Cukor's tragicomedies of marriage : Dinner at Eight, No More Ladies, The Women, and The Marrying Kind / Maureen Turim -- 2. …”
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The productions of time : a study of the human imagination / Michael Dolzani. by Dolzani, Michael, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The forge of language -- The ironic cycle and the clarification of vision -- The recreation of evolution : hunting cultures -- The recreation of evolution : gathering and planting cultures -- The mythology of urban civilization and empire -- The progressive vision of the Bible : the trickster God -- The progressive vision of the Bible : letter and spirit -- The progressive vision of the Bible : typology -- The progressive vision in classical mythology -- The middle ages and Renaissance : romantic and spiritual heroes -- Shakespearean tragicomedy or romance -- Summary and prelude : the historical Nexus of romanticism -- In the white giant's thigh : romantic and anti-romantic -- Prometheus Agonistes : German idealism and Marxism -- Romantic internalization -- The novel : the realistic horizontal -- The historical novel and science fiction -- The novel as epic -- The lyric as epic -- Part 4. …”
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A companion to the war film / edited by Douglas A. Cunningham and John C. Nelson.

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A trauma artist : Tim O'Brien and the fiction of Vietnam / Mark A. Heberle. by Heberle, Mark A.

Table of Contents: “…Vietnam as Figure and Symptom: "We've All Been There" : A Trauma Artist ; The Fiction of Vietnam -- Fabricating Trauma : "The Vietnam in Me" ; O'Brien's Endless War ; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Vietnam ; PTSD and Writing ; O'Brien's Art of Trauma ; Writing Beyond Vietnam -- A Bad War : Origins of If I Die in a Combat Zone ; Fictionalized Testimony ; O'Brien's Self-Representation: Soldier Versus Writer ; Moral Combat ; Combat Zone as Source for a Career -- The Old Man and the Pond : Self-Displacement in Northern Lights ; Literary Mimicry: Realism, Symbolism, Allegory ; Harvey's Story: Vietnam as Tragicomedy ; Paul's Story: The Feminization of Virtue ; Novel Revisions -- A Soldier's Dream : The Re-covering of Trauma: Paul Berlin as Tim O'Brien ; Cacciato: From Short Stories to Trauma Narrative ; "Going After Cacciato": from Catalog to Breakdown ; Paul Berlin: From Breakdown to Trauma Writing ; The Quest for Cacciato: Fantasy and the Burial of the Dead ; The Observation Post: Retraumatization and Endless Fantasy -- The Bombs Are Real : An Ambitious Failure? …”
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A companion to Plautus / edited by George Fredric Franko and Dorota Dutsch.

Table of Contents: “…Plotting the Romance: Plautus' Rudens, Cistellaria, and Poenulus Stavros Frangoulidis / 14. Tragicomedy and Paratragedy. Plautusʼs Amphitruo, Captivi, and Rudens Walter Stockert / 15. …”
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The Berlin-Baghdad express : the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power / Sean McMeekin. by McMeekin, Sean, 1974-

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Altogether elsewhere : writers on exile / edited by Marc Robinson.

The seagull / a Laluchien production ; a Mar-Key Pictures production ; an Artina Films production ; a Michael Mayer film ; produced by Jay Franke, David Herro ; produced by Robert Salerno ; produced by Tom Hulce and Leslie Urdang ; screenplay by Stephen Karam ; directed by Michael Mayer.

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Critical practice from Voltaire to Foucault, Eagleton and beyond : contested perspectives / by John E. O'Brien. by O'Brien, John E.

Table of Contents: “…; Critical Perspective at the Margin; Battle Against Fanaticism; Encyclopedic Demystifications; Dangers of a Progressive Position; Intellectual Acumen; The Enlightenment Quagmire; Banished Realism; The Danger of Being Earnest; Assertively Modern; More Than Just Digging Up Dirt; Best of all Possible Worlds: Not Lisbon; Critical Value of the Systematically Absent; Creative Value of Negativity; Theater of Opposition; Candide as Tragicomedy; Revolutionary Praxis with a Hoe; Biography Trumping History?…”
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Jiří Kylián's Car Men and other ballets / directed by Boris Pavel Conen and Hans Hulscher ; composed by Han Otten, Georges Bizet and Claude Debussy ; conducted by Bernard Haitink ; choreographed by Jiří Kylián ; performed by Gioconda Barbuto, David Krügel, Karel Hruška, Sabine Kupferberg, Eric McCullough, Nils Christe, Karen Tims, Jeanne Solan, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT I). by Otten, Han

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Routledge handbook of the study of the commons / edited by Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom and Dan Cole.

Table of Contents: “…Strandburg -- Commons storytelling : tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies / Brigham Daniels -- Common-pool resource appropriation and conservation : lessons from experimental economics / James Walker, Esther Blanco -- Humanistic rational choice : understanding the fundamental motivations that drive self-organization and cooperation in commons dilemmas / Dan DeCaro -- The US public lands as commons / Bruce Huber -- Water commons : a critical appreciation and revisionist view / Eduardo Araral, Maitreyee Mukherjee, Faye Victoria Sit Ying Qi, Serik Orazgaliyev -- Commons analysis and ocean fisheries / Bonnie McCay Merritt -- Coastal commons as social-ecological systems / Achim Schlüter, Stefan Partelow, Luz Elba Torres-Guevara; Tim C. …”
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Reader in comedy : an anthology of theory and criticism / [edited by] Magda Romanska and Alan Ackerman.

Table of Contents: “…Sir Philip Sidney, "Comedy," "Tragicomedy," The Nature of Laughter" from The Defence of Poesie (1595) -- 9. …”

A new companion to Renaissance drama / edited by Arthur F. Kinney, Thomas Warren Hopper.

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The book of seventy / Alicia Suskin Ostriker. by Ostriker, Alicia

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Shakespeare and the uses of comedy / J.A. Bryant, Jr. by Bryant, J. A. (Joseph Allen), 1919-1999

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Under a coloured cap : Sean O'Casey, his life and work / Green Crow Productions.

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Washington Square / Henry James. by James, Henry, 1843-1916

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Thomas Middleton : the collected works / general editors, Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino ; associate general editors, MacDonald P. Jackson, John Jowett, Valerie Wayne, and Adrian Weiss. by Middleton, Thomas, -1627

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