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The Meaning of Art

Rabindranath Tagore.Aesthetics / Philosophy of art

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Body Ritual among the Nacirema

Horace MinerAnthropology / Satire

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Coming of Age in Samoa

Margaret MeadAnthropology / Cultural criticism

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Najib Mahfuz's Midaq Alley: A Socio-Cultural Analysis

Marius DeebLiterary Criticism / Postcolonial studies

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The Economy of the Feminine in Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Las medias rojas

Bonnie L. GasiorFeminist literary criticism

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On Flags and Fraternities: Lessons on Cultural Memory and Historical Amnesia in Charles Chesnutt's "Po' Sandy

Margaret D. BauerCultural studies

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Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto

Jackie OrrFeminist theory / Technology

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Decoration and Decorum, Adolf Loos's Critique of Kitsch

Miriam GusevichArchitecture / Aesthetic theory

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Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the "Rite of Spring

Daniel K. L. Chua.Music history / Modernism

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The Function of Stephen's Speech (Acts 7,2-53)

John J. KilgallenBiblical studies / Theology

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An Analysis of Seneca's Thyestes

Joe Park PoeClassical tragedy (Roman)

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Theme, Plot, and Technique in the "Heracles" of Euripides

D. J. ConacherClassical tragedy (Greek)

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The Argument of Hesiod's Works and Days

Frederick J. TeggartClassical literature / Didactic poetry

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Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime

Suzanne GuerlacAesthetics / Rhetoric

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Gorgias' Encomium to Helen and the Defense of Rhetoric

John PoulakosClassical philosophy / Rhetoric

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The Influence of Machado de Assis on John Barth's "The Floating Opera

Earl E. FitzComparative literature

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Japanese perceptions of "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Pauline KentCultural studies / Anthropology

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Karl Polanyi and the Writing of "The Great Transformation

Fred BlockEconomic history / Political economy

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The Failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the Panic of 2023

Andrew MetrickEconomics / Financial history

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The Road to Serfdom after 75 Years

Bruce CaldwellPolitical economy / Liberalism vs. collectivism

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Expenditures, Savings, and Income

Dorothy S. BradyEconomics / Macroeconomics

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Reading and Misreading "The Man of Mode

R. D. HumeRestoration comedy / Literary criticism

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Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Audre LordeFeminist / Identity studies

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The Implications of the Warnock Report for the Education of the Maladjusted

Peter H. PriestleyEducation policy / Ethics

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Considering the Nature of Wilderness: Reflections on Roderick Nash's "Wilderness and the American Mind

Bryan McDonaldEnvironmental studies / Cultural history

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Feminist Criticism in The Wilderness

Elaine ShowalterFeminist criticism / Literary theory

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Subjects of Terror: The Ethical Impulse in Alicia Gaspar de Alba's "Desert Blood

Lorna PérezContemporary feminist / postcolonial literature

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futuristic technologies and purdah in the feminist utopia: Rokeya S. Hossain's 'Sultana's dream

Debali Mookerjea-LeonardFeminist science fiction

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A Leaf In The Storm

Lalithambika AntharjanamFeminist psychology / Literature

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The Laugh of the Medusa

Hélène Cixous, Keith Cohen and Paula CohenFeminist literary theory

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“Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles

Chandra Talpade MohantyFeminist / postcolonial critique

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A Study of Two Cebuano Legends: The Lost Lender and Maria Cacao

Erlinda Kintanar AlburoFolklore studies

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Real Women Have Skins: The Enchanted Bride Tale in Her Body and Other Parties

Jessica CampbellFolklore / Feminist criticism

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Femi Osofisan's "Women of Owu": Paraphrase in Performance

Kacke GötrickPostcolonial rewriting of Greek tragedy

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The Jurisprudence of Equality: The Women's Minimum Wage, the First Equal Rights Amendment, and Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 1905-1923

Joan G. ZimmermanLaw / Gender studies

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Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy

Marge PiercyGender studies / Cultural criticism

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Analyzing "Araby" as Story and Discourse: A Summary of the MURGE Project

Rick Barney et al.Modernist literature / Narrative theory

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German Unification in the Context of European History

Hagen SchulzeEuropean history / Modern politics

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Politics, Ideology and the Onset of the Cold War, 1947

Geoffrey RobertsCold War history

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The Origins of the Thirty Years' War

Myron P. GutmannEarly modern European history

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The London Conference on the Application of the Dawes Plan

George A. FinchInterwar history / Economic policy

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Historians and the Vietnam War: The Conflict Over Interpretations Continues

George W. HopkinsHistoriography / Modern war

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The Industrial Revolution in Japan

Count OkumaEconomic history / Japan

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The Sugar Revolution

B. W. Higman.Colonial / Economic history

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The Iranian Revolution

Ali Muhammad BhatModern middle Eastern history

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The Great Awakening: An Historical Analysis

Robert D. RosselReligious history / America

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The Historiography of Hitler's Rise to Power

J. S. ConwayHistoriography / Nazi Germany

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Balboa

Sabina MurrayExploration / Colonial history

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On the Rebellion of 1857: A Brief History of an Idea

Peter RobbColonial / South Asian history

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The Failure of the Ionian Revolt

Donald LateinerAncient history / Greece-Persia

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Rewriting the Chicano Movement: New Histories of Mexican American Activism in the Civil Rights Era

Mario T. García and Ellen McCrackenCivil rights history / Latinx studies

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The Historical Context of Thucydides' Funeral Oration

A. B. BosworthClassical history / Greece

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Rizal and Poltergeists in Dapitan

Jose S. ArcillaPhilippine history / Cultural studies

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the legal status of women in the early republic 1776-1848

Linda K. KerberAmerican history / Gender studies

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The Everyday Lives of Parisian Women and the October Days of 1789

David GarriochFrench history / Gender

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From Bitter Memories to Heritage-Making? The Jabidah Massacre and the Mindanao Garden of Peace

Rommel A. CuramingPhilippine history / Memory studies

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Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason Revisited

Franklyn K. ProchaskaPolitical philosophy / Enlightenment

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The Scholastic Foundations of Emilio Jacinto’s Liwanag at Dilim (Light and Darkness), c. 1896

Johaina K. CrisostomoPhilippine history / Political thought

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The Monroe Doctrine: Meanings and Implications

Mark T. GilderhusAmerican Foreign Policy

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Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition

Thomas JeffersonAmerican literature / Politics

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Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

George D. GopenAmerican history / Political speech

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The Black Jacobins Reader

Charles Forsdick and Christian HøgsbjergCaribbean / Revolutionary history

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Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development

B.R. AmbedkarIndian history / Social justice

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The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials

Edward PetersMedieval history / Crusades

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The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy

Julia GaffieldCaribbean / Political history

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The Rule of Love: Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy

Reva B. SiegelGender history / Law

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Reagan’s Strategy for the Cold War and the Evil Empire Address

Robert C. Rowland and John M. JonesCold War history / U.S. politics

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Money and Politics in America, 1755-1775: A Study in the Currency Act of 1764 and the Political Economy of Revolution

Joseph Albert ErnstColonial America / Economic history

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The Long Telegram: An Act of Political Leadership

Robert C. TuckerCold War history

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American Indian Removal beyond the Removal Act

John P. BowesNative American history / U.S. policy

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The Role of Dialect Representation in Speaking from the Margins: “The Lesson” of Toni Cade Bambara

Katy M. WrightLiterary criticism / Language

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Phonemic Patterning in Keats's "Ode on Melancholy

Ann LozanoPoetry / Linguistics

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William Faulkner's “Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature”: A Language for Ameliorating Atomic Anxiety

Mark LaVoieModern American literature / Speech

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Criticism, Ideology, Raymond Williams and Terry Eagleton

J. R. HarveyLiterary theory / Marxism

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Wordsworth's "Lucy" Poems: Context and Meaning

Spencer HallRomantic poetry / Literary analysis

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The Garden

Andrew MarvellMetaphysical poetry

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Two Tramps in Mud Time and the Critics

Laurence PerrineModern poetry

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Marina

T.S. EliotModernist poetry

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Abortions Will Not Let You Forget: A Close Reading of Gwendolyn Brooks's "The Mother

R. C. EvansContemporary poetry / Feminist criticism

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Afterwards

Thomas HardyLyric poetry

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A Passage to India

Walt WhitmanAmerican poetry / Literary analysis

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The Merchant

Arnold WeskerModern drama / Shakespeare rewriting

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The Subjection of Women

John Stuart MillFeminist theory / Philosophy

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Kant's Rhetoric of Enlightenment

Michael ClarkePhilosophy / Enlightenment

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I and Thou

Martin BuberPhilosophy / Theology

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The Absurd

Thomas NagelPhilosophy / Existentialism

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Kant's Thory of Morals

Bruce AunePhilosophy / Ethics

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Alan Mathison TuringPhilosophy of mind / AI

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The Cloud

Percy Bysshe ShelleyRomantic poetry / Philosophy

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The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allan PoeLiterary theory / Poetics

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Ion

PlatoAncient philosophy / Literary criticism

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Francis Bacon's Essay of Beauty

A. Philip McMahonRenaissance philosophy / Essay

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Montaigne and the Cannibals: Toward a Redefinition of Exoticism

Roger Celestin.Renaissance philosophy / Anthropology

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The Underlying Structure of the Divinity School Address

Carol JohnstonAmerican philosophy / Transcendentalism

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel FoucaultModern philosophy / Foucault

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The Power of Television Images: The First Kennedy-Nixon Debate Revisited

James N. DruckmanMedia studies / Political communication

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The US National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends" 2040

National Intelligence CouncilFutures studies / Politics

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Asch Conformity Studies: Conformity to the Experimenter and/or to the Group?

Gary I. SchulmanSocial psychology

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Doing Gender

Candace West and Don H. ZimmermanGender studies / Sociology

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Talented Tenth

W.E.B. Du BoisAfrican American studies / History

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle AlexanderContemporary social criticism / Race

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Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

Clifford GeertzAnthropology / Symbolic studies

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The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought

Patricia Hill CollinsFeminist theory / Sociology

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The Weight of Glory

C. S. LewisTheology / Literature

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