In plain sight : nineteenth-century American women's poetry and the problem of literary history / by Socarides, Alexandra

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In plain sight nineteenth-century American women's poetry and the problem of literary history / by Socarides, Alexandra

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First sightings : contemporary stories of American youth /

Table of Contents: “…Gaines -- Too much his father's son / Genaro Gonzales -- Rose-Johnny / Barbara Kingsolver -- The little knife / Michael Chabon -- The kind of light that shines on Texas / Reginald McKnight -- The conversion of the Jews / Philip Roth -- Over the hill / Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- A girl's story / Toni Cade Bambara -- My mothers's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann -- Wunderkind / Carson McCullers.…”


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The sense of sight : writings / by Berger, John

Table of Contents: “…Leaving home: The storyteller -- On the edge of a foreign city -- The eaters and the eaten -- Dürer: a portrait of the artist -- One night in Strasbourg -- On the banks of the Sava -- Four postcard poems -- On the Bosphorus -- Manhattan -- The theatre of indifference. …”

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Building sights.

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Senses of sight : towards a multisensorial approach of the image : essays in honor of Victor I. Stoichita

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- At face value : Domenico Ghirlandaio's "An old man with his grandson" as a portrait of the Florentine merchant Francesco Sassetti / Michael Diers -- Leonardo's dark eye / Frank Fehrenbach -- Weaving the face of Christ : on the textile origins of the Christian image / Tristan Weddigen -- Death at a second glance : a unique motif in Pontormo's Certosa del Galluzzo passion cycle / Sergiusz Michalski -- Defence mechanisms of cities and paintings : Giorgio di Giovanni and the war of Siena / Tomoo Matsubara -- Subject to mood swings : Michelangelo, Titian and Adrian Willaert on creativity / Ulrich Pfisterer -- "Musica depicta" : the silent sound of painting / Klaus Krüger -- Ariosto, Elsheimer, Galilei and the moon / Corrado Bologna -- Ribera's Peter and Paul : one, maybe two notes on blindness / Felipe Pereda -- The actor's gaze : apropos of Giuseppe Grisoni's "Portrait of Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington" / Thierry Lenain -- Lumi rubricati : lights, rubricated for Victor Stoichita / Carlo Ossola -- Brâncuşi : the memory of infinity / Lucia Corrain.…”
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Senses of sight : towards a multisensorial approach of the image : essays in honor of Victor I. Stoichita

Table of Contents: “…Campbell -- At face value : Domenico Ghirlandaio's "An old man with his grandson" as a portrait of the Florentine merchant Francesco Sassetti / Michael Diers -- Leonardo's dark eye / Frank Fehrenbach -- Weaving the face of Christ : on the textile origins of the Christian image / Tristan Weddigen -- Death at a second glance : a unique motif in Pontormo's Certosa del Galluzzo passion cycle / Sergiusz Michalski -- Defence mechanisms of cities and paintings : Giorgio di Giovanni and the war of Siena / Tomoo Matsubara -- Subject to mood swings : Michelangelo, Titian and Adrian Willaert on creativity / Ulrich Pfisterer -- "Musica depicta" : the silent sound of painting / Klaus Krüger -- Ariosto, Elsheimer, Galilei and the moon / Corrado Bologna -- Ribera's Peter and Paul : one, maybe two notes on blindness / Felipe Pereda -- The actor's gaze : apropos of Giuseppe Grisoni's "Portrait of Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington" / Thierry Lenain -- Lumi rubricati : lights, rubricated for Victor Stoichita / Carlo Ossola -- Brâncuşi : the memory of infinity / Lucia Corrain.…”
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Sight lines / by Croce, Arlene

Table of Contents: “…Astaire -- Signs and portents -- The waves -- Americans from abroad -- A Balanchine triptych -- Mark Morris comes to town -- Midnight -- Closed circuits -- Schubertiad and Sinatraspiel -- Tharp against Tharp -- Visualizations -- Three elders -- Slouching toward Byzantium -- The regions in Brooklyn -- The search for "Cinderella" -- Love-song waltzes -- Life studies -- Guest in the house -- Bad smells -- "Giselle, ou La fille des bayous" -- Strangers in the night -- Championship form -- Experiments -- Cheers for Kyra Nichols -- An American in Paris -- Getting it all together -- The America of choreographers -- Modern love -- "Romeo revived -- Bournonvilleana -- The fire this time -- Singular sensations -- Opus posthumous -- Institutions -- Hard facts -- The dreamer of the dream -- In town and out -- Nureyev and Baryshnikov : Paris and New York -- Spanish from Spain -- Choreographer of the year -- Postmodern ballets -- Celebrations: Edward Villella ; Le mystère Baryshnikov ; Edwin Denby.…”


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In plain sight. Episode 1

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Out of Sight The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness /

Table of Contents: “…Lunatic Asylum (2:43) -- Patients' Rights and the Homeless (2:27) -- Visit to an Asylum (1:00) -- Lunacy and Nothingness (2:49) -- Kinds of Madness (2:00) -- Bedlam (1:22) -- Large Populations of Asylums (1:49) -- Reforms in France (1:31) -- Archaic Treatment Methods (3:45) -- Practical Reforms (1:46) -- Medical Profession: Monopoly on Care of Insane (2:13) -- Moral Treatment of the Insane (2:05) -- America open to new ideas (4:01) -- Asylum as Sovereign Remedy (3:03) -- Inmates as Victims (2:04) -- Experimentation on the Insane (2:53) -- Cranial Invasion (3:08) -- Selective Breeding (3:15) -- Shameful Conditions of Mental Patients (3:19) -- Unknown and Invisible Inmates (2:00) -- Organic Medicine for the Insane (2:13) -- Humane Confinement (1:50) -- Mentally Ill and Homelessness (1:25) -- Credits: Out of Sight: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness (1:25)…”
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Out of Sight : The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness /

Table of Contents: “…Lunatic Asylum (2:43) -- Patients' Rights and the Homeless (2:27) -- Visit to an Asylum (1:00) -- Lunacy and Nothingness (2:49) -- Kinds of Madness (2:00) -- Bedlam (1:22) -- Large Populations of Asylums (1:49) -- Reforms in France (1:31) -- Archaic Treatment Methods (3:45) -- Practical Reforms (1:46) -- Medical Profession: Monopoly on Care of Insane (2:13) -- Moral Treatment of the Insane (2:05) -- America open to new ideas (4:01) -- Asylum as Sovereign Remedy (3:03) -- Inmates as Victims (2:04) -- Experimentation on the Insane (2:53) -- Cranial Invasion (3:08) -- Selective Breeding (3:15) -- Shameful Conditions of Mental Patients (3:19) -- Unknown and Invisible Inmates (2:00) -- Organic Medicine for the Insane (2:13) -- Humane Confinement (1:50) -- Mentally Ill and Homelessness (1:25) -- Credits: Out of Sight: The Rise and Fall of the Asylum-Madness (1:25)…”
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Beyond sight : engaging the senses in Iberian literatures and cultures, 1200-1750 /

Table of Contents: “…1.The Breath of Lazarus in the Mocedades de Rodrigo; 2.Sabrosa olor: The Role of Olfaction and Smells in Berceo's Milagros de Nuestra Señora; Part Two: Cognition and the Senses; 3 The Internal Senses in Don Quixote and the Anatomy of Memory; 4 Taste, Cognition, and Redemption in Guzmán de Alfarache; 5 The Aesthetics of Disgust in Miguel de Cervantes and María de Zayas; Part Three: Perception; 6 Sight, Sound, Scent, and Sense: Reading the Cancionero de Palacio.…”
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Sights on the sixties /

Table of Contents: “…Gioglio -- Lagacies of the 1960s : new rights and new lefts / Barbara Ehrenreich.…”


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False sight / by Krokos, Dan

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Out of sight the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895 / by Abbott, Lynn, 1946-

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Second sight : the visionary imagination in late Victorian literature / by Maxwell, Catherine, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…9780719071447; 9780719071447; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; A note on the texts; Introduction; 1 'An aching pulse of melodies': Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poetic magnetism; 2 Walter Pater's 'strange veil of sight'; 3 Of Venus, vagueness, and vision: Vernon Lee, Eugene Lee-Hamilton, and 'the spell of the fragment'; 4 Theodore Watts-Dunton's Aylwin and the reduplications of Romanticism; 5 Thomas Hardy's poetry: 'the intenser stare of the mind'; Index.…”
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Second sight : stories for a new millennium /

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Mind sights : original visual illusions, ambiguities, and other anomalies, with a commentary on the play of mind in perception and art / by Shepard, Roger N.

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Sight lines / by Sze, Arthur

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In sight of America : photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy / by Pegler-Gordon, Anna, 1968-

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