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Feminist reconstructions of Christian doctrine : narrative analysis and appraisal by Greene-McCreight, Kathryn, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Feminist Theology and Biblical Narrative; 1 Narrative Interpretation and the Bible; 2 Feminist Hermeneutics, the Bible, and Patriarchy: Governing Doctrines; 3 Governing Doctrines, Extra-Narratival Claims, and Authentic Doctrine: Sin and Victimization; 4 Feminist Christologies; 5 Feminist Christology and Historical Reconstructions; 6 Feminist Trinitarian Reconstructions; Conclusion: Changing of the Gods?…”
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Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary. by Thompson, Anne B.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Note on transcription and translation -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Tales of the Saints -- Beginnings -- The legend of Saint Hilary -- Hagiography and its discontents -- The art of narrative and the influence of everyday life -- 2 Writing in English -- The poetry of popular instruction -- The Ormulum -- Cursor Mundi -- Handlyng Synne -- The South English Legendary -- PART TWO: THE ART OF NARRATIVE -- 3 Narrative Beginnings -- Narrative and repetition in the Ormulum -- Cursor Mundfs coherent biography -- The South English Legendary and the perils of originality -- 4 The Uses of Romance -- Romance as a generic influence -- Mary Magdalen and the prince of Marseille -- Isumbras and Eustace -- The Isumbras romance -- The Eustace legend -- 5 The Idea of a Collection -- Sources and authors -- The idea of a collection -- The triumph of narrative in All Souls -- The story of the buried miner -- PART THREE: THE INFLUENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE -- 6 Escaping the Virgin Martyr Plot -- Prides wide of Oxford -- Ordinary wives -- The legend of Julian the Hospitaller -- The legend of Clement -- 7 Conclusion -- Telling stories about the world -- A world of people -- The natural world -- Letting the tale speak -- Appendix: The South English Legendary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Official stories : politics and national narratives in Egypt and Algeria by Brand, Laurie A.

Table of Contents: “…Restor(y)ing the state : national narratives and regime resilience -- Egypt under Nasser : the evolution of revolution -- Egypt under Sadat and Mubarak : rescripting revolution, redefining legitimacy -- Algeria from the liberation struggle through Boumedienne : historic to revolutionary legitimacy -- Algeria from Bendjedid to the dark decade : the narrative fractures -- Narrative rescriptings and legitimacy crises -- Epilogue the official narrative and the "Arab Spring" : the limits of revolution.…”
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Beslan : six stories of the siege by Harding, Sue-Ann

Table of Contents: “…Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on translation and transliteration of Russian; Introduction; Socionarrative theory: narratives, texts, narrators; RIA-Novosti: 'No front line and an invisible enemy'; Kavkazcenter: 'Mister Putin, you are a butcher'; Caucasian Knot: 'I have five children in that school, do you understand?'…”
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White backlash and the politics of multiculturalism by Hewitt, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Politics and 'backlash' on the large stage; 3 Greenwich and its racial murders; 4 Narrative, counter-narrative and the boundaries of legitimate discourse; 5 Residence and resistance: the case of the Eltham Tenants Forum; 6 'Race' and 'culture' in education: from neighbourhood schools to the multicultural highway; 7 Backlash, multicultural politics and the global turbine; Select bibliography; Index.…”
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Narrating victimhood : gender, religion and the making of place in post-war Croatia by Schäuble, Michaela

Table of Contents: “…Narrating Victimhood; Narrating Victimhood Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Text; Introduction; [Chapter 1] (In- )Subordination at the Margins of Europe; [Chapter 2] Marian Devotion in Times of War; [Chapter 3] Re-Visions of History through Landscape; [Chapter 4] Of War Heroes, Martyrs and Invalids; [Chapter 5] Mobilising Local Reserves; Concluding Remarks; Glossary and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Narrative inquiries into curriculum-making in teacher education. by Kitchen, Julian

Table of Contents: “…FRONT COVER; NARRATIVE INQUIRIES INTO CURRICULUM MAKING IN TEACHER EDUCATION; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; PART I: AN OVERVIEW OF NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN TEACHER EDUCATION; NARRATIVE INQUIRY, CURRICULUM MAKING, AND TEACHER EDUCATION; NARRATIVE INQUIRY IN TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION; NARRATING THE TENSIONS OF TEACHER EDUCATOR RESEARCHER IN MOVING STORY TO RESEARCH; PART II: NARRATIVE HISTORIES/NARRATIVE BEGINNINGS; TEACHING FOR THE LOVE OF IT: AN EDUCATION PROFESSOR'S NARRATIVE AT THE CROSSROAD OF LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY.…”
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War on the family : mothers in prison and the families they leave behind by Golden, Renny

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Collateral damage in the war on drugs -- Joanetta's world -- Lost childhood : a family narrative -- Family narratives of survival and sorrow : Bell, Melvanie, Nadia, and Louella -- Expendable bodies, racialized policies -- Incarceration : theater of terror -- Teen mothers and the infants who saved them -- Children in the other America -- Gonna rise : Pam's story -- Eye on the prize : theorizing change -- What is to be done in the meantime? …”
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Intermediality and storytelling

Table of Contents: “…Prolegomena: On Film Musicals and Narrative; Photo Narrative, Sequential Photography, Photonovels.…”
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Cities, Borders and Spaces in Intercultural American Literature and Film. by Benito Sanchez, Jesús

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : lingering on Times Square -- Chiastic spaces: ports of entry, ports of exit -- The migrational city in Chuck Palahniuk's "Slumming" : a story by lady baglady, and Helena Viramontes's "The Cariboo Cafe" -- Unbound cities, concentric circles : Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange -- Borderlands : middle spaces, hybrid bodies -- The rhetoric of spatial cutting : borders, scars, open wounds -- Terminal thinking : border narratives, airport narratives, and the logic of detention -- Postscript conclusion : from The Great Wall to Babel.…”
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Altman and after : multiple narratives in film by Parshall, Peter F., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the potential of complex narratives -- Mosaic narrative. Nashville: pitching songs and selling politicians -- Network narrative. …”
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The Third Sector. by Hull, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Political narrativesIdeological narratives; Social narratives; Economic narratives; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Commentary on chapter 1; References; Chapter 2 From 'personal' to 'mutual': exploring the opportunities for co-operative and mutual forms of ownership and governance in the design and delivery of social and public services; Introduction; From public to private; Commodification; From private to mutual; The context of Wales; Transfer of undertakings; Transfer of responsibility; Shared values; Scaling social impact.…”
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Wom(b)an. by De-Whyte, Janice P.

Table of Contents: “…Solutions Sought for InfertilityConsequences of Infertility; Wom(b)anhood: The Rite of Passage; Conclusion; Part 1 Biological Barrenness; Introduction to Part 1; Chapter 4 Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel: Beautiful and Barren; Sarah's Narrative; Rebekah's Narrative; Rachel's Narrative; Chapter 5 Infertility in the Former Prophets; Introduction; The Narrative of Manoah's Wife: A Twist in the Tradition; Hannah's Narrative; The Great Woman of Shunem; Conclusion; Conclusion to Part 1; Part 2 Social Barrenness; Introduction to Part 2; Chapter 6 Leah and Michal: Estranged Wives; Introduction.…”
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Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. by Ross, Marc Howard

Table of Contents: “…; 2 The political psychology of competing narratives; 3 Narratives and performance: ritual enactment and psychocultural dramas in ethnic conflict; 4 Loyalist parades in Northern Ireland as recurring psychocultural dramas; 5 Where is Barcelona? …”
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Minding the law by Amsterdam, Anthony G.

Table of Contents: “…Gerald D. -- 4 On Narrative -- 5 Narratives at Court: Prigg v. Pennsylvania and Freeman v. …”
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Basic Elements of Narrative by Herman, David

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Elements -- 1 Getting Started A Thumbnail Sketch of the Approach -- Toward a Working Definition of Narrative -- Profiles of Narrative -- Narrative: Basic Elements -- 2 Framing the Approach Some Background and Context -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Narrative and Narrative Theory -- Major Trends in Recent Scholarship on Narrative -- 3 Back to the Elements Narrative Occasions -- Situating Stories -- Sociolinguistic Approaches -- Positioning Theory -- The Narrative Communication Model -- Conclusion…”
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Signs and symbols in Chaucer's poetry

Table of Contents: “…Kolve -- The unlikely narrator : the narrative strategy of the Troilus / Bernard F. …”
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Stolen Limelight Gender, Display and Displacement In Modern Fiction in French. by Gray, Margaret E.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Embodied Display and Effects of Displacement -- Chapter 1 Staging the Hyperfeminine: Colette -- Chapter 2 'Stripped Naked': Dismantling Gender in Oyono's Une vie de boy -- Chapter 3 Disappearance as Display: Beyond the Strait Gate in Gide -- Part II: Narrating Display, Narrating Displacement -- Chapter 4 Framing Monstrosity in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux: 'Buried Hearts' and 'Filthy Bodies' -- Chapter 5 'Girl Stuff': Genre, Masquerade and Displacement in Japrisot's Piège Pour Cendrillon…”
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Theorizing narrativity

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Narrrativehood, Narrativeness, Narrativity, Narratibility -- If-Plots: Narrativity and the Law-Code -- After this, therefore because of this -- Functions and Forms of Eventfulness in Narrative Fiction -- Chance in Fiction as a Privileged Index of Implied Worldviews: A Contribution to the World-Modelling Functions of Narrative Fiction -- A Pragma-stylistic Contribution to the Study of Narrativity: Standard versus Non-standard Narrativities -- Narrativity and Performativity: From Cervantes to Star Trek -- â€?…”
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The logic of history : putting postmodernism in perspective by McCullagh, C. Behan

Table of Contents: “…The possibility of historical knowledge -- Theories of truth -- Some common reasons for scepticism -- The meanings of texts, actions and events -- The meanings of texts -- Problems about knowing the meanings of texts -- The meaning of actions, events and practices in history -- Justifying descriptions of the past -- Justifying descriptions of single events -- Lawlike regularities -- Descriptions of social structures -- Causes of human actions -- Mental causes of human actions -- Cultural and social causes of human actions -- Conclusion -- Types of historical narrative -- Commonsense narratives -- Colligatory patterns -- Summary interpretations -- Judging historical narratives -- The credibility of historical narratives -- Fairness -- Causes and conditions in history -- The nature of causes and conditions in history -- Checking out particular causes and conditions -- Checking necessary and sufficient conditions by judging generalizations -- Historical explanations -- Genetic and contrastive explanations of individual actions -- Profound explanations -- Structural explanations.…”
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Writing through music : essay on music, culture, and politics by Pasler, Jann

Table of Contents: “…Time, narrative, and memory. Narrative and narrativity in music ; Postmodernism, narrativity, and the art of memory ; Resituating the spectral revolution : French antecedents -- Self-fashioning. …”
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Essays on German Literature : In Honour of G. Joyce Hallamore. by Batts, Michael, S.

Table of Contents: “…Belgardt -- The grotesque in Barlach's works: towards an understanding of his world / B.R. Anderson -- Narrator and narrative in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandtschaften / G. …”
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Israeli and Palestinian narratives of conflict : history's double helix

Table of Contents: “…Rouhana -- Conflicting narratives or narratives of a conflict : can the Zionist and Palestinian narratives of the 1948 War be bridged? …”
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Stories of change : narrative and social movements

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Plotting protest: mobilizing stories in the 1960 student sit-ins / Francesca Polletta -- Controlling narratives and narratives as control within social movements / Robert D. …”
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The Persistence of Voice. by Neubauer, John

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The Narrative Works of Günter Grass : a Critical Interpretation. by Thomas, Noel

Table of Contents: “…Die Blechtrommel: from the perspective of a child Introduction; The Film of Die Blechtrommel; The Narrative Perspective; Narrative Skill; Imagery; The Chronological Framework; The Theme of Guilt; Conclusion; Notes; CHAPTER II. …”
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Exploring Children's Creative Narratives. by Faulkner, Dorothy

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Exploring Children's Creative Narratives; Copyright; Contents; Figures, tables and plates; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Exploring children's creative narratives: some theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives; The developmental psychologist's viewpoint; The educator's viewpoint; References; Chapter 2: Improvisation and narrative; Improvisation; Narrative; Children's improvisational play; Metaplay and narrative; Scripts and improvisation in narrative; Conclusion; Note; References.…”
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From Madrigal to Opera : Monteverdi's Staging of the Self. by Calcagno, Mauro

Table of Contents: “…Monteverdi, Narrator; From Narration to Focalization; Combattimento between Page and Stage; 7. …”
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The chief concern of medicine : the integration of the medical humanities and narrative knowledge into medical practices by Schleifer, Ronald, Vannatta, Jerry, Crow, Sheila

Table of Contents: “…Narrative and medicine : Schemas of narration -- 9. Narrative and everyday medical ethics : Schemas of action -- Conclusion -- 10. …”
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The Value of Literature. by McGregor, Rafe

Table of Contents: “…Objections; Notes; 4 Narrative Thickness; 14. Literary Narratives; 15. Narrative Thickness.…”
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Bibliotherapy

Table of Contents: “…Bibliotherapy: a critical history / Liz Brewster -- Theories of bibliotherapy / Sarah McNicol -- Bibliotherapy, illness narratives and narrative medicine / Liz Brewster -- Bibliotherapy and graphic medicine / Sarah McNicol -- Part 2: Bibliotherapy case studies -- Read to connect: reading to combat loneliness and promote resilience / Natalia Tukhareli -- Long-term impacts of bibliotherapy groups: reading and writing together / Fiona Bailey -- The benefits of shared reading groups for those at risk of homelessness / Susan McLaine and Elizabeth Mackenzie -- Developing a reading group service for an older adult functional psychiatric in-patient ward / David Chamberlain -- Bibliotherapy in Uruguay: a case study of the Mario Benedetti Library for patients dealing with substance abuse / Cristina Deberti Martins -- Adapting the Books on Prescription model for people living with dementia and their carers / Rosie May Walworth -- Engaging young people in bibliotherapy and reading for wellbeing / Rosie May Walworth -- Bibliotherapy read aloud groups with native and non-native speakers / Kate Gielgud -- Promoting student wellbeing through a student success collection / Elena Azadbakht and Tracy Englert.…”
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Literary theory : an historical introduction by Procházka, Martin

Table of Contents: “…JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900)WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896); WALTER PATER (1839-1894); New Criticism; Structuralism and Semiotics; ROMAN JAKOBSON (1896-1982); RENÉ WELLEK AND AUSTIN WARREN: THEORY OF LITERATURE; NORTHROP FRYE AND ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM; ROLAND BARTHES: MYTHOLOGIES; Deconstruction: an Introduction; Deconstruction in America; New Historicism; Feminist and Psychoanalytic Criticism; FEMINIST CRITICISM; PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM; PART TWO: CONCEPTS AND METHODS; Metaphor; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Allegory; Symbol; Metre; Rhyme; Free Verse; Drama; Narrative Poetry; Narrative Structures…”
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Moving beyond Islamist Extremism Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Global Far Right. by Allchorn, William

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction-Stochastic Far-Right Terrorism & The New 'Fifth Wave' of Violent Extremism -- Chapter 1: The Journey of (Contested)Concepts-Narratives, Counter Narratives and its Application to Far-Right Extremism -- Introduction -- Addressing the Lacuna: Violent Far-Right Narratives under the Fifth Wave of Stochastic Terrorism -- 1. …”
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Aging and the art of living by Baars, Jan

Table of Contents: “…""4.3 The Idealization of Science and the Epistemological Reduction of Time""""4.4 The Struggle for a Fuller Experience of Time""; ""Augustine: A Threefold Present""; ""Bergson: Time as Creativity""; ""Husserl: The Phenomenological Experience of Time""; ""Heidegger: Authentic Temporal Being in the Face of Death""; ""Time Is Lived in Constitutive Life Worlds""; ""Conclusions""; ""5 Aging and Narrative Identities""; ""Introduction""; ""5.1 Embedding Aging in Narratives""; ""Narratives and Narrative Identity""; ""Narrative Integration as a “Good Lifeâ€?""…”
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Scandal of Colonial Rule : Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution. by Epstein, James

Table of Contents: “…3: "Only answerable to God and conscience": justice unbounded by lawPicton's arrival; Frontier society; Personal rule; Modes of violence; An ill-used British subject:; Rights of Englishmen; 4: Ruling narratives; Verified narratives; Domestic (dis- )order; 5: The radical underworld goes colonial; Before Trinidad; Surveillance and subversion; Captivity; The labyrinth of guilty fascination; Race and colonial settlement; A ghostwriter's progress; 6: In search of free labor; "A guiltless, bloodless colony"; "Free" settlers all; Turning East; Conclusion; 7: Conspiracy in the archive; Prelude.…”
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Afro-American literature : the reconstruction of instruction

Table of Contents: “…O'Meally -- Theory in practice: Introduction -- Three studies of Frederick Douglass' Narrative (1845) -- Narration, authentication, and authorial control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845 / Robert B. …”

House of God or House of David. by Eslinger, Lyle M., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Rhetoric and Persuasion in 2 Samuel 7; Rhetorical Analysis of 2 Samuel 7; Preliminaries; Defining the Rhetorical Unit; Defining the Rhetorical Situation: Narrative and Narrative World Contexts; Specifying the Rhetorical Species; 2. …”
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The narrative symbol in childhood literature : explorations in the construction of text by Golden, Joanne Marie, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Act: Characterization -- Characterization -- Character in Childhood Literature -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four. Act: Narration -- Narration -- Narration in Childrenâ€?s Novels -- Conclusions -- Chapter Five. …”
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Allegory and the Poetic Self First-Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature. by Palmer, R. Barton

Table of Contents: “…Focusing the Narrator -- 6. Narration and Personification Allegory in Machaut's Vergier…”
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The unity of the Twelve. by House, Paul R.

Table of Contents: “…The Nations; Conclusion; Chapter 6 THE TWELVE''S POINT OF VIEW; Introduction: Major Aspects of Point of View; The Twelve''s Implied Author; Types of Narrators and Narration in the Twelve; The Twelve''s Implied Audience; Conclusion; Chapter 7 EPILOGUE; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.…”
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