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The Contrapuntal Venture of Anthony C. Yu: The Comparative Study of Literature and Religion |
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Contingent Gifts: Dramatizing Patterns of Integrity in Sophocles' Philoctetes and Seamus Heaney's The Cure at Troy |
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41 | (22) |
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Dreaming the King, Writing God: Hope, Desire, and Fiction in Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls |
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63 | (12) |
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Rethinking the Translator's Invisibility: George Eliot, Authority, and the Politics of Translation |
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75 | (15) |
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Contesting History and Identity in Modern Fiction about Moses |
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90 | (19) |
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Long-Distance Specialists in Early Medieval China |
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109 | (16) |
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Home as Metaphor in Su Shi's Song Lyrics |
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125 | (19) |
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An Erotic Immortal: The Double Desire in a Ming Novella |
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144 | (18) |
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Cannibalizing the Heart: The Politics of Allegory and the Journey to the West |
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162 | (19) |
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Part III: East/West Comparisons and Contacts |
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Craft Analogies in Chinese and Greek Argumentation |
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181 | (21) |
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Word and Music: Conviviality, Self-Sufficiency, and Spontaneity in Classical Athens and Song China |
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202 | (21) |
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History as Rhetoric: An Analysis of Jesuit Chreia in Late Ming China |
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223 | (20) |
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Thomas Merton's Pilgrimage and Orientalism |
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243 | (17) |
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David Henry Hwang's Golden Child and the Ambiguities of Christian (and Post-Christian) Missions |
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260 | (13) |
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| Selected Bibliography of Anthony C. Yu |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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