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Table of Contents: “…Fumo -- The mythographic tradition after Ovid / Gregory Hays -- Ovid's exile and medieval Italian literature: the lyric tradition / Catherine Keen -- Venus's clerk: Ovid's amatory poetry in the Middle Ages / Marilynn Desmond -- The metamorphosis of Ovid in Dante's Divine comedy / Diskin Clay -- Ovid in Chaucer and Gower / Andrew Galloway -- Ovid's Metamorphoses and the history of baroque art / Paul Barolsky -- The poetics of time: the Fasti in the Renaissance / Maggie Kilgour -- Shakespeare and Ovid / Sean Keilen -- Ben Jonson's light reading / Heather James -- Love poems in sequence: the Amores from Petrarch to Goethe / Gordon Braden -- Don Quixote as Ovidian text / Frederick A. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Proem to the first edition of Dante's Divine Comedy -- Florence welcomes Dante upon his return from exile -- Giotto's revival of ancient art -- Giotto brings art out of the Dark Ages -- The marvel of Brunelleschi's dome for the Cathedral of Florence -- Brunelleschi and Donatello discover ancient Roman treasures -- Eminent Florentine artists of the Quattrocento -- An account of the great local artists -- The beauty of Florence surpasses that of ancient Athens -- An artistic Vade Mecum for the city of Florence -- Tuscany as the cradle of christianity -- Vision of the future of Italy.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Gray -- "The quintessence of the Jew": Polemics of nationalism and peoplehood in turn-of-the-century Yiddish fiction / Matthew Frye Jacobson -- Redefining Chinese-American literature from a LOWINUS perspective: two recent examples / Te-hsing Shan -- Ethnic Fatigue: Bascillar's poetry as a metaphor for the other "Other Literature" / Gönül Pultar -- "Only an 'L'": linguistic borders and the immigrant author in Abraham Cahan's Yekl and Yankel der Yankee / Aviva Taubenfeld -- The strange case of Luigi Donato Ventura's Peppino: some speculations on the beginnings of Italian-American fiction / Mario Maffi -- Worlds of difference: Lin Yutang, Lao She, and the significance of Chinese-Language writing in America / Xiao-huang Yin -- Divine Comedy: The Jewish Orthodox sermon in America, 1881-1939 / Menahem Blondheim -- "Ersatz-drama" and ethnic (Self-) parody: Adolf Philipp and the decline of New York's German-Language stage, 1893-1918 / Peter Conolly-Smith -- The formation of an Italian-American identity through popular theater / Anna Maria Martellone -- Crossings and double-crossings: Polish-language immigrant narratives of the Great Migration / Karen Majewski -- Hyphens: between Deitsch and American / Marc Shell -- Portingles in the United States: The Luso-America of Jose Rodrigues Migueis / Michela Corradini -- Not "On the Backs of Blacks": U.S.…”

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Table of Contents: “…PART I – INTRODUCTORY ASPECTS 1 Origin and evolution of the vasovagal reflex -- 2 Vasovagal syncope in the Divine Comedy and the Holy Bible -- 3 Definition and classification of transient loss of consciousness -- 4 Epidemiology of vasovagal syncope -- PART II – PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VASOVAGAL SYNCOPE 5 Role of autonomic nervous system -- 6 Role of baroreceptor mechanisms -- 7 Role of adenosine -- 8 Cardiac rhythms in neurally mediated syncope -- 9 Pathophysiology – Conclusive remarks -- PART III – DIAGNOSTIC AND CLINICAL ASPECTS -- 10 Initial evaluation of the patient with transient loss of consciousness -- 11 Clinical presentation and diagnosis of vasovagal syncope -- 12 Examinations in suspected vasovagal syncope PART IV – DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS -- 13 Differential diagnosis of vasovagal syncope -- 14 Differential diagnosis of peculiar sindromes: Postural tachycardia -- 15 Differential diagnosis of peculiar sindromes: Sick sinus syndrome -- 16 Differential diagnosis of peculiar sindromes: Chronic fatigue syndrome -- 17 Differential diagnosis of peculiar sindromes: Fibromyalgia -- PART V – PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT 18 Prognosis of vasovagal syncope and risk stratification in the emergency department -- 19 Treatment of vasovagal syncope: Counseling, drugs and counter-pressure manoeuvres -- 20 Role of loop-recorder and pacemaker implantation -- 21 Therapy – Conclusive remarks -- PART VI – SPECIAL ISSUES -- 22 Vasovagal syncope in children -- 23 Vasovagal syncope in the elderly -- 24 Vasovagal syncope during driving, working and physical activity -- 25 Vasovagal syncope and orthostatic intolerance after space flight -- 26 Vasovagal syncope and sudden death: is there a liaison?.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Chesterton -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- Break of noon / Paul Claudel -- House of gold / Elizabeth Cullinan -- The divine comedy / Dante Alighieri -- The long loneliness / Dorothy Day -- Holy the firm / Annie Dillard -- Babette's feast / Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) -- The hind and the panther / John Dryden -- Voices from the moon / Andre Dubus -- Poems / William Dunbar -- Four quartets / T.S. …”

Table of Contents: “…(from Letters to Malcolm) -- A modern mini-Divine Comedy (from The Great Divorce) -- Further up and further in (from The Last Battle) -- Farewell to Shadow-Lands (from The Last Battle) -- Heaven (from The Problem of Pain) -- 4. …”