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Five operas and a symphony word and music in Russian culture / by Gasparov, B.

Table of Contents: “…Sound and discourse : on Russian national musical style -- Farewell to the enchanted garden : Pushkin, Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila, and Nicholas's Russia -- Eugene Onegin in the age of realism -- Khovanshchina : a musical drama, Russian-style (Wagner and Musorgsky) -- Lost in a symbolist city : multiple chronotypes in Chaikovsky's The queen of spades -- A testimony : Shostakovich's Fourth symphony and the end of Romantic narrative -- "Popolo di Pekino" : Musorgsky's Muscovy in early twentieth-century Europe -- "Prima la musica, poi le parole" : musical genealogy of a national anthem.…”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Jewish theatre a global view /

Table of Contents: “…Steinlauf -- The Polish Shulamis : Jewish drama on the Polish stage in the late 19th-early 20th centuries / Anna Kuligowska-Korzeniewska -- Jewish languages and Jewish characters in Giovan Battista Andreini's Lo schiavetto / Paula Bertolone -- "The Christian will turn Hebrew" : converting Shylock on stage / Shaul Bassi -- Philosemitism on the London stage : Sydney Grundy's An old Jew / Edna Nahshon -- Jewish self-presentation and the "Jewish question" on the German stage from 1900 to 1930 / Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer -- Popular Jewish drama in Vienna in the 1920s / Brigitte Dalinger -- On arriving front and center : American Jewish identity on the American stage / Ellen Schiff -- Generational shifts in American Jewish theatre / Linda Ben-Zvi -- Staying ungooselike : the Holocaust and the theatre of choice / Robert Skloot -- Job's soul and Otto Weininger's torments : Jewish themes in the theatre of Hanoch Levin and Yehoshua Sobol / Freddie Rokem -- Abraham's scene (introductory essay) / Paolo Puppa -- Abraham (dramatic monologue) / Paolo Puppa.…”
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Edge of crisis war and trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808 / by Stein, Barbara H.

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and crises, 1789-1797 -- War and the colonies : Aranda and Godoy -- The late proyectistas -- Reorganizing New Spain's external trade: the effects of comercio libre, 1788-1796 -- A hegemony threatened : Mexico City and Veracruz -- Mining and its fissures -- Export agriculture : growth and conflict -- Comercio neutro/comercio directo -- "Informal" comercio neutro, 1804-1808 -- Consolidación : Spain -- Consolidación : New Spain -- Strange saga : the transfer of New Spain's silver, 1804-1808 -- "Treasures in the New World" -- "La tempestad que nos amenazaba" -- A national drama, Act I : conspiracy at the Escorial.…”
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Edge of crisis war and trade in the Spanish Atlantic, 1789-1808 / by Stein, Barbara H.

Table of Contents: “…Continuity and crises, 1789-1797 -- War and the colonies : Aranda and Godoy -- The late proyectistas -- Reorganizing New Spain's external trade: the effects of comercio libre, 1788-1796 -- A hegemony threatened : Mexico City and Veracruz -- Mining and its fissures -- Export agriculture : growth and conflict -- Comercio neutro/comercio directo -- "Informal" comercio neutro, 1804-1808 -- Consolidación : Spain -- Consolidación : New Spain -- Strange saga : the transfer of New Spain's silver, 1804-1808 -- "Treasures in the New World" -- "La tempestad que nos amenazaba" -- A national drama, Act I : conspiracy at the Escorial.…”
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Music & meaning /

Table of Contents: “…/ Kendall Walton -- Musical idiosyncrasy and perspectival listening / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- Music as drama / Fred Everett Maus -- Action and agency in Mahler's Ninth symphony, second movement / Anthony Newcomb -- Shostakovich's Tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotions / Gregory Karl and Jenefer Robinson -- What Schubert's last sonata might hold / Charles Fisk -- Two types of metaphoric transference / Marion A. …”

Puccini's Edgar by Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924

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Susannah by Fisher, Burton D.

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Music & meaning /

Table of Contents: “…/ Kendall Walton -- Musical idiosyncrasy and perspectival listening / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- Music as drama / Fred Everett Maus -- Action and agency in Mahler's Ninth symphony, second movement / Anthony Newcomb -- Shostakovich's Tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotions / Gregory Karl and Jenefer Robinson -- What Schubert's last sonata might hold / Charles Fisk -- Two types of metaphoric transference / Marion A. …”

Puccini's Edgar by Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924

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Susannah by Fisher, Burton D.

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Deleuze and the Passions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ceciel Meiborg & Sjoerd van Tuinen -- "Everywhere There Are Sad Passions": Gilles Deleuze and the Unhappy Consciousness / Moritz Gansen -- To Have Done with the Judgment of 'Reason': Deleuze's Aesthetic Ontology / Samantha Bankston -- Closed Vessels and Signs: Jealousy as a Passion for Reality / Arjen Kleinherenbrink -- The Drama of Ressentiment: the Philosopher versus the Priest / Sjoerd van Tuinen -- The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari / Jason Read -- Deleuze's Transformation of the Ideology-Critique Project: Noology Critique / Benoit Dillet -- Passion, Cinema and the Old Materialism / Louis-Georges Schwartz -- Death of Deleuze, Birth of Passion / David U.B. …”
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Deleuze and the Passions /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Ceciel Meiborg & Sjoerd van Tuinen -- "Everywhere There Are Sad Passions": Gilles Deleuze and the Unhappy Consciousness / Moritz Gansen -- To Have Done with the Judgment of 'Reason': Deleuze's Aesthetic Ontology / Samantha Bankston -- Closed Vessels and Signs: Jealousy as a Passion for Reality / Arjen Kleinherenbrink -- The Drama of Ressentiment: the Philosopher versus the Priest / Sjoerd van Tuinen -- The Affective Economy: Producing and Consuming Affects in Deleuze and Guattari / Jason Read -- Deleuze's Transformation of the Ideology-Critique Project: Noology Critique / Benoit Dillet -- Passion, Cinema and the Old Materialism / Louis-Georges Schwartz -- Death of Deleuze, Birth of Passion / David U.B. …”
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Pelléas et Mélisande by Fisher, Burton D.

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I Pagliacci The Clowns / by Fisher, Burton D.

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A history of contemporary Chinese literature by Hong, Zicheng

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A history of contemporary Chinese literature by Hong, Zicheng

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Pelléas et Mélisande by Fisher, Burton D.

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I Pagliacci The Clowns / by Fisher, Burton D.

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Dictators, democracy, and American public culture envisioning the totalitarian enemy, 1920s-1950s / by Alpers, Benjamin Leontief, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The romance of a dictator : dictatorship in American public culture, 1920s-1935 -- The totalitarian state : modern dictatorship as a new form of government, 1920s-1935 -- The disappearing dictator : declining regard for dictators amid growing fears of dictatorship, 1936-1941 -- The audience itself is the drama : dictatorship and the regimented crowd, 1936-1941 -- Dictator isms and our democracy : the rise of totalitarianism, 1936-1941 -- This is the army : the problem of the military in a democracy, 1941-1945 -- Here is Germany : understanding the Nazi enemy, 1941-1945 -- The battle of Russia : the Russian people, communism, and totalitarianism, 1941-1945 -- A boot stamping on a human face--forever : totalitarianism as nightmare in postwar America.…”
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