Search Results - "tragedy"

The making of Americans in Paris the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein / by Sloboda, Noel

Table of Contents: “…Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction -- Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life -- Hometown Paris -- Lessons from and for Henry James -- Wartime tragedy and opportunity -- Epilogue.…”
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The making of Americans in Paris the autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein / by Sloboda, Noel

Table of Contents: “…Wharton and Stein : fact and fiction -- Glory in the writing life and glory in writing the life -- Hometown Paris -- Lessons from and for Henry James -- Wartime tragedy and opportunity -- Epilogue.…”
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Death-devoted heart sex and the sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde / by Scruton, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Wagner and religion -- The story of Tristan -- Wagner's treatment of the story -- The music of Tristan -- The philosophy of love -- Tragedy and sacrifice -- Love, death and redemption -- Epilogue : From romance to ritual.…”
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Damaged goods? women living with incurable sexually transmitted diseases / by Nack, Adina, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Mixing morality with medicine -- Sexual invincibility -- STD anxiety -- The immoral patient -- Damaged goods -- Sexual healing -- Reintegrating the sexual self -- From personal tragedies to social change.…”
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Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy / by Payne, Phillip G.

Table of Contents: “…Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last.…”
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To break our chains social cohesiveness and modern democracy / by Braun, Jerome

Table of Contents: “…Values and character : on how to make tragedy unnecessary -- pt. 2. Practical issues -- pt. 3. …”
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To break our chains social cohesiveness and modern democracy / by Braun, Jerome

Table of Contents: “…Values and character : on how to make tragedy unnecessary -- pt. 2. Practical issues -- pt. 3. …”
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Damaged goods? women living with incurable sexually transmitted diseases / by Nack, Adina, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Mixing morality with medicine -- Sexual invincibility -- STD anxiety -- The immoral patient -- Damaged goods -- Sexual healing -- Reintegrating the sexual self -- From personal tragedies to social change.…”
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Dead last the public memory of Warren G. Harding's scandalous legacy / by Payne, Phillip G.

Table of Contents: “…Questions asked -- The president's hometown -- Commemorating the tragedy of Warren Harding -- My damned biographers -- The shadow of William Estabrook Chancellor -- He-harlot -- Harding Alley -- Dead last.…”
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Boris Godunov and other dramatic works by Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837

Table of Contents: “…Boris Godunov -- Historical introduction -- A scene from Faust -- The little tragedies -- The miserly knight -- Mozart and Salieri -- The stone guest -- A feast in time of plague -- Rusalka (the water-nymph).…”
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Democratic breakdown and the decline of the Russian military by Barany, Zoltan D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy and symbolism of the Kursk -- Assessing decay: the Soviet/Russian military, 1985-2006 -- Explaining the military's political presence -- The elusive defense reform -- Civil-military relations and superpresidentialism -- Conclusion.…”
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Boris Godunov and other dramatic works by Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837

Table of Contents: “…Boris Godunov -- Historical introduction -- A scene from Faust -- The little tragedies -- The miserly knight -- Mozart and Salieri -- The stone guest -- A feast in time of plague -- Rusalka (the water-nymph).…”
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Democratic breakdown and the decline of the Russian military by Barany, Zoltan D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy and symbolism of the Kursk -- Assessing decay: the Soviet/Russian military, 1985-2006 -- Explaining the military's political presence -- The elusive defense reform -- Civil-military relations and superpresidentialism -- Conclusion.…”
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'Unfortunate emigrants' narratives of the Donner Party /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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'Unfortunate emigrants' narratives of the Donner Party /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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Unfortunate Emigrants /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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Unfortunate Emigrants /

Table of Contents: “…McDougall -- The Donner tragedy : a thrilling chapter in our pioneer history -- James F. …”
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Refiguring melodrama in film and television captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects / by Zarzosa, Agust�in, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the outwitted critic -- Modalities of melodrama -- Affect, affection, affectation -- Diagnosing suffering -- Trafficking in sacred objects -- Sacrifice and the animal melodrama -- The excesses of the posthuman melodrama -- The outside and the coincidence machine -- Conclusion: tragedy and melodrama.…”
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Karl Polanyi : a life on the left / by Dale, Gareth

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism.…”
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Refiguring melodrama in film and television captive affects, elastic sufferings, vicarious objects / by Zarzosa, Agust�in, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the outwitted critic -- Modalities of melodrama -- Affect, affection, affectation -- Diagnosing suffering -- Trafficking in sacred objects -- Sacrifice and the animal melodrama -- The excesses of the posthuman melodrama -- The outside and the coincidence machine -- Conclusion: tragedy and melodrama.…”
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