Search Results - "tragedy"

Freud and the scene of trauma by Fletcher, John, 1948 January 2-

Table of Contents: “…Charcot's hysteria : trauma and the hysterical attack -- Freud's hysteria : "scenes of passionate movement" -- The afterwardsness of trauma and the theory of seduction -- Memory and the key of fantasy -- The scenography of trauma : Oedipus as tragedy and complex -- Leonardo's screen memory -- Flying and painting : Leonardo's rival sublimations -- The transference and its prototypes -- The wolf man I : constructing the primal scene -- The wolf man II : interpreting the primal scene -- Trauma and the genealogy of the death drive -- Uncanny repetitions : Freud, Hoffmann, and the death-work.…”
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Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell by Nash, Julie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, and servants in the "good old days" -- Servants and paternalism -- "Standing in distress between tragedy and comedy" : servants in Maria Edgeworth's English domestic fiction -- "Submitting to fate" : servants in Gaskell's domestic fiction -- "True and loyal to the family" : servants in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels -- "Mutual duties" : servants and labor relations in Gaskell's "condition of England" novels -- Conclusion : "well done thou good and faithful servant".…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Where the domino fell : America and Vietnam, 1945-2010 / by Olson, James Stuart, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Eternal war : the Vietnamese heritage -- The first Indochina War, 1945-1954 -- The making of a quagmire, 1954-1960 -- The new frontier in Vietnam, 1961-1963 -- Planning a tragedy, 1963-1965 -- Into the abyss, 1965-1966 -- The mirage of progress, 1966-1967 -- Tet and the year of the monkey, 1968 -- The beginning of the end, 1969-1970 -- The fall of South Vietnam, 1970-1975 -- Distorted images, missed opportunities, 1975-1995 -- Oliver Stone's Vietnam.…”
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Servants and paternalism in the works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell by Nash, Julie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Gaskell, and servants in the "good old days" -- Servants and paternalism -- "Standing in distress between tragedy and comedy" : servants in Maria Edgeworth's English domestic fiction -- "Submitting to fate" : servants in Gaskell's domestic fiction -- "True and loyal to the family" : servants in Maria Edgeworth's Irish novels -- "Mutual duties" : servants and labor relations in Gaskell's "condition of England" novels -- Conclusion : "well done thou good and faithful servant".…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Schein -- Facing up to tragedy : towards an intellectual history of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche / Michael Lurie -- Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett -- Freud and the drama of oedipal truth / Richard H. …”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.…”
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A companion to Sophocles

Table of Contents: “…Schein -- Facing up to tragedy : towards an intellectual history of Sophocles in Europe from Camerarius to Nietzsche / Michael Lurie -- Virginia Woolf, Richard Jebb, and Sophocles' Antigone / Denise Eileen McCoskey and Mary Jean Corbett -- Freud and the drama of oedipal truth / Richard H. …”
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The Greek polis and the invention of democracy a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations /

Table of Contents: “…Raaflaub -- Tyranny and Tragedy in Nietzsche's Understanding of the Greek polis / Tracy Strong -- The Liberty of the Moderns Compared to the Liberty of the Ancients / Nathalie Karagiannis and Peter Wagner.…”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars / by Tirman, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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Helping humanity American policy and genocide rescue / by Pomakoy, Keith

Table of Contents: “…-- American philanthropy -- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain -- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy -- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine -- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II -- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War -- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.…”
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The deaths of others the fate of civilians in America's wars / by Tirman, John

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Death and remembrance in America's wars -- American wars and the culture of violence -- Strategic bombing in the Second World War -- The Korean War : the hegemony of forgetting -- The Vietnam War : the high cost of credibility -- The Reagan doctrine : savage war by proxy -- Iraq : the twenty years' war -- Afghanistan : hot pursuit on terrorism's frontier -- Three atrocities and the rules of engagement -- Counting : a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic -- The epistemology of war.…”
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Helping humanity American policy and genocide rescue / by Pomakoy, Keith

Table of Contents: “…-- American philanthropy -- The good Samaritan : America and the war with Spain -- They fear that the matter will have to run its course : America and the Armenian tragedy -- No cardinals in Russia : America and the terror-famine -- Jews, Zionists and social workers : American rescue policy in the caldron of World War II -- The United Nations is silent : facing genocide in the Cold War -- The world now stands as one : novus ordo seclorum.…”
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The Marquis de Sade, The crimes of love heroic and tragic tales ; preceded by an Essay on novels : a selection / by Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814

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A short history of medical genetics by Harper, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.…”
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Classic short stories

Table of Contents: “…The celestial railroad (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 8. The princess's tragedy (William Makepeace Thackeray) 9. The story of Richard Doubledick (Charles Dickens) 10. …”
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A short history of medical genetics by Harper, Peter S.

Table of Contents: “…Before Mendel -- Mendelism and human inherited disease -- The rise of classical genetics -- The beginnings of molecular biology -- Human chromosomes -- Human biochemical genetics -- The human gene map -- Genes, populations, and human inherited disease -- Human genetics as a scientific discipline -- From human to medical genetics -- The elements of medical genetics -- Medical genetics : the laboratory basis -- Human molecular genetics -- The management, treatment, and prevention of genetic disease -- Eugenics -- The tragedy of Russian genetics -- Medical genetics : the ethical dimension -- History in the making.…”
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Pegasus descending : a Dave Robicheaux novel / by Burke, James Lee

Classic short stories

Table of Contents: “…The celestial railroad (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 8. The princess's tragedy (William Makepeace Thackeray) 9. The story of Richard Doubledick (Charles Dickens) 10. …”
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Pegasus descending : a Dave Robicheaux novel / by Burke, James Lee