"This book is a study of the conflicts between the quest for power and the bonding of human friendship and love in Paradise Lost, Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov, with a focus on the role of the vengeful spirits of Satan, Captain Ahab and Ivan Karamazov"--

Historical background : Anatoliy V. Lunacharsky, the cultured commissar -- Valdimir I. Rebikov : the inventor of whole-tone music -- The diatonic Webern : Aleksei V. Stanchinskiy -- Nikolai A. Roslavets : the Russian Shcenberg -- Aleksandr V. Mosolov : the man of steel -- Arthur V. Louri(c)♭ : the decadent out of place -- Leonid A. Polovinkin : the partial avant-gardist -- Vladimir V. Shcherbachev : old wine in new vessels -- Lev K. Knipper : wind from the West -- Boris N. Liatoshinski : the passionate Slav -- Vladimir M. Deshevov : the man of the theater -- Samuil E. Feinberg : the post-Scriabin pianist -- Anatoliy N. Aleksandrov : the post-Rachmaninovian -- Boris A. Aleksandrov : son of the composer of the Soviet anthem -- Aleksandr A. Krein : voice in the wilderness -- Grigoriy A. Krein : toward assimilation -- Yulian G. Krein : precocious cosmopolitan -- Aleksandr M. Veprik : the Ukrainian Bart(c)đk and Bloch -- Mikhail F. Gnessin : the Jewish Glinka -- Ivan A. Vyshnegradsky : microtones -- Nikolai Obukhov : mystic beyond Scriabin -- Iosif M. Schillinger : Gershwin's teacher -- Aleksandr N. Tcherepnine : suave internationalist -- Sergei V. Protopopov : the post-Scriabin composer -- Leonid L. Sabaneev : would-be scientist becomes critic -- Dmitriy M. Melkikh : rhapsodist -- Gavrill N. Popov : contrapuntalist -- Aleksei S. Zhivotov : notorious for one piece -- Efim Golyshchev : the first serialist? -- Georgi M. Rimsky-Korsakov : microtonist

"Collects diverse writings by Johanna Drucker previously published in literary or scholarly journals ... also includes an anecdotal checklist of Drucker's artist's books"--Back cover.

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, 1865.

Viewed as ideal types, the Halakhah defines the norm, setting forth what is obligatory, the Aggadah, specifies what exceeds the norm and goes beyond the measure of the law. The striking differences of style and substance that differentiate the two categories of discourse present the question of how they intersect in a single coherent statement, a system that holds together its two distinct media of thought and expression. When we have in hand systematic data on how Aggadah contributes to the Halakhah, and where Halakhah serves the purposes of the Aggadah, we find possible the logical next step: where do the two intersect, and at what points do the respective complexes of category-formations stand autonomous of one another, and that leads to the question: how do Aggadah and Halakhah constitute a coherent religious structure and make in common a single systemic statement? Where, within the formative literature of Normative Judaism, they join together, what affect the one exercises upon the other, and how the whole - Rabbinic Judaism - exceeds and transcends the sum of the parts - the Halakhah, the Aggadah - is spelled out.

In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most of the poetry and fiction that made him famous, his name among Yiddish readers was a household word. Called the Shelley of Yiddish, he was characterized as being "drunk with talent." This book -- the first full-length anthology of Manger's work -- displays the full range of his genius in poetry, fiction, and criticism. The book begins with an extensive historical, biographical, and literary-critical introduction to Manger's work. There are then excerpts from a novel, The Book of Paradise, three short stories, autobiographical essays, critical essays, and finally, Manger's magnificent poetry -- ballads, bible poems, personal lyrics, and the Megilla Songs. These works, which have the patina of myths acquired ages ago, also offer modern psychological insight and irrepressible humor. With Manger we make the leap into the Jewish twentieth century, as he recreates the past in all its layered expressiveness and interprets it with modernist sensibilities.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy. This is the first book to examine global political economy from a psychoanalytic perspective. It claims that the libidinal-the site of unconscious desire-plays not a supplementary or trivial, but a constitutive role in global political economy. Consumption, for example, is not simply a way of satisfying a material or biological need but a doomed attempt at soothing our deeply held sense of loss; and capital is not just a means to material growth and prosperity but is invested with "drive" that seduces, beguiles, and manipulates in the service of unending accumulation. Thus, in contrast to political economy, which assumes a rational subject, libidinal economy is founded on the notion of a desiring subject, who obeys a logic not of good sense or self-interest but profligacy and irrationality. By applying a psychoanalytic lens, Global Libidinal Economy thereby seeks to uncover the unconscious excesses and antagonisms emergent in such key political economy categories as "production," "trade," and "ecology," while also bringing out significant contemporary themes relating to "gender" and "race."

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2020 Reprint of the 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Howard Fast (1914-2003) was one of the most prolific American writers of the twentieth century. He was a bestselling author of more than eighty works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays. The son of immigrants, Fast grew up in New York City and published his first novel upon finishing high school in 1933. In 1950, his refusal to provide the United States Congress with a list of possible Communist associates earned him a three-month prison sentence. During his incarceration, Fast wrote one of his best-known novels, Spartacus (1951). Throughout his long career, Fast matched his commitment to championing social justice in his writing with a deft, lively storytelling style. In The Naked God the well-known author tells of his disillusionment with Communism and his subsequent break with the Party. The book is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. As the bestselling author of Spartacus and Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast lent his writing talents and celebrity to the communist cause as a steadfast advocate and public figure. However, he felt increasingly ill at ease with the superior manner Party leaders took with rank-and-file members and with rumors of Soviet anti-Semitism. In The Naked God, his first book after officially leaving the Party in 1956, Howard Fast explores the reasons he joined and his long inner struggle with a political movement in which he never felt he truly belonged.

Book by Kahn, Herman Ed.

This book is an overview of art of Harold Smith's Man of Color Series

Professor Kohn examines the world revolution , set in motion by two world wars, by uncovering its historical roots and analizing its national and global developments. He writes about the last era of the Habsburg reign, the Russian civil war, the Zionist movement, the new Germany, thee future of the United Nations, American as compared to European education, thee historians role and the negro revolution.