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Albert Cohen : dissonant voices
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ISBN: 9781421427638 Year: 2004 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Honorable Mention winner in the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize competition for French and Francophone Literary StudiesA major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895–1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels and lyrical essays are widely read by a devout public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia. A self-consciously Jewish writer and activist, Cohen remained nevertheless ambivalent about Judaism. His self-affirmation as a Jew in juxtaposition with his satirical use of anti-Semitic stereotypes still provokes unease in both republican France and institutional Judaism.In Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, the first English-language study of this profound and profoundly misunderstood writer, Jack I. Abecassis traces the recurrent themes of Cohen's works. He reveals the dissonant fractures marking Cohen as a modernist, and analyzes the resistance to his work as a symptom of the will not to understand Cohen's main theme—"the catastrophe of being Jewish."For Abecassis, Cohen's diverse oeuvre forms a single "roman fleuve" exploring this perturbing theme through fragmentation and grotesquerie, fantasies and nightmares, the veiling and unveiling of the unspeakable.Abecassis argues that Cohen should not be read exclusively through the prism of European literature (Stendhal, Tolstoy, Proust), but rather as the retelling—inverting and ultimately exhausting, in the form of submerged plots—of the Biblical romances of Joseph and Esther. The romance of the charismatic Court Jew and its performance correlative, the carnival of Purim, generate the logic of Cohen's acute psychological ambivalence, historical consciousness and carnal sensuality—themes which link this modernist author to Genesis as well as to the literary practices of Sephardic crypto-Jews. Abecassis argues that Cohen's best-known work, Belle du Seigneur (1968), besides being an obvious tale of obsessive love and dissolution, is foremost a tale of political intrigue involving Solal, the meteoric-rising Jew in the League of Nations during the period of Appeasement (1936), and his ultimate self-destruction. Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy.


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A path twice traveled : my journey as a historian of china
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ISBN: 1684176409 0674237293 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University,

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In this memoir, Paul A. Cohen, one of the West's preeminent historians of China, traces the development of his work from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, offering fresh perspectives that consistently challenge us to think more deeply about China and the historical craft in general. A memoir, of course, is itself a form of history. But for a historian, writing a memoir on one's career is quite different from the creation of that career in the first place. This is what Cohen alludes to in the title A Path Twice Traveled. The title highlights the important disparity between the past as originally experienced and the past as later reconstructed, by which point both the historian and the world have undergone extensive change. This distinction, which conveys nicely the double meaning of the word history, is very much on Cohen's mind throughout the book. He returns to it explicitly in the memoir's final chapter, appropriately titled "Then and Now: The Two Histories."


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I'm your fan
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ISBN: 1501355090 1501355074 9781501355097 9781501355080 1501355082 9781501355073 9781501355066 1501355066 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY

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"Traces the history of the oft-maligned "tribute album" with I'm Your Fan as an illustrative example"--


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Granite and grace
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ISBN: 1948908174 9781948908177 9781948908160 Year: 2019 Publisher: Reno Las Vegas

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"Granite and grace: seeking the heart of Yosemite reflects on Valerie and Michael Cohen's fifty-year encounter with the granite in the high country of Yosemite National Park, where they seek a sense of belonging in an era called the Anthropocene. By creating a dialogue between geological and literary representations, where the geological becomes metaphorical, while science turns mythological, these essays shaped by on-the-rock encounters with landforms, open up important experiential and pragmatic dimensions."--Provided by publisher.


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Spirituality and desire in Leonard Cohen's songs and poems
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ISBN: 9781443869232 1443869236 9781443816861 1443816868 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne

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Cohen-Macaulay modules over Cohen-Macaulay rings
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ISBN: 1139884387 1107366380 1107371104 1107361478 1107369193 1299404170 1107363926 0511892365 0511600682 9781107361478 9780511892363 0521356946 9780521356947 9780511600685 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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The purpose of these notes is to explain in detail some topics on the intersection of commutative algebra, representation theory and singularity theory. They are based on lectures given in Tokyo, but also contain new research. It is the first cohesive account of the area and will provide a useful synthesis of recent research for algebraists.

Sound structures
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ISBN: 3110846276 9783110846270 3110133466 9783110133462 9070176939 9783110133462 3110133474 Year: 1983 Volume: 13 Publisher: Dordrecht Cinnaminson, N.J. Foris Publications

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Albert Cohen : Dissonant Voices
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Honorable Mention winner in the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize competition for French and Francophone Literary StudiesA major figure in twentieth-century letters, Albert Cohen (1895–1981) left a paradoxical legacy. His heavily autobiographical, strikingly literary, and polyphonic novels and lyrical essays are widely read by a devout public in France, yet have been largely ignored by academia. A self-consciously Jewish writer and activist, Cohen remained nevertheless ambivalent about Judaism. His self-affirmation as a Jew in juxtaposition with his satirical use of anti-Semitic stereotypes still provokes unease in both republican France and institutional Judaism.In Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, the first English-language study of this profound and profoundly misunderstood writer, Jack I. Abecassis traces the recurrent themes of Cohen's works. He reveals the dissonant fractures marking Cohen as a modernist, and analyzes the resistance to his work as a symptom of the will not to understand Cohen's main theme—"the catastrophe of being Jewish."For Abecassis, Cohen's diverse oeuvre forms a single "roman fleuve" exploring this perturbing theme through fragmentation and grotesquerie, fantasies and nightmares, the veiling and unveiling of the unspeakable.Abecassis argues that Cohen should not be read exclusively through the prism of European literature (Stendhal, Tolstoy, Proust), but rather as the retelling—inverting and ultimately exhausting, in the form of submerged plots—of the Biblical romances of Joseph and Esther. The romance of the charismatic Court Jew and its performance correlative, the carnival of Purim, generate the logic of Cohen's acute psychological ambivalence, historical consciousness and carnal sensuality—themes which link this modernist author to Genesis as well as to the literary practices of Sephardic crypto-Jews. Abecassis argues that Cohen's best-known work, Belle du Seigneur (1968), besides being an obvious tale of obsessive love and dissolution, is foremost a tale of political intrigue involving Solal, the meteoric-rising Jew in the League of Nations during the period of Appeasement (1936), and his ultimate self-destruction. Providing close readings and imaginative analyses of the entire literary output of one of twentieth-century France's most important Jewish writers, Abecassis presents here a major work of literary scholarship, as well as a broader study of the reception and influence of Jewish thought in French literature and philosophy.

Albert Cohen mythobiographe : une démarche de création
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ISBN: 2843100275 2377471218 9782843100277 Year: 2001 Publisher: Grenoble: Ellug,

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La donne est semblable à chaque partie : parmi les joueurs qui se disputent (en) l'auteur, chacun rêve une histoire dans laquelle les autres joueurs sont inclus. L'un veut perdre et le proclame, le second veut écraser brutalement tous les autres, fils d'aristocrates ou de bourgeois sûrs de leurs « dix droits », le troisième imposer ses propres règles régies par la folie et l'excès, un autre fait le mort, tandis que son voisin regarde, hypnotisé, un portrait de femme à laquelle il ne cesse de comparer son propre reflet dans un miroir, le dernier est curieusement le seul à remarquer le crucifix accroché sur l'un des murs... Dans ce tripot juif, une tenancière naine et obèse sert à boire, les yeux brillants. Soudain entre une femme, blonde, très belle. Chacun la désire et, pour la retenir, lui raconte sa part de l'histoire, toujours démentie par l'un des autres. La mythobiographie est cette tentative de donner formes au fantasme, au « mythe personnel », et de le sacraliser par le recours et l'identification à des mythes collectifs. Mais de manière incertaine, fluctuante, théâtre d'ombre sur un drap qui s'enténèbre.

Benjamin V. Cohen
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ISBN: 1281729213 9786611729219 0300128886 9780300128888 9781281729217 0300088795 9780300088793 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven

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A key figure in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Benjamin V. Cohen (1894-1983) was a major architect of public policy from the first days of FDR's presidency through the early days of the Cold War. Although he kept a low public profile, Cohen's influence extended across a wide range of domestic and foreign policy initiatives. In this biography, William Lasser offers the first account of Ben Cohen's life and career, and an assessment of his contribution to the origin and development of modern American liberalism.Cohen's life provides an extraordinary lens through which to view the development of the evolving political philosophy of the Roosevelt and Truman presidencies. A brilliant lawyer noted for his good judgment and experience, Cohen was a leading member of FDR's "Brain Trust," developing ideas, drafting legislation, lobbying within the administration and in Congress, and defending the New Deal in court. The book traces his contributions to domestic financial policy, his activities during the war years in London and Washington, his service as counselor to the State Department and member of the American delegation to the United Nations after the war, and his role in the American Zionist movement. From Cohen's life and work, Lasser draws important insights into the development of the New Deal and the evolution of postwar liberalism.

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