British Literature And Classical Music

Author : David Deutsch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474235839

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British Literature and Classical Music by David Deutsch Pdf

British Literature and Classical Music explores literary representations of classical music in early 20th century British writing. Covering authors ranging from T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, the book examines literature produced during a period of widely proliferating philosophical, educational, and performance-oriented musical activities in both public and private settings. David Deutsch demonstrates how this proliferation caused classical music to become an increasingly vital element of British culture and a vehicle for exploring contentious issues such as social mobility, sexual freedoms, and international political rivalries. Through the use of archives of concert programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes, same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a shared European culture to depict these groups as valuable members of and - less frequently as threats to – British life.

Author : Stephen Fry,Tim Lihoreau
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0330438565

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Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music by Stephen Fry,Tim Lihoreau Pdf

Entertaining and brilliantly written, this is a pretty reckless romp of a history through classical music and much much more.

Author : Anna Snaith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110847960X

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Sound and Literature by Anna Snaith Pdf

What does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.

Author : Iain Quinn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781837650828

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Music and Religion in the Writings of Ian Mcewan by Iain Quinn Pdf

The majority of characters in Ian McEwan's novels are educated members of the middle class, but without any great private financial means and certainly no great affluence. Despite different occupations, whether scientist (Solar), musician (On Chesil Beach, Amsterdam) or surgeon (Saturday), they are faced with moral, ethical, religious and personal dilemmas that bear resonance to a contemporary audience. Classical music is present throughout McEwan's writings (including his recent Lessons, 2022), mostly not as an accompanying theme but as a necessary part of life's pleasures and for some, essential needs. The combination of music and the unforgettable narrative moments create a unique space for McEwan to translate his views on the world. The value of music, not least as a complementary presence to silence, is portrayed not just as the source of comfort but as a known presence that is dependable to an individual on a near spiritual level. Within his writings there is also a clear understanding of the role of the Church of England as a societal, cultural and established presence within British society. In the literary descriptions of McEwan and other authors this often extends beyond the immediate theological and ecclesiastical concerns of the day. McEwan's writings demonstrate a perceptive knowledge of the nuances of this highly specific cultural dynamic. McEwan's ability to discern sentiments that easily resonate with musicians place his contribution to the field of music and literature studies in a singular position among living writers discussing classical music in Britain. This book provokes questions for those who encounter these areas for the first time in McEwan's writings, and it offers a place of sustained enquiry for those who have experienced these fields first-hand, whether as listeners, performers, congregants, audience members or scholars across literary, musical or ecclesiastical fields. Iain Quinn's book will be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary British literature, as well as those interested in words and music studies more generally.

Author : Christin Hoene
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317679158

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Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature by Christin Hoene Pdf

This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature.

Author : Mark Stein
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814209844

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Black British Literature by Mark Stein Pdf

In this fascinating book, Mark Stein examines black British literature, centering on a body of work created by British-based writers with African, South Asian, or Caribbean cultural backgrounds. Linking black British literature to the bildungsroman genre, this study examines the transformative potential inscribed in and induced by a heterogeneous body of texts. Capitalizing on their plural cultural attachments, these texts portray and purvey the transformation of post-imperial Britain. Stein locates his wide-ranging analysis in both a historical and a literary context. He argues that a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach is essential to understanding post-colonial culture and society. The book relates black British literature to ongoing debates about cultural diversity, and thereby offers a way of reading a highly popular but as yet relatively uncharted field of cultural production. With the collapse of its empire, with large-scale immigration from former colonies, and with ever-increasing cultural diversity, Britain underwent a fundamental makeover in the second half of the twentieth century. This volume cogently argues that black British literature is not only a commentator on and a reflector of this makeover, but that it is simultaneously an agent that is integral to the processes of cultural and social change. Conceptualizing the novel of transformation, this comprehensive study of British black literature provides a compelling analytic framework for charting these processes.

Author : Emma Sutton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748637881

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Virginia Woolf and Classical Music by Emma Sutton Pdf

This study is a groundbreaking investigation into the formative influence of music on Virginia Woolf's writing. In this unique study Emma Sutton discusses all of Woolf's novels as well as selected essays and short fiction, offering detailed commentaries on Woolf's numerous allusions to classical repertoire and to composers including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Sutton explores Woolf's interest in the contested relationship between politics and music, placing her work in a matrix of ideas about music and national identity, class, anti-Semitism, pacifism, sexuality and gender. The study also considers the formal influence of music - from fugue to Romantic opera - on Woolf's prose and narrative techniques. The analysis of music's role in Woolf's aesthetics and fiction is contextualized in accounts of her musical education, activities as a listener, and friendships with musicians; and the study outlines the relationship between her 'musicalized' work and that of contemporaries including Joyce, Lawr

Author : Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351536622

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Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England by Leslie Ritchie Pdf

Combining new musicology trends, formal musical analysis, and literary feminist recovery work, Leslie Ritchie examines rare poetic, didactic, fictional, and musical texts written by women in late eighteenth-century Britain. She finds instances of and resistance to contemporary perceptions of music as a form of social control in works by Maria Barthmon, Harriett Abrams, Mary Worgan, Susanna Rowson, Hannah Cowley, and Amelia Opie, among others. Relating women's musical compositions and writings about music to theories of music's function in the formation of female subjectivities during the latter half of the eighteenth century, Ritchie draws on the work of cultural theorists and cultural historians, as well as feminist scholars who have explored the connection between femininity and performance. Whether crafting works consonant with societal ideals of charitable, natural, and national order, or re-imagining their participation in these musical aids to social harmony, women contributed significantly to the formation of British cultural identity. Ritchie's interdisciplinary book will interest scholars working in a range of fields, including gender studies, musicology, eighteenth-century British literature, and cultural studies.

Author : Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521117333

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Romanticism and Music Culture in Britain, 1770-1840 by Gillen D'Arcy Wood Pdf

This book surveys the role of music in British culture throughout the long Romantic period.

Author : Peterson's
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 2292 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780768935202

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Private Secondary Schools: Traditional Day and Boarding Schools by Peterson's Pdf

Peterson's Private Secondary Schools: Traditional Day and Boarding Schools is everything parents need to find the right day or boarding private secondary school for their child. Readers will find hundreds of school profiles plus links to informative two-page in-depth descriptions written by some of the schools. Helpful information includes the school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, subjects offered, special academic programs, tuition, financial aid, student profile, faculty, academic programs, student life, admission information, contacts, and much more.

Author : Peterson's
Publisher : Peterson's
Page : 2708 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780768935189

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Private Secondary Schools by Peterson's Pdf

Peterson's Private Secondary Schools is everything parents need to find the right private secondary school for their child. This valuable resource allows students and parents to compare and select from more that 1,500 schools in the U.S. and Canada, and around the world. Schools featured include independent day schools, special needs schools, and boarding schools (including junior boarding schools for middle-school students). Helpful information listed for each of these schools include: school's area of specialization, setting, affiliation, accreditation, tuition, financial aid, student body, faculty, academic programs, social life, admission information, contacts, and more. Also includes helpful articles on the merits of private education, planning a successful school search, searching for private schools online, finding the perfect match, paying for a private education, tips for taking the necessary standardized tests, semester programs and understanding the private schools' admission application form and process.

Author : United States. Bureau of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Education
ISBN : MSU:31293010098196

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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers by United States. Bureau of Education Pdf

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3152873

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Report of the Federal Security Agency by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Basavaraj S. Naikar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : 8126901225

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Indian English Literature by Basavaraj S. Naikar Pdf

In Recent Years, The Indian English Literature Has Made Conspicuous Progress In All Its Forms, Mainly In Fiction And Poetry. The Present Anthology Aims At Presenting An In-Depth Study Of Nineteen Authors Who Are Both Established As Well As Upcoming Writers: Toru Dutt, Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, R.C. Shukla, Rajendra Singh, Mulk Raj Anand, Kamala Markandaya, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Shiv K. Kumar, Shobha De, Intizar Husain And Mahesh Dattani. Although The Present Anthology Contains Articles On Indian English Poetry, Fiction And Drama, But Fiction Enjoys A Prominent Place.Since Most Of The Authors Included In The Present Volume For Discussion Are Prescribed In The English Syllabus In The Various Indian Universities, It Is Hoped That Both The Teachers And Students Will Find The Book Extremely Useful. Even The General Readers Who Are Interested In Literature In English Will Find It Intellectually Stimulating.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015086683797

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The University Extension Bulletin by Anonim Pdf