Cosima

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168235

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Cosima Wagner by Oliver Hilmes Pdf

In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Hilmes paints a fascinating and revealing picture of the extraordinary Cosima Wagner—illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt, wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, then mistress and subsequently wife of Richard Wagner. After Wagner’s death in 1883 Cosima played a crucial role in the promulgation and politicization of his works, assuming control of the Bayreuth Festival and transforming it into a shrine to German nationalism. The High Priestess of the Wagnerian cult, Cosima lived on for almost fifty years, crafting the image of Richard Wagner through her organizational ability and ideological tenacity.The first book to make use of the available documentation at Bayreuth, this biography explores the achievements of this remarkable and obsessive woman while illuminating a still-hidden chapter of European cultural history.

Author : Grazia Deledda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0934977062

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Cosima by Grazia Deledda Pdf

"Cosima" tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last decades of the nineteenth century when formal education for women was rare and literary careers unheard-of. Based on Deledda's own life, the work describes a young woman's struggle against the dismay and disapproval of her family and friends at her creative ambitions. Yet it also reads like a charming fable with details of family life, rural traditions and wild bandits, and it is as much a novel of memory as of character or action. Deledda's characters are poor country folk driven by some predetermined force. Their loves are tragic, their lives as hard and as rigidly controlled as nature itself in the hills of Sardinia. Deledda creates memorable figures who play out their lives against this backdrop of mountains and bare plains, sheepfolds and vineyards. Shimmering in the distance is the sea and escape - for a few - to the Continent or America. In 1926 Grazia Deledda became the second woman and the second Italian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She wrote thirty-three novels, including "Reeds in the Wind," and many books of short stories, almost all set on Sardinia. Her work has become well known to English-speaking readers through Martha King's translations for Italica Press.

Author : Carol Diethe
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252054693

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Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power by Carol Diethe Pdf

A penetrating study of the sister who betrayed and endangered her famous brother's legacy In 1901, a year after her brother Friedrich's death, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche published The Will to Power, a hasty compilation of writings he had never intended for print. In Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power, Carol Diethe contends that Förster-Nietzsche's own will to power and her desire to place herself--not her brother--at the center of cultural life in Germany are centrally responsible for Nietzsche's reputation as a belligerent and proto-Fascist thinker. Offering a new look at Nietzsche's sister from a feminist perspective, this spirited and erudite biography examines why Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche recklessly consorted with anti-Semites, from her own husband to Hitler himself, out of convenience and a desire for revenge against a brother whose love for her waned after she caused the collapse of his friendship with Lou Salomé. The book also examines their family dynamics, Nietzsche's dismissal of his sister's early writing career, and the effects of limited education on intelligent women. Diethe concludes by detailing Förster-Nietzsche's brief marriage and her subsequent colonial venture in Paraguay, maintaining that her sporadic anti-Semitism was, like most things in her life, an expedient tool for cultivating personal success and status. A volume in the series International Nietzsche Studies, edited by Richard Schacht

Author : Alan Walker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801484537

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Franz Liszt: The final years, 1861-1886 by Alan Walker Pdf

This is the third in a set of three books following the life and achievements of Franz Liszt. This volume focuses on his final years, from 1861-1886.

Author : Cosima Wagner
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978-[1980]
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007941597

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Cosima Wagner's Diaries by Cosima Wagner Pdf

Author : Cosima von Bonin,Ann Goldstein
Publisher : Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015076158644

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Cosima Von Bonin by Cosima von Bonin,Ann Goldstein Pdf

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 16, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Author : Steen Leleur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781447124900

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Complex Strategic Choices by Steen Leleur Pdf

Effective decision making requires a clear methodology, particularly in complex, globally relevant situations. Institutions and companies in all disciplines and sectors are faced with increasingly multi-faceted areas of uncertainty which cannot always be effectively handled by traditional strategies. Complex Strategic Choices provides clear principles and methods which can guide and support strategic decision to face modern challenges. By considering ways in which planning practices can be renewed and exploring the possibilities for acquiring awareness and tools to add value to strategic decision making, Complex Strategic Choices presents a methodology which is further illustrated by a number of case studies and example applications. Dr. Techn. Steen Leleur has adapted previously established research based on feedback and input from various conferences, journals and students resulting in new material stemming from and focusing on practical application of systemic planning. The outcome is a coherent and flexible approach named systemic planning. The inclusion of both the theoretical and practical aspects of systemic planning makes this book a key resource for researchers and students in the field of planning and decision analysis as well as practitioners dealing with strategic analysis and decision making. More broadly, Complex Strategic Choices acts as guide for professionals and students involved in complex planning tasks across several fields such as business and engineering.

Author : Alessandra Comini
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780865346611

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The Changing Image of Beethoven by Alessandra Comini Pdf

In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.

Author : Carol Diethe
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810864702

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Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism by Carol Diethe Pdf

'There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.' _Friedrich Nietzsche Few philosophers have been as popular, prolific, and controversial as Friedrich Nietzsche, who has left his imprint not only on philosophy but on all the arts. Whether it is his concept of the Ybermensch or his nihilistic view of the world, Nietzsche's writings have aroused enormous interest, as well as anathema, in scholars for centuries. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Nietzscheanism helps bring the many ideas and concepts developed by the 19th Century philosopher together in one single volume reference. This is accomplished through the use of a chronology, a glossary, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on his major writings, his contemporaries, and his successors.

Author : Michael Saffle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135839536

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Richard Wagner by Michael Saffle Pdf

Richard Wagner: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a composer and performer.

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476674124

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The Women of Orphan Black by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany plays a host of the show's main characters, all clones of an illegal experiment. The mighty heroines save one another and destroy the patriarchy while subverting gender expectations. The feminist clones are Sarah, who clashes with her radical feminist foster-mother; Alison, the quintessential post-feminist housewife; Cosima, a second-wave feminist lesbian; Beth, a third-wave feminist bogged down by addiction; and M.K., a fourth-wave feminist who tackles the hardships of disability through the Internet. The book explores the women's war against corporate power and how it relates to the science and ethics surrounding cloning.

Author : Richard S. Levy,Dean Phillip Bell,William Collins Donahue,Kevin Madigan,Jonathan Morse,Amy Hill Shevitz,Norman A. Stillman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851094448

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Antisemitism [2 volumes] by Richard S. Levy,Dean Phillip Bell,William Collins Donahue,Kevin Madigan,Jonathan Morse,Amy Hill Shevitz,Norman A. Stillman Pdf

Written by top scholars in an accessible manner, this unique encyclopedia offers worldwide coverage of the origins, forms, practitioners, and effects of antisemitism, leading to the Holocaust and surviving to the present day. The word "antisemite" was first used to describe a politically motivated enemy of the Jews in 1879. The subject of antisemitism has often been focused on the Holocaust; however, current events and history have much to add to this discussion. For example, in 1995 a Japanese pseudo-Buddhist religious cult, imagining itself to be under attack by Jews, released sarin gas on the Tokyo subway, killing 12. From 1881 to 1900 there were 128 public accusations of Jewish "ritual murder" allegedly involving the killing of Christian children to use their blood for religious purposes. Entries in this encyclopedia span the period from ancient Egypt to the modern era. Key theoreticians of Jew-hatred and their written works, its permeation of Christianity and modern Islam, and its political, artistic, and economic manifestations are covered. This is the first comprehensive work that deals with the entire history of ideas and practices that engendered the Holocaust.

Author : Hilary Grimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140942720X

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The Late Victorian Gothic by Hilary Grimes Pdf

Examining technological advances, genre and late nineteenth-century mental science, Grimes shows writers' failed attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. She treats a wide range of authors, including Henry James, George Du Maurier, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Vernon Lee and Sarah Grand to show the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Author : Jennifer Uglow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349127047

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Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography by Jennifer Uglow Pdf

The enthusiastic response to the Dictionary has prompted this second substantially enlarged, revised and updated edition. It now contains essential details of the lives of over 2000 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life - from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. The new entries include women who have hit the headlines in the past five years - from Cory Aquino to Madonna - but the historical coverage has also been broadened in response to new research and a special new feature is the extended treatment of women from Third World countries. With subsections for further reading, comprehensive subject index and bibliographical survey, the Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography is an invaluable reference source - and a fascinating bed-time read.

Author : Oliver Hilmes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300219463

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Franz Liszt by Oliver Hilmes Pdf

Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886) was an anomaly. A virtuoso pianist and electrifying showman, he toured extensively throughout the European continent, bringing sold-out audiences to states of ecstasy while courting scandal with his frequent womanizing. Drawing on new, highly revealing documentary sources, including a veritable treasure trove of previously unexamined material on Liszt’s Weimar years, best-selling author Oliver Hilmes shines a spotlight on the extraordinary life and career of this singularly dazzling musical phenomenon. Whereas previous biographies have focused primarily on the composer’s musical contributions, Hilmes showcases Liszt the man in all his many shades and personal reinventions: child prodigy, Romantic eccentric, fervent Catholic, actor, lothario, celebrity, businessman, genius, and extravagant show-off. The author immerses the reader in the intrigues of the nineteenth-century European glitterati (including Liszt’s powerful patrons, the monstrous Wagner clan) while exploring the true, complex face of the artist and the soul of his music. No other Liszt biography in English is as colorful, witty, and compulsively readable, or reveals as much about the true nature of this extraordinary, outrageous talent.