Emily Bronte And Beethoven

Author : Robert K. Wallace
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332956

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Emily Bronte and Beethoven by Robert K. Wallace Pdf

When Emily Brontë was studying music in Brussels in 1842, she was drawn into the city's appreciation of Beethoven. After her exposure to the works of the great composer, Brontë's creativity flourished and she went on to compose what was to be her only novel--Wuthering Heights. In Emily Brontë and Beethoven, Robert K. Wallace continues to work from the perspective he developed in his Jane Austen and Mozart--integrating two fields that have traditionally been kept apart. Wallace compares Brontë and Beethoven through a close examination of the Romantic traits that their works share. Innovative and stimulating, Wallace's study extends literary criticism into a new context where equilibrium, balance, proportion and symmetry serve as a fulcrum to launch the reader into a new understanding of the formal parallels, the moods and emotions that connect music and literature.

Author : Stevie Davies
Publisher : Northcote House Publishers
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746308349

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Emily Brontë by Stevie Davies Pdf

Subjecting biographical evidence to close examination, Stevie Davies' book questions the legibility of Emily Brontë's life-records, explores the symphonic qualities of Wuthering Heights and establishes Emily Brontë's intellectual stature by study of her works, journals, sheet-music and Brussels essays.

Author : Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351893503

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The Brontës in the World of the Arts by Sandra Hagan,Juliette Wells Pdf

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës, relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music, theatre, and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts, including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions, productions, and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works, with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies, music, art, theatre studies, and material culture, the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts.

Author : Robert K. Wallace
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820333915

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Jane Austen and Mozart by Robert K. Wallace Pdf

Literary critics such as Virginia Woolf and Lionel Trilling had noted intuitive affinities between the art of Jane Austen and that of Mozart, but this 1983 book was the first to compare their artistic style and individual works in a comprehensive way. Extended comparisons are of course difficult because of the intrinsic differences between prose fiction and instrumental music. In Jane Austen and Mozart, Robert K. Wallace has succeeded in making illuminating comparisons of spirit and form in the work of these two artists. His book celebrates the achievements of Austen and Mozart by comparing their stylistic significance in the history of their separate arts and by offering comparisons of three Austen novels with three Mozart piano concertos. In exploring precise similarities between the two artists, Wallace shows how the art and criticism of one field can illuminate the art and criticism of another. Above all, Jane Austen and Mozart attempts to show the degree to which three masterpieces by each artist have comparable meaning and value.

Author : MAGGIE ALLEN
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780244777616

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EMILY BRONTE AND GERMAN ROMANTICISM by MAGGIE ALLEN Pdf

A useful reference guide for anyone studying Emily Bronte or German Romanticism.

Author : John Hennessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1999683617

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Emily Jane Bronte and Her Music by John Hennessy Pdf

Author : Emily Brontë
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192572196

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Pdf

'You said I killed you - haunt me, then!' Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also one of the most potent revenge narratives. The intense and unbreakable bond between the fiery Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has startled and fascinated readers since its first publication in 1847. Of uncertain parentage and ethnicity, Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights as a child when Catherine's father finds him wandering alone through the slave-trading port of Liverpool. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff and Catherine find refuge in each other when the household falls into the hands of Catherine's dissolute older brother. Their bond deepens as they escape together from the violence and stern religion of their home to the Yorkshire moors. But the story of Catherine and Heathcliff's attachment transforms from intimacy to strife when Catherine marries the refined Edgar Linton. The ensuing story of violence and thwarted passion is one of the most powerful tales of the gothic tradition, a literary mode from which Emily Brontë wrings all of its terrifying potential. A regional novel with a global reach, a work of sensational effects with a startling ethical core, Wuthering Heights is both a romantic melodrama and wrenching study of the difficulty of escaping from the legacies of violence. This edition reproduces the authoritative Clarendon text, with revised and expanded notes and a selection from the poems of Emily Brontë.

Author : Norman Lebrecht
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639364121

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Why Beethoven by Norman Lebrecht Pdf

Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn’t exist. By examining one hundred of his compositions, a portrait emerges of the man behind the music. Lebrecht has immersed himself in the rich catalog of Beethoven recordings and presents a unique picture of the man through his music. He selects the best recordings of one hundred key pieces, showing the composer as we’ve never seen him before. Unruly, offensive, and hopeless in so much of his life, yet driven to a fault and devoted to his art, conquering deafness to pen masterpieces. Norman Lebrecht has been grappling with this icon at the heart of music for his entire life. Who was the irascible, unpredictable, warped genius who stretched what music could do to the breaking point? In this unique examination, Lebrecht attempts to understand the power of this man through his compositions, the history of who has performed them, and what it has meant to successive generations of audiences. In turn a detective story (we learn who Elise of “Fur Elise” is for the first time) and a confession, Why Beethoven aims to rise to the challenge of how to encompass the relentless energy of this singular genius. With a narrative that mirrors the wayward sequence of Beethoven’s compositions, Beethoven emerges as a cornerstone of the world as we know it.

Author : Garry Hagberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030730611

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Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection by Garry Hagberg Pdf

This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds of literature. Opening with a look into the relations between philosophical thought and literary interpretation, the volume proceeds through absorbing discussions of the ways we can see life through the lens of literature, the relations between philosophical saying and literary showing, and some ways we can see the literary past philosophically and assess its significance for the present. Taken as a whole, the volume shows how imagined contexts can be a source of knowledge, a source of conceptual clarification, and a source of insight and understanding. And because philosophical thinking is undertaken, after all, in words, a heightened sensitivity to the precise employments of our words – particularly philosophically central words such as truth, reality, perception, knowledge, selfhood, illusion, understanding, falsehood – can bring a clarity and a refreshed sense of the life that our words take on in fully-described contexts of usage. And in these imagined contexts we can also see more acutely and deeply into the meaning of words about words – metaphor and figurative tropes, verbal coherence, intelligibility, implication, sense, and indeed the word “meaning” itself. Moving from a philosophical issue into a literary world in which the central concepts of that issue are in play can thus enrich our comprehension of those concepts and, in the strongest cases, substantively change the way we see them. With a combination of conceptual acuity and literary sensitivity, this volume maps out some of the territory that philosophical reflection and literary engagement share.

Author : Michael Broyles
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253357045

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Beethoven in America by Michael Broyles Pdf

Examines America's early reception to Beethoven, the use of his work and image in American music, movies, stage works, and other forms of popular culture, and related topics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004314863

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Silence and Absence in Literature and Music by Anonim Pdf

This volume focusses on the rarely discussed reverse side of traditional, ‘given’ objects of studies, namely absence rather than presence (of text) and silence rather than sound. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective and covers systematic as well as historical perspectives from the baroque age to the present.

Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198816706

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Moonlighting by Nathan Waddell Pdf

How and why did the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) matter to experimental writers in the early twentieth century? Previous answers to this question have tended to focus on structural analogies between musical works and literary texts, charting the many different ways in which poetry and prose resemble Beethoven's compositions. This book takes a different approach. It focuses on how early twentieth-century writers--chief among them E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Dorothy Richardson, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf--profited from the representational conventions associated in the nineteenth century and beyond with Beethovenian culture. The emphasis of Moonlighting falls for the most part on how modernist writers made use of Beethovenian legend. It is concerned neither with formal similarities between Beethoven's music and modernist writing nor with the music of Beethoven per se, but with certain ways of understanding Beethoven's music which had long before 1900 taken shape as habit, myth, cliche, and fantasy, and with the influence they had on experimental writing up to 1930. Moonlighting suggests that the modernists drew knowingly and creatively on the conventional. It proposes that many of the most experimental works of modernist literature were shaped by a knowing reliance on Beethovenian consensus; in short, that the literary modernists knew Beethovenian legend when they saw it, and that they were eager to use it.

Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520084438

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Music as Cultural Practice, 1800-1900 by Lawrence Kramer Pdf

In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000111153767

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Brontë Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015057436373

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The Beethoven Journal by Anonim Pdf