Lyrics Prose

Author : Ric Ocasek
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781101614907

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Lyrics & Prose by Ric Ocasek Pdf

Emerging from the New Wave music scene of the late ‘70s, The Cars catapulted to success with the very first single—“Just What I Needed”—off of their debut album. Led by Ric Ocasek, the lead vocalist (along with Benjamin Orr), rhythm guitarist, and songwriter, The Cars became one of the most successful bands of the ‘80s—and their songs are just as beloved by fans today. Ocasek himself has had an illustrious career beyond The Cars, from writing and performing solo work, publishing poetry in Granta and elsewhere, and producing albums by musical artists like Weezer, Hole, Guided By Voices, and Jonathan Richman. In Lyrics & Prose, Ocasek collects his lyrics together for the first time—and included throughout are Ocasek’s early handwritten notes and set lists, doodles and all. His work spans from The Cars’ self titled debut album in 1978 to Move Like This, released in 2011, as well as Ocasek’s six solo albums. This is not merely a songbook for fans of The Cars, however: Ocasek is a versatile and affecting poet as well as songwriter, and his original verses—interspersed with album artwork and more than twenty-five beautiful black and white photographs—round out this beguiling book.

Author : Wilhelm Füger
Publisher : Heidelberg : Winter
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Prose poems, English
ISBN : UCAL:B3499631

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English Prose Lyrics by Wilhelm Füger Pdf

Author : Cristina Maria Cervone
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780812298512

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What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? by Cristina Maria Cervone Pdf

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines, including literary criticism, musicology, art history, and cognitive science. Since the early 1900s, the poems have been categorized as “lyrics,” the term now used for most kinds of short poetry, yet neither the difficulties nor the promise of this treatment have received enough attention. In one way, the book argues, considering these poems to be lyrics obscures much of what is interesting about them. Since the nineteenth century, lyrics have been thought of as subjective and best read without reference to cultural context, yet nonetheless they are taken to form a distinct literary tradition. Since Middle English short poems are often communal and usually spoken, sung, and/or danced, this lyric template is not a good fit. In another way, however, the very differences between these poems and the later ones on which current debates about the lyric still focus suggest they have much to offer those debates, and vice versa. As its title suggests, this book thus goes back to the basics, asking fundamental questions about what these poems are, how they function formally and culturally, how they are (and are not) related to other bodies of short poetry, and how they might illuminate and be illuminated by contemporary lyric scholarship. Eleven chapters by medievalists and two responses by modernists, all in careful conversation with one another, reflect on these questions and suggest very different answers. The editors’ introduction synthesizes these answers by suggesting that these poems can most usefully be read as a kind of “play,” in several senses of that word. The book ends with eight “new Middle English lyrics” by seven contemporary poets.

Author : W. T. Lhamon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674010620

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Jump Jim Crow by W. T. Lhamon Pdf

Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered—and forever transformed—American popular culture. Jump Jim Crow brings together for the first time the plays and songs performed in this guise and reveals how these texts code the complex use and abuse of blackness that has characterized American culture ever since Jim Crow’s first appearance. Along with the prompt scripts of nine plays performed by Rice—never before published as their original audiences saw them—W. T. Lhamon, Jr., provides a reconstruction of their performance history and a provocative analysis of their contemporary meaning. His reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness, but also how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow’s sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by ordinary people of all colors in antebellum America and early Victorian England. Upstaging conventional stories and forms, giving direction and expression to the unruly attitudes of a burgeoning underclass, the plays in this anthology enact a vital force still felt in great fictions, movies, and musics of the Atlantic and in the jumping, speedy styles that join all these forms.

Author : Thomas C. Stillinger
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812231441

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The Song of Troilus by Thomas C. Stillinger Pdf

The Song of Troilus traces the origins of modern authorship in the formal experimentation of medieval writers. Thomas C. Stillinger analyzes a sequence of narrative books that are in some way constructed around lyric poems: Dante's Vita Nuova, Bocaccio's Filostrato, and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. The shared aim of these texts, he argues, is to imagine and achieve an unprecedented auctoritas: a "lyric authority" that combines the expressive subjectivity of courtly love poetry with the impersonal authority of Biblical commentary. Each of the three establishes its own formal and intertextual dynamics; in complex and unexpected ways, the hierarchies of Latin learning are charged with erotic force, allowing the creation of a new vernacular Book of Love. The Song of Troilus is a linked series of incisive close readings. Each chapter defines and investigates a range of philological, intertextual, and theoretical problems; in addition to explicating his three principal texts, Stillinger offers important insights into a range of medieval traditions, from Psalm commentary to Trojan historiography to Ricardian political satire. At the same time, The Song of Troilus is a sophisticated narrative of cultural change and a searching meditation on history, desire, and writing. The Song of Troilus is an original and highly readable study of three major medieval texts; it will be of compelling interest to students and scholars of medieval literature, and to all those exploring the history of authorship and the implications of literary form.

Author : Richard Rankin Russell
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268091811

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Seamus Heaney’s Regions by Richard Rankin Russell Pdf

Regional voices from England, Ireland, and Scotland inspired Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel prize-winner, to become a poet, and his home region of Northern Ireland provided the subject matter for much of his poetry. In his work, Heaney explored, recorded, and preserved both the disappearing agrarian life of his origins and the dramatic rise of sectarianism and the subsequent outbreak of the Northern Irish “Troubles” beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Heaney consistently imagined a new region of Northern Ireland where the conflicts that have long beset it and, by extension, the relationship between Ireland and the United Kingdom might be synthesized and resolved. Finally, there is a third region Heaney committed himself to explore and map—the spirit region, that world beyond our ken. In Seamus Heaney’s Regions, Richard Rankin Russell argues that Heaney’s regions—the first, geographic, historical, political, cultural, linguistic; the second, a future where peace, even reconciliation, might one day flourish; the third, the life beyond this one—offer the best entrance into and a unified understanding of Heaney’s body of work in poetry, prose, translations, and drama. As Russell shows, Heaney believed in the power of ideas—and the texts representing them—to begin resolving historical divisions. For Russell, Heaney’s regionalist poetry contains a “Hegelian synthesis” view of history that imagines potential resolutions to the conflicts that have plagued Ireland and Northern Ireland for centuries. Drawing on extensive archival and primary material by the poet, Seamus Heaney’s Regions examines Heaney’s work from before his first published poetry volume, Death of a Naturalist in 1966, to his most recent volume, the elegiac Human Chain in 2010, to provide the most comprehensive treatment of the poet’s work to date.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555100715

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Reports from Commissioners by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Schools inquiry commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555057895

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Report of the commissioners by Schools inquiry commission Pdf

Author : Jon Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108489812

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Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God by Jon Stewart Pdf

Ground-breaking dual biography that explores pop music's two most influential songwriters, offering new insights into their creative thinking.

Author : Western Reserve University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066594865

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Western Reserve University Bulletin by Western Reserve University Pdf

Beginning 19 - each bulletin contains details of curricula, course description, college rules, etc., for one of the schools or colleges at Western Reserve University.

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226071343

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Reading in the Wilderness by Jessica Brantley Pdf

Just as twenty-first-century technologies like blogs and wikis have transformed the once private act of reading into a public enterprise, devotional reading experiences in the Middle Ages were dependent upon an oscillation between the solitary and the communal. In Reading in the Wilderness, Jessica Brantley uses tools from both literary criticism and art history to illuminate Additional MS 37049, an illustrated Carthusian miscellany housed in the British Library. This revealing artifact, Brantley argues, closes the gap between group spectatorship and private study in late medieval England. Drawing on the work of W. J. T. Mitchell, Michael Camille, and others working at the image-text crossroads, Reading in the Wilderness addresses the manuscript’s texts and illustrations to examine connections between reading and performance within the solitary monk’s cell and also outside. Brantley reimagines the medieval codex as a site where the meanings of images and words are performed, both publicly and privately, in the act of reading.

Author : Christa Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735349615

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Beloved by Christa Wells Pdf

BELOVED is a collection of poetry and prose made of equal parts heartache and ecstasy. Born in an upward fall out of certainty and into a transcendent belovedness, this book is a companion for anyone on the journey of transformation by loss. Lyrics from songs written and recorded during the same period of time echo the book's themes of loving deeply and letting go.

Author : Charles Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521425670

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The Cambridge History of Russian Literature by Charles Moser Pdf

An updated edition of this comprehensive narrative history, first published in 1989, incorporating a new chapter on the latest developments in Russian literature and additional bibliographical information. The individual chapters are by well-known specialists, and provide chronological coverage from the medieval period on, giving particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and including extensive discussion of works written outside the Soviet Union. The book is accessible to students and non-specialists, as well as to scholars of literature, and provides a wealth of information.

Author : Alan Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107652613

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Literature of the Holocaust by Alan Rosen Pdf

During and in the aftermath of the dark period of the Holocaust, writers across Europe and America sought to express their feelings and experiences through their writings. This book provides a comprehensive account of these writings through essays from expert scholars, covering a wide geographic, linguistic, thematic and generic range of materials. Such an overview is particularly appropriate at a time when the corpus of Holocaust literature has grown to immense proportions and when guidance is needed in determining a canon of essential readings, a context to interpret them, and a paradigm for the evolution of writing on the Holocaust. The expert contributors to this volume, who negotiate the literature in the original languages, provide insight into the influence of national traditions and the importance of language, especially but not exclusively Yiddish and Hebrew, to the literary response arising from the Holocaust.

Author : Jessica Brantley
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812298451

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Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms by Jessica Brantley Pdf

In Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms, Jessica Brantley offers an innovative introduction to manuscript culture that uses the artifacts themselves to open some of the most vital theoretical questions in medieval literary studies. With nearly 200 illustrations, many of them in color, the book offers both a broad survey of the physical forms and cultural histories of manuscripts and a dozen case studies of particularly significant literary witnesses, including the Beowulf manuscript, the St. Albans Psalter, the Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales, and The Book of Margery Kempe. Practical discussions of parchment, scripts, decoration, illustration, and bindings mix with consideration of such conceptual categories as ownership, authorship, language, miscellaneity, geography, writing, editing, mediation, illustration, and performance—as well as of the status of the literary itself. Each case study includes an essay orienting the reader to particularly productive categories of analysis and a selected bibliography for further research. Because a high-quality digital surrogate exists for each of the selected manuscripts, fully and freely available online, readers can gain access to the artifacts in their entirety, enabling further individual exploration and facilitating the book’s classroom use. Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms aims to inspire a broad group of readers with some of the excitement of literary manuscript studies in the twenty-first century. The interpretative frameworks surrounding each object will assist everyone in thinking through the implications of manuscript culture more generally, not only for the deeper study of the literature of the Middle Ages, but also for a better understanding of book cultures of any era, including our own.