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The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

Author : John D. Morgenstern
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954293

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The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual by John D. Morgenstern Pdf

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual features the year’s best scholarship on this major literary figure.

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte

Author : John Rudlin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031105111

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The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte by John Rudlin Pdf

The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalone, Scaramouche, Colombina and the male Lover is also investigated, though they had no final forms of their own. This study constitutes a history of what happened, notably in France and Great Britain, to a supremely popular theatrical genre as a result of changing fashions in entertainment brought on by societal developments, civil and industrial revolution and dynastic change. It investigates how the genre was exploited by management, and even its own stars, lost its vitality and gradually ended up in ‘sunken’ forms.

The Ink of Melancholy

Author : André Bleikasten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253023438

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The Ink of Melancholy by André Bleikasten Pdf

Ink of Melancholy re-examines and re-evaluates William Faulkner's work from the late 1920s to the early 1940s, one of his most creative periods. Rather than approach Faulkner's fiction through a prefabricated grid, André Bleikasten concentrates on the texts themselves—on the motivations and circumstances of their composition, on the rich array of their themes, structures, textures, points of emphasis and repetition, as well as their rifts and gaps—while drawing on the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology. Brilliant in its thought and argument, Ink of Melancholy is one of the most insightful and stimulating studies of Faulkner's work.

Schonberg and Kandinsky

Author : Konrad Boehmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136649288

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Schonberg and Kandinsky by Konrad Boehmer Pdf

The historic encounter around 1911 between the composer Arnold Schönberg and the painter Wassily Kandinsky occurred at a moment when the first wild revolts against traditional art, Dada and Futurism, had just manifested themselves. Independently of those sometimes spectacular activities, both Schönberg and Kandinsky had already concluded that the material and the compositional methods they had relied on in the past were exhausted and did not satisfy the development of their artistic ideas. Both artists had already submitted their modes of production to a critical analysis which resulted in Schonberg's Theory of Harmony and Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art , both of 1911 - indeed the two artists had already been putting their self-criticism into practice for some time. In Schönberg's case this led to breaking with tonality; Kandinsky effected the transition to abstract painting. This book is a collection of the papers presented at the conference on Schönberg and Kandin

Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words'

Author : Rose-Carol Washton Long
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039107046

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Of 'truths Impossible to Put in Words' by Rose-Carol Washton Long Pdf

This volume of essays relate Max Beckmann's work to the tangible circumstances of its production and reception. The essays contextualise aspects of Beckmann's early, middle, and late career by way of detailed reference to contemporary music, film, philosophy, theatre, history, sports and exile.

The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923

Author : Bryan R. Simms
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195351859

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The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923 by Bryan R. Simms Pdf

Between 1908 and 1923, Arnold Schoenberg began writing music that went against many of the accepted concepts and practices of this art. Largely following his intuition during these years, he composed some of the masterpieces of the modern repertoire--including Pierrot lunaire and Erwartung--works that have since provoked a large, though fragmented, body of critical and analytical writing. In this book, Bryan Simms combines a historical study with a close analytical reading of the music to give us a new and richer understanding of Schoenberg's seminal work during this period.

The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg

Author : Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781139828079

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The Cambridge Companion to Schoenberg by Jennifer Shaw,Joseph Auner Pdf

Arnold Schoenberg – composer, theorist, teacher, painter, and one of the most important and controversial figures in twentieth-century music. This Companion presents engaging essays by leading scholars on Schoenberg's central works, writings, and ideas over his long life in Vienna, Berlin, and Los Angeles. Challenging monolithic views of the composer as an isolated elitist, the volume demonstrates that what has kept Schoenberg and his music interesting and provocative was his profound engagement with the musical traditions he inherited and transformed, with the broad range of musical and artistic developments during his lifetime he critiqued and incorporated, and with the fundamental cultural, social, and political disruptions through which he lived. The book provides introductions to Schoenberg's most important works, and to his groundbreaking innovations including his twelve-tone compositions. Chapters also examine Schoenberg's lasting influence on other composers and writers over the last century.

Three Loves for Three Oranges

Author : Dassia N. Posner,Kevin Bartig,Maria De Simone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780253057891

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Three Loves for Three Oranges by Dassia N. Posner,Kevin Bartig,Maria De Simone Pdf

In 1921, Sergei Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges—one of the earliest, most famous examples of modernist opera—premiered in Chicago. Prokofiev's source was a 1913 theatrical divertissement by Vsevolod Meyerhold, who, in turn, took inspiration from Carlo Gozzi's 1761 commedia dell'arte–infused theatrical fairy tale. Only by examining these whimsical, provocative works together can we understand the full significance of their intertwined lineage. With contributions from 17 distinguished scholars in theater, art history, Italian, Slavic studies, and musicology, Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi, Meyerhold, Prokofiev illuminates the historical development of Modernism in the arts, the ways in which commedia dell'arte's self-referential and improvisatory elements have inspired theater and music innovations, and how polemical playfulness informs creation. A resource for scholars and theater lovers alike, this collection of essays, paired with new translations of Love for Three Oranges, charts the transformations and transpositions that this fantastical tale underwent to provoke theatrical revolutions that still reverberate today.

The Song Cycle

Author : Laura Tunbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521896443

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The Song Cycle by Laura Tunbridge Pdf

Investigates how other types of music have influenced the scope of the song cycle, from operas and symphonies to popular song --

Schoenberg

Author : Jonathan Dunsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521387159

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Schoenberg by Jonathan Dunsby Pdf

Pierrot Lunaire (1912) is one of the most important music theatre works ever written. This is the first guide in English to a work which continues to be performed, broadcast and recorded worldwide. The book describes the artistic environment around the turn of the century from which Pierrot emerged and discusses Schoenberg's working methods and intentions in its composition. The composer's artistic development up to 1912 is contemplated as a backdrop to this extraordinarily original creative act, and the significance of Pierrot in the unfolding of twentieth-century music is a recurrent topic of the text. In a clear and imaginative description of the work itself, the author takes each of the 21 melodramas in turn, considering both the music and the narrative. The text of all 21 poems is provided in German and in a new English translation by Andrew Porter.

Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History

Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313033575

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Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History by Vicki K. Janik Pdf

Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.

David Bowie

Author : Eoin Devereux,Aileen Dillane,Martin Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317754497

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David Bowie by Eoin Devereux,Aileen Dillane,Martin Power Pdf

David Bowie: Critical Perspectives examines in detail the many layers of one of the most intriguing and influential icons in popular culture. This interdisciplinary book brings together established and emerging scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including musicology, sociology, art history, literary theory, philosophy, politics, film studies and media studies. Bowie’s complexity as a singer, songwriter, producer, performer, actor and artist demands that any critical engagement with his overall work must be interdisciplinary and wide-ranging in its scope. The chapters are organised around the key themes of ‘textualities’, ‘psychologies’, ‘orientalisms’, ‘art and agency’ and ‘performing and influencing’ in Bowie’s work. This comprehensive book contributes a great deal to the study of popular music, performance, gender, religion, popular media and celebrity.

The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation

Author : Alexis Weedon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030724764

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The Origins of Transmedia Storytelling in Early Twentieth Century Adaptation by Alexis Weedon Pdf

This book explores the significance of professional writers and their role in developing British storytelling in the 1920s and 1930s, and their influence on the poetics of today’s transmedia storytelling. Modern techniques can be traced back to the early twentieth century when film, radio and television provided professional writers with new formats and revenue streams for their fiction. The book explores the contribution of four British authors, household names in their day, who adapted work for film, television and radio. Although celebrities between the wars, Clemence Dane, G.B. Stern, Hugh Walpole and A.E.W Mason have fallen from view. The popular playwright Dane, witty novelist Stern and raconteur Walpole have been marginalised for being German, Jewish, female or gay and Mason’s contribution to film has been overlooked also. It argues that these and other vocational authors should be reassessed for their contribution to new media forms of storytelling. The book makes a significant contribution in the fields of media studies, adaptation studies, and the literary middlebrow.

The Naked Truth

Author : Alys X. George
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226819969

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The Naked Truth by Alys X. George Pdf

"In the popular imagination, turn-of-the-century Vienna is a cerebral place, marked by Freud, the discovery of the unconscious, and the advent of high modernist culture. But as historian Alys George argues, this stereotype of Viennese Modernism as essentially "heady" overlooks a rich cultural history of the body in the period. Spanning 1870 to 1930, The Naked Truth is an interdisciplinary tour de force that recasts the visual, literary, and performative cultures of the era and offers an alternative genealogy of this fascinating moment in the history of the West. Starting with the Second Vienna Medical School and its innovations in anatomy and pathology, George traces an emerging culture of bodily knowledge by analyzing a variety of written and visual media, including theater and dance, and by drawing connections between scientific and artistic discourses. Paying equal attention to both low and high culture, bringing gender and class issues back to the fore, and highlighting the role of female thinkers and writers, George's book makes a signal contribution to our understanding of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Viennese and European culture. The Naked Truth shows us that the "inward turn" cannot be understood until it is set against the backdrop of a culture obsessed with exploring and displaying humanity in its embodied, carnal form"--