Boris Gasparov: 2 books
Five Operas and a Symphony
Word and Music in Russian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In this eagerly anticipated book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary...
Beyond Pure Reason
Ferdinand de Saussure's Philosophy of Language and Its Early Romantic Antecedents
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic...