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by Adriana Varga
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
“A truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music in Woolf ’s life and writings” (Music and Letters).
Through Virginia Woolf's diaries, letters, fiction, and the testimony of her contemporaries, this fascinating volume explores the inspiration...
Scribal Correction and Literary Craft
English Manuscripts 1375–1510
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, Hoccleve and Lydgate,...
by Marjorie Garber
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays on interdisciplinary topics . . . from Shakespeare to psychoanalysis, and the practice of higher education today.” —Publishers Weekly
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses do on their lunch hour today? This collection of essays...
by Michel Michel
Language: French
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Par un beau soir de juillet 2005, assis confortablement dans mon jardin, je repensais au travail de Cézanne, Van Gogh et bien d’autres tels que Matisse et Braque, par exemple. J’avais vu leurs œuvres dans plusieurs musées, lu sur les uns et sur les autres. Depuis longtemps, il me semblait que...
Narrative Consciousness
Structure and Perception in the Fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Comparatively little critical attention has been devoted to narrative technique in modern fiction, and formal analysis of the work of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet in particular has for the most part been limited to short studies in journals, many of these in languages other than English. The criticism...
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd
The Concept Albums
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This book combines literary and film criticism with musical hermeneutics and discourse analysis to illustrate how sonic information contributes to the detached listener’s interpretations of the discerning messages of Pink Floyd’s monumental recordings. Phil Rose's primary argument is that the...
by Carol Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
W. G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has offered...
Literature and Liberty
Essays in Libertarian Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The economic theories of Karl Marx and his disciples continue to be anthologized in books of literary theory and criticism and taught in humanities classrooms to the exclusion of other, competing economic paradigms. Marxism is collectivist, predictable, monolithic, impersonal, linear, reductive —...
Chamber Music
Selections from Essays in Musical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
This volume features selections from the famous musicologist's acclaimed Essays in Musical Analysis. The contents comprise some of Donald F. Tovey's most important essays, including those on Bach's "Goldberg" Variations and The Art of Fugue as well as considerations of key works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven,...
Wordsworth's Metaphysical Verse
Geometry, Nature, and Form
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1982
In his philosophic verse, Woodsworth identifies the history of poetry and geometrical thought as the two chief treasures of the mind and as main sources of his poetic inspiration. He assigns transcendental value to geometry and indicates that he attempts to apply its proportions to the laws of nature....
The Muse
Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Psychoanalysts have long been fascinated with creative artists, but have paid far less attention to the men and women who motivate, stimulate, and captivate them. The Muse counters this trend with nine original contributions from distinguished psychoanalysts, art historians, and literary scholars—one...
Nestroyana
33. Jahrgang 2013 - Heft 3/4
Language: German
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Die Nestroyana veröffentlichen wissenschaftliche Arbeiten über das Altwiener Volkstheater und im Besonderen über das Werk und die Person Johann Nestroys und berichtet über die Tätigkeit der Internationalen Nestroy-Gesellschaft.
Tragédie
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Partez à la découverte de la tragédie avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
La tragédie naît en Grèce au VIe siècle avant J.-C., mais c'est à Athènes, au cours du Ve siècle, qu'elle trouve sa forme littéraire achevée. Les œuvres tragiques qui nous sont parvenues et que les Grecs...
The Topic of Paralysis. Parallels between 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead' as Beginning and Ending of James Joyce's 'Dubliners'
An Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2009
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, language: English, abstract: In this essay I want to analyse and compare the two short stories 'The Sisters' and 'The Dead' from James Joyce's Dubliners,...