Axel Englund - Böcker

The first book to use subversive sexuality as a lens¿through which to provocatively view opera in the 21st century. Imagine Armida, Handel's Saracen sorceress, performing her breakneck coloraturas in a black figure-hugging rubber dress, beating he...

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Romantikens dikt hade gjort musiken till sin förebild: den var andens och känslans främsta uttryck, en universell konstart som samtidigt i allt högre grad kom att förkroppsligas av ett antal tyska och österrikiska tonsättare. När det borgerliga sa...

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What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain it...

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What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain it...

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What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain it...

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What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain it...

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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to con...

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Languages of Exile examines the relationship between geographic and linguistic border crossings in twentieth-century literature. Like no period before it, the last century was marked by the experience of expatriation, forcing exiled writers to con...

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Möjligheten att nå fram till något autentiskt har blivit föremål för en kritisk dekonstruktion; längtan efter det genuina och ursprungliga uppfattas alltmer som ideologiskt tveksamt; genomkommersialiseringen av samhället urholkar idén om äkthet nä...

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W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) har länge betraktats som en av de viktigaste författarna kring millennieskiftet, och hans prosa har kommit att inta en alltmer central plats i samtalet om vår tids litteratur. Men det finns också en helt annan sida av hans ...

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