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19 produkter
Untwisting the Serpent
Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
Häftad, 1999
437 kr
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From its dissonant musics to its surrealist spectacles (the urinal is a violin!), Modernist art often seems to give more frustration than pleasure to its audience. In this text Daniel Albright shows that this perception arises partly because we usually consider each art form in isolation, even …
Modernism and Music
An Anthology of Sources
Häftad, 2004
518 kr
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If in earlier eras music may have seemed slow to respond to advances in other artistic media, during the modernist age it asserted itself in the vanguard. Modernism and Music provides a rich selection of texts on this moment, some translated into English for the first time. It offers not only …
Music's Monisms
Disarticulating Modernism
Inbunden, 2021
430 kr
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Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely passing. In Music’s Monisms, he shows how musical and literary phenomena alike can be fruitfully investigated through the lens of monism, a philosophical …
Music's Monisms
Disarticulating Modernism
E-bok, 2021
932 kr
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Daniel Albright investigates musical phenomena through the lens of monism, the philosophical belief that things that appear to be two are actually one. Daniel Albright was one of the preeminent scholars of musical and literary modernism, leaving behind a rich body of work before his untimely …
Panaesthetics
On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts
Inbunden, 2014
931 kr
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While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there many different arts, or is there one art which takes different …
Quantum Poetics
Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism
Häftad, 2006
824 kr
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Quantum Poetics examines the way modernist poets appropriated scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the pre-verbal origins of poetry. Daniel Albright traces Modernism's search for the elementary particles from which poems were constructed. The poetic possibilities offered by …
Quantum Poetics
Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism
Inbunden, 1997
1797 kr
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Quantum Poetics examines the way modernist poets appropriated scientific metaphors as part of a general search for the pre-verbal origins of poetry. Daniel Albright traces Modernism's search for the elementary particles from which poems were constructed. The poetic possibilities offered by …
Beckett and Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2003
1872 kr
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Beckett and Aesthetics, first published in 2003, examines Samuel Beckett's struggle with the recalcitrance of artistic media, their refusal to yield to his artistic purposes. As a young man Beckett hoped that writing could provide psychic authenticity and true representation of the physical world; …
Tennyson
The Muses' Tug of War
Inbunden, 1986
792 kr
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Albright contends that Tennyson's ``aesthetic goals were . . . in conflict'' and that his poetry attempts to ``unite two incompatible poetics,'' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an earthly muse suspicious of the idealizations and abstractions held dear by the first. The result is a …
Tennyson
The Muses' Tug of War
Häftad, 2015
514 kr
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Albright contends that Tennyson's ``aesthetic goals were . . . in conflict'' and that his poetry attempts to ``unite two incompatible poetics,'' one governed by a heavenly muse, the other by an earthly muse suspicious of the idealizations and abstractions held dear by the first. The result is a …
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Inbunden, 2015
832 kr
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How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression-there was a special belligerence to this …
Putting Modernism Together
Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Häftad, 2015
495 kr
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How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression-there was a special belligerence to this …
Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten
Great Shakespeareans: Volume Xi
E-bok, 2013
645 kr
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Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner …
Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten
Great Shakespeareans: Volume XI
Häftad, 2014
596 kr
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We are used to thinking of critical discourse on Shakespeare as occurring in the realm of language. But music has interpretive powers of its own. In this volume we see how the powerful dramatic intelligences of four exceedingly gifted composers – Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, and Britten – provide …
Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten
Great Shakespeareans: Volume Xi
E-bok, 2014
631 kr
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Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner …
Berlioz's Semi-Operas
Roméo et Juliette and La damnation de Faust
Inbunden, 2001
1290 kr
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A full-length study of two of Berlioz's most unique works, which combine the highest goals of both symphony and opera and incorporate two of the greatest classics of Western literature into a total fusion of the arts.This work studies two works that are among the most challenging of the entire …
Musicking Shakespeare
A Conflict of Theatres
Inbunden, 2007
1399 kr
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Demonstrates how Purcell, Berlioz, Verdi, and Britten, responding to Shakespeare's juxtaposition of contrasting theatrical styles, devised music dramas that call opera into question.In this book, Daniel Albright, one of today's most intrepid and vividly communicative explorers of the border …
Music Speaks
On the Language of Opera, Dance, and Song
Inbunden, 2009
958 kr
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Explores the meaning[s] of music, the most intricate and significant language invented by our culture.From Daniel Albright, author of Musicking Shakespeare and Berlioz's Semi-Operas, comes a collection of essays on music and on dance, probing the problems of articulating the meaning[s] of music; …
