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Olivier Messiaen
Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (1937–1948)
Av Richard D E Burton, Roger Nichols
Inbunden, 2016
2178 kr
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The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith. Unsurprisingly, many performers and listeners consider Messiaen's strong religiosity central to their appreciation of the composer's music. Music scholars …
Olivier Messiaen
Texts, Contexts, and Intertexts (1937--1948)
Av Richard D E Burton, Roger Nichols
E-bok, 2016
1413 kr
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The 20th century French composer Olivier Messiaen was a devout Roman Catholic and notably claimed that his music was an expression of his faith. Unsurprisingly, many performers and listeners consider Messiaen''s strong religiosity central to their appreciation of the composer''s music. Music …
Baudelaire and the Second Republic
Writing and Revolution
Inbunden, 1991
1282 kr
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Baudelaire and the Second Republic is the first fully comprehensive study of Baudelaire's actions, reactions, and writings from the Revolution of February 1848 to the Bonapartist coup d'état of December 1851. The picture of Baudelaire that emerges from the biographical, textual and contextual …
Baudelaire in 1859
A Study in the Sources of Poetic Creativity
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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This book is an intensive study of what was by far the most productive year in Baudelaire's literary career. It combines biographical investigation with detailed textual analysis in order to locate the sources of the extraordinary 'explosion' (Baudelaires' own word) of poetic creativity that he …
flâneur and his city
Patterns of daily life in Paris 1815–1851
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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The book provides a ‘flâneur’s eye view’ of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafés and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. The author provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in ‘le vieux Paris’. …
Afro-Creole
Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
Inbunden, 1997
1646 kr
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This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure—were transformed by …
Blood in the City
Violence and Revelation in Paris, 1789–1945
Inbunden, 2001
1011 kr
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The Terror of 1793-94, the Paris Commune of 1871, the Dreyfus Affair—explosions of violence punctuated French history from the start of the Revolution until the Liberation at the close of World War II. The distinguished scholar Richard D. E. Burton here offers a stunningly original account of these …
Holy Tears, Holy Blood
Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840–1970
Inbunden, 2004
996 kr
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In Holy Tears, Holy Blood, Richard D. E. Burton continues his investigation of Catholic France from Revolution to Liberation. From his focus in Blood in the City on public demonstrations of the cultural power of Catholicism, he now turns to more private rituals, those codes of conduct that shaped …
Afro-Creole
Power, Opposition, and Play in the Caribbean
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure—were transformed by …
French and West Indian
Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana Today
Av Richard D. E. Burton, Fred Reno
Häftad, 1995
427 kr
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