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Orphic Songs

Author : Dino Campana
Publisher : Oberlin College Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orphic Songs written by Dino Campana and published by Oberlin College Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dino Campana wrote the unique, visionary masterwork of Italian literature Orphic Songs when he was in his twenties. The originality, rapturous language, and strange beauty of his poetry make him as important to twentieth-century poetry as GarcA-a Lorca or Mayakovsky. Campana was the wild man of Italian poetry in 1914, on the eve of World War I. The war saved some young Italians from rebellion and from Fascism, but not Campana. Always an outsider, he was a vagabond who worked now and then as a gaucho, miner, fireman, organ-grinder, janitor, circus tumbler, horse groomer, and a wandering musician with a Gypsy band. He died in Castel Pulci, a psychiatric hospital, in 1932.

Canti Orfici / Orphic Songs

Author : Dino Campana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canti Orfici / Orphic Songs written by Dino Campana and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Translation. Dino Campana is without a doubt one of the most striking, dramatic, and exciting figures in Italian literature, and certainly one of the most disputed and controversial. Because this brilliant masterpiece, CANTI ORFICI, occupies such a unique and powerful place in Italian poetry, it is of fundamental importance for twentieth-century Italian literature. Interest in Campana has been growing steadily in the last twenty years, as witnessed by the proliferation of critical and biographical studies, and while translator of this book, Mario Luzi, has defined CANTI ORFICI as "il libro piu libro, piu 'oeuvre' del nostro Novecento" [the book more book, more "oeuvre" of our twentieth century], there are those who are now unabashedly calling Campana one of the greatest poets of the century.

The Trials of Orpheus

Author : Jenny C Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219249
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Orpheus written by Jenny C Mann and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid's version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language's ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113404
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of America's most influential thinkers. His essay, Nature is considered to be the founding document for the Transcendentalism movement, and his influence can be seen in the writings of Whitman, Thoreau, Melville, and countless others. This is a guide on the 19th-century essayist and philosopher.

Hermetalepticon

Author : Greg Castle
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312100958
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Hermetalepticon written by Greg Castle and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "THE HERMETALEPTCON" A Mythological Journey, in the Epic Poetry Tradition, through the width and breadth, of world culture and Archaeological Proto-Civilization - Establishing, a connective narrative arc, to the Atlantean Flood Destruction Cycle, and the mysterious origins, of Mythological Antediluvian Legends, that have subsequently, come down to us, throughout the ages: In an often fascinating similarity, among disparate, geographically isolated societies, yet consistent in their oral and written traditions - Recounting these tales now, from that Universal Ontological Perspective, of the Surviving Tales, of the Biblical Flood - "The Hermetalepticon", is also complimented, with a compendium of Illustrations, making it a unique literary and artistic modern statement: Thus drawing upon the most ancient, collected Mythic Tales, ever recorded, at the dawn, of human history, at the tumultuous conception, of the earliest rise and inspired expression, of World Civilization -

The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author : Hugh Chrisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2092 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by Hugh Chrisholm and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 2092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopædia Britannica

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2106 pages
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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 2106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad

Author : Frances A. Yates
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131797378X
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Giordano Bruno & Hermetic Trad written by Frances A. Yates and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964.

A Sudden Frenzy

Author : James K. Coleman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487563469
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book A Sudden Frenzy written by James K. Coleman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry, which constituted one of the most popular forms of entertainment. A Sudden Frenzy explores the development and impact of these Renaissance practices of improvisation and oral poetry. James K. Coleman shows how the confluence of humanist culture and the art of oral poetry resulted in an extraordinary turn toward improvisation and spontaneity that profoundly influenced poetry, music, and politics. By examining the culture of improvisation, this book reveals the ways in which Renaissance thinkers transcended cultural dichotomies, both in theory and in practice. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including letters, poetry, visual art, and philosophical texts, A Sudden Frenzy reveals the far-reaching and sometimes surprising ways that these phenomena shaped cultural developments in the Italian Renaissance and beyond.

Taking South Park Seriously

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477797
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Taking South Park Seriously written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

Secret Wisdom

Author : Ruth Clydesdale
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398810045
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Secret Wisdom written by Ruth Clydesdale and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the course of our history, a secret few have sought to acquire profound occult knowledge which reveals the inner truth of our existence. From the Mystery cults of Ancient Greece to the Persian knowledge of astrology, Secret Wisdom is an exhilarating exploration of two and a half millennia of occult practices. Learn about the hidden messages in Renaissance art, the alchemy practices of Issac Newton and secret societies which passed on spiritual rites including the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Theosophists and the Golden Dawn. New light is shone on well-known historical figures and the part they played in the global quest for divine understanding including: • John Dee, Elizabeth I's magician • Aleister Crowley, the English occultist • Poets William Blake and William Butler Yeats • Dante, the Italian writer and philosopher Featuring photographs and illustrations which breath life into ancient beliefs, this book is a marvelous journey to discover the most arcane of wisdom.

Poet of Revolution

Author : Nicholas McDowell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691241732
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Poet of Revolution written by Nicholas McDowell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalization John Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defences of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost—but would first justify the killing of a king. Biographers of Milton have always struggled to explain how the young poet became a notorious defender of regicide and other radical ideas such as freedom of the press, religious toleration, and republicanism. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography of Milton’s formative years, Nicholas McDowell draws on recent archival discoveries to reconcile at last the poet and polemicist. He charts Milton’s development from his earliest days as a London schoolboy, through his university life and travels in Italy, to his emergence as a public writer during the English Civil War. At the same time, McDowell presents fresh, richly contextual readings of Milton’s best-known works from this period, including the “Nativity Ode,” “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and “Lycidas.” Challenging biographers who claim that Milton was always a secret radical, Poet of Revolution shows how the events that provoked civil war in England combined with Milton’s astonishing programme of self-education to instil the beliefs that would shape not only his political prose but also his later epic masterpiece.

Music and Historical Critique

Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351557777
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Music and Historical Critique written by Gary Tomlinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Historical Critique provides a definitive collection of Gary Tomlinson's influential studies on critical musicology, with the watchword throughout being history. This collection gathers his most innovative essays and lectures, some of them published here for the first time, along with an introduction outlining the context of the contributions and commenting on their aims and significance. Music and Historical Critique provides a retrospective view of the author's achievements in bringing to the heart of musicological discourse both deep-seated experiences of the past and meditations on the historian's ways of understanding them.

Untimely Epic

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198848560
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Untimely Epic written by Tom Phillips and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine the layers of poetic and intellectual history from which Apollonius crafts his poem. Taking its lead from ancient critical preoccupations with poetry's ethical significance, this volume argues that the Argonautica produces an understanding of time and temporal experience which ramifies variously in readers' lives. When describing the people and creatures who lived the past, Apollonius extends readers' capacity for empathetic response to the worlds inhabited by others. In the ecphrasis of Jason's cloak and the account of Jason's conversations with Medea, readers are invited to scrutinize the relationship between exempla and temporal change, while episodes such as the taking of the Golden Fleece explore links between perceptions and their temporal situation. Running through the poem, and through the readings that comprise this book, is an attention to the intellectual potential of the 'untimely' - objects, experience, and language which do not belong straightforwardly to a particular time. Treatment of such phenomena is crucial to the poem's aspiration to inform and expand readers' understanding of themselves as subjects in and of history.

Orpheus in the Academy

Author : Joel Schwindt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000431339
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Orpheus in the Academy written by Joel Schwindt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the 'first great opera', by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the opera’s performance, and to which the libretto author, Alessandro Striggio the Younger, belonged. Arguing that the Invaghiti played a key role in shaping the development of Orfeo, the author explores the philosophical underpinnings of the Invaghiti and Italian academies of the era. Drawing on new primary sources, he shows how the Invaghiti’s ideas about literature, dramaturgy, music, gender, and aesthetics were engaged and contested in the creation and staging of Orfeo. Relevant to researchers of music history, performance, and Renaissance and Baroque Italy, this study sheds new light on Monteverdi’s opera as an intellectual and philosophical work.

Feasting & Fasting in Opera

Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680500X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Feasting & Fasting in Opera written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feasting and Fasting in Operashows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, opera scholar Pierpaolo Polzonetti explores how convivial culture shaped the birth of opera and opera-going rituals until the mid-nineteenth century, when eating and drinking at the opera house were still common. Through analyses of convivial scenes in operas, the book also shows how the consumption of food and drink, and sharing or the refusal to do so, define characters’ identity and relationships. Feasting and Fasting in Opera moves chronologically from around 1480 to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Wagner’s operatic reforms banished refreshments during the performance and mandated a darkened auditorium and absorbed listening. The book focuses on questions of comedy, pleasure, embodiment, and indulgence—looking at fasting, poisoning, food disorders, body types, diet, and social, ethnic, and gender identities—in both tragic and comic operas from Monteverdi to Puccini. Polzonetti also sheds new light on the diet Maria Callas underwent in preparation for her famous performance as Violetta, the consumptive heroine of Verdi’s La traviata. Neither food lovers nor opera scholars will want to miss Polzonetti’s page-turning and imaginative book.

The Lyric Myth of Voice

Author : Jessica Gabriel Peritz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520380797
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Lyric Myth of Voice written by Jessica Gabriel Peritz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How did 'voice' become a metaphor for selfhood in the Western imagination? The Lyric Myth of Voice situates the emergence of an ideological connection between voice and subjectivity in late eighteenth-century Italy, where long-standing political anxieties and new notions of cultural enlightenment collided in the mythical figure of the lyric poet-singer. Drawing on a range of approaches and frameworks from historical musicology to gender studies, disability studies, anthropology, and literary theory, Jessica Gabriel Peritz shows how this ancient yet modern myth of voice attained interpretable form, flesh, and sound. Ultimately, Peritz argues that music and literature together shaped the singing voice into a tool for civilizing modern Italian subjects"--