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Author : Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Selected Plays and Libretti written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Riley
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651512
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination written by Charles A. Riley and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism generally signifies the efforts of late 19th century European painters, writers, musicians and philosophers who consciously broke with tradition. This is an examination of what that meant for those aristocrats who were also modernists.
Author : Alice Goodman
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681370646
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book History is Our Mother: Three Libretti written by Alice Goodman and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first appearance of Alice Goodman's two internationally-renowned and controversial libretti, alongside one of her masterful translations. An NYRB Classics Original Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer played a crucial role in bringing opera back to life as a contemporary art form, and they have been popular—and, in the case of Klinghoffer, highly controversial—ever since they were first staged by the director Peter Sellars in the eighties and nineties. Both operas were conceived from the start as collaborations between composer and writer, and their power is due as much to the dazzlingly constructed and deeply felt libretti of the poet Alice Goodman as they are to John Adams’s music. Nixon in China is a story, at once heroic, comic, and unnerving, of men and women making history and of their different conceptions of what history is and what it means to makes it. Klinghoffer, by contrast, has at its center the tragedy of an innocent man condemned at the cost of his life to play a part in history. History Is Our Mother, which takes its title from a line sung by the title character in Nixon in China, brings Goodman’s two libretti together for the first time in book form. Included alongside Goodman’s no less inspired translation of Emanuel Schikaneder’s famous libretto to The Magic Flute, these vivid dramas of character and searching meditations on fate are here revealed as among the most original, ambitious, and accomplished poetic achievements of our time.
Author : Buford Norman
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781883479350
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Touched by the Graces written by Buford Norman and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After situating the libretti in the context of French classicism, the author first discusses the prologues to the Quinault-Lully operas, then devotes a chapter to each of the libretti in which he examines such traditional literary elements as performance history, plot, characterization, and style, as well as issues more specifically related to musical theater. The concluding chapter summarizes what opera can tell us about French classicism and explores in depth some of the key theoretical issues such as representation, imitation, and recognition.
Author : Bryan Gilliam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316123154
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Rounding Wagner's Mountain written by Bryan Gilliam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Strauss' fifteen operas, which span the years 1893 to 1941, make up the largest German operatic legacy since Wagner's operas of the nineteenth century. Many of Strauss's works were based on texts by Europe's finest writers: Oscar Wilde, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Stefan Zweig, among others, and they also overlap some of the most important and tumultuous stretches of German history, such as the founding and demise of a German empire, the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, the period of National Socialism, and the post-war years, which saw a divided East and West Germany. In the first book to discuss all Strauss's operas, Bryan Gilliam sets each work in its historical, aesthetic, philosophical, and literary context to reveal what made the composer's legacy unique. Addressing Wagner's cultural influence upon this legacy, Gilliam also offers new insights into the thematic and harmonic features that recur in Strauss's compositions.
Author : Gerald Gillespie
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291640
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Romantic Prose Fiction written by Gerald Gillespie and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume a team of three dozen international experts presents a fresh picture of literary prose fiction in the Romantic age seen from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. The work treats the appearance of major themes in characteristically Romantic versions, the power of Romantic discourse to reshape imaginative writing, and a series of crucial reactions to the impact of Romanticism on cultural life down to the present, both in Europe and in the New World. Through its combination of chapters on thematic, generic, and discursive features, Romantic Prose Fiction achieves a unique theoretical stance, by considering the opinions of primary Romantics and their successors not as guiding “truths” by which to define the permanent “meaning” of Romanticism, but as data of cultural history that shed important light on an evolving civilization.SPECIAL OFFER: 30% discount for a complete set order (5 vols.).The Romanticism series in the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages is the result of a remarkable international collaboration. The editorial team coordinated the efforts of over 100 experts from more than two dozen countries to produce five independently conceived, yet interrelated volumes that show not only how Romanticism developed and spread in its principal European homelands and throughout the New World, but also the ways in which the affected literatures in reaction to Romanticism have redefined themselves on into Modernism. A glance at the index of each volume quickly reveals the extraordinary richness of the series’ total contents. Romantic Irony sets the broader experimental parameters of comparison by concentrating on the myriad expressions of “irony” as one of the major impulses in the Romantic philosophical and artistic revolution, and by combining cross-cultural and interdisciplinary studies with special attention also to literatures in less widely diffused language streams. Romantic Drama traces creative innovations that deeply altered the understanding of genre at large, fed popular imagination through vehicles like the opera, and laid the foundations for a modernist theater of the absurd. Romantic Poetry demonstrates deep patterns and a sharing of crucial themes of the revolutionary age which underlie the lyrical expression that flourished in so many languages and environments. Nonfictional Romantic Prose assists us in coping with the vast array of writings from the personal and intimate sphere to modes of public discourse, including Romanticism’s own self-commentary in theoretical statements on the arts, society, life, the sciences, and more. Nor are the discursive dimensions of imaginative literature neglected in the closing volume, Romantic Prose Fiction, where the basic Romantic themes and story types (the romance, novel, novella, short story, and other narrative forms) are considered throughout Europe and the New World. This enormous realm is seen not just in terms of Romantic theorizing, but in the light of the impact of Romantic ideas and narration on later generations. As an aid to readers, the introduction to Romantic Prose Fiction explains the relationships among the volumes in the series and carries a listing of their tables of contents in an appendix. No other series exists comparable to these volumes which treat the entirety of Romanticism as a cultural happening across the whole breadth of the “Old” and “New” Worlds and thus render a complex picture of European spiritual strivings in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, a heritage still very close to our age.
Author : Sophie Salvo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226827712
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Articulating Difference written by Sophie Salvo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-10-08 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriches contemporary debates about gender and language by probing the histories of the philosophy and sciences of language. Drawing on a wide range of texts, from understudied ethnographic and scientific works to canonical literature and philosophy, Sophie Salvo uncovers the prehistory of the inextricability of gender and language. Taking German discourses on language as her focus, she argues that we are not the inventors but, rather, the inheritors and adapters of the notion that gender and language are interrelated. Particularly during the long nineteenth century, ideas about sexual differences shaped how language was understood, classified, and analyzed. As Salvo explains, philosophers asserted the patriarchal origins of language, linguists investigated “women’s languages” and grammatical gender, and literary Modernists imagined “feminine” sign systems, and in doing so they not only deemed sex-based divisions to be necessary categories of language but also produced a plethora of gendered tropes and fictions, which they used both to support their claims and delimit their disciplines. Articulating Difference charts new territory, revealing how gendered conceptions of language make possible the misogynistic logic of exclusion that underlies arguments claiming, for example, that women cannot be great orators or writers. While Salvo focuses on how male scholars aligned language study with masculinity, she also uncovers how women responded, highlighting the contributions of understudied nineteenth-century works on language that women wrote even as they were excluded from academic opportunities.
Author : Alexander Norman Jeffares
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389208754
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Yeats the European written by Alexander Norman Jeffares and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: H.S.H. Princess Caroline; Opening Address; C. George Sandulescu, Preface; A. Norman Jeffares, Address on Yeats the European; Alasdair D.F. Macrae, When Years Summoned Golden Codgers To His Side; Helen Vendler, Yeats As A European Poet: The Poetics of Cacophony; Patrick Rafroidi, Yeats's France Revisited; Denis Donoghue, Yeats and European Criticism; Jacqueline Genet, Villiers De l'Isle Adam and W.B. Yeats; Warwick Gould, A Crowded Theatre: Yeats and Balzac; Birgit Bramsb0/00ck, Yeats and The 'Bounty of Sweden'; Peter R. Kuch, A Few Twigs From The Wild Bird's Nest; C.K. Stead, Yeats The European; Michael Sidnell, The Presence of The Poet: Or What Sat Down At The Breakfast Table; Ronald Schuchard, Yeats, Titian and The New French Painting; John Kelly, Caelum Non Animum Mutant; William M. Murphy, Lily Yeats, W.B. Yeats, and France; Ann Saddlemyer, Georgie Hyde Lees: More Than A Poet's Wife; Michael Alexander, Savants and Artists: Pound and Yeats; Bernard Hickey, Lady Gregory: Coole and Ca'Cappello Layard; Andrew Parkin, W.B. Yeats and Other Europeans; Masaru Sekine, Four Plays For Dancers: Japanese Aesthetics and A European Mind; George Watson, Yeats, Ibsen and The 'New Woman'; Toni Cerutti, Yeatsian Studies In Italy Today; Heinz Kosok, Yeats In Germany; A. Norman Jeffares; Contributors; Index^R
Author : David H. Miles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087033X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Hofmannsthal's Novel Andreas written by David H. Miles and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Hofmannsthal never completed his only novel Andreas, its theme—the quest for self through memory—haunted the Viennese writer and recurs again and again in his poems, libretti, and essays. Analyzing the fragment, David Miles discusses Hofmannsthal's understanding of memory and myth, Andreas' pivotal role in his work, and its place within the tradition of such novels as Goethe's Wilhelm Meister and Rilke's Malte. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Klemens von Klemperer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313000492
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book German Incertitudes, 1914-1945 written by Klemens von Klemperer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern Germany has all too readily been seen in terms of an historical process that inevitably led to the horrors of National Socialism. As there are no certitudes in life, however, so there are none in German history. In this book, historian Klemens von Klemperer focuses on what he terms the German Incertitudes--namely, the tensions between a realistic acceptance of disenchantment with the modern world, and an insistence upon reenchantment. Exploring this tension through a critical assessment of the ideas and writings of major German thinkers, von Klemperer seeks to account for both the achievements and the failings of German thought, society, and politics as responses to the challenge of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. In addition to individuals such as Nietzsche, Weber, Spengler, Jünger, Bonhoeffer, and Heidegger, the author considers broader movements and ideas such as the concept of Gemeinschaft and the German expressionists, all in the wider context of Western intellectual currents, Rather than belaboring presumed German deviance from the European norms, von Klemperer explores the reasons why the sense of crisis in the face of modernity was singularly acute among Germans, he traces a spectrum of reactions extending from an acceptance of modern disenchantment to the quest for reenchantment which found an extreme manifestation in National Socialism.
Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423830
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)
Download or read book The Theory and Analysis of Drama written by Manfred Pfister and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manfred Pfister's book is the first to provide a coherent comprehensive framework for the analysis of plays in all their dramatic and theatrical dimensions. The material on which his analysis is based covers all genres and periods. His approach is systematic rather than historical, combining more abstract categorisations with detailed interpretations of sample texts.
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781857431780
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (317 download)
Download or read book International Who's Who in Poetry 2004 written by Europa Publications and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Author : Jean Albert Bédé
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231037174
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature written by Jean Albert Bédé and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.
Author : W. H. Auden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121929X
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems, Volume I written by W. H. Auden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes of the eagerly anticipated first complete edition of Auden’s poems—including some that have never been published before W. H. Auden (1907–1973) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, and his reputation has only grown since his death. Published on the hundredth anniversary of the year in which he began to write poetry, this is the first of two volumes of the first complete edition of Auden’s poems. Edited, introduced, and annotated by renowned Auden scholar Edward Mendelson, this definitive edition includes all the poems Auden wrote for publication, in their original texts, and all his later revised versions, as well as poems and songs he never published, some of them printed here for the first time. This volume traces the development of Auden’s early career, and contains all the poems, including juvenilia, that he published or submitted for publication, from his first printed work, in 1927, at age twenty, through the poems he wrote during his first months in America, in 1939, when he was thirty-two. The book also includes poems that Auden wrote during his adult career with the expectation that he might publish them, but which he never did; song lyrics that he wrote to be set to music by Benjamin Britten, but which he never put into print; and verses that he wrote for magazines at schools where he was teaching. The main text presents the poems in their original published versions. The notes include the extensive revisions that he made to his poems over the course of his career, and provide explanations of obscure references. The second volume of this edition, Poems, Volume 2: 1940–1973, is also available.
Author : Rinske Van Stipriaan Pritchett
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039102921
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Art of Comedy and Social Critique in Nineteenth-century Germany written by Rinske Van Stipriaan Pritchett and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer pursued a fifty-year career as a playwright and theater manager in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at a time of the transformation of court theaters and itinerant troupes into commercial establishments staffed by middle-class professionals and subject to market forces. Although she has been undervalued by some critics past and present who considered her mainly as an adapter of contemporary novels, this study shows that with her thorough knowledge of the European dramatic tradition, her skill as a playwright, and above all her professionalism she overcame institutional and gender bias to develop a form of drama that integrated the social and economic changes of her time. The analysis focuses on her use of the subversive genre of comedy, the strategies she used to evade the censor, and her employment of assertive female and working-class characters. She revived commedia dell'arte techniques of the past while devising innovations that anticipated the subsequent course of drama as well as the film techniques of today.
Author : Philip H. Dillard
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810824454
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (244 download)
Download or read book How Quaint the Ways of Paradox! written by Philip H. Dillard and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies 968 articles, monographs, and dissertations by and about Gilbert and Sullivan.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
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Download or read book Cassell's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
