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Book Synopsis The Songs of Bilitis by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book The Songs of Bilitis written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Songs of Bilitis by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book The Songs of Bilitis written by Pierre Louÿs and published by Pantianos Classics. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First presented as miraculously rediscovered Greek erotic poetry, the Songs of Bilitis were infact the work of French author Pierre Louÿs - nevertheless, they were acclaimed for their sensual style and beauty. The frank depictions of lesbianism in the context of classical Greece were a marriage of two trends popular in late 19th century France. Homosexuality in literature was a novel subject hitherto considered tantalizing and taboo, while the artistic and aesthetic culture of antiquity received homage from several realms of creativity. Louÿs offers a frank presentation of a lesbian couple in Greece, embarking on a journey of sexual discovery and enjoyment tempered by the traumatic experiences of Bilitis. Through her sexuality, Bilitis is shown to mature emotionally, her lesbianism proving a catalyst for physical and mental change. The transience of love and sexual experience, the wisdom gained from her indulgence, and the emotive depth of passion, longing and eventual estrangement construct the essence of Louÿs' personal, expressive growth. Popular with audiences and the lesbian community for decades, this 1926 English edition of the Songs of Bilitis contains 30 illustrations by Willy Pogany.
Book Synopsis The Songs of Bilitis by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book The Songs of Bilitis written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1928* with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Debussy's Paris by : Catherine Kautsky
Download or read book Debussy's Paris written by Catherine Kautsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Debussy’s exquisite piano works have captivated generations with their dreamlike atmosphere and mysterious soundscapes. Written in Paris at the height of the Belle Époque, the music creates a soundtrack for Parisians’ enjoyment of such delights as clowns, mermaids, eccentric dances, and the dark tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of the Belle Époque explores how key works reflect not only the most appealing and innocent aspects of Paris but also more disquieting attitudes of the time such as racism, colonial domination, and nationalistic hostility. Debussy left no avenue unexplored, and his piano works present a sweeping overview of the passions, vices, and obsessions of the era. Pianist Catherine Kautsky reveals little-known elements of Parisian culture and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole. Her portrait will delight anyone who has ever been entranced by Debussy’s music or the city that inspired it.
Book Synopsis Claude Debussy and the Poets by : Arthur Wenk
Download or read book Claude Debussy and the Poets written by Arthur Wenk and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Dukas wrote about Debussy that the strongest influence he experienced was that of the poets, not that of the musicians. This book undertakes to demonstrate that thesis by studying Debussy's settings of songs by Banville, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Louÿs, and Debussy himself. A particular insight may be gained in the comparison of six poems by Verlaine set to music by both Fauré and Debussy. The book includes a poetic/musical analysis of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, based on the poem by Mallarmé.
Book Synopsis The Way of a Man with a Maid by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Way of a Man with a Maid written by Anonymous and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Way of a Man with a Maid"" is a classic erotic novel, published in 1908. It contains graphic sexual descriptions and themes. ""The Way of a Man with a Maid"" is one of the most popular erotic masterpieces. Jack, the narrator, converts a room into a veritable torture chamber, named 'The Snuggery', equipped with beds to which women can be strapped and held helpless and which is soundproofed to make their screams unheard. ""The Way of a Man with a Maid"" consists of 4 volumes. This book contains: Volume I: The Tragedy Volume II: The Comedy
Book Synopsis Woman and Puppet, Etc by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book Woman and Puppet, Etc written by Pierre Louÿs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fascinating collection of the most beloved works by French poet and writer Pierre Louÿs. He was most famous for following lesbian and classical themes in his writings. Louÿs is celebrated as a writer who aimed to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection." Contents include: Woman and Puppet The New Pleasure Byblis Lêda Immortal Love The Artist Triumphant The Hill of Horsel
Book Synopsis Debussy and His World by : Jane Fulcher
Download or read book Debussy and His World written by Jane Fulcher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-06 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This book captures the complexity of the composer's restless personal and artistic identity within the new picture emerging of the musical, social, and political world of fin-de-siècle Paris. Debussy's setting did not simply mold his style. Rather, it challenged him to define a style and then to revamp it again and again as he situated himself simultaneously via the present and the past. These essays trace Debussy's perpetual reinvention, both social and creative, from his earliest to his last works. They explore tensions and contradictions in his best-known compositions and examine lesser-known pieces that reveal new aspects of Debussy's creative appropriation from poetry, painting, and non-Western music. The contributors reveal the extent to which Debussy's personal and professional lives were intertwined and sometimes in conflict. Belonging to no one group or class, but crossing many, Debussy abjured the orthodox. A maverick who reviled all convention and searched for a music that authentically reflected experience, Debussy balked at entering any situation--salons, musical societies, or factions--that would categorize and thus distort him. Because of this, music lovers still argue over the degree to which Debussy's music is Impressionist, symbolist, or even French. Aptly, the volume's editor reads Debussy's last works as a dialogue with himself that reflects his inherently pluralistic, paradoxical, negotiated, and ever-changing identity. William Austin's description of Debussy as ''one of the most original and adventurous musicians who ever lived'' is often repeated. This book illustrates how right Austin was and shows why Debussy's unclassifiable art continues to fascinate and perplex his historians even as it enthralls new listeners. The contributors are Leon Botstein, Christophe Charle, John Clevenger, Jane F. Fulcher, David Grayson, Brian Hart, Gail Hilson-Woldu, and Marie Rolf.
Book Synopsis Aphrodite Goddess of Modern Love by : John and Kruse
Download or read book Aphrodite Goddess of Modern Love written by John and Kruse and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goddess of love, Aphrodite - or Venus, or Astarte - she has had many names. She is the goddess of life, fertility and renewal, but she is also the patroness of carnal desire: "a thousand honey secrets thou shalt know" is her promise to the boy Adonis in Shakespeare's poem about the pair. Incredibly, perhaps, he resists this offer- but most of us do not. The enduring role of the goddess in human sex and passion is well known, but how well is she suited for love and sexuality in the modern world? To understand that, we must trace something of her origins, and focus our attention on the way in which more recent writers and artists have imagined her.
Download or read book Song written by Carol Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naslagwerk van de liedkunst en de literatuur hierover.
Download or read book Aphrodite written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners written by Pierre Louÿs and published by Wakefield Handbooks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The Songs of Bilitis, but it was only after his death that Louÿs' true legacy was to be discovered: nearly 900 pounds of erotic manuscripts were found in his home, all of them immediately scattered among collectors and many subsequently lost. Since then, it has become clear that Louÿs is the greatest French writer of erotica there ever was. The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners was the first of his erotic manuscripts to see publication, and it also remains his most outrageous--an erotic classic in which humor takes precedence over arousal. By means of shockingly filthy advice--ostensibly offered "for use in educational establishments"--couched in a hilariously parodic admonitory tone, Louÿs turns late-nineteenth-century manners roundly on their head, with ass prominently skyward. Whether offering rules for etiquette in church, school or home, or outlining a girl's duties toward family, neighbor or God, Louÿs manages to mock every institution and leave no taboo unsullied. The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners has only grown more scandalous and subversive since its first appearance in 1926.
Book Synopsis Which Side are You On? by : James Sullivan
Download or read book Which Side are You On? written by James Sullivan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs that have accompanied and defined them
Book Synopsis Different Daughters by : Marcia M. Gallo
Download or read book Different Daughters written by Marcia M. Gallo and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly fifteen years before the birth of gay liberation, the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) was the world's first organization committed to lesbian visibility and empowerment. Like its predominantly gay male counterpart, the Mattachine Society, DOB was launched in response to the oppressive anti-homosexual climate of the McCarthy era, when lesbian and gay people were arrested, fired from jobs, and had their children taken away simply because of their sexual orientation. It was against this political backdrop that a circle of San Francisco lesbians formed a private club where lesbians could meet others in a safe, affirming setting. The small social group evolved over the next two decades into a national organization that counted more than a dozen chapters, and laid the foundation for today's lesbian rights movement. "Different Daughters" chronicles this movement and the women who fought the church and state in order to change not only our nation's perception of homosexuality, but how lesbians see themselves. Marcia Gallo has interviewed dozens of former DOB members, many of whom have never spoken on record. Through its leaders, magazine, and network of local chapters, DOB played a crucial role in creating lesbian identity, visibility, and political strategies in Cold War America.
Book Synopsis The Songs of Bilitis, Translated from the Greek by : Pierre Louÿs
Download or read book The Songs of Bilitis, Translated from the Greek written by Pierre Louÿs and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis On the Interpretation of the Mélodies of Claude Debussy by : Jane Bathori
Download or read book On the Interpretation of the Mélodies of Claude Debussy written by Jane Bathori and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Bathori was a catalyst for as well as interpreter of the works of many French composers. In 1904, she met Claude Debussy, played some of his piano pieces for him and sang several of his songs. Their discussions were the basis for her 1953 book, On the Interpretation of the Melodies of Claude Debussy which she resolved to write "after having heard Debussy's intentions betrayed so many times, and also to encourage singers ... to study some of the songs which are not known and are never sung, the excuse being that they are so difficult to interpret" (from Bathori's opening).
Download or read book Debussy written by Stephen Walsh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. Debussy drove French music into entirely new regions of beauty and excitement at a time when old traditions threatened to stifle it. Yet despite his profound influence on French culture, Debussy’s own life was complicated and often troubled by struggles over money, women, and ill health. Here, Stephen Walsh, acclaimed author of Stravinsky, chronicles both the composer himself and the unique moment in European history that bore him. Walsh’s engagingly original approach is to enrich a lively biography with analyses of Debussy’s music: from his first daring breaks with the rules as a Conservatoire student to his achievements as the greatest French composer of his time.