Wieland (Lady Valkyrie Classics)

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481940429
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Wieland (Lady Valkyrie Classics) by : Charles Brockden Brown

Download or read book Wieland (Lady Valkyrie Classics) written by Charles Brockden Brown and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic and timeless novel, we are immersed in a world that goes from sanity to insanity. In Wieland, we explore the realities of life on the eve of the American Revolution through religious delusions, fanaticism, and horrific violence. A family living on an estate outside Philadelphia is visited by mysterious voices, seemingly coming out of thin air. Soon thereafter, an itinerant character named Carwin will visit the family. Carwin is a mysterious stranger as well as a ventriloquist. Violence erupts when the family's young patriarch believes that he hears God's voice demanding a human sacrifice as a sign of faith. In the midst of all the insanity, the family will undergo a transformation involving horror, spontaneous combustion, false faith, psychological perversion, ventriloquism, and murder. Testing the limits of religious and literary authority in the new America, Brown's novel has for more than two centuries kept readers debating questions of agency, accountability, and revolutionary politics as the story's moral chaos unfolds. Visit ladyvalkyrie.com for more Classics as well as for other titles Categories/Series of books! Search for "lady valkyrie in books" for our latest titles right here at Amazon!

The Silver Horde

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442921889
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Silver Horde written by Rex Ellingwood Beach and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.

Fifty-five Years in Five Acts

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Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534554
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)

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Book Synopsis Fifty-five Years in Five Acts by : Astrid Varnay

Download or read book Fifty-five Years in Five Acts written by Astrid Varnay and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's greatest Wagnerian sopranos talks about an illustrious career that flourished for over five decades.

La Nilsson

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Publisher : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 1555538592
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Book Synopsis La Nilsson by : Birgit Nilsson

Download or read book La Nilsson written by Birgit Nilsson and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published to wide acclaim in Sweden (1995) and in Germany (1997), the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) is finally available in an English translation. From her humble roots in rural Sweden to her artistic triumphs in Stockholm, Bayreuth, Milan, and the Metropolitan Opera House, this candid and utterly charming memoir reveals the personality behind one of the great voices of the past century. Gracefully weaving together the private and professional, Nilsson chronicles her idyllic childhood in Vastra Karup, the early recognition of her unique natural abilities, and her first tentative steps into a wider artistic world. After achieving national acclaim in Verdi's Lady Macbeth, she went on to establish herself as the dominant Wagnerian soprano of her generation, appearing at the Bayreuth and Munich Festivals, and the Vienna and Bavarian State Opera Houses, creating, along the way, definitive performances of Sieglinde, BrŸnnhilde, and Isolde. The book details her rise to international stardom with behind-the-scenes recollections of her phenomenal triumph as Turandot at La Scala in 1958 and her headline-making Met premier in Tristan und Isolde the following year. Nilsson's long and illustrious career (she performed until 1984), her celebrated professional and personal relationships, her friendships and rivalries, are all recounted with a down-to-earth wit and an engagingly odd admixture of ego and selfeffacement. She tells it all: the legendary quips, the often prickly relationships with Met impresario Rudolph Bing and conductor von Karajan, the infamous story of the stalker "Miss N," and the touchingly rendered relationship with her beloved husband, Bertil Niklasson. What emerges from these pages is a diva in the old mold: a giant voice matched by an oversize personality, a professional who expected the same level of perfection from others that she demanded of herself, and a woman who loved and lived life with joy and good humor . . . and oh, that voice. Includes 56 photographs and a discography.

Richard Wagner

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924629
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis Richard Wagner by : Martin Geck

Download or read book Richard Wagner written by Martin Geck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[An] intriguing exploration of the composer’s life and thought as exemplified by his music. An excellent biography.” —Library Journal Best known for the four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, Richard Wagner (1813–83) was a conductor, librettist, theater director, and essayist, in addition to being the composer of some of the most enduring operatic works in history. Though his influence on the development of European music is indisputable, Wagner was also quite outspoken on the politics and culture of his time. His ideas traveled beyond musical circles into philosophy, literature, theater staging, and the visual arts. To befit such a dynamic figure, acclaimed biographer Martin Geck offers here a Wagner biography unlike any other, one that strikes a unique balance between the technical musical aspects of Wagner’s compositions and his overarching understanding of aesthetics. A landmark study of one of music’s most important figures “People who would like to know more about Wagner, and people who have loved his music for years . . . will find a great deal in this book to enjoy and to admire.” —Tablet “Geck describes a Wagner who is grounded, focused and even cautious, a savvy realist and ironist rather than a flamboyant, flailing ideologue . . . Suffused with his readings of contemporary productions of the operas, Geck’s musical analyses are succinct and superb” —New York Times “As an editor of Wagner’s Complete Works, Geck brings a deep familiarity with the composer to his task.” —Weekly Standard “A thoroughly approachable yet consistently provocative study.” —Thomas S. Grey, editor of The Cambridge Companion to Wagner

Wagnerism

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944544
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Wagnerism written by Alex Ross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Ross, renowned New Yorker music critic and author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence. For better or worse, Wagner is the most widely influential figure in the history of music. Around 1900, the phenomenon known as Wagnerism saturated European and American culture. Such colossal creations as The Ring of the Nibelung, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal were models of formal daring, mythmaking, erotic freedom, and mystical speculation. A mighty procession of artists, including Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Paul Cézanne, Isadora Duncan, and Luis Buñuel, felt his impact. Anarchists, occultists, feminists, and gay-rights pioneers saw him as a kindred spirit. Then Adolf Hitler incorporated Wagner into the soundtrack of Nazi Germany, and the composer came to be defined by his ferocious antisemitism. For many, his name is now almost synonymous with artistic evil. In Wagnerism, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses, madmen, charlatans, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois, from O Pioneers! to Apocalypse Now. In many ways, Wagnerism tells a tragic tale. An artist who might have rivaled Shakespeare in universal reach is undone by an ideology of hate. Still, his shadow lingers over twenty-first century culture, his mythic motifs coursing through superhero films and fantasy fiction. Neither apologia nor condemnation, Wagnerism is a work of passionate discovery, urging us toward a more honest idea of how art acts in the world.

The Star Rover

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Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.

Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology

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Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780241435113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology by : Michel Foucault

Download or read book Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology written by Michel Foucault and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.

Wagner and the Volsungs

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Publisher : Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Wagner and the Volsungs by : Árni Björnsson

Download or read book Wagner and the Volsungs written by Árni Björnsson and published by Viking Society for Northern Research University College. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Complete History of Music

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752405325
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book A Complete History of Music written by W.J Baltzell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Complete History of Music by W.J Baltzell

"Was deutsch und echt..."

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004245383
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book "Was deutsch und echt..." written by Kasper Bastiaan van Kooten and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining theoretical debates about the nature of nineteenth-century German opera and analyzing the genre’s development and its international dissemination, this book shows German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation. The thorough study of German opera debates in the first half of the nineteenth century highlights the esthetic and ideological significance of this relatively neglected repertoire, and helps to contextualize Richard Wagner’s attempts to define German opera and to gain a reputation as the German opera composer par excellence. By interpreting Wagner’s esthetic endeavors as a continuation of previous campaigns for the emancipation of German opera, this book adds an original and significant perspective to discussions about Wagner’s relation to German nationalism.

Celtic Influences in Germanic Religion

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Publisher : Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3831642265
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (316 download)

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Book Synopsis Celtic Influences in Germanic Religion by : Matthias Egeler

Download or read book Celtic Influences in Germanic Religion written by Matthias Egeler and published by Herbert Utz Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Love and Personal Beauty

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Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Romantic Love and Personal Beauty by : Henry T. Finck

Download or read book Romantic Love and Personal Beauty written by Henry T. Finck and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spoilers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book The Spoilers written by Rex E. Beach and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alexander Kluge

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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089642722
Total Pages : 439 pages
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Book Synopsis Alexander Kluge by : Tara Forrest

Download or read book Alexander Kluge written by Tara Forrest and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander Kluge is best known as a founding member of the New German Cinema. His work, however, spans a diverse range of fields and, over the last fifty years, he has been active as a filmmaker, writer and television producer." This work features scholarly essays, plus articles, stories, and interviews involving Kluge. -- from back cover.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by : Henry Augustin Beers

Download or read book A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century written by Henry Augustin Beers and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chopin and Other Musical Essays

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Book Synopsis Chopin and Other Musical Essays by : Henry T. Finck

Download or read book Chopin and Other Musical Essays written by Henry T. Finck and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: