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T.S. Eliot's Orchestra Critical Essays on Poetry and Music

T.S. Eliot's Orchestra: Critical Essays on Poetry and Music

1st Edition

Edited By John Xiros Cooper
June 23, 2015

First Published in 2000. Nearly everyone who addresses T. S. Eliot's imaginative and critical work must acknowledge the importance of music in thematic and formal terms. This collection of original essays thoroughly explores this aspect of his work from a number of perspectives....

Walt Whitman and Modern Music War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood

Walt Whitman and Modern Music: War, Desire, and the Trials of Nationhood

1st Edition

Edited By Lawrence Kramer
August 07, 2015

Walt Whitman's poetry, especially his Civil War poetry, attracted settings by a wide variety of modern composers in both English- and German-speaking countries. The essays in this volume trace the transformation of Whitman's nineteenth-century texts into vehicles for confronting twentieth-century ...

Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg

Political and Religious Ideas in the Works of Arnold Schoenberg

1st Edition

Edited By Charlotte M. Cross, Russell A. Berman
July 26, 2016

The original essays in this collection chronicle the transformation of Arnold Schoenberg's works from music as pure art to music as a vehicle of religious and political ideas, during the first half of the twentieth century. This interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from musicologists, ...

Bronze by Gold The Music of Joyce

Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce

1st Edition

Edited By Sebastian D.G. Knowles
January 20, 2016

The contributors to this volume investigate several themes about music's relationship to the literary compositions of James Joyce: music as a condition to which Joyce aspired; music theory as a useful way of reading his works; and musical compositions inspired by or connected with him....

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

Encrypted Messages in Alban Berg's Music

1st Edition

Edited By Siglind Bruhn
January 20, 2016

The 12 new essays in this volume explore the relationship between text and music in Alban Berg's works. The book examines the biographical issues that made such expressive choices attractive to the composer, and explores ways in which works not involving explicit verbal texts create signification, ...

Music and Modern Art

Music and Modern Art

1st Edition

Edited By James Leggio
December 18, 2015

Music and Modern Art adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between these two fields of creative endeavor....

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1st Edition

Edited By Pamela Caughie
December 18, 2015

This collection of ten original essays is the first to read Virginia Woolf through the prism of our technological present. Expanding on the work of feminist and cultural critics of the past two decades, this volume offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between Walter Benjamin's analyses...

Black Orpheus Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison

1st Edition

By Saadi A. Simawe
April 23, 2015

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive ...

Nabokov at the Limits Redrawing Critical Boundaries

Nabokov at the Limits: Redrawing Critical Boundaries

1st Edition

Edited By Lisa Zunshine, Lisa Zunshine
March 19, 2014

The eleven contributors to this volume investigate the connections between Nabokov's output and the fields of painting, music, and ballet....

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