Author: Howard GlyndonPublisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Features poems by Civil War poet Laura Redden Searing.
Sweet Bells Jangled
Author: Howard GlyndonPublisher: Gallaudet University Press
ISBN: 9781563681387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Features poems by Civil War poet Laura Redden Searing.
Hamlet
Author: William ShakespeareSweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune
Author: James GardnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Haywards Heath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Thomas KnowlesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317318544
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.
Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton
Author: Erin MinearPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317063724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual sensibility. They portray music as uncanny and divine, expressive and opaque, promoting associative rather than logical thought processes and unearthing unexpected memories. The title reflects the multiple and overlapping meanings of reverberation in the study: the lingering and infectious nature of musical sound; the questionable status of audible, earthly music as an echo of celestial harmonies; and one writer's allusions to another. Minear argues that many of the qualities that seem to us characteristically 'Shakespearean' stem from Shakespeare's engagement with how music works-and that Milton was deeply influenced by this aspect of Shakespearean poetics. Analyzing Milton's account of Shakespeare's 'warbled notes,' she demonstrates that he saw Shakespeare as a peculiarly musical poet, deeply and obscurely moving his audience with language that has ceased to mean, but nonetheless lingers hauntingly in the mind. Obsessed with the relationship between words and music for reasons of his own, including his father's profession as a composer, Milton would adopt, adapt, and finally reject Shakespeare's form of musical poetics in his own quest to 'join the angel choir.' Offering a new way of looking at the work of two major authors, this study engages and challenges scholars of Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern culture.
Shakespeare, Music and Performance
Author: Bill BarclayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107139333
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
Woman Killer
Author: Chiori MiyagawaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578050080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
WOMAN KILLER is US-based Asian dramatist Chiori Miyagawa's take on an ancient story of revenge, murder and ghosts. With an introduction by feminist scholar Sharon Friedman and afterword by scholar Martin Harries, Miyagawa's WOMAN KILLER is a porvocative text that explores the psychology of a society broken by lies and betrayals.
A Little Boy's Story
Author: Julie GouraudPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Poe and the Idea of Music
Author: Charity McAdamsPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611462053
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Edgar Allan Poe often set the scenes of his stories and poems with music: angels have the heartstrings of lutes, spirits dance, and women speak with melodic voices. These musical ideas appear to mimic the ways other authors, particularly Romanticists, used music in their works to represent a spiritual ideal artistic realm. Music brought forth the otherworldly, and spoke to the possible transcendence of the human spirit. Yet, Poe's music differs from these Romantic notions in ways that, although not immediately perceptible in each individual instance, cohere to invert Romantic idealism. For Poe, artistic transcendence is impossible, the metaphysical realm is unreachable, and humans cannot perceive anything but their own failure of spirit. In this book, I show how we can look at Poe's poems and stories on the whole to discover this, and in doing so, unpack some of Poe's mysticism along the way.
Author: Mary Macleod