Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Literature
Literature
Author: Henry Duff TraillThe Book Lover
Author: Mike's Corner
Author: Michael GordonPublisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821223895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Fifty-five off-the-wall short stories are offered from the subversive imagination of Mike Gordon, the bassist for one of America's favorite live rock bands, Phish. 64 illustrations, 60 in color.
The Literary World
Author: The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Author: Robert DarntonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674536579
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. By drawing on an ingenious selection of previously hidden sources, he reveals for the first time the fascinating story of this eighteenth-century counterculture that has virtually disappeared from history.
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Ice
Author: Mariana GosnellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226304965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Presents a study of ice in all its complexity spanning such topics as frostbite, climate change, ice on Mars and in Saturn's rings, the multiplicity of uses humans find for ice, and its impact on the forces that shape the world around us.
Literature
Author: Senza Vestimenta: The Literary Tradition of Trecento Song
Author: Lauren JenningsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317057104
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand out for their tendency to blur the distinction between speaking and singing, between poetry and song, a certain degree of semantic slippage extends into the realm of Italian literature through the use of genre names like canzone, sonetto, and ballata. Yet, paradoxically, scholars have traditionally identified a 'divorce' between music and poetry as the defining feature of early Italian lyric. Senza Vestimenta reintegrates poetic and musical traditions in late medieval Italy through a fresh evaluation of more than fifty literary sources transmitting Trecento song texts. These manuscripts have been long noted by musicologists, but until now they have been used to bolster rather than to debunk the notion that so-called 'poesia per musica' was relegated to the margins of poetic production. Jennings revises this view by exploring how scribes and readers interacted with song as a fundamentally interdisciplinary art form within a broad range of literary settings. Her study sheds light on the broader cultural world surrounding the reception of the Italian ars nova repertoire by uncovering new, diverse readers ranging from wealthy merchants to modest artisans.