Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts

Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts PDF Author: Calvin S. Brown
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447490002
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Calvin S. Brown wrote Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts with the hope that it might open up a field of thought which has not yet been systematically explored as there had been no survey of the entire field. This book attempts to supply such a survey.

Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts

Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts PDF Author: Calvin S. Brown
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447490002
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Book Description
Calvin S. Brown wrote Music and Literature - A Comparison of the Arts with the hope that it might open up a field of thought which has not yet been systematically explored as there had been no survey of the entire field. This book attempts to supply such a survey.

Music and Literature. A Comparison of the Arts. (Repr.).

Music and Literature. A Comparison of the Arts. (Repr.). PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Music and Literature

Music and Literature PDF Author: Calvin Smith Brown
Publisher: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780783781952
Category : Music and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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A classic work central to the study of interrelationships between music & literature is once again available in a popularly-priced paper edition.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

A Reference Guide for English Studies PDF Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520051614
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

Essays on Literature and Music (1985 – 2013) by Walter Bernhart

Essays on Literature and Music (1985 – 2013) by Walter Bernhart PDF Author: Walter Bernhart
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004302743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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This volume is dedicated to the musico-literary oeuvre of Walter Bernhart, professor of English literature at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz/Austria and pioneer in the field of intermedial relations between literature and other arts and media. The volume is of relevance to literary scholars and musicologists but also to all those with an interest in intermediality studies in general and in the relations between literature and music in particular.

The Poetry and Music of Science

The Poetry and Music of Science PDF Author: Tom McLeish
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192518917
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. This book challenges the assumption that doing science is in any sense less creative than art, music or fictional writing and poetry, and treads a historical and contemporary path through common territories of the creative process. The methodological process called the 'scientific method' tells us how to test ideas when we have had them, but not how to arrive at hypotheses in the first place. Hearing the stories that scientists and artists tell about their projects reveals commonalities: the desire for a goal, the experience of frustration and failure, the incubation of the problem, moments of sudden insight, and the experience of the beautiful or sublime. Selected themes weave the practice of science and art together: visual thinking and metaphor, the transcendence of music and mathematics, the contemporary rise of the English novel and experimental science, and the role of aesthetics and desire in the creative process. Artists and scientists make salient comparisons: Defoe and Boyle; Emmerson and Humboldt, Monet and Einstein, Schumann and Hadamard. The book draws on medieval philosophy at many points as the product of the last age that spent time in inner contemplation of the mystery of how something is mentally brought out from nothing. Taking the phenomenon of the rainbow as an example, the principles of creativity within constraint point to the scientific imagination as a parallel of poetry.

Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004) by Steven Paul Scher

Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004) by Steven Paul Scher PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401201862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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The present volume meets a frequently expressed demand as it is the first collection of all the relevant essays and articles which Steven Paul Scher has written on Literature and Music over a period of almost forty years in the field of Word and Music Studies. Scher, The Daniel Webster Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, is one of the founding fathers of Word and Music Studies and a leading authority in what is in the meantime a well-established intermedial field. He has published very widely in a variety of journals and collections of essays, which until now have not always been easy to lay one’s hands on. His work covers a wide range of subjects and comprises theoretical, methodological and historical studies, which include discussions of Ferruccio Busoni, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Judith Weir, the Talking Heads and many others and which pay special attention to E. T. A. Hoffmann and German Romanticism. The range and depth of these studies have made him the ‘mastermind’ of Word and Music Studies who has defined the basic aims and objectives of the discipline. This volume is of interest to literary scholars and musicologists as well as comparatists and all those concerned about the rapidly expanding field of Intermedia Studies.

Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature

Essays on Music and Language in Modernist Literature PDF Author: Katherine O'Callaghan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351865889
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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This volume explores the role of music as a source of inspiration and provocation for modernist writers. In its consideration of modernist literature within a broad political, postcolonial, and internationalist context, this book is an important intervention in the growing field of Words and Music studies. It expands the existing critical debate to include lesser-known writers alongside Joyce, Woolf, and Beckett, a wide-ranging definition of modernism, and the influence of contemporary music on modernist writers. From the rhythm of Tagore’s poetry to the influence of jazz improvisation, the tonality of traditional Irish music to the operas of Wagner, these essays reframe our sense of how music inspired Literary Modernism. Exploring the points at which the art forms of music and literature collide, repel, and combine, contributors draw on their deep musical knowledge to produce close readings of prose, poetry, and drama, confronting the concept of what makes writing "musical." In doing so, they uncover commonalities: modernist writers pursue simultaneity and polyphony, evolve the leitmotif for literary purposes, and adapt the formal innovations of twentieth-century music. The essays explore whether it is possible for literature to achieve that unity of form and subject which music enjoys, and whether literary texts can resist paraphrase, can be simply themselves. This book demonstrates how attention to the role of music in text in turn illuminates the manner in which we read literature.

Silence and Absence in Literature and Music

Silence and Absence in Literature and Music PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004314865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This volume focusses on the rarely discussed reverse side of traditional, ‘given’ objects of studies, namely absence rather than presence (of text) and silence rather than sound. It does so from an interdisciplinary perspective and covers systematic as well as historical perspectives from the baroque age to the present.

The Organs of Sense

The Organs of Sense PDF Author: Adam Ehrlich Sachs
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719969
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"This book is only for people who like joy, absurdity, passion, genius, dry wit, youthful folly, amusing historical arcana, or telescopes." —Rivka Galchen, author of Little Labors and American Innovations In 1666, an astronomer makes a prediction shared by no one else in the world: at the stroke of noon on June 30 of that year, a solar eclipse will cast all of Europe into total darkness for four seconds. This astronomer is rumored to be using the longest telescope ever built, but he is also known to be blind—and not only blind, but incapable of sight, both his eyes having been plucked out some time before under mysterious circumstances. Is he mad? Or does he, despite this impairment, have an insight denied the other scholars of his day? These questions intrigue the young Gottfried Leibniz—not yet the world-renowned polymath who would go on to discover calculus, but a nineteen-year-old whose faith in reason is shaky at best. Leibniz sets off to investigate the astronomer’s claim, and over the three hours remaining before the eclipse occurs—or fails to occur—the astronomer tells the scholar the haunting and hilarious story behind his strange prediction: a tale that ends up encompassing kings and princes, family squabbles, obsessive pursuits, insanity, philosophy, art, loss, and the horrors of war. Written with a tip of the hat to the works of Thomas Bernhard and Franz Kafka, The Organs of Sense stands as a towering comic fable: a story about the nature of perception, and the ways the heart of a loved one can prove as unfathomable as the stars.