Author: Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199603626
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.
Achilles in Love
Author: Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199603626
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199603626
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Tracing the escapades of Achilles' erotic history - whether in same-sex or opposite-sex relationships - this book explains how these relationships were developed and revealed, or elided and concealed, in the writing and visual arts following Homer.
Masques, Mayings and Music-dramas
Author: Roger Savage
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839199
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839199
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Masques, Mayings and Music-Dramas comprises a sequence of in-depth case-studies of significant aspects of early twentieth-century English music-theatre. Vaughan Williams forms a central thread in this discussion, and Stratford-upon-Avon serves as a geographical focus-point for mediating conflicting visions of an English musical tradition. But the reach of the book is much wider, shedding new light on English Wagnerism (at Glastonbury especially) and on the reception of Wagner's ideas as a point of emulation and resistance. No less significant is the discussion of Purcell and the seventeenth-century masque - one of the primary sources for re-imagining an English dramatic tradition - and the more familiar images of the May festival, the Mummers' play and the pageant play, which are tellingly re-contextualised. The book also looks at the associations between Vaughan Williams, the theatre artist Edward Gordon Craig and the impresario Serge Diaghilev. The sequence is framed by the image of the pilgrim-vagabond Vaughan Williams's setting of the poetry of Matthew Arnold and Robert Louis Stevenson as a metaphor and paradigm for his creative career and personal progress. The book not only sheds light on the activities and ambitions of principal agents but also illuminates a particularly dynamic moment in the re-emergence of a distinctively English music-theatrical practice: one especially concerned with calling on aspects of the past to help to secure a worthwhile future. Notions of Englishness turn out to be less insular than sometimes thought and the idea of a 'musical renaissance' more complex when the case-studies are understood in their proper historical context. Scholars and students of twentieth-century English music, theatre and opera will find this volume indispensable. Roger Savage is Honorary Fellow in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on theatre and its interface with music from the baroque to the twentieth century in leading journals and books.
Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery
Author: Jack McCarthy
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Forty years sober when he neared the end of his life, Jack McCarthy gives the world something special in his final collection of poetry and true stories. This is his legacy to the people who saved his life. Jack McCarthy's poem "Drunks” has gone around the world on recovery websites and is one of the most popular poems on the harsh climb out of alcoholism to date.
Publisher: SCB Distributors
ISBN: 1938912152
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Forty years sober when he neared the end of his life, Jack McCarthy gives the world something special in his final collection of poetry and true stories. This is his legacy to the people who saved his life. Jack McCarthy's poem "Drunks” has gone around the world on recovery websites and is one of the most popular poems on the harsh climb out of alcoholism to date.
English Literature to 1785
Author: Kathleen McCoy
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780064671149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780064671149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108829996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108829996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
The Warrior Princess: Book 3 of Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene'
Author: Roy Maynard
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN: 1591280958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Edmund Spenser's tomb at Westminster Abbey has the inscription, the Prince of Poets. If you've read Books I and II of his unfinished English epic, The Faerie Queene, you know why by now. Book III is one of the most unique books, written from the perspective of the heroic Britomart, a warrior princess in search of her true love. Along the way she encounters wizards, monsters, braggarts, sea gods, cheats, and at the end, a deathly palace.
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN: 1591280958
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Edmund Spenser's tomb at Westminster Abbey has the inscription, the Prince of Poets. If you've read Books I and II of his unfinished English epic, The Faerie Queene, you know why by now. Book III is one of the most unique books, written from the perspective of the heroic Britomart, a warrior princess in search of her true love. Along the way she encounters wizards, monsters, braggarts, sea gods, cheats, and at the end, a deathly palace.
Romanticism and Illustration
Author: Ian Haywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108425712
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Spenser and Donne
Author: Yulia Ryzhik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152611738X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152611738X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought.
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Author: Philip Sidney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Figures of Several Centuries
Author: Arthur Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description