Recueil de Farces Françaises Inédites Du XVe Siècle
Author : Gustave Cohen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1949
Category :
ISBN :
The Operas of Maurice Ravel
Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,86 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316395707
Book Description
Maurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.
Orestes
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Book Description
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
Le Tumulte Noir
Author : Jody Blake
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271017532
Book Description
Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
The Calendar in Revolutionary France
Author : Sanja Perovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139537032
Book Description
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance
Author : Lynn Garafola
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780819566744
Book Description
Selected writings illuminate a century of international dance.
French Ecocriticism
Author : Daniel A. Finch-Race
Publisher : Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 9783631673454
Book Description
This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
Book Description
The Paris Opéra Ballet
Author : Ivor Guest
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Book Description
The cradle of ballet, tracing the origin of ballet as a theatre art back to its foundation by Louis XIV in 1669.
Oedipus at Thebes
Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300074239
Book Description
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
