Guide to Microforms in Print
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Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Microcards
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Publisher :
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Microcards
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Author : Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 1316395707
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.
Author : Gustave Cohen
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,89 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528765311
This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.
Author : Jody Blake
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,13 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271017532
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.
Author : Charles O’Brien
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2005-01-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253217202
A groundbreaking look at the transition to sound in the French Cinema.
Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0415307821
This revised and updated edition of a successful and established text provides a much-needed historical overview of French cinema from its roots through to the political and social developments in the 1990s and beyond.
Author : Bernard Knox
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300074239
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.
Author : Clifford D. Conner
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745331935
Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he has been portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions as an agitator, tactician, and strategist, the pivotal social transformation that the Revolution accomplished might well not have occurred. Clifford D. Conner argues that what was unique about Marat - which set him apart from all other major figures of the Revolution, including Danton and Robespierre - was his total identification with the struggle of the propertyless classes for social equality. This is an essential book for anyone interested in the history of the revolutionary period and the personalities that led it.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
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ISBN : 9781297790614
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