The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
Author : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2015
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781315554631
Author : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2015
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9781315554631
Author : Ms Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1472439988
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg examines works by authors such as Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, and Compton Mackenzie to show that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. She draws on archival materials to place the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse.
Author : Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317021215
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
Author : Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0359147046
Papers in this special issue on Figurative Language: (1) Cecilia BJÖRKÉN-NYBERG: Vocalising motherhood: The metaphorical conceptualisation of voice in listener responses to The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins (pp. 1-28); (2) Danielle CUDMORE: Prophet, poet, seer, skald: Poetic diction in Merlínusspá (pp. 29-60); (3) Kristina HILDEBRAND: "As fayre an handid man" Malory's figurative language (pp. 61-74); (4) Birgitta SVENSSON: The development of figurative competence in narrative writing: A longitudinal case study (pp. 75-102); (5) Monica KARLSSON: Book Review (pp. 103-106); (6) Keith ALLAN: Book Review (pp. 107-113).
Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307568083
“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Marguerite Broadbent
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Composers
ISBN : 9780952510130
Author : Jefferson Hunter
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 2954 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN :
Author : James H. Pickering
Publisher :
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
An international collection of 100 short stories including "classics" and a selection of modern or lesser-known titles.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Books
ISBN :
Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).