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Book Trauma and Its Representations

Download or read book Trauma and Its Representations written by Deborah Jenson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple attempt to bridge the distance between reality and its representations. In Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France, Deborah Jenson argues instead that mimesis not only denotes the representation of reality but is also a crucial concept for understanding the production of social meaning within specific historical contexts. Examining the idea of mimesis in the French Revolution and post-Revolutionary Romanticism, Jenson builds on recent work in trauma studies to develop her own notion of traumatic mimesis. Through innovative readings of museum catalogs, the writings of Benjamin Constant, the novels of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and other works, Jenson demonstrates how mimesis functions as a form of symbolic wounding in French Romanticism.

Book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era  1760   1850

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era 1760 1850 written by Christopher John Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 1303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.

Book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers

Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers written by Katharina M. Wilson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing

Download or read book Culture and Identity in Belgian Francophone Writing written by Susan Bainbrigge and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores questions of cultural and literary identity, and offers an overview of currents in critical debate regarding the place of francophone Belgian writing and its relationship to its larger neighbour, but also engages with broader questions concerning the classification of 'francophone' literature. The study brings together well-known and less well-known modern and contemporary writers (Suzanne Lilar, Neel Doff, Dominique Rolin, Jacqueline Harpman, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Jean Muno, Nicole Malinconi, and Amélie Nothomb) whose works share a number of recurring themes and features, notably a preoccupation with questions of identity and alterity. Overall, the study highlights the diverse ways in which these questions of cultural identity and alterity emerge as a dominant theme throughout the corpus, viewed through a series of literary and cultural frameworks which bring together perspectives both local and global.

Book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order

Download or read book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New International Year Book

Download or read book The New International Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maternal Echoes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aimée Boutin
  • Publisher : University of Delaware Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780874137279
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Maternal Echoes written by Aimée Boutin and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Maternal Echoes' examines maternal imagery in the poetry of two French Romantic poets, the increasingly popular Desbordes-Valmore and the critically marginalized Lamartine. Drawing on psychoanalytic theories on the maternal voice as well as feminist criticism, the book argues that both poets find a voice of their own by echoing their mother's voice.

Book The New International Year Book

Download or read book The New International Year Book written by Frank Moore Colby and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nineteenth century French Poets

Download or read book Nineteenth century French Poets written by Robert Lawrence Beum and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on French poets during a vital and prolific era. Covers Romanticism, lyricism, Ultraroyalisme and Eclaircissement, the Parnassians, Decadents, symbolists, intimistes and realists, as well as the proliferation of poetic sects aligned with major idioms, in many cases incorporating something from each other.

Book Catalogs of the Sophia Smith Collection  Women s History Archive  Smith College  Northampton  Massachusetts  Subject catalog

Download or read book Catalogs of the Sophia Smith Collection Women s History Archive Smith College Northampton Massachusetts Subject catalog written by Sophia Smith Collection and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1928 with total page 2398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 24 : Nos. 1-148 (March, 1927 - March, 1928)

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women in French Studies

Download or read book Women in French Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Les Livres de L ann  e

Download or read book Les Livres de L ann e written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women Composers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha Furman Schleifer
  • Publisher : G. K. Hall
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Women Composers written by Martha Furman Schleifer and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1998 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The composers included in Volume 4 of "Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, Vocal Music," were born between 1700 and 1799. Some of the women found in Volume 4 are also represented in Volumes 3 (keyboard) and 5 (large and small instrumental ensembles). Unlike most of the composers in Volumes 1 and 2 who belonged to religious orders or noble families, those in the 18th-century volumes are of secular background. Many are members of musical families that include mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters-in-law of other composers and musicians. The women represented in this volume performed and composed in a variety of vocal forms and genres. Volume 4 includes sixty-five works by twenty-three composers from eleven countries: the American colonies, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, and Martinique. Two composers lived in the American colonies. Maria Eicher reached a position of prominence within Georg Conrad Beissel's Ephrata Cloister. Five main collections of music manuscripts were created there; one of the most important, known as the "Turtel-Taube" (Turtle Dove), contains twelve hymns by Maria Eicher. The colonies also became the home of Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, nee Matthews, one of the group of English actress-singers who composed songs. After a successful career under her first married name (Wrighten) in England she came to America where she was one of the first female published songwriters. As a performer she also participated in some of the earliest American performances of opera and oratorio excerpts from works of Handel, Haydn, and Gluck. About half of her surviving songs were published in England as Mrs. Wrighten; fiveAmerican songs are under the name Mrs. Pownall. One of each is included in this volume. The Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Cavendish, nee Spencer, was a noblewoman of high rank who lived at the center of a circle of writers, artists, and politicians. Her only extant music, the songs "I Have A Silent Sorrow Here" (written for a play by R. B. Sheridan) and "Sweet Is the Vale," were reissued in many versions and arrangements both in Great Britain and America, evidence of their great popularity. Margaret Essex is known today only by her published works, which span a twelve-year period at the turn of the 19th century. They comprise thirteen publications, all of them chamber works for domestic use. Mrs. Jordan, nee Dorothea Bland, was a successful actress-singer who made her debut in Dublin and spent most of her career in London. She also composed songs, including one of the most popular songs in the English language, "The Blue Bell of Scotland." This version is thought to be the earliest available. The most published of the English singer-composers was Miss Abrams. She was from a family of musicians of Jewish descent. Her sisters, Theodosia and Eliza, were well-known singers and performed in concerts with her. Abrams appeared with Haydn and in the series organized by Johann Peter Salomon. Her publications include songs in both English and Italian, examples of which are included. Haydn served as a connection among several of the 18thcentury composers in this volume. Composer-poet, Anne Home Hunter, wrote texts for Haydn for some of his finest songs. She was an early figure in the Scottish national song movement of the late-18thcentury, and also wrote several texts to pre-existingmelodies. Haydn taught Marianna Martines daily for three years and received free board in Vienna from her family in exchange for these lessons. She acquired the skill of" bel canto" singing and composition from Nicolo Porpora, and absorbed the early Classical style through the teaching of Johann Adolf Hasse. Martines composed over 200 works, and of these, sixty-nine are known to have survived. "La tempesta" (1778), is an Italian-style chamber cantata comprised of two recitatives and two arias for soprano and ensemble. One aria is reproduced here. German and Austrian born composers included in Volume 4 are Madame Mara, Sophie Westenholz, Louise Reichardt, Emilie Zurnsteeg, and Bettine von Arnim. Mara, the first German opera star, was important primarily as a great singer. Like many famous singers, she published a few works which became popular partly on the strength of her fame as a performer. She traveled to Vienna, Paris, and London, where she was particularly noted for her brilliant performances in Handel's works. She also appeared in Salomon's and other subscription concerts in the 1790s. Say Can You Deny Me illustrates the English popular song of the 1790s. The version represented here has the type of orchestral accompaniment that the song would have had in theatre performances or subscription concerts. Sophie Westenholz was a court musician and composer for over forty years, and had great success as a singer and pianist. Although some of her music was published in her lifetime, most of it exists only in manuscript. Her work as a composer has received little previous recognition. She contributed to the development of the late-18thand early-19th century lied at a time when artsongs for solo voice and piano were becoming distinguished from the folksong style of writing. Her three songs illustrate many characteristics of early Romanticism. Louise Reichardt was the daughter of two musicians, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Juliane Reichardt, nee Benda (see Vol. 3). Her father took scant interest in her musical education, which was casual and unorganized. Nonetheless, her creative talents were so outstanding that a number of her songs were included in a collection from 1800 titled: "Deutsche Lieder von Johann Friedrich Reichardt und dessen Tochter Luise Reichardt "(German songs by Johann Friedrich Reichardt and his daughter Luise Reichardt). Her contributions to this collaborative effort, identified by her initials, were the first of over ninety published vocal compositions which appeared during her lifetime. They were favorably received by critics and the public. Emilie Zumsteeg was born in Stuttgart in 1796, the daughter of Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760-1802) the well-known composer of opera, lieder, and ballads. She was beloved in Wurttemberg as a singer, pianist, conductor, and extraordinary teacher. She was responsible for preparing the choruses for many first performances in Stuttgart of the great oratorios of Bach, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Emilie Zumsteeg's compositions included lieder for voice and piano or voice with guitar, music for solo piano, choral settings for three, four, and six voices, a cantata, an overture for orchestra, and variations for flute and harp. As a composer Zumsteeg may be described as a bridge between the early German Romantic composers, including her father Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, Conradin Kreutzer, Friedrich Silcher, andFranz Schubert, and the Romantic school of Robert Schumann. Bettine von Arnim, while known primarily as an author of novels based on her correspondence with prominent Romantic figures such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, was also a composer. As a young woman she pursued music studies and set to music texts of Goethe, Achim von Arnim (whom she married in 1811), and her brother, Clemens Brentano. Fewer than a dozen songs were published during her lifetime, but her manuscripts attest to a wealth of musical ideas. Some songs have appeared in heavily edited versions. Corona Schroter, born in Poland into a musical family, spent a significant part of her life in Germany. A virtuosa singer and actress, her close association with Goethe led her to set some of his poetry for her lieder. Also born in Poland, Maria Szymanowska (born Marianna Agata Wolowska), was a virtuosa pianist and composer of over 100 pieces, mostly for the piano. Szymanowska's twenty-two songs based on sentimental or heroic texts belong to the genre of the romance. Her works appear in all of the eighteenth-century volumes in this series. Marie Teresa Agnesi, the only Italian woman of this period known to have composed opera seria, is represented by an accompanied aria in this volume and by a keyboard sonata in Volume 3. Although Isabella Colbran was born in Spain, she spent much of her successful operatic career in Italy. Four of her songs are presented here. Dutch composer Josina Anna Petronella van Boetzelaer, nee van Aerssen, closely associated with the musical royalty in the House of Orange, concentrated on writing vocal music. Her opus 2 is dedicated to Maria Teresa Agnesi. The young Parisian musician, Sophie Gail(nee Edme-Sophie Garre), impressed family friends with her talents as a pianist, singer, and composer, as she would later impress the French musical milieu. She was a successful performer and composer of songs and opera. Born in Martinique, Pauline Duchambge was a French Creole pianist, singer, and composer. She studied composition in Paris with Daniel Auber, Luigi Cherubini, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. Duchambge wrote over 300 songs, setting many texts by the poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, who was her lifelong friend. Madame Louis, French pianist and composer, published six keyboard sonatas and a two-act opera comique. Several arias from this opera appear here; the "Overture" is in Volume 5. A leading singer with the "Academie royale de musique" (the Paris Opera), Henriette-Adelaide de Villars, dite Beaumesnil, may have written music during her singing career. However, it was only after her retirement from the stage that her compositions were actually performed and published. Between 1781 and 1792, she wrote at least three short operas and an oratorio, of which only the score of her one-act opera "Tibulle et Delie "appears to have survived. Amelie-Julie Candeille, an actress, singer, playwright, pianist, harpist, composer, novelist, and music teacher made her debuts at the Paris Opera and Comedie Francaise while in her teens. She performed her own piano concerto at the "Concert Spirituel." Her first play w