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Book Joachim s Spectacles  A Legend of Florenthal

Download or read book Joachim s Spectacles A Legend of Florenthal written by Mary Lee and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Dogs  Our Selves

Download or read book Our Dogs Our Selves written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.

Book The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Modern Art of Influence and the Spectacle of Oscar Wilde written by S. Salamensky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives.

Book A Bittersweet Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janice Sims
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2000-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781583140840
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book A Bittersweet Love written by Janice Sims and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoping to establish herself as having a "career" in time for the upcoming custody battle over her son, photojournalist Teddy Riley interviews at a prestigious magazine and finds herself melting under the gaze of the reclusive owner. Original.

Book The Nation

Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim

Download or read book The Creative Worlds of Joseph Joachim written by Styra Avins and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Joseph Joachim's vital legacy through a range of philological, philosophical and critical approaches.Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), violinist, composer, teacher, and founding director of Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, was one of the most eminent and influential musicians of the long nineteenth century. Born in a tiny Jewish community on the Austro-Hungarian border, he rose to a position of unsurpassed prominence in European cultural life. This timely collection of essays explores important yet little-known aspects of Joachim's life and art. Studies of his Jewish background, early assimilation into Christian society, Felix Mendelssohn's mentorship, and the influence of Hungarian vernacular music on the formation of his musical style elucidate the roots of Joachim's identity. The later chapters focus on his personal and creative responses to the contentious and rapidly evolving cultural milieu in which he lived: his choice of instruments as his musical "voice," his performances as sites of (re)enchantment in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.ent in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.ent in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.ent in the modern age, his pathbreaking British career, his calling and sway as a quartet player, his pedagogical legacy, his influence on the establishment of the musical canon, and several of his most distinctive and original compositions. With a wide variety of approaches-analytical, philological, archival, philosophical, and critical-this collection will prove enlightening to scholars, performers, and others interested in this brilliant artist and the musical aesthetics, culture, and styles of his time.

Book Spectacles of Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher A. Frilingos
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-03-25
  • ISBN : 0812201973
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Spectacles of Empire written by Christopher A. Frilingos and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book of Revelation presents a daunting picture of the destruction of the world, complete with clashing gods, a multiheaded beast, armies of heaven, and the final judgment of mankind. The bizarre conclusion to the New Testament is routinely cited as an example of the early Christian renunciation of the might and values of Rome. But Christopher A. Frilingos contends that Revelation's relationship to its ancient environment was a rather more complex one. In Spectacles of Empire he argues that the public displays of the Roman Empire—the games of the arena, the execution of criminals, the civic veneration of the emperor—offer a plausible context for reading Revelation. Like the spectacles that attracted audiences from one end of the Mediterranean Sea to the other, Revelation shares a preoccupation with matters of spectatorship, domination, and masculinity. Scholars have long noted that in promising a complete reversal of fortune to an oppressed minority, Revelation has provided inspiration to Christians of all kinds, from liberation theologians protesting globalization to the medieval Apostolic Brethren facing death at the stake. But Frilingos approaches the Apocalypse from a different angle, arguing that Revelation was not merely a rejection of the Roman world in favor of a Christian one; rather, its visions of monsters and martyrs were the product of an empire whose subjects were trained to dominate the threatening "other." By comparing images in Revelation to those in other Roman-era literature, such as Greek romances and martyr accounts, Frilingos reveals a society preoccupied with seeing and being seen. At the same time, he shows how Revelation calls attention to both the risk and the allure of taking in a show in a society which emphasized the careful scrutiny of one's friends, enemies, and self. Ancient spectators, Frilingos notes, whether seated in an arena or standing at a distance as Babylon burned, frequently discovered that they themselves had become part of the performance.

Book Spectacles and Other Vision Aids

Download or read book Spectacles and Other Vision Aids written by J. William Rosenthal and published by Norman Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pall Mall Budget

Download or read book The Pall Mall Budget written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dwight s Journal of Music

Download or read book Dwight s Journal of Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Temple

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Spender
  • Publisher : Grove Press
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780802135247
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The Temple written by Stephen Spender and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond the wonderful insights ... there is a portrait of the world in the eye of the storm between two world wars. It is a novel of awakening -- awakening to sex, yes ... but also an awakening to the presence of evil in the world and to the possibilities of love and friendship." -- The Bloomsbury Review

Book From the Oak to the Olive

Download or read book From the Oak to the Olive written by Julia Ward Howe and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travels in England and on the continent.

Book War as Spectacle

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  • Author : Anastasia Bakogianni
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-22
  • ISBN : 1472527550
  • Pages : 473 pages

Download or read book War as Spectacle written by Anastasia Bakogianni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted in post-classical contexts and to what purpose? This collection of essays engages with the motif of war as spectacle through a variety of theoretical and methodological pathways and frameworks. They include the investigation of the portrayal of armed conflict in ancient Greek and Latin Literature, History and Material Culture, as well as the reception of these ancient narratives and models in later periods in a variety of media. The collection also investigates how classical models contribute to contemporary debates about modern wars, including the interrogation of propaganda and news coverage. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of ancient warfare and its impact, the volume looks at a variety of angles and perspectives, including visual display and its exploitation for political capital, the function of internal and external audiences, ideology and propaganda and the commentary on war made possible by modern media. The reception of the theme in other cultures and eras demonstrates its continued relevance and the way antiquity is used to justify as well as to critique later conflicts.

Book The Four Little Wise Ones

Download or read book The Four Little Wise Ones written by Four little wise ones and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From the Oak to the Olive  A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey

Download or read book From the Oak to the Olive A Plain Record of a Pleasant Journey written by Julia Ward Howe and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travels in England and on the continent.

Book Harper s Bazaar

Download or read book Harper s Bazaar written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nature of Truth

Download or read book The Nature of Truth written by Harold Henry Joachim and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: