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Book The Romantic Agony

Download or read book The Romantic Agony written by Mario Praz and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opera In The Flesh

Download or read book Opera In The Flesh written by Sam Abel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdi, Wagner, polymorphous perversion, Puccini, Brunnhilde, Pinkerton, and Parsifal all rub shoulders in this delightful, poetic, insightful, sexual book sprung by one man's physical response to the power and exaggeration we call opera. Sam Abel applies a light touch as he considers the topic of opera and the eroticized body: Why do audiences respond to opera in a visceral way? How does opera, like no other art form, physically move watchers? How and why does opera arouse feelings akin to sexual desire? Abel seeks the answers to these questions by examining homoerotic desire, the phenomenon of the castrati, operatic cross-dressing, and opera as presented through the media. In this deeply personal book, Abel writes, ‘These pages map my current struggles to pin down my passion for opera, my intense admiration for its aesthetic forms and beauties, but much more they express my astonishment at how opera makes me lose myself, how it consumes me.’ In so doing, Abel uncovers what until now, through dry musicology and gossipy history, has been left behind a wall of silence: the physical and erotic nature of opera. Although Abel can speak with certainty only about his own response to opera, he provides readers with a language and a resonance with which to understand their own experiences. Ultimately, Opera in the Flesh celebrates the power of opera to move audiences as no other book has done. It is indeed a treasure of scholarship, passion, and poetry for everyone with even a passing interest in this fascinating art form.

Book Monsieur

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Philippe Toussaint
  • Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 156478505X
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Monsieur written by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero, Monsieur, is a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life is examined with precision. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Here, he muses on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And he is very funny.

Book Blind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sophie Calle
  • Publisher : Actes Sud Editions
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9782330000585
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book Blind written by Sophie Calle and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2011 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No stranger to the art of staging and to the act of disclosure, Sophie Caile returns again here to the theme of autobiography and to the notion of the Other, revealing in all their difference and singularity those who have been blind since birth or who have gone blind following an accident. By establishing a dialectic between the testimonies of several generations of blind people and the photographs taken by her on the basis on these accounts, Sophie Caile offers readers a reflection on absence, on the loss of one sense and the compensation of another, on the notion of the visible and the invisible. In this publication, she revisits three earlier works constructed and conceived around the idea ofblindness, setting up a dialogue between them; in Les Aveugles (The Blind), created in 1986, she questioned blind people on their representation of beauty; in 1991, in La Couleur aveugle (Blind Colour), she asked non-sighted people what they perceived and compared their descriptions to artists musings on the monochrome; La Dernière Image (The Last Image), produced in 2010 in Istanbul, historically dubbed the city of the blind, gives a voice to men and women who have lost their sight, questioning them on the last image they can remember, their last memory of the visible world. The work, which is structured as an introspective triptych, uncovers sensibilities, perceptions and events that are painful, sincere. Sophie Calles idea is to underline the permanence and irony of a particular situation, with the aim of redeeming and highlighting the importance of sight.

Book Romans et nouvelles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stendhal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Romans et nouvelles written by Stendhal and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ariosto  Shakespeare and Corneille

Download or read book Ariosto Shakespeare and Corneille written by Benedetto Croce and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille is a work of literary criticism by Benedetto Croce. Published in 1921, this volume contains one of Croce's first literary criticisms written in English. A section on Shakespeare also includes unique essays on Ariosto and Corneille, which together inaugurated a new era in literary criticism.

Book Degeneration

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  • Author : Max Simon Nordau
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-11-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1086 pages

Download or read book Degeneration written by Max Simon Nordau and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Degeneration is a book by Max Nordau which was published in two volumes. Within this work, he attacks what he believed to be degenerate art and comments on the effects of a range of social phenomena of the period, such as rapid urbanization and its perceived effects on the human body. Nordau believed degeneration should be diagnosed as a mental illness because those who were deviant were sick and required therapy.

Book Men Without Art

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  • Author : Wyndham Lewis
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780876856871
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Men Without Art written by Wyndham Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King Candaules

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  • Author : ThŽophile Gautier
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2020-09-28
  • ISBN : 1465548254
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book King Candaules written by ThŽophile Gautier and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gothic Quest

Download or read book The Gothic Quest written by Montague Summers and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atalanta in Calydon

Download or read book Atalanta in Calydon written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: