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The Well-Tun’d Word: Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651 The Well-Tun’d Word Musical Interpretations of English Poetry, 1597-1651 Elise Bickford Jorgens None None
In The Well-Tun’d Word Elisa Bickford Jorgens studies changing msucial conventions in English song in relation to new patterns in poetic taste from the late Elizabethan era through the Jacobean and Caroline years, basing her work on the premise that any musical setting of a poem is an interpretation of the poem itself. Jorgen’s opening chapters describe and illustrate elements of the craft of poetry and the musical conventions that can represent them. Her presentation is both clear and thorough, and will be especially helpful for students and scholars of English literature who are not necessarily musicians. She then discusses four major categories of song: Measured Music, Dance Songs and Tuneful Airs, English Monody, and Pathetic Airs, and shows how each group changed during the first half of the seventeenth century.
An Introduction to Poetics An Introduction to Poetics Tzvetan Todorov 1981 Fall
A concise exposition of the structuralist approach to literature.
Hieroglyph of Time: The Petrarchan Sestina Hieroglyph of Time The Petrarchan Sestina michael Shapiro None None
Peer Gynt Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen 1980 Fall
In this revised and amplified edition of Rolf Fjelde’s widely acclaimed translation, Peer Gynt is available in a contemporary version that captures the poetic form of the original yet does justice to its subtlety of meaning and enduring theatrical vitality. Fjelde provides an interpretive foreword, extensive notes, a new background essay titled “Text/Translation/Script,” a selected bibliography, and an American stage history covering significant revivals since its English-language premiere in 1906.
Old Brick: Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787 Old Brick Charles Chauncy of Boston, 1705-1787 Edward M. Griffin None None
Charles Chauncy is remembered today as the chief antagonist of Jonathan Edwards during the Great Awakening of the 1740s, yet his contemporaries knew him as a powerful, influential figure in his own right. During his 60-year tenure as pastor of Boston’s First Church (the “Old Brick”) Chauncy involved himself in most of the important issues of the century. Not only did he aggressively oppose the emotional revivalism of the Great Awakening, but he was also a bold pamphleteer and preacher in support of the American Revolution. Old Brick, the first full-scale biography of Charles Chauncy, makes it possible to consider Chauncy a figure worthy of study and to take a fresh look at eighteenth-century New England in light of the tradition Chauncy represents.
To the Third Empire: Ibsen’s Early Drama To the Third Empire Ibsen’s Early Drama Brian Johnston None None
Poetic Creation: Inspiration or Craft Poetic Creation Inspiration or Craft Carl Fehrman None None
Modern Swedish Prose in Translation Modern Swedish Prose in Translation Karl Erik Lagerlof, Editor 1979 Spring
Mark Antony: A Biography Mark Antony A Biography Eleanor Goltz Huzar None None
Verdi’s Aida: The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents Verdi’s Aida The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents None None
The Radical Lord Radnor: The Public Life of Viscount Folkestone, Third Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) The Radical Lord Radnor The Public Life of Viscount Folkestone, Third Earl of Radnor (1779-1869) Ronald K. Huch None None
Seven American Women Writers of the Twentieth Century: An Introduction Seven American Women Writers of the Twentieth Century An Introduction Maureen Howard, Editor None None
African Literature in the Twentieth Century African Literature in the Twentieth Century O.R. Dathorne 1976 Spring
John Dryden: A List of Critical Studies, 1895-1948 John Dryden A List of Critical Studies, 1895-1948 Samuel Holt Monk None None
Language, Mind, and Knowledge Language, Mind, and Knowledge Keith Gunderson, Editor None None