Invisible Listeners
Title | Invisible Listeners PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Vendler |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 2009-02-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400826713 |
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one-addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions. By creating the forms and speech of ideal intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more complete and satisfactory human interchange--an ethics of relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free.
Invisible Listeners
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Release | 2008 |
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When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with G.
The 99% Invisible City
Title | The 99% Invisible City PDF eBook |
Author | Roman Mars |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | ARCHITECTURE |
ISBN | 0358126606 |
A beautifully designed guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities, from the creators of the wildly popular 99% Invisible podcast
THE INDIAN LISTENER
Title | THE INDIAN LISTENER PDF eBook |
Author | All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi |
Publisher | All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 1943-02-22 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
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The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.In 1950,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 22-02-1943 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Fortnightly NUMBER OF PAGES: 90 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. VIII, No. 5 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 12-16, 25-84 ARTICLE: 1. Turkey To-day 2. Scientific Co-operation 3. Book Review— The Poet Looks At The World AUTHOR: 1. K.D. Ghose 2. Dr. J. Needham 3. R.B. Beckett KEYWORDS: 1. World War II, Turkey, Anglo-Turkish Treaty, Von Papen Affair 2. History Of Science, War Of Secession, United Nations, Axis Powers 3. From My Bookshelf, W.H.Auden, New Year Letter, Stephen Spender Document ID: INL-1942-43 (D-J) Vol -I (05)
Resonances of Chindon-ya
Title | Resonances of Chindon-ya PDF eBook |
Author | Marié Abe |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2018-01-16 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0819577804 |
In this first book-length study of chindon-ya, Marié Abe investigates the intersection of sound, public space, and sociality in contemporary Japan. Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets. Historically not considered music, but part of the everyday soundscape, this vernacular performing art provides a window into shifting notions of musical labor, the politics of everyday listening and sounding, and street music at social protest in Japan. Against the background of long-term economic downturn, growing social precarity, and the visually and sonically saturated urban streets of Japan, this book examines how this seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction as an aesthetic, economic, and political practice after decades of inactivity. Resonances of Chindon-ya challenges Western conceptions of listening that have normalized the way we think about the relationship between sound, space, and listening subjects, and advances a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship that examines the ways social fragmentation is experienced and negotiated in post-industrial societies.
Canada before Television
Title | Canada before Television PDF eBook |
Author | Len Kuffert |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
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Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0773599819 |
Before screens could be stared at, listeners lent their ears to radio, and Canadian listeners were as avid as any. In Canada before Television, Len Kuffert takes us back to the earliest days of broadcasting, paying particular attention to how programs were imagined and made, loved and hated, regulated and tolerated. At a time when democracy stood out as a foundational value in the West, Canada’s private stations and the CBC often had conflicting ideas about what should or could be broadcast. While historians have documented the nationalist and culturally aspirational motives of some broadcasters, the story behind the production of programs for both broad and specialized audiences has not been as effectively told. By interweaving archival evidence with insights drawn from secondary literature, Canada before Television offers perspectives on radio’s intimate power, the promise and challenge of US programming and British influences, the regulation of taste on the air, shifting and varied musical appetites, and the difficulties of knowing what listeners wanted. While this mixed system divided Canadians then and now, the presence of more than one vision for the emerging medium made the early years of broadcasting in Canada more culturally democratic for listeners who stood a better chance of getting both what they already liked and what they might come to like. Canada before Television offers an insightful look at the place of radio and debates about programming in the development of a cultural democracy.
Radio Age
Title | Radio Age PDF eBook |
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Pages | 746 |
Release | 1924 |
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