The Cambridge Companion to Berg
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Berg PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Pople |
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Pages | 304 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Berg
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Berg PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Pople |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1997-04-24 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521564892 |
The world of Alban Berg is full of paradoxes, secrets and allusions, but he was able to handle emotional and moral issues at a distance and with profound sympathy. His unhurried, almost aristocratic attitude to life and his extreme self-criticism in professional matters resulted in an extraordinarily small musical output, but it includes towering masterpieces such as the operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and his last work, the Violin Concerto. All of Berg's substantial works are discussed in this Companion which brings together a team of experts who write from a variety of historical and critical perspectives, outlining the place of the music in the cultural history of its time and recontextualising it against the broader twentieth-century interplay of fashions, aesthetics and ideas.
The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden
Title | The Cambridge Companion to John Dryden PDF eBook |
Author | Steven N. Zwicker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2004-05-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521531443 |
John Dryden, Poet Laureate to Charles II and James II, was one of the great literary figures of the late seventeenth century. This Companion provides a fresh look at Dryden s tactics and triumphs in negotiating the extraordinary political and cultural revolutions of his time. The newly commissioned essays introduce readers to the full range of his work as a poet, as a writer of innovative plays and operas, as a purveyor of contemporary notions of empire, and most of all as a man intimate with the opportunities of aristocratic patronage as well as the emerging market for literary gossip, slander and polemic. Dryden s works are examined in the context of seventeenth-century politics, publishing and ideas of authorship. A valuable resource for students and scholars, the Companion includes a full chronology of Dryden s life and times and a detailed guide to further reading.
The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Harp |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2000-11-30 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521646789 |
An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw
Title | The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Innes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1998-09-24 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1139825569 |
The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw is an indispensable guide to one of the most influential and important dramatists of the theatre. The volume offers a broad-ranging study of Shaw with essays by a team of leading scholars. The Companion covers all aspects of Shaw's drama, focusing on both the political and theatrical context, while the extensive illustrations showcase productions from the Shaw Festival in Canada. In addition to situating Shaw's work in its own time, the Companion demonstrates its continuing relevance, and applies some of the newest critical approaches. Topics include Shaw and the publishing trade, Shaw and feminism, and Shaw and the Empire, as well as analyses of the early plays, discussion plays and history plays.
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera PDF eBook |
Author | Mervyn Cooke |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2005-12-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521780094 |
This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Porter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2005-07-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521822831 |
An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.