Search Results - "opera"

The end of American lynching by Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The accountant and the opera house -- Date night in the courthouse square -- The end of American lynching -- The last American lynching.…”
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The end of American lynching by Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The accountant and the opera house -- Date night in the courthouse square -- The end of American lynching -- The last American lynching.…”
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Representations of natural catastrophes in newspaper discourse / by Tr�ckov�a, Dita, 1982-

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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New messengers : short narratives in plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson / by Ka�cer, Tom�a�s

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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From rhetoric to aesthetics--wit and esprit : in the English and French theoretical writings of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / by Bicanov�a, Kl�ara, 1977-

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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New messengers : short narratives in plays by Michael Frayn, Tom Stoppard and August Wilson / by Ka�cer, Tom�a�s

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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From rhetoric to aesthetics--wit and esprit : in the English and French theoretical writings of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / by Bicanov�a, Kl�ara, 1977-

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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Representations of natural catastrophes in newspaper discourse / by Tr�ckov�a, Dita, 1982-

“…Opera Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis. Facultas philosophica =…”
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Music and the Irish literary imagination by White, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Synge abandoned music -- Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned" -- The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce -- Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce -- Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music -- Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.…”
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Music and the Irish literary imagination by White, Harry

Table of Contents: “…Synge abandoned music -- Opera and drama : Bernard Shaw and "The brandy of the damned" -- The 'thought-tormented music' of James Joyce -- Words after music : Samuel Beckett after Joyce -- Operas of the Irish mind : Brian Friel and music -- Words alone : Seamus Heaney, music, and the jurisdiction of literary forms.…”
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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. …”
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"The stage's glory" John Rich, 1692-1761 /

Table of Contents: “…Good for the Garden : the composition of Handel's Ariodante / Donald Burrows -- "Heathen gods and heroes" : singers and John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields / Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson -- The Beggar's opera in London's theatres, 1728-1761 / Jeremy Barlow -- Beyond The Beggar's opera : John Rich and English ballad opera, 1728-1736 / Berta Joncus and Vanessa L. …”
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The Renaissance epic and the oral past by Welch, Anthony, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Tasso's silent lyre -- The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser -- Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale -- Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler -- Milton's lament -- Epic opera -- Coda: The singer withdraws.…”
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The Renaissance epic and the oral past by Welch, Anthony, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Tasso's silent lyre -- The oldest song: Ronsard and Spenser -- Interchapter: The lutanist and the nightingale -- Harps in Babylon: Cowley, Davenant, Butler -- Milton's lament -- Epic opera -- Coda: The singer withdraws.…”
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Sounding real musicality and American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century / by Ruotolo, Cristina L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Not just looking: Sister Carrie's musical economy -- Listening to women playing Chopin -- Opera's "impossible country": figuring the American diva -- James Weldon Johnson's ex-colored musician -- Fictions of the American music critic -- Epilogue.…”
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Sounding real musicality and American fiction at the turn of the twentieth century / by Ruotolo, Cristina L., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Not just looking: Sister Carrie's musical economy -- Listening to women playing Chopin -- Opera's "impossible country": figuring the American diva -- James Weldon Johnson's ex-colored musician -- Fictions of the American music critic -- Epilogue.…”
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Radio's intimate public network broadcasting and mass-mediated democracy / by Loviglio, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : radio's intimate public -- The fireside chats and the New Deal -- Vox pop : network radio and the voice of the people -- Public affairs : the soap opera cultural front -- The Shadow meets the phantom public -- Conclusion : America's most fascinating people.…”
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Radio's intimate public network broadcasting and mass-mediated democracy / by Loviglio, Jason

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : radio's intimate public -- The fireside chats and the New Deal -- Vox pop : network radio and the voice of the people -- Public affairs : the soap opera cultural front -- The Shadow meets the phantom public -- Conclusion : America's most fascinating people.…”
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The Body of Writing : An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction / by Chevaillier, Flore, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Erotic etudes : theory of the self and language -- Semiotics and erotics in Joseph McElroy's Plus -- "A certain pulsing" : the erotic page in Carole Maso's AVA -- Erotics and corporeality in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE -- Bodily and literary modifications in Steve Tomasula's VAS : an opera in Flatland.…”
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Borrowed Forms : The Music and Ethics of Transnational Fiction / by Lachman, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…From Mikhail Bakhit to Maryse Conde : the problems of literary polyphony -- Edward Said and Assia Djebar : Counterpoint and the practice of comparative literature -- Glenn Gould and the birth of the author : variation and performance in Nancy Huston's Les variations Goldberg -- Opera and the limits of representation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.…”
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