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Music and Discourse: Toward a Se...
In this book JeanJacques Nattiez, wellknown for his pioneering work in musical semiology, examines both music, and discourse about music, as products of human activity that are perceived in varying...
The Queens Bastard: A Novel [Pap...
Historians have long whispered that Elizabeth the Virgin Queens passionate, lifelong affair with Robin Dudley, Earl of Leicester, may have led to the birth of a son, Arthur Dudley In this exquisite...
Authenticity and Early Music: A ...
Nothing has more profoundly influenced the development of music making over the last two decades than the growth of the historical performance movement Perceived by some as a threat, an indication ...
Chaucer: Sources and Backgrounds...
Professor Miller has provided one of the most comprehensive collections of primary source material available for the study of Chaucers works He has brought together selections from a large number o...
Le Morte DArthur: The Winchester...
The greatest English version of the stories of King Arthur, Le Morte DArthur was completed in 146970 by Sir Thomas Malory, knight prisoner This edition is the first designed for the general reader ...
The Mysteries of Abu Simbel: Ram...
The temples of Abu Simbel have fascinated travelers since they became known to the Western world in the nineteenth century And since the 1960s when the rising waters created by the Aswan High Dam t...
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 19...
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their in...
Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Bo...
Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about 37 CE A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee After pleading ...
The Greek Way Hamilton, Edith
The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and...
Sag Harbor Is: A Literary Celebr...
Sag Harbor Is: an inspired collection of pieces from the past and present from Melville to Steinbeck, James Fenimore Cooper to Betty Friedan to Spalding Gray that celebrate the many eras and face...
The Best Is Yet to Be: A Celebra...
Book by Schutz, Susan Polis ISBN10: 0883960052 ISBN13: 9780883960059 Material Type: paperback
Before Texas Changed: A Fort Wor...
Growing up in Fort Worth during the 1950s never lacked in excitement for David Murph In his memoir, Murph recalls a mischievous childhood punctuated by adventures in driving, occasional acts of acc...
The Poems of Doctor Zhivago Past...
The 25 poems from Pasternaks masterpiece Doctor Zhivago are followed by a masterful critique of their function in the novel and their value as poetry ISBN10: 0837182948 ISBN13: 9780837182940 Mater...
This Living Hand: And Other Essa...
When the multitalented biographer Edmund Morris who writes with equal virtuosity about Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Beethoven, and Thomas Edison was a schoolboy in colonial Kenya, one of his ...
Cold Snap as Yearning Vivian, Ro...
Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horsewoman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way, and this collection g...
Beneath the American Renaissance...
In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the American RenaissanceEmerson, Thoreau, Writman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinsonare examined together in their cultural contexts David Re...
Etymologies and Genealogies: A L...
Mr Bloch has attempted to establish what he calls a literary anthropology The project is important and ambitious It seems to me that Mr Bloch has completely achieved this ambition Michel FoucaultBl...
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable W...
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts...
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