Ineffable Muse

by Oshyajem Longkumer
Ineffable Muse
Author: Oshyajem Longkumer
Publisher: Blue Hill Publications
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2021-10-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 939153967X
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With a note of profound sense of sensibility and spontaneity, the poems of "Ineffable Muse", delineate inexpressible strings of lives. The poet knits the poems as musical contemplation intertwined with exuberance of romanticism to visualise philosophy of love as a strong weapon to exist, the war between hope and despair during Lockdown, Life's encounter with phases of times, and grandeur of Nature as a source of inspiration. In short, "Ineffable Muse" encapsulates life itself; to quote the poet: "If you say I am beautiful. Let me stay beautiful in your eyes"(Pg. 88) - Gunajeet Mazumdar, Assistant Professor of English, Manikpur Anchalik College, Academic Member of Gauhati University Academic Council & a Scholar of South Asian Studies. In Ineffable Muse: A Poetry Collection, the poetess has given shape and sound to her untold stories and scrambled thoughts, collected and stored from different phases of life. Poems in Part 1 mainly echo human’s love shown during the Lockdown period and, appreciate the love retained and manifested by people. Poems in Part 2 harp about the multifaceted sides of Lockdown among humankind. Part 3 poems capture beautiful feelings and objects of life as felt and encountered by the poetess. Poems in Part 4 appreciate nature’s beauty which in turn, obliges the poetess to ponder over the magnificence of the Creator. The Lockdown poems, especially, will greatly appeal to global readers with a common experience of the Lockdown. The words used in the Collection are simple with lucid images and, simple and clear allusions. The poems in the Collection testify the poetess’ sensitivity and positivity to external details- small and miniscule, all. Dr. Lalthakim Hmar, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assam University, Silchar OSHYAJEM LONGKUMER is a Research scholar at Assam Don Bosco University. She is a Teacher by profession, a foodie at heart and is keen in globetrotting. She draws inspiration for writing Poetry from as simple as a life’s encounter or when in the heart of nature. Find her on Insta@ oshy.longkumer.poetry You may email her at [email protected]

Staël's Philosophy of the Passions

by Tili Boon Cuillé
Staël's Philosophy of the Passions
Author: Tili Boon Cuillé
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1611484723
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Sensibility, or the capacity to feel, played a vital role in philosophical reflection about the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts in eighteenth-century France. Yet scholars have privileged the Marquis de Sade's vindication of physiological sensibility as the logical conclusion of Enlightenment over Germaine de Sta l's exploration of moral sensibility's potential for reform and renewal that paved the way for Romanticism. This volume of essays showcases Sta l's contribution to the "affective revolution" in Europe, investigating the personal and political circumstances that informed her theory of the passions and the social and aesthetic innovations to which it gave rise. Contributors move seamlessly between her political, philosophical, and fictional works, attentive to the relationship between emotion and cognition and aware of the coherence of her thought on an individual, national, and international scale. They first examine the significance Sta l attributed to pity, happiness, melancholy, and enthusiasm in The Influence of the Passions as she witnessed revolutionary strife and envisioned the new republic. They then explore her development of a cosmopolitan aesthetic, in such works as On Literature, Corinne, or Italy, On Germany, and The Spirit of Translation, that transcended traditional generic, national, and linguistic boundaries. Finally, they turn to her contributions to the visual and musical arts as she deftly negotiated the transition from a Neoclassical to a Romantic aesthetic. Sta l's Philosophy of the Passions concludes that, rather than founding a republic based on the rights of man, Sta l's reflection fostered international communities of women (artists, models, and collectors; authors, performers, and spectators), enabling them to participate in the re-articulation of sociocultural values in the wake of the French Revolution. Contributors: Tili Boon Cuill , Catherine Dubeau, Nanette Le Coat, Christine Dunn Henderson, Karen de Bruin, M. Ione Crummy, Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Lauren Fortner Ravalico, C. C. Wharram, Kari Lokke, Susan Tenenbaum, Mary D. Sheriff, Heather Belnap Jensen, Fabienne Moore, Julia Effertz

Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature

by Joseph Sterrett
Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature
Author: Joseph Sterrett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-10-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108698530
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Early modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questions of prayer, questions powerful enough to splinter the English church and to fuel a ferocious civil war. This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer, through the body, the spoken word and written text, as well as its representation on stage. Through close readings of the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton and Henry Vaughan amongst others, this book examines the performative aspects of prayer in a range of literary modes. This broad range of study is expanded further with chapters focussing on the private religious diaries of men and women throughout the seventeenth century, and the convergence of music and prayer in the work of William Byrd.

Director's Cut

by David Solway
Director's Cut
Author: David Solway
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780889842724
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Solway argues in this feisty and polemical book that the time has arrived to take stock and engage passionately with our literature, and especially our poetry, if it is ever to be rescued from the swamp of second-ratedness into which it has descended. He contends that almost all of the poetry (and much of the fiction) being written in Canada these days is turgid, spurious and pedestrian, the result of two highly questionable developments: the proliferation of Creative Writing departments in universities throughout the country, and a largely subsidized literature industry, abetted by a press of cousinly critics and reviewers, intended to construct a patchwork national psyche, create a sense of ideological cohesion and glorify the tribe. In consequence of this we have sponsored a coterie of underachieving overproducers and proceeded to collude in their diffusion by virtue of our silent complicity or our chauvinism. Solway believes that we are on the whole far too nice, far too politically correct and, in a word, far too `Canadian', to register our disapproval bluntly and agonistically. The last thing we want to do is offend anyone. But all that such manoeuvres ensure is that nothing changes while conscience is appeased. There comes a time when diffidence and affability, those specifically Canadian virtues, work against our best interests and prevent the candid and occasionally brutal assessments without which the critical stupor and aesthetic fog so congenial to us must remain destructively in place. In Director's Cut,Solway attempts to dispel that fog, to see clearly and to speak directly to a readership that has been far too receptive of questionable work.

The Vintage Guide to Classical Music

by Jan Swafford
The Vintage Guide to Classical Music
Author: Jan Swafford
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 626
Release: 1992-12-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0679728058
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The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features: -- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times; -- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement; -- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds; -- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library. Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere.

The Music of Theology

by Andrew Hass
The Music of Theology
Author: Andrew Hass
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2024-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1003852246
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This book reconceives theology as a musical endeavour in critical tension with language, space and silence. An Overture first moves us from music to religion, and then from theology back to music – a circularity that, drawing upon history, sociology, phenomenology, and philosophy, disclaims any theology of music and instead pursues the music in theology. The chapters that follow explore the three central themes by way of theory, music and myth: Adorno, Benjamin and Deleuze (language), Derrida, Rosa and Nancy (space), Schelling/Hegel, Homer and Cage (silence). In overdubbing each other, these chapters work towards theology as a sonorous rhythm between loss and freedom. A Coda provides three brief musical examples – Thomas Tallis, György Ligeti, and Evan Parker – as manifestations of this rhythm, to show in summary how music becomes the very pulse of theology, and theology the very intuition of music. The authors offer an interdisciplinary engagement addressing fundamental questions of the self and the other, of humanity and the divine, in a deconstruction of modern culture and of its bias towards the eye over the ear. The book harmonizes three scholarly voices who attempt to find where the resonance of our Western conceptions and practice, musically and theologically, might resound anew as a more expansive music of theology.

Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability

by W. Dean Sutcliffe
Instrumental Music in an Age of Sociability
Author: W. Dean Sutcliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 110701381X
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Interprets an eighteenth-century musical repertoire in sociable terms, both technically (specific musical patterns) and affectively (predominant emotional registers of the music).

Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets

by Graham Johnson
Gabriel Fauré: The Songs and their Poets
Author: Graham Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351566113
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The career of Gabriel Faur‘s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Faur the lifelong prot of Camille Saint-Sa was a suavely precocious student; he was part of Pauline Viardot's circle in the 1870s and he nearly married her daughter. Pointed in the direction of symbolist poetry by Robert de Montesquiou in 1886, Faur as the favoured composer from the early 1890s of Winnarretta Singer, later Princesse de Polignac, and his songs were revered by Marcel Proust. In 1905 he became director of the Paris Conservatoire, and he composed his most profound music in old age. His existence, steadily productive and outwardly imperturbable, was undermined by self-doubt, an unhappy marriage and a tragic loss of hearing. In this detailed study Graham Johnson places the vocal music within twin contexts: Faur own life story, and the parallel lives of his many poets. We encounter such giants as Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, the patrician Leconte de Lisle, the forgotten Armand Silvestre and the Belgian symbolist Charles Van Lerberghe. The chronological range of the narrative encompasses Faur first poet, Victor Hugo, who railed against Napoleon III in the 1850s, and the last, Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, killed in action in the First World War. In this comprehensive and richly illustrated study each of Faur 109 songs receives a separate commentary. Additional chapters for the student singer and serious music lover discuss interpretation and performance in both aesthetical and practical terms. Richard Stokes provides parallel English translations of the original French texts. In the twenty-first century musical modernity is evaluated differently from the way it was assessed thirty years ago. Faur‘s no longer merely a 'Master of Charms' circumscribed by the belleque. His status as a great composer of timeless

Visions of Kali and Other Poems

by Michael Antony
Visions of Kali and Other Poems
Author: Michael Antony
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1475994729
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These poems are a return to a past century in their approach, in that they tell of love affairs, encounters, or personal crises in simple language rather than being cryptic crossword puzzles or displays of ingenious imagery. They are also a return to a more recent past in content, since many of them were written around 1980 after a seven-year period spent on the road. They describe impressions of exotic countries (both their poverty and their beauty), the adventures of a life of wandering and drug-induced indolence on paradisiac beaches, and the love affairs of an era when young men and women related to each other rather more freely than they do today. These poems were rejected by publishers at the time, when the hippie lifestyle was not thought to be of interest and poems were supposed to be academic wordgames, not neo-romantic expressions of personal experience. There are signs both attitudes are changing, as the baby-boomers enter a period of nostalgia for their youth (including the counter-culture that inspired its music) and we near the end of the long drawn-out death of Modernism, which reduced all art-forms to idiocy or sterility. The book ends with some more recent poems, which reflect on life, death, justice, faith, science, other lives, and other worlds.