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Gloucesterbook

By: Jonathan Bayliss

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This complex and intellectually extensive novel is an anthropological discovery of the various personal and social dimensions that define an imaginative place on the East Coast, to which the West Coast protagonist adapts and subordinates his new life even as he assists several of their inhabitants in their polyphonic story. The benign helpfulness of this book's language - its precision and humor, its sheer competence and intelligent ambition - creates a unique landmark in fiction. This novel is part of Bayliss's series GLOUCESTERMAN. Each of the four novels may be enjoyed independently.

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Drawbridge Press

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0983150419

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9780983150411

A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: Jonathan Swift

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A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

By: Jonathan Swift

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Jonathan Swift’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Swift includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Swift’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles

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854

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Delphi Classics

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1788775708

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9781788775700

Musical Aesthetics

An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions

By: Jonathan L. Friedmann

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Musical Aesthetics

An Introduction to Concepts, Theories, and Functions

By: Jonathan L. Friedmann

This book contains six chapters covering key areas of musical aesthetics, including aesthetics of emotions; aesthetics of listening; aesthetics of performance; aesthetics of composition; aesthetics of nature; and aesthetics of commerce. Each chapter adopts an experiential approach to aesthetics, in which perceptual and intuitive musical responses – real-time experiences – are valued as a source of truth. Unlike intellectual aesthetics, which values conscious associations and meticulous artistic appraisals, experiential aesthetics looks primarily at everyday subconscious appreciations. The explorations here draw from the social sciences, hard sciences, philosophy, literature, theology, musicology, humanities, and other fields that directly or indirectly contribute to an understanding of our attraction to music. Presenting user-friendly distillations of numerous theories, concepts, and functions, this book will be of interest to both lay readers and expert practitioners.

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179

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527514900

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9781527514904

Byron

The Erotic Liberal

By: Jonathan David Gross

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Byron

The Erotic Liberal

By: Jonathan David Gross

Byron: The Erotic Liberal explores the relationship between Byron's erotic life and his political commitments, placing his poetry in the context of the work of other aristocratic liberals such as Madame de Stael.

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252

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742511626

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9780742511620

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

By: Jonathan Taylor

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Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

By: Jonathan Taylor

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point. In these literary texts, the violent superiority often ascribed to laughter is seen as radically unstable, co-existing with its opposite: an anarchic sense of equality. Laughter, humour and comedy are slippery, duplicitous, ambivalent, self-contradictory hybrids, fusing apparently discordant elements. Now and then, though, literary and philosophical texts also dream of a different kind of laughter, one which reaches beyond its alloys – a transcendent, ‘perfect’ laughter which exists only in and for itself.

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264

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Springer

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3030114139

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9783030114138

The Audible Past

Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

By: Jonathan Sterne

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The Audible Past

Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction

By: Jonathan Sterne

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Duke University Press

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082233013X

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9780822330134

Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

By: Jonathan W. Stone

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The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s

By: Jonathan W. Stone

In 1933, John A. Lomax and his son Alan set out as emissaries for the Library of Congress to record the folksong of the “American Negro” in several southern African American prisons. Listening to the Lomax Archive: The Sonic Rhetorics of African American Folksong in the 1930s asks how the Lomaxes’ field recordings—including their prison recordings and a long-form oral history of jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton—contributed to a new mythology of Americana for a nation in the midst of financial, social, and identity crises. Stone argues that folksongs communicate complex historical experiences in a seemingly simple package, and can thus be a key element—a sonic rhetoric—for interpreting the ebb and flow of cultural ideals within contemporary historical moments. He contends that the Lomaxes, aware of the power of folk music, used the folksongs they collected to increase national understanding of and agency for the subjects of their recordings even as they used the recordings to advance their own careers. Listening to the Lomax Archive gives readers the opportunity to listen in on these seemingly contradictory dualities, demonstrating that they are crucial to the ways that we remember and write about the subjects of the Lomaxes’ archive and other repositories of historicized sound. Throughout Listening to the Lomax Archive, there are a number of audio resources for readers to listen to, including songs, oral histories, and radio program excerpts. Each resource is marked with a ♫ in the text. Visit https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9871097#resources to access this audio content.

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375

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University of Michigan Press

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047290244X

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9780472902446

The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Jonathan Lamb

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The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century

By: Jonathan Lamb

This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.

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190

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Routledge

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1317315464

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9781317315469

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Gloucesterbook

Gloucesterbook

A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Musical Aesthetics

Musical Aesthetics

Byron

Byron

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

The Audible Past

The Audible Past

Listening to the Lomax Archive

Listening to the Lomax Archive

The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century

The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century

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