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Sweet Thunder

Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

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Sweet Thunder

Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Italian music of the 1960s is one of the most unjustly neglected areas in the arena of twentieth-century classical music. This volume pays tribute to the astounding complexity of the music and libretti of five vocal compositions by leading experimental composers of the decade: Luigi Dallapiccola, Bruno Maderna, Luciano Berio, Giacomo Manzoni, and Armando Gentilucci. It highlights how the 'difficult' and unconventional methods of composition employed by these artists - dodecaphony, total serialism, Webernian minimalist techniques, aleatory and electronic music - displayed a refusal to compete with the market-place values of Italy's new capitalist society. At the same time, the libretti's collage arrangement of a plethora of European and Oriental literary sources dating from the sixteenth century BC onwards, reflected the contemporary Neo-avant-garde rejection of conventional literary practice, and their preference for 'organised disorder', in Umberto Eco's phrase.

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

1351196219

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9781351196215

Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

By: Vivienne Brough-Evans

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Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

By: Vivienne Brough-Evans

Vivienne Brough-Evans proposes a compelling new way of reevaluating aspects of international surrealism by means of the category of divin fou, and consequently deploys theories of sacred ecstasy as developed by the Collège de Sociologie (1937–39) as a critical tool in shedding new light on the literary oeuvre of non-French writers who worked both within and against a surrealist framework. The minor surrealist genre of prose literature is considered herein, rather than surrealism's mainstay, poetry, with the intention of fracturing preconceptions regarding the medium of surrealist expression. The aim is to explore whether International surrealism can begin to be more fully explained by an occluded strain of 'dissident' surrealist thought that searches outside the self through the affects of ekstasis. Bretonian surrealism is widely discussed in the field of surrealist studies, and there is a need to consider what is left out of surrealist practice when analysed through this Bretonian lens. The Collège de Sociologie and Georges Bataille's theories provide a model of such elements of 'dissident' surrealism, which is used to analyse surrealist or surrealist influenced prose by Alejo Carpentier, Leonora Carrington and Gellu Naum respectively representing postcolonial, feminist and Balkan locutions. The Collège and Bataille's 'dissident' surrealism diverges significantly from the concerns and approach towards the subject explored by surrealism. Using the concept of ekstasis to organise Bataille's theoretical ideas of excess and 'inner experience' and the Collège's thoughts on the sacred it is possible to propose a new way of reading types of International surrealist literature, many of which do not come to the forefront of the surrealist literary oeuvre.

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282

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Routledge

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1317060156

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9781317060154

Walking in Northumberland

36 walks throughout the county - coast, Cheviots, Hadrian's Wall and Pennines

By: Vivienne Crow

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Walking in Northumberland

36 walks throughout the county - coast, Cheviots, Hadrian's Wall and Pennines

By: Vivienne Crow

A guidebook to 36 walks exploring Northumberland, including the national park, coast, North Pennines and Kielder. Route are graded by difficulty and cover a wide variety of terrain. The walks, accessible from bases such as Alnwick, Rothbury and Hexham, range from 7 to 22km (4–14 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2–7 hours. 1:50,000 OS maps included for each walk Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket Notes on refreshments and public transport Local points of interest including Hadrian’s Wall Information on the region’s rich geology, history and wildlife

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256

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Cicerone Press Limited

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178362602X

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9781783626021

Reading and Understanding

An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading

By: Geoffrey Underwood,Vivienne Batt

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Reading and Understanding

An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading

By: Geoffrey Underwood,Vivienne Batt

Reading and Understanding d presents a review of current thinking about the psychology of reading, introducing the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from the printed symbols. It is suitable for use as an advance text for psychology, education and linguistics students.

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260

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631179518

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9780631179511

Reading and Understanding

An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading

By: Geoffrey D. M. Underwood,Vivienne Batt

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An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading

By: Geoffrey D. M. Underwood,Vivienne Batt

Reading and Understanding presents a review of current thinking about the psychology of reading, introducing the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from the printed symbols. It is suitable for use as an advance text for psychology, education and linguistics students.

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0631179496

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9780631179498

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Sweet Thunder

Sweet Thunder

Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

Sacred Surrealism, Dissidence and International Avant-Garde Prose

Walking in Northumberland

Walking in Northumberland

Reading and Understanding

Reading and Understanding

Reading and Understanding

Reading and Understanding

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