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Sweet Thunder

Music and Libretti in 1960s Italy

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

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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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1351196219

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9781351196215

Mirage and Camouflage

Hiding Behind Hermeticism in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'Allegria

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

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Hiding Behind Hermeticism in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'Allegria

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This study explores the tensions and contradictions in the themes and style of L'Allegria. It establishes links between Ungaretti and the French Symbolist poets, and reexamines the collection's affinity with the work of De Chirico, Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism. Offering ground-breaking views, particularly on the war poems, it demonstrates how Ungaretti used the obscure nature of Hermetic language to express his proto-Fascist and Nietzschean sympathies, thus destroying the myth of Ungaretti as a 'man of peace' searching for a religious answer to the problems of existence.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1899293914

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9781899293919

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: A star, Royal Holloway, University of London (School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures), language: English, abstract: The definition of love provided by Sonnet 116 makes this poem one of the most cited and anthologized in the entire poetic canon. Shakespeare presents the reader with his conception of love in its most ideal form. The main idea put forth in 116 is that ideal love is constant and permanent; that it never alters, either with changing circumstances (first quatrain), difficulties (second quatrain) or with time (third quatrain). The final rhyming couplet makes a defensive challenge to any reader who might want to contest this view of love, and the poet stakes his own poetry as his wager that love is exactly as he has described it. In spite of Shakespeare’s challenge, some scholars - notably Carol Neely - have detected a gradual ‘deterioration’ throughout the course of the poem in the poet’s representation of ideal love, suggesting that the poet, deep down, has reservations about the enduring quality of love. It is this view which I seek to contest.

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GRIN Verlag

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3346723097

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Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

By: Vivienne Suvini-Hand

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Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

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Scientific Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, grade: 1st class, Royal Holloway, University of London (University of London), course: Research, language: English, abstract: This study constitutes a unique and dedicated attempt to address the extent to which Paganini’s character has been misrepresented to date. Making detailed reference to biographies and previous writings on Paganini, it dismantles the myth-making surrounding the violinist's legendary status, and overturns the common perceptions of Paganini as a gambler, compulsive womanizer, murderer, wrecker of relationships, miser, vulgarian and heathen. It attempts to depict the ‘real’ Paganini, and demonstrates that there is little, if any, justification for the excessive calumny to which the renowned violinist was subjected in his lifetime and beyond.

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Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

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Mirage and Camouflage

Hiding Behind Hermeticism in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'Allegria

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Hiding Behind Hermeticism in Giuseppe Ungaretti's L'Allegria

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Glimpses of Lacan and Barthes in two poems by Gillian Clarke

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Glimpses of Lacan and Barthes in two poems by Gillian Clarke

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Essay from the year 2019 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, , language: English, abstract: Language is not a very predominant theme in the work of the Welsh poet and playwright, Gillian Clarke (born 1937) nor has she, to my knowledge, ever expressed an interest in linguistic theories and their application to literature. Her work tends to be rather autobiographical in style, recounting experiences involving her own family, children and local people. However, occasionally she touches upon the subject of education and of writing poetry (as for example in ‘Lunchtime lecture’ and ‘Pipistrelle’, respectively) and it is by way of these themes that issues concerning language come into play. Such is the case in ‘Clocks’ and ‘Miracle on Saint David’s Day’. In the first, I offer a Lacanian interpretation of the issue of ‘naming’ described in the poem. What the grandmother of the poem is concerned with is the development of the subject (her grandchild) and the need to construct his sense of ‘reality’ in and through language which in turn enables him to enter the Symbolic or Social Order. The official language of the Social Order is also pitted against what Lacan would term the ‘lalangue’ of the child, evident in his onomatopoeic utterances. ‘Miracle on St David’s Day’ is a testament to the miraculous power of poetry and I illustrate how Clarke is reinforcing that the oral articulation of poetical language can induce a sense of euphoria as described by Barthes in Le Plaisir du texte.

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Book's by Vivienne Suvini-Hand

Sweet Thunder

Sweet Thunder

Mirage and Camouflage

Mirage and Camouflage

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

Niccolò Paganini. A Re-evaluation of his Legend

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116: Blemished love?

Mirage and Camouflage

Mirage and Camouflage

Glimpses of Lacan and Barthes in two poems by Gillian Clarke

Glimpses of Lacan and Barthes in two poems by Gillian Clarke

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