Aristophanes in Britain

Aristophanes in Britain
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780192868565
ISBN-13 : 019286856X
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristophanes in Britain by : Peter Swallow

In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period's reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues--making Old Comedy new. The book examines two strands of Aristophanic reception: the political and the aesthetic. From the start of the long-nineteenth century, the British reception of Aristophanes tied into contemporary political debate, as historians, translators and commentators, and even the burlesque writer J.R. Planché activated Aristophanes in support of their own political positions. But each writer's conceptualisation of Aristophanes was as different as their political outlooks. While many writers who appropriated Aristophanes for their cause were Tories, a notable outlier is Percy Shelley, whose Aristophanic drama Swellfoot the Tyrant activated Old Comedy to argue for democratic republicanism--what we would now call a left-wing political revolution. The second strand of Aristophanic reception, which developed from around the middle of the nineteenth century, actively depoliticised Old Comedy and instead received it through an aesthetic lens. The aesthetics of Aristophanes--with an emphasis on the beautiful and the archaeological--also lay behind school and university productions of Old Comedy during this period. These strands of nineteenth-century Aristophanic reception find synthesis towards the book's conclusion. Edwardian women's receptions of Aristophanes show how activists used his plays to argue for equal educational opportunities and the right to vote. In the final chapter, Gilbert Murray and George Bernard Shaw's receptions reveal both the political and artistic potential of Aristophanes.

The Dramatic Year Book for ... 1891

The Dramatic Year Book for ... 1891
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 820
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015006947454
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dramatic Year Book for ... 1891 by : Charles Smith Cheltnam

Catalogue. Supplement

Catalogue. Supplement
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015078733782
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Catalogue. Supplement by : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books

A People Passing Rude

A People Passing Rude
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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Total Pages : 350
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781909254107
ISBN-13 : 190925410X
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis A People Passing Rude by : Anthony Cross

"The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century -- when Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of Pushkin -- to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film."--Back cover.

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 954
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ISBN-10 : 9780190691271
ISBN-13 : 0190691271
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising by : James Deaville

The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising is an essential guide to the crucial role that music plays in relation to the audio or audiovisual advertising message, from the perspectives of its creation, interpretation, and reception. The book's unique three-part organization reflects this life cycle of an advertisement, from industry inception to mass-mediated text to consumer behaviour. Experts well versed in the practice, analysis, and empirical studies of the commercial message have contributed to the collection's forty-two chapters, which collectively represent the most ambitious and comprehensive attempt to date to address the important intersections of music and advertising. Handbook chapters are self-contained yet share borders with other contributions within a given section and across the major sections of the book, so readers can either study one topic of particular interest or read through to gain an understanding of the broader issues at stake. Within the book's Introduction, each editor has provided an overview of the unifying themes for the section for which they were responsible, with brief summaries of individual contributions at the beginnings of the sections. The lists of recommended readings at the end of chapters are intended to assist readers in finding further literature about the topic. An overview of industry practices by a music insider is provided in the Appendix, giving context for the three parts of the book.

Newsplan

Newsplan
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Publisher : London : British Library
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : UCR:31210009315217
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Newsplan by : Tracey J. Watkins

British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books. Supplement

British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books. Supplement
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Publisher : Рипол Классик
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9785875080876
ISBN-13 : 5875080876
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis British Museum. Catalogue of Printed Books. Supplement by : Неизвестный автор

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 285
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137528858
ISBN-13 : 1137528850
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Joseph Chamberlain by : I. Cawood

Winston Churchill described Joseph Chamberlain as 'the man who made the weather' for twenty years in British politics between the 1880s and the 1900s. This volume contains contributions on every aspect of Chamberlain's career, including international and cultural perspectives hitherto ignored by his many biographers. It breaks his career into three aspects: his career as an international statesman, defender of British interests and champion of imperial federation; his role as a national leader, opposing Gladstone's crusade for Irish home rule by forming an alliance with the Conservatives, campaigning for social reform and finally advocating a protectionist economic policy to promote British business; and the aspect for which he is still celebrated in his adopted city, as the provider of sanitation, gas lighting, clean water and cultural achievement for Birmingham – a model of civic regeneration that still inspires modern politicians such as Michael Heseltine, Tristram Hunt and David Willetts.