The Paganesque And The Tale Of Volsi
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Author |
: PROFESSOR MERRILL. KAPLAN |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2024-10-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781843847021 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1843847027 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Paganesque and the Tale of Vǫlsi by : PROFESSOR MERRILL. KAPLAN
Challenges the concept that the notorious horse penis is key to understanding the Tale of Vǫlsi, via the concept of the "paganesque". A family of Norwegian pagans, stubbornly resisting the new Christian religion, worship a diabolically animated preserved horse penis, intoning verses as they pass it from hand to hand until King Olaf the Saint intervenes. This is the matter of the medieval Tale of Vǫlsi. Traditionally, it has been read as evidence of a pre-Christian fertility cult - or simply dismissed as an obscene trifle. This book takes a new approach by developing the concept of the "paganesque" - the air of a religious culture older than and inimical to Christianity. It shows how the Tale of Vǫlsi deploys a range of vernacular genres, from verbal dueling and mythological poetry to folk belief about milk-stealing witches and the reanimated dead, to create the flavor of paganism for a fourteenth-century Icelandic audience: an imagined paganism that has theological stakes as well as satirical bite. Throughout, the study challenges the notion that the horse penis is the key to understanding the narrative. Once the object is removed from the center of interpretation, the artistry and wit of the tale's "Paganesque" come fully into view.
Author |
: Roger Dalrymple |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2020-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783275083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783275081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crippen by : Roger Dalrymple
How did the case of the 'mild mannered murderer', Hawley Harvey Crippen, come to have such an enduring cultural resonance?
Author |
: Tom Lodge |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 633 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847013217 |
ISBN-13 |
: 184701321X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Red Road to Freedom by : Tom Lodge
Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.
Author |
: Michael L. Lasser |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580469524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580469523 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950 by : Michael L. Lasser
"Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap.
Author |
: Patrick Zuk |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783275755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783275758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nikolay Myaskovsky by : Patrick Zuk
Drawing on a wealth of unexplored sources, this biography offers the first comprehensive critical reappraisal of the life and works of Nikolay Myaskovsky. Zuk's account is far removed from Cold War clichés of the regimented Soviet artist or sentimental stereotypes of persecuted genius.
Author |
: Benjamin W. D. Redding |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 252 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783276578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783276576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The English and French Navies, 1500-1650 by : Benjamin W. D. Redding
Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England. This book traces the advances and deterioration of the early modern English and French sea forces and relates these changes to concurrent developments within the respective states. Based on extensive original research in correspondence and memoirs, official reports and accounts, receipts of the exchequer and inventories in both France, where the sources are disparate and dispersed, and England, the book explores the rise of both kingdoms' naval resources from the early sixteenth to the mid seventeenth centuries. As a comparative study, it shows that, in sharing the Channel and with both countries increasing their involvement in maritime affairs, English and French naval expansion was intertwined. Directly and indirectly, the two kingdoms influenced their neighbours' sea programmes. The book first examines the administrative transformations of both navies, then goes on to discuss fiscal and technological change, and finally assesses the material expansion of the respective fleets. In so doing it demonstrates the close relationship between naval power and state strength in early modern Europe. One important argument challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.
Author |
: Marjorie Yovino-Young |
Publisher |
: Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000041111950 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pagan Ritual and Myth in Russian Magic Tales by : Marjorie Yovino-Young
Author |
: Philippe Denis |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847012906 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847012906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches by : Philippe Denis
Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists.
Author |
: Paula Musegades |
Publisher |
: Eastman Studies in Music |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580469913 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580469914 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aaron Copland's Hollywood Film Scores by : Paula Musegades
A pioneering study of how American composer Aaron Copland helped shape the sound of the Hollywood film industry and introduced the moviegoing public to modern musical styles.
Author |
: Daniel Abraham |
Publisher |
: Eastman Studies in Music |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580469739 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580469736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC by : Daniel Abraham
Composer, conductor, activist, and icon of twentieth-century America, Leonard Bernstein (1918-90) had a rich association with Washington, DC. Although he never lived there, the U.S. capital was the site of some of the most important moments in his life and work, as he engaged with the nation's struggles and triumphs. By examining Bernstein through the lens of DC, this book offers new insights into his life and music from the 1940s through the 1980s, including his role in building DC's artistic landscape, his political-diplomatic aims, his works that received premieres and other early performances in DC, and his relationships with the nation's liberal and conservative political elites. The collection also contributes new perspectives on twentieth-century American history, government, and culture, helping to elucidate the political function of music in American democracy. The essays in Leonard Bernstein and Washington, DC, all newly written by leading authorities, situate this important American cultural figure in the seat of United States government. The result is a fresh new angle on Leonard Bernstein, American politics, and American culture in the second half of the twentieth century. Daniel Abraham is Professor of Music at American University, Alicia Kopfstein-Penk is Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University, and Andrew H. Weaver is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America.