1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460339503321

Autore

Maconie Robin

Titolo

Avant garde : an American odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez / / Robin Maconie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : The Scarecrow Press, Inc., , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-8108-8313-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Disciplina

780.9/04

Soggetti

Music - 20th century - History and criticism

Avant-garde (Music) - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Avant Garde; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1 The search for King Kong; 2 Sacks''s agnosia; 3 How not to listen; 4 Recording angel; 5 The secret life of savages; 6 About Wittgenstein; 7 La guerre du destin; 8 Boulez in the underworld; 9 The French connection; 10 The poetics of Milton; 11 An upside down unicycle; 12 Alfred North Whitehead; 13 Speaking in tongues; 14 Two studies; 15 Recent intelligence; 16 Art and Realpolitik; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span><span>In </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Avant Garde: An American Odyssey from Gertrude Stein to Pierre Boulez</span><span>, Stockhausen specialist Robin Maconie reconsiders the role of music and music technology through careful examination of key modern concepts with respect to time, existence, identity, and relationship as formulated by such thinkers as Einstein, Russell, Whitehead, and Gertrude Stein, along with Freud, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, and Marcel Duchamp.</span></span></span>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777063103321

Titolo

Seeing Seneca Whole : Perspectives on Philosophy, Poetry and Politics / / edited by Katharina Volk, G. D. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-39874-8

9786611398743

90-474-0936-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition ; ; 28

Disciplina

188

Soggetti

Philosophy

Poems

Politics

Stoics

stoics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""INTRODUCTION --- Katharina Volk and Gareth D. Williams""; ""SEEING SENECA WHOLE? --- Richard Tarrant""; ""SENECA, MAN OF MANY GENRES --- James Ker""; ""SENECA ON MORAL THEORYAND MORAL IMPROVEMENT --- John M. Cooper""; ""ANGER, PRESENT INJUSTICE ANDFUTURE REVENGE IN SENECA�S DE IRA --- Katja Maria Vogt""; ""SENECA AND THE STOIC THEORY OF COGNITION:SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS --- Jula Wildberger""; ""LEARNING HOW TO DIE: SENECA�S USEOF AENEID 4.653 AT EPISTULAE MORALES 12.9 --- Wolfgang-Rainer Mann""

""JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME: SENECA, EPISTLE 57 IN BOOK VI IN EM --- John Henderson""""STATES OF EXILE, STATES OF MIND: PARADOX AND REVERSAL IN SENECA�S CONSOLATIO AD HELVIAM MATREM --- Gareth D. Williams""; ""ELITE SCEPTICISM IN THE APOCOLOCYNTOSIS: FURTHER QUALIFICATIONS --- Spencer Cole""; ""COSMIC DISRUPTION IN SENECA�S THYESTES: TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT AN ECLIPSE --- Katharina Volk""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""PASSAGES CITED""; ""INDEX""



Sommario/riassunto

This volume contains ten essays by an international group of scholars on various aspects of the work of L. Annaeus Seneca the Younger, the famous (some would say, notorious) Roman playwright, philosopher, and politician of the Claudian and Neronian periods. Approaching Seneca from a number of different angles, the authors endeavor both to illuminate individual aspects of the writer's enormous output and to discern common themes among the many different genres practiced by Seneca. Given its interdisciplinary approach, the collection is of interest to classicists, historians, and historians of philosophy alike.