1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971895603321

Autore

Fay Laurel E

Titolo

Shostakovich : a life / / Laurel E. Fay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

9780197729076

019772907X

9780199881154

0199881154

9780195182514

0195182510

9781280530876

1280530871

9780195350722

0195350723

9781429404792

1429404795

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online.

Disciplina

780.92

780.92B

780/.92 B

Soggetti

Composers - Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes list of works and glossary of names.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-422) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Childhood (1906-1919); 2 Conservatory (1919-1926); 3 Spreading Wings (1926-1928); 4 Pioneer (1929-1932); 5 Tragedy-Satire (1932-1936); 6 Crisis (1936-1937); 7 Reprieve (1938-1941); 8 The War Years (1941-1944); 9 ""Victory"" (1945-1948); 10 Public and Private (1948-1953); 11 The Thaw (1953-1958); 12 Consolidation (1958-1961); 13 Renewal (1961-1966); 14 Jubilees (1966-1969); 15 Immortality (1970-1975); Notes; List of Works; Glossary of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S



TU; V; Y; Z; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

For this biography the author has used many primary documents; Shostakovich's many letters, concert programmes, newspaper articles and diaries of his contemporaries. Showing his life as an example of the paradoxes of living as an artist in Russia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956470403321

Titolo

Egil, the Viking Poet : New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga' / / Laurence de Looze, Torfi H. Tulinius, Russell Poole, Jon Karl Helgason

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-2124-9

1-4426-2123-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)

Disciplina

839/.61

Soggetti

Sagas - History and criticism

Libros electronicos.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The construction of Egil's saga / Torfi H. Tulinius -- Ars metrica and the composition of Egil's saga / Gurún Nordal -- The concept of the self in Egil's saga : a Ricoeurean approach / Laurence de Looze -- Self-description in Egil's poetry / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Thorolf's choice : family and goodness in Egil's saga, ch. 40 / Ármann Jakobsson -- Elegy and old age in Egil's saga / Alison Finlay -- *Konutorrek : a husband's lament / Oren Falk -- Facebook for Vikings : social network analysis and Egil's saga / Timothy R. Tangherlini -- Egil strikes again : textual variation and the seventeenth-century reworkings of Egil's saga / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir -- Bloody runes : the transgressive poetics of Egil's saga / Jón Karl Helgason -- A selected bibliography from the online annotated bibliography of Egil's saga / Álfdís Þorleifsdóttir,



Katelin Parsons, and Jane Appleton.

Sommario/riassunto

"Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil's transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder, and poet epitomizes the many facets of Viking legend. The contributors to this collection of essays approach Egil's story from a variety of perspectives, including psychology, philology, network theory, social history, and literary theory. Strikingly original, their essays will appeal not only to dedicated students of Old Norse-Icelandic literature but also to those working in the fields of Viking studies, comparative ethnology, and folklore."--