Author: G. Diment Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137089148 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
Siberia has no history of independent political existence, no claim to a separate ethnic identity, and no clear borders. Yet, it could be said that the elusive country 'behind the Urals' is the most real and the most durable part of the Russian landscape. For centuries, Siberia has been represented as Russia's alter ego,as the heavenly or infernal antithesis to the perceived complexity or shallowness of Russian life. It has been both the frightening heart of darkness and a fabulous land of plenty; the 'House of the Dead' and the realm of utter freedom; a frozen wasteland and a colourful frontier; a dumping ground for Russia's rejects and the last refuge of its lost innocence. The contributors to Between Heaven and Hell examine the origin, nature, and implications of these images from historical, literary, geographical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives. They create a striking, fascinating picture of this enormous and mysterious land.
Author: W. Bruce Lincoln Publisher: Viking Adult ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 564
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Focusing on the artists in context, Between Heaven and Hell brings the triumph and tragedy of the Russian experience into full view. It vividly illustrates the workings of the creative process in a land in which politics and the arts have been closely intertwined. And it keenly describes the unique fashion in which Russian artists created their work through assimilating and transforming other cultural forms - giving birth to masterpieces unlike any others on earth.
Author: David J. Buch Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226078116 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 483
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Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary force and popularity during the period, pervading theatrical works with music in the French, German, and Italian mainstream. Considering prominent compositions by Gluck, Rameau, and Haydn, as well as many seminal contributions by lesser-known artists, Buch locates the origins of these magical elements in such historical sources as ancient mythology, European fairy tales, the Arabian Nights, and the occult. He concludes with a brilliant excavation of the supernatural roots of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, building a new foundation for our understanding of the magical themes that proliferated in Mozart’s wake.
Author: Brian Cummings Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199677719 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 384
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Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing and life drawing and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.
Author: Orel Friedman Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1462808050 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 237
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A DOCTOR RETIRES–IS THERE LIFE AFTER MEDICINE? is the life story of a successful ear, nose, and throat specialist, Orel Friedman, M.D. He writes that his medical career came to a very abrupt and unplanned end at the age of sixty-six because of the sudden onset of a visual disability. He describes his forced retirement as the low point in his life. Now 25 years later he tells how he left this low point in his life to find happiness, personal growth, and fulfillment. The story is about aging with optimism and is a design for living the good long life.
Author: Hachik Alexanian
Author: G. Diment
Author: W. Bruce Lincoln
Author: David J. Buch
Author: Brian Cummings
Author: Orel Friedman
Author: Evelyn A. Hovanec
Author: Patrick D. Morrow
Author: William R. Klink
Author: Edmund Spenser