Christopher White
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264577
- eISBN:
- 9780191734267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264577.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
Michael Vincent Levey (1927–2008), a Fellow of the British Academy, devoted his professional career to the National Gallery, becoming one of its most distinguished and effective directors. During his ...
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Michael Vincent Levey (1927–2008), a Fellow of the British Academy, devoted his professional career to the National Gallery, becoming one of its most distinguished and effective directors. During his time in office (1973–1987), he was substantially responsible for modernising the Gallery in both its attitudes and services to the public. New programmes were introduced and new galleries were built, and, most important of all, a number of masterpieces were added to the collection. At a New Year's Eve party in 1953, Levey met Brigid Brophy, an up-and-coming novelist, the daughter of the writer John Brophy. Love was instantaneous and in six months they were married. His most wide-ranging innovation in the administration of the National Gallery was the creation of a fully professional Education Department. At his death, Levey was engaged in writing a biography of Ellen Terry, which met both his great interest in the history of the theatre and his fascination with a magnetic personality who had long intrigued him.Less
Michael Vincent Levey (1927–2008), a Fellow of the British Academy, devoted his professional career to the National Gallery, becoming one of its most distinguished and effective directors. During his time in office (1973–1987), he was substantially responsible for modernising the Gallery in both its attitudes and services to the public. New programmes were introduced and new galleries were built, and, most important of all, a number of masterpieces were added to the collection. At a New Year's Eve party in 1953, Levey met Brigid Brophy, an up-and-coming novelist, the daughter of the writer John Brophy. Love was instantaneous and in six months they were married. His most wide-ranging innovation in the administration of the National Gallery was the creation of a fully professional Education Department. At his death, Levey was engaged in writing a biography of Ellen Terry, which met both his great interest in the history of the theatre and his fascination with a magnetic personality who had long intrigued him.
David Sergeant
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199684588
- eISBN:
- 9780191765889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684588.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This postscript to the book provides a brief account of Kipling’s career after Kim. It suggests some of the ways in which the divide between authoritarian and complex fiction, and the formal features ...
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This postscript to the book provides a brief account of Kipling’s career after Kim. It suggests some of the ways in which the divide between authoritarian and complex fiction, and the formal features identified in previous chapters, might have been further explored in works such as ‘“They”’, ‘Mrs Bathurst’, the farces, and the Puck volumes. It suggests that Kipling’s concern with the build-up to and prosecution of the First World War resulted in a dearth of complex work after 1904; and that the disastrous nature of the war, and Kipling’s grief and increasing sense of alienation after it, informed the production of late masterpieces such as ‘The Bull that Thought’, ‘The Church that Was at Antioch’, and ‘Dayspring Mishandled’. The narrative strategies and thematic concerns in those works connect with earlier complex fictions explored in this book, and demonstrate the ultimate unity of Kipling’s achievement.Less
This postscript to the book provides a brief account of Kipling’s career after Kim. It suggests some of the ways in which the divide between authoritarian and complex fiction, and the formal features identified in previous chapters, might have been further explored in works such as ‘“They”’, ‘Mrs Bathurst’, the farces, and the Puck volumes. It suggests that Kipling’s concern with the build-up to and prosecution of the First World War resulted in a dearth of complex work after 1904; and that the disastrous nature of the war, and Kipling’s grief and increasing sense of alienation after it, informed the production of late masterpieces such as ‘The Bull that Thought’, ‘The Church that Was at Antioch’, and ‘Dayspring Mishandled’. The narrative strategies and thematic concerns in those works connect with earlier complex fictions explored in this book, and demonstrate the ultimate unity of Kipling’s achievement.
Markus Rathey
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300217209
- eISBN:
- 9780300219517
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300217209.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this book provides an introduction to ...
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Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer’s most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects—such as the theology of love—of a particular piece. This book is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach’s musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. The book will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike.Less
Every year, Johann Sebastian Bach’s major vocal works are performed to mark liturgical milestones in the Christian calendar. Written by a renowned Bach scholar, this book provides an introduction to the music and cultural contexts of the composer’s most beloved masterpieces, including the Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, and St John Passion. In addition to providing historical information, each chapter highlights significant aspects—such as the theology of love—of a particular piece. This book is the first to treat the vocal works as a whole, showing how the compositions were embedded in their original performative context within the liturgy as well as discussing Bach’s musical style, from the detailed level of individual movements to the overarching aspects of each work. The book will appeal to casual concertgoers and scholars alike.
James Morwood
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781904675716
- eISBN:
- 9781781380833
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781904675716.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an ...
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This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an chapter that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, the book refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.Less
This book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an chapter that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, the book refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.
Thomas N. Mitchell
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300215038
- eISBN:
- 9780300217353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215038.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter explores the link between the maturing of the democracy and the emergence of a golden era of artistic and intellectual accomplishment, raising the question of the extent to which the ...
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This chapter explores the link between the maturing of the democracy and the emergence of a golden era of artistic and intellectual accomplishment, raising the question of the extent to which the ethos and aspirations of democracy inspired and nurtured this cultural upsurge. The phenomenon was extraordinary in its range, quantity, and quality. This chapter looks in particular to the progress made in the fields of visual arts, such as sculpture, painting, and monumental architecture; the creation of literary masterpieces in drama, historiography, and oratory; and the general intellectual awakening which prompted intensified activity in philosophy, and especially in ethical and political thought. The chapter thus reviews the scale and character of the cultural achievement and the extent of its debt to the democratic society that produced it.Less
This chapter explores the link between the maturing of the democracy and the emergence of a golden era of artistic and intellectual accomplishment, raising the question of the extent to which the ethos and aspirations of democracy inspired and nurtured this cultural upsurge. The phenomenon was extraordinary in its range, quantity, and quality. This chapter looks in particular to the progress made in the fields of visual arts, such as sculpture, painting, and monumental architecture; the creation of literary masterpieces in drama, historiography, and oratory; and the general intellectual awakening which prompted intensified activity in philosophy, and especially in ethical and political thought. The chapter thus reviews the scale and character of the cultural achievement and the extent of its debt to the democratic society that produced it.
Lee Spinks
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638352
- eISBN:
- 9780748671632
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638352.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This book presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to ...
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This book presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, it provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. The book also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years.Less
This book presents a full and comprehensive account of the major writing of the modernist novelist James Joyce. Ranging right across Joyce's literary corpus from his earliest artistic beginnings to his mature prose masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, it provides detailed textual analysis of each of his major works. The book also provides an extended discussion of the biographical, historical, political and social contexts that inform Joyce's writing and a wide-ranging discussion of the multiple strands of Joyce criticism that have established themselves over the last eighty years.
Michael Anesko
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198794882
- eISBN:
- 9780191836404
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198794882.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 18th Century and Early American Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James’s major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and ...
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By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James’s major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the books we know—or think we know. Through a better understanding of the conditions of production that affected James’s author function, we achieve a deeper appreciation of the historical contingencies of his artistry. Closely examining new forms of evidence (even fingerprints), Generous Mistakes contends that authorship is a hybrid construction, a sometimes unpredictable sequence of different forms of practice, each of which contributes meaningfully to the texts we read and analyze. Offering a sustained examination of the “textual condition” of James’s work—going beyond the relatively familiar ground of authorial revision—this study brings into sharper focus the complex and sometimes arbitrary factors that contributed to the making of two masterpieces of modern fiction and to the Legend of the Master who wrote them.Less
By combining the techniques of textual criticism and the insights of close reading, Generous Mistakes offers new perspectives not only on two of Henry James’s major novels (The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors) but also on the process by which they became the books we know—or think we know. Through a better understanding of the conditions of production that affected James’s author function, we achieve a deeper appreciation of the historical contingencies of his artistry. Closely examining new forms of evidence (even fingerprints), Generous Mistakes contends that authorship is a hybrid construction, a sometimes unpredictable sequence of different forms of practice, each of which contributes meaningfully to the texts we read and analyze. Offering a sustained examination of the “textual condition” of James’s work—going beyond the relatively familiar ground of authorial revision—this study brings into sharper focus the complex and sometimes arbitrary factors that contributed to the making of two masterpieces of modern fiction and to the Legend of the Master who wrote them.
Richard Osborne
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195181296
- eISBN:
- 9780199851416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181296.003.0032
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
For more than a century and a half Ricciardo e Zoraide and Ermione were the forgotten operas of Gioachino Rossini’s Naples years. The neglect of Ermione was as sudden as it was extraordinary. ...
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For more than a century and a half Ricciardo e Zoraide and Ermione were the forgotten operas of Gioachino Rossini’s Naples years. The neglect of Ermione was as sudden as it was extraordinary. Confirmed as the lost masterpiece a handful of scholars and writers had claimed it to be, it was widely revived in the 1990s. The case of Ricciardo e Zoraide is less extreme. A fine but less radical and in some respects less obviously revivable work, it was written in the autumn of 1818, shortly before Ermione, at the midway point in Rossini’s Neapolitan career. It was much liked at its prima and played regularly throughout Europe until the late 1830s. Thereafter, a lack of recognizable characters with which later generations of opera-goers could identify, and what was said to be an incomprehensible plot, pushed it to the fringes of the repertory.Less
For more than a century and a half Ricciardo e Zoraide and Ermione were the forgotten operas of Gioachino Rossini’s Naples years. The neglect of Ermione was as sudden as it was extraordinary. Confirmed as the lost masterpiece a handful of scholars and writers had claimed it to be, it was widely revived in the 1990s. The case of Ricciardo e Zoraide is less extreme. A fine but less radical and in some respects less obviously revivable work, it was written in the autumn of 1818, shortly before Ermione, at the midway point in Rossini’s Neapolitan career. It was much liked at its prima and played regularly throughout Europe until the late 1830s. Thereafter, a lack of recognizable characters with which later generations of opera-goers could identify, and what was said to be an incomprehensible plot, pushed it to the fringes of the repertory.
Nancy Duvall Hargrove
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034010
- eISBN:
- 9780813039367
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034010.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
In his 1944 French essay entitled “What France Means to You”, T. S. Eliot was able to state that he was lucky in discovering Paris during the academic year 1910–1911 as at that time the city served ...
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In his 1944 French essay entitled “What France Means to You”, T. S. Eliot was able to state that he was lucky in discovering Paris during the academic year 1910–1911 as at that time the city served as a cultural and intellectual center. As it was able to cultivate fine arts and a wide range of ideas, it was also able to promote established and new artists such as Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky. In another article called “A Commentary” which appeared in The Criterion's April 1934 issue, Eliot articulated how the maturation of the city was influenced significantly by its diverse ideas. The museums in Paris are known for housing some of the greatest masterpieces, and Paris is also known for its significant structures such as the Cathédrale de Notre Dame and the Tour Eiffel. Also, Paris is famous for some of its technological advances. This book attempts to recreate Paris' “present parfait”through describing significant cultural events during Eliot's residence.Less
In his 1944 French essay entitled “What France Means to You”, T. S. Eliot was able to state that he was lucky in discovering Paris during the academic year 1910–1911 as at that time the city served as a cultural and intellectual center. As it was able to cultivate fine arts and a wide range of ideas, it was also able to promote established and new artists such as Pablo Picasso and Igor Stravinsky. In another article called “A Commentary” which appeared in The Criterion's April 1934 issue, Eliot articulated how the maturation of the city was influenced significantly by its diverse ideas. The museums in Paris are known for housing some of the greatest masterpieces, and Paris is also known for its significant structures such as the Cathédrale de Notre Dame and the Tour Eiffel. Also, Paris is famous for some of its technological advances. This book attempts to recreate Paris' “present parfait”through describing significant cultural events during Eliot's residence.
Martin Kemp, Robert B. Simon, and Margaret Dalivalle
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198813835
- eISBN:
- 9780191851575
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198813835.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Cultural History
In Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts the ‘Three Salvateers’—Robert Simon, Martin Kemp and Margaret Dalivalle—give a first-hand account of the discovery of ...
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In Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts the ‘Three Salvateers’—Robert Simon, Martin Kemp and Margaret Dalivalle—give a first-hand account of the discovery of the lost Renaissance masterpiece; from its purchase for $1,175 in a New Orleans auction house in 2005, to the worldwide media spectacle of its sale to a Saudi prince for $450 million in 2017. A behind-the-scenes view of the painstaking processes of identification, consultation, scientific analysis, conservation, and archival research that underpinned the attribution of the painting to Leonardo, the book presents a consideration of the place of the painting in Leonardo’s body of work. Exploring the meaning of the painting in terms of Renaissance theology, it considers the identity of its original patron or intended recipient. Unravelling networks of early modern art dealers and collectors in Europe, it traces the emerging reception of Leonardo during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was in Enlightenment Britain that the idea of Leonardo as artist–scientist took hold of the public imagination. This book examines the ‘invention’ of Leonardo through the unique prism of the Stuart courts. The documented presence of three paintings of Christ attributed to Leonardo in the vicinity of the seventeenth-century British Royal Collection is both extraordinary and perplexing. Today, Leonardo’s five-hundred-year-old Salvator has not yet disclosed its secret history.Less
In Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts the ‘Three Salvateers’—Robert Simon, Martin Kemp and Margaret Dalivalle—give a first-hand account of the discovery of the lost Renaissance masterpiece; from its purchase for $1,175 in a New Orleans auction house in 2005, to the worldwide media spectacle of its sale to a Saudi prince for $450 million in 2017. A behind-the-scenes view of the painstaking processes of identification, consultation, scientific analysis, conservation, and archival research that underpinned the attribution of the painting to Leonardo, the book presents a consideration of the place of the painting in Leonardo’s body of work. Exploring the meaning of the painting in terms of Renaissance theology, it considers the identity of its original patron or intended recipient. Unravelling networks of early modern art dealers and collectors in Europe, it traces the emerging reception of Leonardo during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It was in Enlightenment Britain that the idea of Leonardo as artist–scientist took hold of the public imagination. This book examines the ‘invention’ of Leonardo through the unique prism of the Stuart courts. The documented presence of three paintings of Christ attributed to Leonardo in the vicinity of the seventeenth-century British Royal Collection is both extraordinary and perplexing. Today, Leonardo’s five-hundred-year-old Salvator has not yet disclosed its secret history.
Andrew Koppelman
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- June 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197500989
- eISBN:
- 9780197501016
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197500989.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Human Rights and Immigration
Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination ...
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Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number who have made such claims. Gay rights advocates fear that exempting even a few religious dissenters would unleash a devastating wave of discrimination. Conservative Christians fear that the law will treat them like racists and drive them to the margins of American society. Both sides are mistaken. This is not a matter of abstract principle, and none of the constitutional claims work. This is an appropriate occasion for legislative negotiation. This book is the only systematic accounting of the interests that must be balanced in any decent compromise, in terms that both sides can recognize and appreciate. Koppelman explains the basis of antidiscrimination law, including the complex idea of dignitary harm. He shows why even those who do not regard religion as important or valid nonetheless have good reasons to support religious liberty, and why those who regard religion as a value of overriding importance should nonetheless reject the extravagant power over nonbelievers that the Supreme Court has recently embraced. Koppelman also proposes a specific solution to the problem: that religious exemptions be granted only to the few businesses that are willing to announce their compunctions and bear the costs of doing so. His approach makes room for America’s enormous variety of deeply held beliefs and ways of life. It can help reduce the toxic polarization of American politics.Less
Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number who have made such claims. Gay rights advocates fear that exempting even a few religious dissenters would unleash a devastating wave of discrimination. Conservative Christians fear that the law will treat them like racists and drive them to the margins of American society. Both sides are mistaken. This is not a matter of abstract principle, and none of the constitutional claims work. This is an appropriate occasion for legislative negotiation. This book is the only systematic accounting of the interests that must be balanced in any decent compromise, in terms that both sides can recognize and appreciate. Koppelman explains the basis of antidiscrimination law, including the complex idea of dignitary harm. He shows why even those who do not regard religion as important or valid nonetheless have good reasons to support religious liberty, and why those who regard religion as a value of overriding importance should nonetheless reject the extravagant power over nonbelievers that the Supreme Court has recently embraced. Koppelman also proposes a specific solution to the problem: that religious exemptions be granted only to the few businesses that are willing to announce their compunctions and bear the costs of doing so. His approach makes room for America’s enormous variety of deeply held beliefs and ways of life. It can help reduce the toxic polarization of American politics.
Nicholas Royle
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748636549
- eISBN:
- 9780748652303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748636549.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter addresses the idea of reading a novel as an experience of veering, as well as looking at some of the ways in which novels themselves invite the readers to think about veering. It starts ...
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This chapter addresses the idea of reading a novel as an experience of veering, as well as looking at some of the ways in which novels themselves invite the readers to think about veering. It starts with a perhaps deceptively ‘easy read’: Alan Bennett's charming novel, The Uncommon Reader. The appeal of veering, as a way of talking about digression, deviation or divagation in novels, has to do with its sense of ongoing movement, an uncertainty in and of the present. ‘Wavering’ is not the same as ‘veering’, but they are close. James Joyce's Ulysses might lead us to think about veering as a key to what makes a literary classic or masterpiece. Veering is a figure for thinking about desire — at once reassuring and unsettling. Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time are both marked by an extraordinary sense of ‘veering about’.Less
This chapter addresses the idea of reading a novel as an experience of veering, as well as looking at some of the ways in which novels themselves invite the readers to think about veering. It starts with a perhaps deceptively ‘easy read’: Alan Bennett's charming novel, The Uncommon Reader. The appeal of veering, as a way of talking about digression, deviation or divagation in novels, has to do with its sense of ongoing movement, an uncertainty in and of the present. ‘Wavering’ is not the same as ‘veering’, but they are close. James Joyce's Ulysses might lead us to think about veering as a key to what makes a literary classic or masterpiece. Veering is a figure for thinking about desire — at once reassuring and unsettling. Ulysses and In Search of Lost Time are both marked by an extraordinary sense of ‘veering about’.
Maria Belodubrovskaya
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501709944
- eISBN:
- 9781501713804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501709944.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The most striking feature of Soviet filmmaking under Stalin was its declining output. The decline contradicted Stalin’s explicit wishes for a high quantity of high-quality films. This chapter ...
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The most striking feature of Soviet filmmaking under Stalin was its declining output. The decline contradicted Stalin’s explicit wishes for a high quantity of high-quality films. This chapter outlines the main reasons for the decline: the Soviet mode of film production and Stalin’s intolerance of imperfection. Having rejected a reform plan based on the Hollywood model, the industry lacked modern industrialized methods and could not expand production. In addition, sharp criticisms of the “average” and “poor” films, coupled with Stalin’s own intolerance of imperfection, created extreme risk aversion, undermined industry productivity, and eventually collapsed output to only a handful of features.Less
The most striking feature of Soviet filmmaking under Stalin was its declining output. The decline contradicted Stalin’s explicit wishes for a high quantity of high-quality films. This chapter outlines the main reasons for the decline: the Soviet mode of film production and Stalin’s intolerance of imperfection. Having rejected a reform plan based on the Hollywood model, the industry lacked modern industrialized methods and could not expand production. In addition, sharp criticisms of the “average” and “poor” films, coupled with Stalin’s own intolerance of imperfection, created extreme risk aversion, undermined industry productivity, and eventually collapsed output to only a handful of features.
Margaret Dalivalle, Martin Kemp, and Robert B. Simon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198813835
- eISBN:
- 9780191851575
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198813835.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History, Cultural History
The Introduction sets the scene for the rest of the book, namely, the case of the lost and found masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the Salvator Mundi. The book aims to set out a comprehensive ...
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The Introduction sets the scene for the rest of the book, namely, the case of the lost and found masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the Salvator Mundi. The book aims to set out a comprehensive analysis of this essential addition to Leonardo’s oeuvre, which emerged in 2005. The aim is to serve as an introduction to the study of this painting and a reference for future explorations which it is hoped this text will provoke. The book considers three facets of the story but does not cover every aspect, leaving the case open for further discussion.Less
The Introduction sets the scene for the rest of the book, namely, the case of the lost and found masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, the Salvator Mundi. The book aims to set out a comprehensive analysis of this essential addition to Leonardo’s oeuvre, which emerged in 2005. The aim is to serve as an introduction to the study of this painting and a reference for future explorations which it is hoped this text will provoke. The book considers three facets of the story but does not cover every aspect, leaving the case open for further discussion.
Stephen L. Dyson
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110975
- eISBN:
- 9780300134971
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110975.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter describes the foundations of classical archaeology and discusses the French Academy in Rome, which was founded in 1666 by Louis XIV as a study center where artists could work creatively ...
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This chapter describes the foundations of classical archaeology and discusses the French Academy in Rome, which was founded in 1666 by Louis XIV as a study center where artists could work creatively in the presence of great classical masterpieces. The academy that had operated under royal patronage was dissolved in 1793, but the institution was reborn and its traditions continued. By the eighteenth century, Roman classicism that under Louis had been used to re-inforce the French monarchy was put to the service of republican values. In 1793, the Central Museum of Arts was established in Paris to house classical antiquities. The archaeological ambitions of the new French Empire became clear in 1797 with the Treaty of Tolentino, which provided, among other things, for the shipment to France of great Vatican archaeological treasures as well as artworks from other Italian cities.Less
This chapter describes the foundations of classical archaeology and discusses the French Academy in Rome, which was founded in 1666 by Louis XIV as a study center where artists could work creatively in the presence of great classical masterpieces. The academy that had operated under royal patronage was dissolved in 1793, but the institution was reborn and its traditions continued. By the eighteenth century, Roman classicism that under Louis had been used to re-inforce the French monarchy was put to the service of republican values. In 1793, the Central Museum of Arts was established in Paris to house classical antiquities. The archaeological ambitions of the new French Empire became clear in 1797 with the Treaty of Tolentino, which provided, among other things, for the shipment to France of great Vatican archaeological treasures as well as artworks from other Italian cities.
Michele Hilmes
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- July 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190663124
- eISBN:
- 9780190663162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190663124.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, World Literature
Masterpiece, initiated as Masterpiece Theatre in 1971 and still running today, remains one of the most successful examples of transnational coproduction between the United States and Britain. This ...
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Masterpiece, initiated as Masterpiece Theatre in 1971 and still running today, remains one of the most successful examples of transnational coproduction between the United States and Britain. This chapter assesses the show’s impact on television culture on both sides of the Atlantic by examining the strategies it has devised over the years to negotiate issues of national identity, cultural heritage, and differing institutional structures, both within the television texts and behind the scenes. More broadly, it interrogates the history and concept of “transnational” in television in order to explore what is at stake when the specifically national mandate of public television systems is placed in tension with an ongoing transnational practice, and how audiences, critics, policymakers, and scholars have responded.Less
Masterpiece, initiated as Masterpiece Theatre in 1971 and still running today, remains one of the most successful examples of transnational coproduction between the United States and Britain. This chapter assesses the show’s impact on television culture on both sides of the Atlantic by examining the strategies it has devised over the years to negotiate issues of national identity, cultural heritage, and differing institutional structures, both within the television texts and behind the scenes. More broadly, it interrogates the history and concept of “transnational” in television in order to explore what is at stake when the specifically national mandate of public television systems is placed in tension with an ongoing transnational practice, and how audiences, critics, policymakers, and scholars have responded.
Emanuel Levy, Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, and John Waters
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231152761
- eISBN:
- 9780231526531
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231152761.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Ch. 1 describes the career of Almodovar, Europe’s most Influential director, in terms of four phases, from flamboyant bad boy to director of mature melodramas to the maker of four consecutive ...
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Ch. 1 describes the career of Almodovar, Europe’s most Influential director, in terms of four phases, from flamboyant bad boy to director of mature melodramas to the maker of four consecutive masterpieces, to director eccentric and disturbing noir films.Less
Ch. 1 describes the career of Almodovar, Europe’s most Influential director, in terms of four phases, from flamboyant bad boy to director of mature melodramas to the maker of four consecutive masterpieces, to director eccentric and disturbing noir films.
Manuel Duran and Fay Rogg
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300110227
- eISBN:
- 9780300134964
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300110227.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
Cervantes' Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. This book offers an excursion into Cervantes' novel and traces ...
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Cervantes' Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. This book offers an excursion into Cervantes' novel and traces its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? The chapters explore the details of Cervantes' life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. They then provide a panoramic view of Cervantes' powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges.Less
Cervantes' Don Quixote is the most widely read masterpiece in world literature, as appealing to readers today as four hundred years ago. This book offers an excursion into Cervantes' novel and traces its impact on writers and thinkers across centuries and continents. How did Cervantes write such a rich tale? The chapters explore the details of Cervantes' life, the techniques with which he constructed the novel, and the central themes of the adventures of Don Quixote and his earthy squire Sancho Panza. They then provide a panoramic view of Cervantes' powerful influence on generations of writers as diverse as Descartes, Voltaire, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, and Borges.
Charles M. Joseph
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300087123
- eISBN:
- 9780300129342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300087123.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter discusses the Apollon Musagete, which embodies the essence of classicism. At one level, the ballet is an achievement of sheer visual beauty, asking little beyond what our senses ...
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This chapter discusses the Apollon Musagete, which embodies the essence of classicism. At one level, the ballet is an achievement of sheer visual beauty, asking little beyond what our senses instantly tell us. At another, the work's lyrical music and classically steeped dancing represent the purest of Stravinsky and Balanchine's neoclassic masterpieces. Free of ethnicity, preexisting tunes, or an explicit narrative, the composer deemed Apollo the least “contaminated” of his compositions up to that point. He admitted to seeking a melodic style that would not betray his folkloristic past—a crucial about-face from his earlier Russian ballets. Moreover, he applied himself to writing melodies that were beautiful at a time when he felt that melody had nearly been abandoned as a compositional element.Less
This chapter discusses the Apollon Musagete, which embodies the essence of classicism. At one level, the ballet is an achievement of sheer visual beauty, asking little beyond what our senses instantly tell us. At another, the work's lyrical music and classically steeped dancing represent the purest of Stravinsky and Balanchine's neoclassic masterpieces. Free of ethnicity, preexisting tunes, or an explicit narrative, the composer deemed Apollo the least “contaminated” of his compositions up to that point. He admitted to seeking a melodic style that would not betray his folkloristic past—a crucial about-face from his earlier Russian ballets. Moreover, he applied himself to writing melodies that were beautiful at a time when he felt that melody had nearly been abandoned as a compositional element.
Robert O. Gjerdingen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190653590
- eISBN:
- 9780190653620
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190653590.003.0013
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western, Theory, Analysis, Composition
In the world of apprentices, journeymen, and masters, a masterpiece was a test piece completed as part of a claim to a master’s level of skill and status. In formal guilds there could be elaborate ...
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In the world of apprentices, journeymen, and masters, a masterpiece was a test piece completed as part of a claim to a master’s level of skill and status. In formal guilds there could be elaborate examinations, in which submitting a masterpiece was part of the process. In the Naples conservatories, advanced students could compose a large sacred work for chorus and instruments to demonstrate a professional level of skill. In between the masters who gave lessons to the conservatory children and the child apprentices who learned those lessons were a middle level of teaching assistants called “little masters” (mastricelli or maestrini). These were selected from advanced students who had passed qualifying examinations.Less
In the world of apprentices, journeymen, and masters, a masterpiece was a test piece completed as part of a claim to a master’s level of skill and status. In formal guilds there could be elaborate examinations, in which submitting a masterpiece was part of the process. In the Naples conservatories, advanced students could compose a large sacred work for chorus and instruments to demonstrate a professional level of skill. In between the masters who gave lessons to the conservatory children and the child apprentices who learned those lessons were a middle level of teaching assistants called “little masters” (mastricelli or maestrini). These were selected from advanced students who had passed qualifying examinations.
