The Romantic myth of childhood as a transhistorical holy time of innocence and spirituality, uncorrupted by the adult world, has been subjected in recent years to increasingly serious interrogation. Was there ever really a time when mythic ideals were simple, pure, and uncomplic…
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"The Romantic myth of childhood as a trans-historical holy time of innocence and spirituality, uncorrupted by the adult world, has been subjected in recent years to increasingly serious interrogation. Was there ever really a time when mythic ideals were simple, pure, and uncompl…
These distinguished essays powerfully define the myriad ways in which the Romantic image of the child, so compellingly portrayed by Wordsworth and Blake, continues to haunt us, shaping contemporary visions of childhood from Calvin and Hobbes to postmodernist poetry and fiction t…
Werner Herzog (b. 1942) is perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but his films have never been read in the context of German cultural history. And while there is a surfeit of film reviews, interviews, and scholarly articles on Herzog and his work, there are very few b…
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the pr…
What is it to listen? How do we hear? How do we allow meanings to emerge between each other?'This book is about what Freud called ""freely"" or ""evenly suspended attention"", a form of listening, a kind of receptive incomprehension, which is fundamental and mandatory for the pr…
What is it to listen? How do we hear? And how do we allow meanings to emerge between each other? This book examines what Freud called 'freely' or 'evenly suspended attention', a form of listening or receptive incomprehension which is fundamental and mandatory for the practice of…
In this analysis of Beethoven's late style, Stephen Rumph demonstrates how deeply political events shaped the composer's music, from his early enthusiasm for the French Revolution to his later entrenchment during the Napoleonic era. Beethoven after Napoleon challenges accepted v…
