Showing papers on "Lyricism published in 1999"

Romanticism, Lyricism, and History

Abstract: Preparing the books to read every day is enjoyable for many people. However, there are still many people who also don't like reading. This is a problem. But, when you can support others to start reading, it will be better. One of the books that can be recommended for new readers is romanticism lyricism and history. This book is not kind of difficult book to read. It can be read and understand by the new readers.

No trace of the gardener : poems of Yang Mu

Abstract: Yang Mu, a pivotal figure in the development of modern Chinese literature, is one of the most widely read living poets of the world's largest literary audience: Chinese-speaking people. Providing a selection of poems from more than three decades of work, this book offers over one hundred translations that capture the poet's haunting lyricism. Drawing on avantgarde traditions of Europe and the United States as well as on the traditions of classical Chinese poetry and prose, his work explores intense sensuality. and the erotic, the anguish of war, exile, the colonial experience, and conflicting views of national and cultural identity.Born Wang Ching-hsien in Taiwan in 1940, Yang Mu lived in a rich cultural and linguistic environment, learning Taiwanese, a Hua-lien tribal dialect, Japanese, Mandarin, and English. When he arrived in the United States in 1964, the young poet added Old English, ancient Greek, Latin, and German to his repertoire. Yang Mu's poetry fully reflects this dazzling range and diversity. This volume also includes an essay placing the poet's work in the context of twentieth-century literary movements and in the long tradition of Chinese poetry."Yang Mu is an immensely likable poet, and his following continues to grow. This translation is well-nigh flawless". -- Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University/ Lingnan College, HongKong

The integration of lyricism into the symphonies of Mahler: a selective analytical study of the structural impact of the lyric voice

Abstract: This study develops a critical analysis of the first movements of Gustav Mahler's 1(^st), 2(^nd) and 9(^th) Symphonies, with the intention of illuminating the nature of the lyric voice’s interaction with the necessary structural conditions of a symphonic first movement. Whilst not primarily seeking to construct an exact definition for the term lyricism, the work focuses in particular on those problems encountered by a composer wishing to incorporate extended lyrical passages into a goal-orientated structure, and on the diverse solutions which Mahler discovers. The analytical principles of Heinrich Schenker are adopted in certain instances, but the musical unfolding is also interpreted in a broader sense making clear the lyricism's impact on the overall narrative of the music. It also makes reference to a selection of Mahler's other works, including the Wayfarer song Ging heut' morgen űbers Feld, the second song of the Kindertotenlieder cycle Nun seh' ich Wohl, Warum so dunkle Flammen, and the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. A pertinent historical context is provided. This focuses on the development of lyricism as an important structural feature through selected symphonies of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Joachim Raff, as well as examining Wagner's more dramatic employment of the lyric mode in sections of Tristan und Isolde, and in the third act of Siegfried. From these sources it is possible to observe Mahler's debt to those nineteenth-century composers as well as affording an appreciation of his own large-scale structural innovations. In conclusion, this study provides, through the medium of detailed musical analysis, some new insights into Mahler's employment of lyricism. It also suggests avenues for further research into the diverse facets of lyricism as a compositional tool.

Room to Fly: A Transcultural Memoir

Abstract: Room to Fly is a unique journal--or ongoing memoir--by a woman who traces the elusive contours of cultural perceptions East and West, welcoming us into the intimate geography of individual lives. The book takes its shape and direction from a tenet of Japanese Sumi painting: If you depict a bird, give it space to fly. Padma Hejmadi explores the human spaces surrounding language, landscape, literacy and illiteracy, music, dance, legend, the cadence of ancient craft, and the ceaselessly unfolding layers of family relationships. Part autobiography, part lively meditation, Room to Fly represents a new genre with an old diction. Hejmadi's spare, luminous prose combines lyricism with humor and intellectual rigor, drawing us from Bombay to the Bahamas, from Japan to New England, the Greek Isles to New Mexico.

The reception of Solomos: national poetry and the question of lyricism

Abstract: Through the reception of Solomos, this paper explores the tension between the lyric and the narrative, and the extent to which the roles of national and lyric poet are compatible. The critical reception of Solomos demonstrates that his recognition as a lyric poet was not on an equal footing with his presentation as a national one. It shows that his joint treatment as the national poet of Greece and its greatest lyric poet is problematic and not convincingly argued. It also argues that Solomos's reception can be summarized as the conflict between the historical and the aesthetic approaches.

Night of No Exile

Abstract: Night of no Exile is a collection of poems preceded by a critical article entitled "‘Exile seems both a blessing and a curse': A Blissful Reading of Li-Young Lee's Poetry." That article discusses Lee's quest to achieve communication, truth, and transcendence through poetic language and concludes that he finally reaches his goal through a leap from narrative poetry to lyricism. The "exile" alluded to in the title of the article is not only geographic, but also interioran exile due to the natural limitations of all languages, and which can be bridged only in linguistic ways. Lee's solution to that problem (lyricism) turns his poetry into what Roland Barthes would call "a text of bliss," a text that manages to deeply destabilize language, while simultaneously achieving a new kind of meaning. In the main body of the manuscript, the first section contains short love lyrics. The second section, "Night of no Exile," is an attempt at the demanding genre of the longer lyric poem. The third section uses short lyrics to explore various topics, such as discovering one's identity, friendship and solidarity between women, family history, and childhood memories. Finally, the last section includes poems, four of them longer, attempting to combine narrative and lyric impulses in a way not unlike Li-Young Lee's experimentation with those two genres.