Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-02-20

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 3110339013

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The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.

Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-02-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3110395282

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The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Currently, the mimetic approach to intermediality (e.g., the notion that jazz poetry imitates jazz music) still dominates the field of criticism. This book challenges that interpretive approach. It demonstrates that a mimetic view of jazz poetry hinders readers from perceiving the metaphoric ways poets rendered music in writing. Drawing on and extending recent cognitive metaphor theories (Lakoff, Johnson, Turner, Fauconnier), it promotes a conceptual metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate “melody,” “dynamics,” “tempo,” “mood,” and other musical elements into literal and figurative expressions that invite readers to imagine the music in their mind’s eye (i.e., their mind’s ear).

Samuel Beckett's Poetry
Samuel Beckett's Poetry

Author: James Brophy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-12-31

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1009222589

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Samuel Beckett's Poetry is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of twentieth century poetry and literature, as well as for specialists of Beckett's work. This volume explores how poetry provided Beckett a medium of expression during key moments in his life, from his earliest attempts at securing a reputation as a published writer, to the work of restoring his own speech while suffering aphasia shortly before his death. Often these were moments of desperation and discouragement, when more substantial works were not possible: moments of illness, of personal loss or of public disaster. This volume includes an introduction that contextualizes Beckett as a poet and a chronology of the composition and publication of all his known poems. Essays offer a range of critical perspectives, from translation theory, war poetics and Irish Studies to Beckett's debts to Modernism, Romanticism and the Jazz Age.

Navigating Urban Soundscapes
Navigating Urban Soundscapes

Author: Annika Eisenberg

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 3031167341

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Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.

First Book Of Jazz
First Book Of Jazz

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Ecco

Published: 1995-10-21

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 9780880014243

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An introduction to jazz music by one of our finest writers. Langston Hughes, celebrated poet and longtime jazz enthusiast, wrote The First Book of Jazz as a homage to the music that inspired him. The roll of African drums, the dancing quadrilles of old New Orleans, the work songs of the river ports, the field shanties of the cotton plantations, the spirituals, the blues, the off-beats of ragtime -- in a history as exciting as jazz rhythms, Hughes describes how each of these played a part in the extraordinary history of jazz.

Some Jazz a While
Some Jazz a While

Author: Miller Williams

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780252067747

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Here one of our best-loved poets gathers his most representative work from twelve collections and adds some new pieces as well. An American original, Miller Williams involves the readers emotions and imagination with an effective illusion of plain talk, continually rediscovering what is vital and musical in the language we speak and imagine by.

The Jazz Republic
The Jazz Republic

Author: Jonathan O. Wipplinger

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-04-14

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 047205340X

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Reveals the wide-ranging influence of American jazz on German discussions of music, race, and culture in the early twentieth century

The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues

Author: Langston Hughes

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 0486850560

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Immediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.

Moment's Notice
Moment's Notice

Author: Art Lange

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566890014

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The editors have collected the jazz-inspired works of close to sixty writers ranging from Julio Cortazar and Jessica Hagedorn to Langston Hughes and Ishmael Reed."Moment's Notice is the best anthology of jazz literature I've ever seen."--Bart Schneider,Hungry Mind Review ¶"The jazz anthology to end all jazz anthologies."--Booklist

Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Author: Erik Redling

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2015-08-20

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9783110344592

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The study develops a new theoretical approach to the relationship between two media (jazz music and writing) and demonstrates its explanatory power with the help of a rich sampling of jazz poems. Challenging the mimetic approach to intermediality, this book promotes a cognitive metaphor model that allows readers to discover the innovative ways poets translate "melody," "tempo," and other musical elements into figurative expressions.