The Player Piano And The Edwardian Novel
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Author | : Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317021215 |
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
Author | : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9781315554631 |
Author | : Ms Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2015-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472440005 |
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
Author | : Mohammad Ali Salmani Nodoushan |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2018-10-10 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0359147046 |
Papers in this special issue on Figurative Language: (1) Cecilia BJÖRKÉN-NYBERG: Vocalising motherhood: The metaphorical conceptualisation of voice in listener responses to The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins (pp. 1-28); (2) Danielle CUDMORE: Prophet, poet, seer, skald: Poetic diction in Merlínusspá (pp. 29-60); (3) Kristina HILDEBRAND: "As fayre an handid man" Malory's figurative language (pp. 61-74); (4) Birgitta SVENSSON: The development of figurative competence in narrative writing: A longitudinal case study (pp. 75-102); (5) Monica KARLSSON: Book Review (pp. 103-106); (6) Keith ALLAN: Book Review (pp. 107-113).
Author | : Jefferson Hunter |
Publisher | : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kurt Vonnegut |
Publisher | : Dial Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009-09-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307568083 |
“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality. Praise for Player Piano “An exuberant, crackling style . . . Vonnegut is a black humorist, fantasist and satirist, a man disposed to deep and comic reflection on the human dilemma.”—Life “His black logic . . . gives us something to laugh about and much to fear.”—The New York Times Book Review
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Total Pages | : 2954 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James H. Pickering |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1110 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
An international collection of 100 short stories including "classics" and a selection of modern or lesser-known titles.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : |
Presents extended reviews of noteworthy books, short reviews, essays and articles on topics and trends in publishing, literature, culture and the arts. Includes lists of best sellers (hardcover and paperback).
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Publisher | : New York : R.R. Bowker Company |
Total Pages | : 1728 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
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