Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Author: Erik Redling
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110339013

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
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2017-02-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110395282

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
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-12-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009222589

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
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031167341

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
Total Pages: 73
Release: 1995-10-21
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780880014243

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
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1998
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780252067747

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
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 047205340X

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
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0486850560

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.

Humming the Blues

Humming the Blues
Author: Cass Dalglish
Publisher: CALYX Books
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2008
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780934971928

"Inspired by Nin-me-'sar-ra, Enheduanna's song to Inanna."

Translating Jazz Into Poetry

Translating Jazz Into Poetry
Author: Erik Redling
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9783110344592

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.