Author: Charles Baxter
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Keywords: art, plot, subtext
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-07-24
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1555974732
ISBN-13: 9781555974732

Charles Baxter inaugurates The Art of, a new series on the craft of writing, with the wit and intelligence he brought to his celebrated book Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction.Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Using an array of examples from Melville and Dostoyevsky to contemporary writers Paula Fox, Edward P. Jones, and Lorrie Moore, Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and

Authors:Michael N. Fried, Sabetai Unguru,
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: bibliotheca, classica, batava, supplementum, mnemosyne, subtext, perga, conica, text, context, apollonius
Number of Pages: 499
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $242.00
ISBN-10: 9004119779
ISBN-13: 9789004119772

This volume takes a look at one of the greatest works of Hellenistic mathematics, Apollonius of Perga’s "Conica". It provides an alternative to H.G. Zeuthen’s "Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Altertum". The central part of the volume contains a historically sensitive analysis and interpretation of the entire "Conica", both from the standpoint of its individual books and of the text as a whole. Particular attention is given to Books V-VII. Two chapters in the volume concern histioriographic issues connected with the "Conica" in paricular and Greek mathematics in general.

Author: Siglind Bruhn
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Keywords: piano, music, ravel, debussy, messiaen, series, aesthetics, works, musical, modern, ideas, french, extra, images, subtext
Number of Pages: 425
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0945193955
ISBN-13: 9780945193951

In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems, paintings, and other non-musical art forms. In instrumental music such reinterpretations are especially intriguing as the verbal or visual stimulus does not appear in performance but is rendered in musical form. In this study, Siglind Bruhn investigates how three French composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Oliver Messiaen, express extra-musical subtexts in their piano wo