Duende

Duende PDF Author: Jason Webster
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407094610
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense emotional state - part ecstasy, part desperation - so intrinsic to flamenco. Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate affair with Lola, a flamenco dancer (and older woman) married to the gun-toting Vicente, only to flee Alicante in fear of his life; in Madrid, he falls in with Gypsies and meets the imperious Jesús. Joining their dislocated, cocaine-fuelled world, stealing cars by night and sleeping away the days in tawdry rooms, he finds himself spiralling self-destructively downwards. It is only when he arrives in Granada bruised and battered, after two years total immersion in the flamenco lifestyle that he is able to put his obsession into context. In the tradition of Laurie Lee's classic As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Duende charts a young man's emotional coming of age and offers real insight into the passionate essence of flamenco.

Duende

Duende PDF Author: Tracy K. Smith
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555978649
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97

Book Description
The award-winning second collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States Duende, that dark and elusive force described by Federico García Lorca, is the creative and ecstatic power an artist seeks to channel from within. It can lead the artist toward revelation, but it must also, Lorca says, accept and even serenade the possibility of death. Tracy K. Smith's bold second poetry collection explores history and the intersections of folk traditions, political resistance, and personal survival. Duende gives passionate testament to suppressed cultures, and allows them to sing.

In Search of Duende

In Search of Duende PDF Author: Federico García Lorca
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213769
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
Poems are in Spanish, and in English translation.

A Bat Man in the Tropics

A Bat Man in the Tropics PDF Author: Theodore Fleming
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236068
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Annotation Theodore Fleming's renowned fieldwork on bats has taken him to the tropical forests of Panama, Costa Rica, Australia, and the Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico and Arizona. This is a riveting personal account of his many adventures, the fascinating animals and plants he has encountered, his professional and family relationships, and the development of tropical biology.

The Tragic Myth

The Tragic Myth PDF Author: Edward F. Stanton
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813131153
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
With literature, music constituted the most important activity of poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's life. The two arts were closely related to each other throughout his career. As a child, Lorca imbibed traditional Andalusian songs from the lips of the family maids, whom he would remember with affection years later. At a very early age he began to study piano, and during his adolescence, music and poetry competed for primacy among his interests. His first book was dedicated to his music teacher, who instilled in him a love for the world of art and creation. In part I of this study, Edward F. Stanton examines Lorca's theoretical and practical approach to cante jondo, the traditional music of Andalusia, as seen in his lectures on the subject and in the 1922 concurso. In part II, he searches for direct and -- far more important -- indirect echoes of this music in his work. Part III explores the mythic quality of Lorca's art in relation to cante jondo. Throughout, Stanton illuminates a new dimension of the poet's work.

The Poetics of Apocalypse

The Poetics of Apocalypse PDF Author: Martha Nandorfy
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Guided by the duende, liminal principle of creativity and death, Lorca represents New York as dystopia cum Armageddon, ultimately redeemed by the Blacks of Harlem and the telluric forces unleashed to retake the decadent, soulless civilization of North America."--BOOK JACKET.

Modernism and Mourning

Modernism and Mourning PDF Author: Patricia Rae
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838756171
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
The essays in Modernism and Mourning examine the work of mourning in modernist literature, or more precisely, its propensity for resisting this work. Drawing from recent developments in the theory and cultural history of mourning, its contributors explore the various ways in which modernist writers repudiate Freud's famous injunction to mourners to work through their grief, endorsing instead a resistant, or melancholic mourning that shapes both their themes and their radical experiments with form. The emerging picture of the pervasive influence of melancholic mourning in modernist literature casts new light on longstanding critical arguments, especially those about the politics of modernism. It also makes clear the pertinence of this literature to the present day, in which the catastrophic losses of 9/11, of retaliatory war, of racially motivated genocide, of the AIDS epidemic, have made the work of mourning a subject of widespread interest and debate. Patricia Rae is Head of the Department of English at Queen's University.

The Purpose Project

The Purpose Project PDF Author: Carolyn Tate
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646971001
Category : Job satisfaction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A practical handbook filled with models, stories and practices for business leaders, employees, entrepreneurs and students who are committed to bringing meaning to life at work. The book shows you how to integrate your personal work purpose with the higher purpose of your organisation starting right where you are, right now.
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