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Laments of the Virgin Mary represent a devotional genre that offered its clerical and lay audiences of the High and Late Middle Ages a deeply inspiring, yet at the same time ambiguous, religious experience. Through the deeply emotional and markedly animated representation of the Passion, seen as if through the eyes of the mother of God, audiences and performers were not only reminded of the redemptive power of the Cross, but encouraged to experience Christ's sacrifice in a more personal and intimate manner. In the pious practice of imitatio Mariae, believers mirrored the sorrow of the mother through their own bodies in order to develop a kind of visceral empathy towards, and hence a deeper understanding of, the divine.

Music --- Laments --- Civilization, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Mary, --- Songs and music. --- Lament of Virgin Mary. --- medieval cultural performances. --- medieval literature. --- performance. --- Laments. --- Music.

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Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the biblical Book of Lamentations, provides a unique lens for thinking about the relationships between destruction and renewal, mourning and remembrance, loss and redemption, expression and the inexpressible. This anthology features four texts by Gershom Scholem on lament, translated here for the first time into English. The volume also includes original essays by leading scholars, which interpret Scholem's texts and situate them in relation to other Weimar-era Jewish thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, and Paul Celan, who drew on the textual traditions of lament to respond to the destruction and upheavals of the early twentieth century. Also included are studies on the textual tradition of lament in Judaism, from biblical, rabbinic, and medieval lamentations to contemporary Yemenite women's laments. This collection, unified by its strong thematic focus on lament, shows the fruitfulness of studying contemporary and modern texts alongside the traditional textual sources that informed them.

Laments --- Jewish mourning customs --- Jewish philosophy. --- Laments in the Bible. --- 296*6 --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Mourning customs, Jewish --- Mourning (Jewish law) --- Mourning customs --- Complancha --- Lamentations --- Elegiac poetry --- 296*6 Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Joodse theologie en filosofie--(algemeen) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Jewish philosophy --- Laments in the Bible --- Gershom Scholem. --- Jewish Thought. --- Lament. --- Mourning.

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Saint Augustine famously "wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword," and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts. In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles, and where students not only studied but performed classical works. Woods opens the classroom door by examining teachers' notes and marginal commentary in manuscripts of the Aeneid and two short verse narratives: the Achilleid of Statius and the Ilias latina, a Latin epitome of Homer's Iliad. She focuses on interlinear glosses-individual words and short phrases written above lines of text that elucidate grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, but that also indicate how students engaged with the feelings and motivations of characters. Interlinear and marginal glosses, which were the foundation of the medieval classroom study of classical literature, reveal that in learning the Aeneid, boys studied and empathized with the feelings of female characters; that the unfinished Achilleid was restructured into a complete narrative showing young Achilles mirroring his mentors, including his mother, Thetis; and that the Ilias latina offered boys a condensed version of the Iliad focusing on the deaths of young men. Manuscript evidence even indicates how specific passages could be performed. The result is a groundbreaking study that provides a surprising new picture of medieval education and writes a new chapter in the reception history of classical literature.

Education, Medieval. --- Classical literature --- Study and teaching --- History --- Statius, P. Papinius --- Virgil. --- Ilias Latina. --- To 1500 --- Europe. --- Achilleid of Statius. --- Achilleid. --- Achilles. --- Aeneid. --- Augustine. --- Dido. --- boys. --- emotion. --- emotional pain. --- emotional scenes. --- emotional speeches. --- gender. --- lament. --- masculinity. --- medieval classroom. --- medieval education. --- medieval manuscripts. --- medieval poetry. --- medieval teaching. --- memory. --- performance. --- poems.

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In this book, Emily Wilbourne boldly traces the roots of early opera back to the sounds of the commedia dell'arte. Along the way, she forges a new history of Italian opera, from the court pieces of the early seventeenth century to the public stages of Venice more than fifty years later. Wilbourne considers a series of case studies structured around the most important and widely explored operas of the period: Monteverdi's lost L'Arianna, as well as his Il Ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea; Mazzochi and Marazzoli's L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri; and Cavalli's L'Ormindo and L'Artemisia. As she demonstrates, the sound-in-performance aspect of commedia dell'arte theater specifically, the use of dialect and verbal play produced an audience that was accustomed to listening to sonic content rather than simply the literal meaning of spoken words. This, Wilbourne suggests, shaped the musical vocabularies of early opera and facilitated a musicalization of Italian theater. Highlighting productive ties between the two worlds, from the audiences and venues to the actors and singers, this work brilliantly shows how the sound of commedia performance ultimately underwrote the success of opera as a genre.

Opera --- Commedia dell'arte --- Commedia dell'arte. --- Oper. --- Rezeption. --- History and criticism. --- Influence. --- Characters. --- Italien. --- Characters and characteristics in music. --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- History and criticism --- Music --- opera's --- muziekgeschiedenis --- improvisatie --- barokmuziek --- anno 1600-1699 --- Musical portraits --- Musical portraiture --- Acting --- Comedy --- Farce --- Italian drama (Comedy) --- Improvisation (Acting) --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Characters and characteristics in music --- Influence --- Claudio Monteverdi. --- Francesco Cavalli. --- Virginia Andreini. --- aria. --- commedia dell'arte. --- lament. --- listening. --- opera. --- recitative. --- sound.

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"Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world. The intended audience is general readers, journalists, students, teachers, and researchers. The editor's principle of selection was balance, and his goal was to embrace in a structured and reasoned way the diversity of poetry as it is known across the globe today." "In compiling material on 106 cultures in 92 national literatures, the book gives full coverage to Indo-European poetries (all the major Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages, as well as other obscure ones such as Hittite), the ancient middle Eastern poetries (Hebrew, Persian, Sumerian, and Assyro-Babylonian), subcontinental Indian poetries (the widest linguistic diversity), Asian and Pacific poetries (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, and half a dozen others), continental American poetries (all the modern Western cultures and native Indian in North, Central, and South American regions), and African poetries (ancient and emergent, oral and written)."--Jacket.

Poesie --- Poetique --- Poetry --- Poetics --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- Abbreviation. --- Aeneid. --- Aestheticism. --- Allegory. --- Alliteration. --- Allusion. --- Aphorism. --- Art for art's sake. --- Arthur Rimbaud. --- Artifice. --- Assonance. --- Blank verse. --- Caesura. --- Charles Baudelaire. --- Classicism. --- Comparative literature. --- Concrete poetry. --- Couplet. --- Courtly love. --- Despair (novel). --- Diction. --- Didacticism. --- Digression. --- Dramatic monologue. --- Eclogue. --- Epic Cycle. --- Epic poetry. --- Epigram. --- Epistle. --- Evocation. --- Existentialism. --- Farce. --- Free verse. --- G. (novel). --- Genre. --- Hexameter. --- Humour. --- Idyll. --- Imagery. --- Intelligentsia. --- Internal rhyme. --- Irony. --- Jews. --- Lament. --- Literature. --- Long poem. --- Lyric poetry. --- Lyricism. --- Metaphysical poets. --- Modernism. --- N. (novella). --- Narrative poetry. --- Narrative. --- Neo-romanticism. --- Neoclassicism. --- New Generation (Malayalam film movement). --- Novelist. --- Of Modern Poetry. --- Oral poetry. --- Panegyric. --- Parody. --- Pessimism. --- Petrarch. --- Picturesque. --- Poet. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Political poetry. --- Prose poetry. --- Prose. --- Proverb. --- Pseudonym. --- Quatrain. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Rhetoric. --- Rhyme scheme. --- Rhyme. --- Romantic poetry. --- Romanticism. --- S. (Dorst novel). --- Sanskrit. --- Satire. --- Sensibility. --- Sonnet sequence. --- Sonnet. --- Stanza. --- Strophe. --- Surrealism. --- Symbolism (arts). --- T. S. Eliot. --- The New Poetry. --- The Other Hand. --- The Song of Roland. --- The Various. --- Treatise. --- Troubadour. --- V. --- World War II. --- Writer. --- Writing.