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While few would question the importance of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for the development of German idealism and twentieth-century literature, philosophy, and critical theory, Hölderlin scholarship remains largely inaccessible to those working in English. This is especially true for his novel Hyperion - otherwise his most accessible work - which has not had a book-length study in English devoted to it in more than three decades. Anthony Curtis Adler opens Hölderlin's novel up to the reader by stressing its literary uniqueness, philosophical riches, complex ties with contemporaneous discourses, and relevance to contemporary Continental political theory. Neither merely a stepping-stone to his later and more esoteric poetry, nor a novelistic presentation of an idealist dialectics, Hyperion offers a powerful new vision of the relation between poetry, political economy, and philosophical truth. Poetry, for Hölderlin, anticipates forms of political life that have only been obscurely glimpsed; rather than imitating a luminously given idea of the Good, it patiently guides toward a dimly sensed better world. Thus it replaces the Platonic philosopher-king with the poetic leader of the dance. Yet in just this way, Adler shows, Hyperion's project converges with a constellation of quintessentially "modern" discourses and practices, including the codification of dance in early modernity and the rise of political economy in the 18th century. Readers will discover the "choreographic" logic underlying both of these - and, with this, a new way to think about the relations between literature, politics, economics, and dance.

Hölderlin, Friedrich, --- Hyperion (Hölderlin, Friedrich) --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- German idealism. --- Hyperion. --- Hölderlin. --- cultural impact. --- literary impact. --- literature. --- modern literature. --- modernity. --- philosophical impact. --- philosophy. --- poetry. --- political economy. --- political philosophy.

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The epoch-making revolutionary period universally known in Germany as '68 can be argued to have predated that year and to have extended well into the 1970s. It continues to affect German society and culture to this day. Yet while scholars have written extensively about 1968 and the cinema of other countries, relatively little sustained scholarly attention has thus far been paid to 1968 and West German, East German, and Austrian cinemas. Now, five decades later, Celluloid Revolt sets out to redress that situation, generating new insights into what constituted German cinema around 1968 and beyond. Contributors engage a range of cinemas, spanning experimental and avant-garde cinema, installations and exhibits; short films, animated films, and crime films; collectively produced cinemas, feminist films, and Arbeiterfilme (workers' films); as well as their relationship to cinemas of other countries, such as French cinéma vérité and US direct cinema.

Motion pictures --- History. --- History --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism --- 1968. --- French cinéma vérité. --- German cinema. --- US direct cinema. --- cinema. --- cultural and political happenings. --- cultural impact. --- revolution. --- screen cultures.

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Compelling inside views of what characterises opera and music theatre in African and African diasporic contexts.

African drama (English) --- English drama --- African literature (English) --- African authors --- Opera --- Musical theater --- Lyric theater --- Theater --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- History and criticism --- 78.32 --- African diaspora. --- African theatre. --- cultural impact. --- diversity. --- music theatre. --- opera.

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most prestigious playwright for much of the seventeenth century, his work is still regularly staged and translated, influential in more recent times on writers as diverse as Schiller, Shelley and Lorca. The author of around 120 plays (not counting his numerous Corpus Christi autos) in a variety of styles, Calderón is most famous for his stirring dramas, characterized by rhetorically powerful poetry, dramatic structures carefully calibrated to produce poignant echoes, and the fizzing intellectual energy they apply to the age's ontological, eschatological and political preoccupations. His plays succeed in combining these perennial concerns with compelling plots subtle enough to defy definitive interpretation. As this volume seeks to show, however, Calderón's comedies deserve equal recognition. Too long stereotyped as a dour, cerebral conservative, this playwright's comic works are as amusing as they are clever. This Companion is the first comprehensive study of Calderón in English. It provides a rigorous but readable introduction to the man, his work and its legacy. Its chapters - written by leading international comedia specialists - provide an overview of his life, explain his intellectual, social, moral, and literary contexts, and examine his stagecraft, his corpus, and his reception both within and without the Hispanic world up to the twenty-first century. Specific chapters are devoted to La vida es sueño, his most famous work, which appears on many a university syllabus, and to his infamous wife-murder plays.

Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- Calderón's plays. --- Companion to Calderón de la Barca. --- Spanish Golden Age. --- Spanish drama. --- Spanish literature. --- Spanish theater. --- cultural impact. --- dramatist. --- literary analysis. --- literary legacy. --- playwright. --- playwriting. --- seventeenth century. --- theater. --- theatrical works.

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Leading composers, producers and writers consider the role of the composer in the community in Britain today and over the last fifty years.

Composition (Music) --- Composers --- Social aspects. --- Social conditions. --- Britten, Benjamin, --- Influence. --- Songwriters --- Musicians --- Composing (Music) --- Music --- Music composing --- Music composition --- Musical composition --- Concertante style --- Composition --- Britten, Edward Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin --- Britten, Benjamin E. --- Beyond Britten. --- Britain. --- Community. --- Composer Role. --- Composer. --- Contemporary Music. --- Cultural Impact. --- Music in Education. --- Music.