J Francis Jacobs (12 results)

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Tapa dura. Condition: New. Un libro para maullar de risa y contar con alegríaUn gato, dos gatos es un libro interactivo pensado para los más pequeños. Invita a contar hasta 20 gatos en situaciones divertidas y disparatadas.Cada página es una pequeña aventura: los gatos se esconden, saltan y sorprenden, convirtiendo el conteo en un juego lleno de sorpresas.Texto rimadoSolapas resistentesPop-upsPerfecto para jugar, reír y aprender a contar, tanto para niños de 0-3 años como para familias y amantes de los gatos.Ideal como libro de cartón, primeras lecturas o regalo original para bebés, niños y fans de los gatos.Versión. Emmett, Jonathan (illustrator).…

Tapa blanda. Condition: New. Para Calvino, «el cuento fantástico es uno de los productos más característicos de la narrativa del siglo XIX y, para nosotros, uno de los más significativos, pues es el que más nos dice sobre la interioridad del individuo y de la simbología colectiva. Para nuestra sensibilidad de hoy, el elemento sobrenatural en el centro de estas historias aparece siempre cargado de sentido, como la rebelión de lo inconsciente, de lo reprimido, de lo olvidado, de lo alejado de nuestra atención racional. En esto se ve la modernidad de lo fantástico, la razón de su triunfal retorno en nuestra época». El gran escritor italiano ha dividido su antología en dos partes, que ordenan la sucesión cronológica de los relatos en dos clasificaciones estilísticas. La primera, Lo fantástico visionario, reúne a una cuidada nómina de autores -Potocki, Eichendorff, Hoffmann, W. Scott, Balzac, Chasles, Nerval, Hawthorne, Gógol, Gautier, Mérimée y Le Fanu- cuyos cuentos tienen en común, bajo la descripción de un mundo encantado o infernal, una poderosa sugestión visual. La segunda, Lo fantástico cotidiano, compuesta por narraciones más abstractas y mentales, más psicológicas, congrega a escritores tan variados y significativos como Poe, Andersen, Dickens, Turguéniev, Leskov, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Maupassant, Vernon Lee, Bierce, Lorrain, Stevenson, H. James, Kipling y H. G. Wells. Esta edición de Cuentos fantásticos del XIX reúne en un solo volumen todos los relatos seleccionados y prologados por Italo calvino.…

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Tapa dura. Condition: New. Un llibre per miolar de riure i comptar amb alegriaUn gat, dos gats és un llibre interactiu pensat per als més petits. Convida a comptar fins a 20 gats en situacions divertides i esbojarrades.Cada pàgina és una petita aventura: els gats s'amaguen, salten i sorprenen, convertint el recompte en un joc ple de sorpreses.Text rimatSolapes resistentsPop-upsPerfecte per jugar, riure i aprendre a comptar, tant per a infants de 0-3 anys com per a famílies i amants dels gats.Ideal com a llibre de cartró, primeres lectures o regal original per a nadons, nens i fans dels gats. Emmett, Jonathan (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2021 Brill hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. From the cover: Incompletion is an essential condition of cultural history from the oldest extant works of art, which are partially erased by time, to the most recent ones, which have yet to be finished. The idea of the fragment became particularly important to Romantic art and continued to hold relevance for various strands of modernist and contemporary aesthetics. The fourteen essays in this volume, based on the 2017 Stockholm conference of the International Association for Word and Music Studies (WMA), for the first time address incompletion in a wide range of literary and musical texts, from Baudelaire and Flaubert through Tolstoy and Henry James to Bachmann, Jelinek and Janet Frame, from Nietzsche and Chopin through Russolo and Puccini to Rihm and Kurtág. Two further essays deal with topical general issues in the field of word and music studies. Contents PART 1 Arts of Incompletion: Fragments in Words and Music SECTION 1 Musical Philosophy of Incompletion 1. Philosophy at the Keyboard: Nietzsche's Music Box - Lawrence Kramer 2. Infinity in an Instant: The Paradox of Timeless Fragments in the Work of Gyorgy Kurtág - Ruth Jacobs SECTION 2 Fragments and Artistic Innovation 3. Drumming Out Art: Nielsen, Huelsenbeck, and Improvised Interruption - Peter Dayan 4. Russolo's 'Il risveglio di una città': A Fragment for an Aesthetics of Noise - Laura Vattano SECTION 3 Fragmentariness as a Creative Force 5. The Fragmentary and the Musical: Baudelaire's Bits and Pieces - Margaret Miner 6. Variations on the Theme of Dying: Ingeborg Bachmann and the Music of This World - Axel Englund 7. A Fragment of the Whole: Musical and Literary Incompletion in Kirsty Gunn's Book The Big Music - Christin Hoene 8. Skizzen's Sketches, Els's Tweets: Streams of Incompletion in Two Musicalized Novels - Ivan Delazari SECTION 4 Lyric Fragments in Narratives 9. Singing Words and Sticky Music: Fragmentary Lyrics and Acts of Violence - Beate Schirrmacher 10. Fragmented Music, Fragmented Minds: Janet Frame's Faces in the Water (1961) - Delia da Sousa Correa 11. Otto Dresel's 'Loose the sail, rest the oar': A Study (In)completion - David Francis Urrows SECTION 5 Opera and Fragmentation 12. Operatic Fragments in Fiction and Film - Michael Halliwell 13. The Challenges of Completing a Plurimedial Fragment: Text, Music, and Scene in Berio/Pountney's Ending of the Opera Turandot - Bernhard Kuhn 14. Fragment and Flow: On Wolfgang Rihm's Dionysus Opera - Erik Wallrup PART 2 Word and Music Studies: Surveying the Field 15. Sound Studies and Musical Hermeneutics: Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap - Rolf J. Goebel 16. 'Make It Old': Retro Forms in Western Literature and Music since the Eighteenth Century - Werner Wolf.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. lxvii, 760 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm OCLC 52073501 This reprint of the first edition of Sweet's Catalog commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Sweet's business."--Foreword ; "In offering to the public, and especially to the architects of the United States, the first edition of Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction, the publishers have realized at the very outset the importance of stating clearly, first, what the book is, and secondly, the reasons for commending it to the architectural profession for their use and support. .to explain in a few words the character and purpose of the work, . a embodied in these first successful efforts toward a really scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction. Let the matter be looked at entirely from the point of view of the architect. For a period of a dozen years, every possible method of collecting, sorting, classifying, filing and indexing all the catalogues and circulars of building materials was conscientiously given a fair trial, and after a thorough test, every method was just as conscientiously abandoned. They were abandoned because they did not work well in the specification room. They were not practicable. Everything was tried, arrangements of shelves, bookcases, pasteboard boxes, filing cases, patent binders, filing cabinets, cases of drawers, indexing schemes and " index- rerums. " At first, all the big books were put together in one place and all the little books in another place; and then all the big and little books were mixed up together, and indexed according to subject. Some had four pages, and some had four hundred pages. Barely two were of the same shape or superficies. The little ones would not stand up, and could not be gotten at when laid flat. Another elaborate system was introduced, and a voluminous cross-index started, but the big books contained too much useless matter, and the little books got lost or mislaid or could not be found just when wanted. Then the writer decided, after much time and expense, that the present system of publishing and distributing catalogues, as far as the architect is concerned, might be rightly termed " The Catalogue Delusion, " and that the only solution of the problem must lie in a scientific standard catalogue and index of building materials and construction, gradually developed toward an ideal result by the co-operation of manufacturer and architect. Briefly, then, what is Sweet's Indexed Catalogue of Building Construction? It is a scientific catalogue book system ( a volume or series of volumes) , as easy to refer to as a dictionary, consisting of groups of catalogues from which as much unnecessary matter as possible has been eliminated, carefully indexed and cross- indexed, and sent out gratuitously by the publishers to every architect of good standing. Each catalogue in the work is organically arranged in its parts. It proceeds in a regular order from fact " A " to fact " Z " . Illustrations of a certain class are all grouped and arranged according to some obvious plan. " Literature " and " mere writing " are omitted, as an architect has no time in his office for either."; authors and compilers include Wm. Martin Aiken, Claire Allen, J. M. Baillie, Charles I. Berg, Otto Block, Claude Bragdon, Arnold W. Brunner, George Cary, Henry M. Congdon, James B. Cook, Francis W. Cooper, R. L. Daus, Robt. E. Dexter, A. F. D'oench, Gustav W. Drach, Wm. S. Eames, Stephen C. Earle, E. J. Eckel, John H. & Wilson C. Ely. George B. Ferry, Clellan Waldo Fisher, W. E. Fisher, Herbert W. Foltz, Henry Lord Gay, Arthur N. Gibb, Robert W. Gibson, Chas. Sumner Greene, Fred. B. Hamilton, George F. Hammond, Samuel Hannaford, Olof Hanson, H. J. Hardenbergh, W. S. Hebbard, Charles Henry, J. G. Howard, Wm. B. Ittner, Elmer F. Jacobs, Clarence H. Johnston, Harry W. Jones, E. A. Kent, Thos. R. Kimball, Edward Kneezell, Theo. C. Link, W. E. Mansur, Thos. H. Morgan, Wm. G. Nolting, J. O'Rourke,; FINE. Book.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1952 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 182 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 182 Volume 24.…