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“dr stephen overy”

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  • Listening to the Unconscious

    Adventures in Popular Music and Psychoanalysis

    by Professor or Dr. Kenneth Smith, Dr. Stephen Overy ...
    What happens in our unconscious minds when we listen to, produce or perform popular music? The Unconscious – a much misunderstood concept from philosophy and psychology – works through human subjects as we produce music and can be traced through the music we engage with. Through a new collaboration between music theorist and philosopher, Smith and Overy present the long history of the unconscious ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Sense

    Synesthesia in Art and Science

    by Cretien Van Campen ...
    Series series Leonardo
    The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Fight Club

    Edited by Thomas Wartenberg ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Released in 1999, Fight Club is David Fincher’s popular adaption of Chuck Palahniuk’s cult novel, and one of the most philosophically rich films of recent years. This is the first book to explore the varied philosophical aspects of the film. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that places the film and essays in context, each chapter explores a central theme of Fight Club from a ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

    by David Jauss ...
    Possibilities and Paradoxes in the Craft of Fiction The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "how on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reading Chuck Palahniuk

    American Monsters and Literary Mayhem

    Edited by Cynthia Kuhn, Lance Rubin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and important ways. Palahniuk's innovative stylistic accomplishments and notoriously disturbing subject matters invite close analysis, and the new essays in this collection offer fascinating insights about Palahniuk's texts, contexts, contributions, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Poem

    Lyric, Sign, Metre

    by Don Paterson ...
    Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. In illuminating and engaging prose, he offers his treatise on the making and the philosophy of 'the poem'.Paterson unpicks the process of verse composition with ambition, scholarly flair, and occasional scurrilities, exploring the mechanics of how a poem works and, essentially, what a poem is. His ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Listening through the Noise

    The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music

    by Joanna Demers ...
    Contemporary electronic music has splintered into numerous genres and subgenres, all of which share a concern with whether sound, in itself, bears meaning. Listening through the Noise considers how the experience of listening to electronic music constitutes a departure from the expectations that have long governed music listening in the West. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • In The Break

    The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

    by Fred Moten ...
    Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politicsIn his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton Greene Affair, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Art of Nick Cave

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by John H. Baker ...
    Known for his work as a performer and songwriter with the Birthday Party, the Bad Seeds and Grinderman, Australian artist Nick Cave has also pursued a variety of other projects, including writing and acting. Covering the full range of Cave's creative endeavours, this collection of critical essays provides a comprehensive overview of his multifaceted career. The contributors, who hail from an array ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Freud: Bullet Guide Ebook Epub

    Bullet Guide

    by Robert Anderson ...
    Open this book and you willGrasp psychoanalysisMaster Freudian theoriesExplore key conceptsUnderstand his influence ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • How to Read Barthes' Image-Music-Text

    by Ed White ...
    Series series How to Read Theory
    Roland Barthes is one of the most influential cultural theorists of the postwar period and Image-Music-Text collects his most influential essays. Ed White provides students with a clear guide to this essential but difficult text.As students are increasingly expected to write across a range of media, Barthes' work can be understood as an early mapping of what we now call interdisciplinary or ... Read more

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