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The figure of the singer / Daniel Karlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karlin, Daniel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Singers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why did poets continue to call themselves singers, and their poems songs, long after the formal link between poetry and music had been severed? Daniel Karlin explores the origin and meaning of the 'figure of the singer', tracing its roots in classical mythology and in the Bible, and following its rise from the 'adventurous song' of Milton's Paradise Lost to its apotheosis in the nineteenth century-by which time it had also become an oppressive cliché. Poets mightembrace, or resist, this dominant figure of their art, but could not ignore it. Shadowing the metaphor is another figure, that of the
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180331-6
- 0-19-165043-9
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