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This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
An intimate encounter with the enfant terrible of ballet. With a comprehensive selection of photos from Polunin's life on and off stage. His music video for Hozier's Take me to Church, shot by David LaChapelle, has 28 million views on YouTube. With a foreword by Dame Helen Mirren and Albert Watson.
This book explores the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since. The study surveys the emergence of this close relationship in the era following the end of the Roman Empire and through the Middle Ages, taking particular note of the role of Gregorian chant, folk music and the popularity of mystery, morality and passion plays in reflection of the Sacred Scripture and its themes during those times. With the emergence of polyphony and the advent of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the interaction...