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...Oscar Mandel Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Dissonant Music Sixty Years After Oscar Mandel What will vanguardism leave to posterity? Nothing but smoldering cinders which its propagandists, shout­ ing from the housetops, are trying to make us believe are a living forest...

...Oscar Mandel Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Dissonant Music Sixty Years After Oscar Mandel What will vanguardism leave to posterity? Nothing but smoldering cinders which its propagandists, shout­ ing from the housetops, are trying to make us believe are a living forest...

... Todorova's articulation of “Balkanism”—as a dissonant infrastructure to the transcendent, ahistorical quality of Kristeva's and Žižek's work. Antonio Gramsci's incorporation of his origins in Sardinia into his intellectual and political praxis provides a contrapuntal reading of Kristeva's and Žižek's own...

.... Altogether, this issue is a splendid collection of essays. And I remain especially grateful for the comments, critical or otherwise, that some essay- ists have kindly cared to make about my own work. But the simultaneous assonance and dissonance of voices that runs through the essays is typical...

... analyzes at length the conflicts and dissonances in his thought during his later years mysticism against quasi-scientific observation, pantheism against a vestigial puritanism, defiant individualism and distrust of social action against the moral compulsions that threw him into the antislavery cause...

... ry Allen, which Callie Craven says is a dwellin song and must be sung slow and mournful, dwellin on the long notes. Arnold s footnote recalls Goldsmith s 1765 essay, The music of the finest singer is dissonance to what I felt when an old dairy­ maid sung me into tears with . . . Barb ry Allen...

.... The danger of uncurbed or unmoderated ascesis was that a particularly zealous and enthusiastic individual who voluntarily came to the organization would feel increasingly free to do what he wished and to chant as many psalms as he liked or could ; this, however, led to a dissonance and even variety within...

... to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads : (2009), Jakarta: Drawing the City Nea r: (2014), New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times (with Edgar Pieterse, 2017), Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance for an Urban South (2018), and The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture (2022...

..., as Canby suggests. Although Mr. Krutch sees Thoreau as a happy man, especially during the Walden period, when his powers were fully released, he analyzes at length the conflicts and dissonances in his thought during his later years mysticism against quasi-scientific observation, pantheism against...

... through the moment with the expected backing off of what was previously said. (10) The relentless advance of a progress narrative steadily marching toward an inevitable national racial redemption keeps the black subject from registering the moment s dissonance. The phantom person of color disparaged...

... of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. Her books include Patterns of Dissonance (1991). Nomadic Subjects (1994; 2nd ed. 2011), Meta- morphoses (2002), Transpositions (2006), La philosophie, lá où on ne l’attend pas (2009), Nomadic Theory: The Portable Rosi Braidotti (2011...

... and Southeast Asia with appreciation of this predicament. Our intention is not to enclose experiences of migrant life and struggle within a strict regional frame. Rather, in bringing together contributions that engage with migrant struggles across locations in contemporary Asia, we seek to mark a dissonance...

..., there arises the inevitable conviction that here is, in the spiritual sense, a marvellous tentative at incarnation of the superhuman ideals of contemporary thought and sensibility. Above all the dissonances of that inharmonious and jangled existence sounds the clear strain of persistently lofty idealism...

... readers will experience any cognitive dissonance with the earlier claims about the equality of all men, since savages are not men in the full sense. Taken in this way, early indigenous Americans accounts of genocide, rape, and ravage at the hands of European colonizers are undermined by an agreed...

... will be consonant (or dissonant). What is happening today is that such selection crite­ ria (which may or may not be explicitly formulated or entertained) seem to be weakening and are in some cases even in the process of disappearing altogether. Since selection criteria tend to function by assigning privileges...

... of music he finds a like­ ness for mankind. We are like forgotten lyres whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. He has established a close bond between music and memory in the next. The poet...

... the piano with a crash of dissonance. I helped him to his feet and out to the waiting car. At the door, as he said goodnight to Louise, he wrenched our hearts by adding, I m sorry I didn t behave my­ self. I saw him to his room at the Grande Bretagne and stayed until he emerged from the bathroom, coatless...

... terms. Of Vano Muradeli s opera, The Great Friendship, it was said: 206 The South Atlantic Quarterly The characteristics of this music are the negation of the basic principles of classic music; the cult of atonality, the dissonance and discord supposedly expressive of progress and novelty...

..., indifferent to the magic of ekphrastic hope, is likely to point out that this whole argument is a kind of sham, cre­ ating difficulties at the level of representation and signs that do not exist. The genre of ekphrasis is distinguished, the skeptic might point out, not by any disturbance or dissonance...

... tolerance and restraint. This is the common lesson learned at Shellmound. And so they all move together, in a controlled dissonance, each giving up a little of his own angularity to find his step in the measured strain. The modern novelist, says Miss Welty, too often prefers to look at the world through...