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It is a common experience that words are inadequate for music. Drawing on psychological and philosophical materials as well as the analysis of specific musical examples, this study attempts to make a clear distinction between the province of music theory and that of aesthetic criticism.

The author's thesis is that the main characteristic of music is to express and evoke emotion and that all composers whose music has a tonal basis have used the same, or closely similar, melodic phrases, harmonies, and rhythms to express and evoke the same emotions.

An exploration of Shakespeare's works in the cultural and historical context of their time. As well as providing an original way of understanding Shakespeare's achievements, it analyzes the cultural process.

Offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political thought.

The origins, development, and nature of the Greek city-state or polis remain a central concern in the study of ancient Greece. This book contains 14 studies representing the different methodological approaches currently being practised.

This is the second instalment of a three-volume presentation in English of a commentary on Homer's "Odyssey", compiled by an international team of scholars. Introductions pay special attention to diction in the "Odyssey", and the tradition of epic diction in general.

Including a comprehensive discussion of the play's background and an incisive assessment of its dramatic structure, this edition makes an outstanding contribution to Euripides scholarship.

Explores the significance behind the religious sites of ancient Greece - why they grew up there, and what social, political, and anthropological influences may have contributed to their development.

This is a fascinating and original study of the image of the woman reader in Victorian and Edwardian culture and literature. Kate Flint draws on a wide range of texts from `high' literature to advice manuals, autobiographies to medical and psychological writings in order to examine the controversies surrounding what, where, and how women should read.

International regimes are systems of norms and rules agreed upon by states to govern their behaviour in specific political contexts. This text examines the fundamental conceptual and theoretical problems of regime analysis, studies how regimes are formed and how they change.

This study by a Jesuit moral theologian examines the events, personalities and conflicts which have contributed, from New Testament times to the present, to the Roman Catholic moral tradition and its contemporary crisis. The author interprets fundamental changes taking place in the subject today.

Focusing on restitution, this book provides an understanding of the subject. It is useful for students and scholars of common and civil law.

The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.

This monograph develops and defends a novel version of mathematical realism - the view that to engage in mathematics is to investigate the features of real mathematical things - and refocuses philosophical attention on the pressing foundational issues of contemporary mathematics.

A social history of the music of the Jewish community in Palestine from the beginnings of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1880 to the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948.

Devoted solely to a study of the piano trio genre, this volume reviews the development of the trio in different countries against the background of general musical history, showing how it has reflected changes in style and technique from the 18th century to the present day.

The third part of a three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi, this study covers roughly a quarter of a century, in which Verdi produced his four last operas. It examines each opera in detail, with an account of its dramatic and historical origins and a critical evaluation.

First published in 1965, this book deals with the history of violin playing against the background of the violin's evolution and the music written for it. Topics covered include the manner of playing in past centuries, the rules of "scordatura" playing and meanings of performing directions.

This is an entirely updated edition of T.J. Reed's study of Thomas Mann, one of the greatest German novelists of the 20th century. Focusing on Mann's relations with German and European traditions, it traces the literary and philosophical sources from which he drew inspiration.

This ambitious study focuses on the great age of English portraiture, from the the arrival of Van Dyck (1632) to the publication of Boswell's Life of Johnson (1791), in order to establish the grounds of comparison between biography and portrait-painting - two arts that have often been linked in a casual way but whose historical interrelations remain almost entirely unexplored.