125 research outputs found
Music, complexity, and embodiment in performance: a conversation with accordionist Andreas Borregaard
No full textAs part of the Copenhagen workshop of the Evaluating Methods of Aesthetic Inquiry Network, which took place from the 6th to 8th of April 2017, the organisers invited accordionist Andreas Borregaard to give a performance of two contemporary pieces for the accordion: De Profundis by Sofia Gubaidulina, and Sequenza XIII (chanson) by Luciano Berio. The performance was followed by a discussion on musical complexity and embodiment, chaired by Jonna Vuoskoski. The event was conceived along similar lines as the handling sessions at the Hunterian and Pitt Rivers Museums as a means of allowing the researchers involved in the network to engage with specific works of art and reflect collectively on the experience. It was also a way of continuing with the network’s commitment to furthering new thinking by fostering not only the dialogue between different academic disciplines, but also with art practitioners and performers. Finally, the performance was part of a series of discussions that took place on the first day of the Copenhagen workshop that were concerned with the notion of complexity and how it may be brought to bear on aesthetic issues. This article comprises a transcript of the post-performance discussion, as well as a response written by Roddy Hawkins
The Privilege to Write What You Want
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Joanna KosmalskaThis interview is part of a literature project DEC-2011/01/B/HS2/05120 financed by the National Science Centre
New perspectives of Irishness in Roddy Doyle
No full textDie vorliegende Arbeit mit dem Titel New Perspectives of Irishness in Roddy Doyle hinterfragt das Konzept Identität und stellt die Auseinandersetzung mit irischer Identität in den Mittelpunkt. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich damit, was es bedeutet, Irisch zu sein und bezieht sich dabei auf die folgenden drei Werke des irischen Autors Roddy Doyle: The Commitments, The Deportees und The Guts. Die Charaktere in diesen Geschichten begeben sich auf die Suche nach nationaler Zugehörigkeit und müssen sich dabei mit einem wandelnden Konzept des Irischseins auseinandersetzen. Die Arbeit untersucht nicht nur das Konzept Identität als Prozess, sondern hebt auch hervor, dass irische Identität gleichermaßen unvollendet bleibt und ständiger Veränderung unterworfen ist. Nachdem die irische Nation aufgrund ihrer besonderen Beziehung zu Großbritannien lange Zeit Unterdrückung und Unabhängigkeit erfahren musste, versuchten die Iren ein homogenes Konzept ihrer Nation zu etablieren, das nicht länger auf ihre Abhängigkeit von Großbritannien hinweisen sollte. Dabei wurde jedoch außer Acht gelassen, dass ethnische Minoritäten, wie etwa schwarze Amerikaner und Amerikanerinnen, immer schon irische Identität mitbestimmt haben. Die Romane und Kurzgeschichten von Roddy Doyle zeigen, dass die irische Nation akzeptieren muss, dass ihr Selbstbewusstsein einem ständigem Wandel unterworfen ist und Multikulturalität notwendigerweise einen bedeutenden Teil ihrer Identität ausmacht.New Perspectives of Irishness in Roddy Doyle deals with concepts of Irishness as revealed in selected works by the contemporary Irish author Roddy Doyle, i.e. The Commitments, The Deportees and The Guts. The characters in the stories are faced with changing concepts of Irishness that challenge their personal struggle to establish a sense of belonging. The thesis does not only highlight that identity has to be seen from the background of an ongoing process of transformation and redefinition without ever coming to an end, but illustrates that Irish identity is similarly subjected to redefinition. Due to the long period of British rule, a time which is characterised by social and political oppression, the Irish have tried to establish a homogenous national identity eliminating any aspect that indicates its dependence on the British. However, the existence of ethnic minorities, such as African-Americans, cannot be ignored when defining Irishness. The stories of Roddy Doyle show that the Irish nation is faced with changing concepts of Irishness that necessarily have to regard the multicultural dimension as inclusive
List of Marian Books in the St. Barbara Province, Order of Friars Minor
Get PDFA list of books held by 35 Franciscan friary libraries in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington, organized by author and coded to indicate holding locations. Colophon states the list was completed by Patrick Roddy, O.F.M., libarian at Old Mission Santa Barbara. Reproduced typescript
The Barrytown Trilogy: Roddy Doyle's Portrayal of Dublin Working Class at the Turn of the 1990s
No full textThis thesis is concerned with the depiction of working-class Dublin in Roddy Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, known as The Barrytown Trilogy. The first part of the thesis provides a short overview of Doyle's early work in the context of modern Irish fiction with a focus on working-class protagonists and outlines Ireland's and specifically Dublin's cultural and economic background in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The second part is based on a comparative analysis of the three books in which the author celebrates everyday life in Barrytown, a fictitious neighbourhood in the north of Dublin, through the eyes of a typical working-class family. One section is also dedicated to the language of the trilogy used as a means of achieving greater authenticity. KEYWORDS Roddy Doyle, The Barrytown Trilogy, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, Irish literature, Dublin, working class, family, 1980s, 1990
Marginality and Finnissian Performance in the 1980s
No full textIn the late seventies Finnissy, sensing a dearth of opportunities for young British composers, began a period of concert performance (and advocacy of new work) that stretched through the 1980s and beyond, with a profound impact not only on the direction of his own music but on the composers and performers (and audiences) with whom he worked. His activities as a pianist coincided with the arrival at the British Music Information Centre of Roger Wright (currently Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival), who developed and promoted a series of salon concerts that took place in the Centre’s reading room at 10 Stratford Place in central London, a space in which Finnissy was a key figure. Reflecting on his time at the BMIC, Wright recalled that ‘there was an element of the work of the BMIC which […] slipped into the world of something which was, if not experimental, at least slightly off-centre.’ This curious in-between space provides the starting point in the proposed chapter for a wider consideration, for the first time, of Finnissy’s performance activities during the 1980s. Drawing on archival recordings, concert programmes, press reviews, and interviews conducted since 2007, I present a detailed (though not exhaustive) overview of Finnissy’s performance activity from his debut recital in Freiburg, 1977, to his performances of English Country-Tunes in 1986. With reference to selected concerts, a series of snapshots are offered which provide insights into Finnissy’s programming as a pianist, his collaboration with dancers and his extensive activities with ensembles. Of central importance here is what we might call ‘the politics of marginality’ during a decade which saw Finnissy attempt to distance himself from a growing interest in (and use of the name) ‘New Complexity’ which his performance and advocacy had done so much to support.<br/
Doyle's Dublin A Critical Study of Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry
No full textRoddy Doyle, author of The Commitments (1989) and the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), released his sixth book, A Star Called Henry (Penguin Books, 2000) to immediate critical acclaim. In recent years, Doyle, a North Dublin working class native, became increasingly daring. He is willing to take enormous risks with his writing. Audiences that enjoyed the heartfelt familial theme of his Barrytown Trilogy were shocked by the bleak reality of Paddy Clarke, in which the main character, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself caught in the midst of his parent's divorce and watches their family network crumble. Doyle's next book, the story of a battered wife entitled The Woman Who Walked Into Doors (1997), was seen as a betrayal in Ireland by some who resented the link between domestic abuse and the Catholic virtue of suffering. A Star Called Henry is Roddy Doyle's most daring and intense novel to date. The book is vastly researched (Doyle lists some 33 obscure sources at the end) and an absolute masterpiece of "brawling and lyrical"1 prose. Doyle's protagonist, the young Henry Smart, rages his way through abject policy in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Henry fights in the G.P.O. alongside Collins, Pearse and Connolly and survives to witness the bloody, violent birth of the modern Irish nation
Barrytownská trilogie: Roddy Doyle a jeho obraz dělnické třídy v Dublinu na přelomu 80. a 90. let 20. století
Get PDFTato práce se zabývá vykreslením dublinské dělnické třídy v prvních třech románech Roddyho Doyla, The Commitments, The Snapper a The Van, souhrnně označovaných jako Barrytownská trilogie. První část práce nabízí krátký přehled Doyleových prvotin v kontextu moderní irské literární fikce se zaměřením na protagonisty dělnické třídy a popisuje irské a obzvláště dublinské kulturní a ekonomické podmínky na konci 80. a na začátku 90. let 20. století. Druhá část práce je založena na porovnání všech tří knih, v nichž autor oslavuje každodenní život v Barrytownu, smyšleném sousedství na severu Dublinu, očima typické dělnické rodiny. Jedna kapitola je rovněž věnována použití jazyka jako prostředku dosažení větší autenticity. KLÍČOVÁ SLOVA Roddy Doyle, Barrytownská trilogie, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, irská literatura, Dublin, dělnická třída, rodina, 80. a 90. léta 20. stoletíThis thesis is concerned with the depiction of working-class Dublin in Roddy Doyle's first three novels, The Commitments, The Snapper and The Van, known as The Barrytown Trilogy. The first part of the thesis provides a short overview of Doyle's early work in the context of modern Irish fiction with a focus on working-class protagonists and outlines Ireland's and specifically Dublin's cultural and economic background in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The second part is based on a comparative analysis of the three books in which the author celebrates everyday life in Barrytown, a fictitious neighbourhood in the north of Dublin, through the eyes of a typical working-class family. One section is also dedicated to the language of the trilogy used as a means of achieving greater authenticity. KEYWORDS Roddy Doyle, The Barrytown Trilogy, The Commitments, The Snapper, The Van, Irish literature, Dublin, working class, family, 1980s, 1990sKatedra anglického jazyka a literaturyFaculty of EducationPedagogická fakult
Portraying Irish working-class women in love : the consequences of patriarchy in Roddy Doyle's "The woman who walked into doors"
Get PDFRoddy Doyle presents the story of Paula Spencer, the narrator of The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996). Paula is the mother of four children, an alcoholic, long-term unemployed and battered by her husband Charlo. My aim is to consider Roddy Doyle's narrative difficulties as a male author in writing a novel about a battered working-class woman. I will analyze the way in which Doyle turns Paula, a woman without a voice and without means to write her own story, into a plausible character. Love, shaped by a patriarchal Irish culture and society, is crucial to understand Paula's story.Roddy Doyle ens presenta la història de la Paula Spencer, la narradora de The Woman Who Walked into Doors (1996), traduïda al català com "La dona que ensopegava amb les portes". La Paula és mare de quatre fills, alcohòlica, desocupada i maltractada pel seu marit Charlo. El meu objectiu és tenir en compte les dificultats narratives que té Doyle com a home escriptor en escriure una novel·la sobre una dona maltractada de classe treballadora. Analitzaré la manera en que Doyle converteix la Paula, una dona sense mitjans per escriure la seva pròpia història, en un personatge versemblant. L'amor, configurat a través de la cultura irlandesa patriarcal, és essencial per entendre la història del personatge
The translation of the intertextuality and orality in Roddy Doyle's The Commitments
No full textThis research aims to propose a commented translation of excerpts of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments (1987), the first book published by the Irish author. The novel, which is basically written in dialogues, uses a large amount of oral features of the Irish English. Thus, our translation uses phonetical, lexical and morphosyntatic features of oral Portuguese in order to recreate the novel’s dialogue. The Commitments tells the story of an Irish soul band since the beginning until it reaches success. Throughout the novel, twelve soul songs taken from the American repertory of the 1960’s are quoted, which create a strong intertextuality with this musical tradition. An annex with a literal translation of the songs quoted in the selected pages aims to make the intertextual function of the lyrics explicit.Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação)Esta pesquisa visa realizar uma tradução comentada de passagens do romance The Commitments (1987), de Roddy Doyle. Constituído, basicamente, por diálogos, o primeiro livro publicado pelo autor irlandês se vale de uma enorme quantidade de marcas de oralidade próprias de uma variedade urbana do inglês falado na Irlanda. A tradução em português explora, assim, marcas fonéticas, lexicais e morfossintáticas de oralidade para conferir verossimilhança aos diálogos do romance. The Commitments narra o percurso de uma banda irlandesa de soul desde sua formação até o sucesso. Ao longo do romance, são citadas doze músicas soul pertencentes ao repertório estadunidense da década de 1960, de modo a criar uma forte intertextualidade com essa tradição musical. O anexo com a tradução literal das músicas presentes nas páginas selecionadas visa explicitar a função intertextual daquelas músicas
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