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Territories of Paradox and Resolution
No full textThe turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, edited by John Kinsella, features the work of 123 poets. The 600 page anthology is both inclusive and diverse, representative of both the major award winning poets of the country and its younger poets who have published only one or two books of poetry. Readers will recognize a variety of styles and attitudes in the collection; they will find poems which might be labeled as formalist, innovative, confessional, political, pastoral, lyrical, narrative, and those poems which reflect a "new hybridization and hybridity" of these styles
The Symphonies of John Kinsella
No full textSéamas de Barra
The Symphonies of John Kinsella
ABSTRACT
This thesis offers the first comprehensive analytical and critical study of the symphonies of John Kinsella (b. 1932), one of the leading figures in contemporary Irish music. This cycle of ten works represents the most substantial contribution to the genre by an Irish composer, and Kinsella’s varied handling to the form is examined and discussed in relation both to historical and contemporary developments. While his understanding of musical structure and the manner in which he shapes musical time are deeply indebted to the work of Jean Sibelius, Kinsella’s compositional idiom is derived from a personal adaptation of serialism in which the technique of the note-row is manipulated to readmit the forces of tonal attraction. The result of these twin influences is an arrestingly individual approach to composition, the development of which is traced across the cycle as each of the symphonies in turn is subjected to extensive analysis. Because he chose to pursue an independent path in the 1980s, Kinsella seemed a somewhat isolated figure to his contemporaries. Retrospectively, his work can be seen as instinctively in tune with broader developments, however, as both serialism (understood as a way of thinking rather than as a style) and the music of Sibelius have emerged as two of the dominant influences on current musical thinking
Rapture: South Branch Mortlock River, Doodenanning, Canto of the Dry River Empyrean (30), Rapture 6: The Crescent of Little Beach
No full textAustralian-born John Kinsella is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and editor of the international literary journal Salt. His volume of poems The New Arcadia appeared from Norton in 2005
Kinsella, John Edward
No full textMemorial Statement for Professor John Edward Kinsella who died in 1993. The memorial statements contained herein were prepared by the Office of the Dean of the University Faculty of Cornell University to honor its faculty for their service to the university
Sound-worlds of justice: a response to John Kinsella
No full textA response to the chapter contributed to this book by Australian author John Kinsella, explaining the complex features of Kinsella's philosophical and stylistic indebtedness to both Dante Alighieri and musical works inspired by Dante Alighieri. This chapter's secondary function is to elucidate the specific musical works to which Kinsella's chapter refers, placing them in the context of nineteenth and twentieth century musical dramatisations of Dante. The chapter discusses the approaches to Dante demonstrated by the composers Gioacchino Rossini, Peter Maxwell Davies, Franz Liszt, Giacomo Puccini and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and proposes Richard Wagner as the composer whose work most closely matches an ideal musical adaptation of Dante, despite his never having attempted such an adaptation. The musical discussion serves to illustrate the highly individual, musically-inspired literary compositional technique of John Kinsella
Globe Hotel and Inner City Poems
No full textIn Globe Hotel and Inner City Poems, John Kinsella explores both the physical dimensions and power dynamics of the city. From the "patterns of exclusion" to the "horseshoe bridge" where "gargoyle swans smile like city mascots," Kinsella simultaneously maps the landscape of the city and the unnamed speaker's psyche
John J. Kinsella headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery
No full textJohn J. Kinsella headstone in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery in Outer Cove
John Kinsella\u27s Poetry - Some Reflections
No full textJohn Kinsella, described by Michael Hulse as “the rising star of Australian poetry,” has often been compared, sometimes favorably, to such a luminary as Les Murray, the recent winner of the T.S. Eliot poetry prize. The two poets share a fascination for the endlessly creative possibilities of language, as well as an abiding interest in rural Australia, even though they approach it from very different ideological perspectives. An intriguing and sophisticated poet, Kinsella is said to have produced two bodies of work, one mostly pastoral, meditative, and narrative, the other experimental. The former is illustrated by The Silo, and the latter by Syzygy
Firebreaks: Poems
No full textKnown for a poetry both experimental, “activist,” and lyrical that reinvents the pastoral, John Kinsella considers his and his family’s life at Jam Tree Gully, in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and his deeply felt ecological ..
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