Art & Individuality
A Spy in the House of Love: Selling a Novel by Its Cover
Sex sells: Analysis of ‘Spy’ book covers as a marketing tool
Graham Greene on the Novel: An Interview
The art of fiction: A writer has to be his own judge. Style.
Anthony Burgess on the Novel: An Interview
The art of fiction: character, structure, the sense of life lived.
Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare – Part 2
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (2)
Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare Saint-Lazare – Part 1
An in-depth analysis of Manet’s painting (1)
Schoenberg Lieder: The Composer and German Poetry
Schoenberg & Ludwig Pfau, Richard Dehmel, and Stefan George
Kindertotenlieder: Gustav Mahler and ‘Calling Back a Voice’
How Mahler calls a presence out of absence
Kindertotenlieder: Mahler, Bereavement, and Consolation
Music’s floating intentionality, consolation’s historical context
Lulu’s Feminine Performance: Alban Berg’s Opera
How the interaction of music & libretto creates ironic distance