The table talk of W.H. Auden
In New York, between 1946 and 1948, the scholar and poet Alan Ansen made rapid notes of Auden's inimitable conversation. This book is a record of Auden's private, offhand and sometimes wayward remarks and opinions about art, literature, music, politics, religion and sexuality.
Hemingway's Byron: Romantic Posturing in the Age of Modernism
This essay explores the extent to which Hemingway might have modeled his life and art, and the slippages between the two, on those of Byron. Hemingway’s intensive reading of literary biography, marketing strategies employed to capitalize on images of the author as “Byronic hero,” and Hemingway’s engagement with Byron within Modernism are all considered. Finally, the essay reiterates how Hemingway’s calculated engagement with Byron and the Byronic remains a viable and lucrative marketing strategy today.
Music and Ethical Responsibility
Introduction 1. Meaning and ethics in music 2. Experiencing music 3. Framing elements of musical experience 4. Improvisation and ethical responsibility 5. Musical improvisation as festival 6. Music, proximity, ethics 7. Ethical responsibility and other people's music Conclusion: ethical responsibility in musical experience.