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This book explores the relationship between words and music in contemporary texts, examining, in particular, the way that new technologies are changing the literature-music relationship. It brings an eclectic and novel range of interdisciplinary theories to the area of musico-lit...erary studies, drawing from the fields of semiotics, musicology, psychoanalysis, music cognition, emotion and affect, cosmopolitanism, globalization, ethnicity, and biraciality. Chapters range from critical analyses of the representation of music and the musical profession in contemporary novels, to examination of the forms and cultural meanings of contemporary intermedia and multimedia works. The book theorizes cross-culturality in the word and music relationship, arguing that crossings between words and music create emergent structures and meanings that can facilitate forms of cultural crossing, particularly transnationalism and cross-cultural exchange. The convergence of these formal and cultural crossings is conceptualized as musico-literary miscegenation, using interracial sexual relationships as a metaphor. Smith also inspects the dynamics of improvisation and composition, and the different ways they intersect with performance. Further, the book explores the huge changes that computer-based real-time algorithmic text and music generation are making to the literature-music nexus. This volume provides fascinating insight into the relationship between literature and music, and will be of interest to those fields as well as New Media and Performance Studies.
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Hazel Smith's new poetry collection engages in a direct way with contemporary political and social issues - civil war and the flight of populations, oppressive regimes and the disappearance of dissidents, the unpredictable effects of climate change - relating these issues to the ...personal experience of death and dementia, abuse and disability and childlessness. The poems project intense psychological states of indecisiveness, anxiety, disorientation and guilt, making use of surreal conjunctions and metaphor to dramatise the sense of unease. Smith is a new media artist and musician, and the poems employ a variety of techniques drawn from these fields, flourishes of linguistic coloratura, the evocation of virtual realities, cutting and pasting from the internet, remixing, sampling and quotation, to drive home their effects.
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This is the first study of the relevance and applicability of international relations theory to the contemporary global push for the spread of liberal democracy. Contributors discuss the theory and practice of the push for the internationalization of liberal democracy and outline... an alternative research program for future work.
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Experienced writing teacher Hazel Smith demystifies the process of creative writing, providing exercises and examples to show how it can be systematically learnt.
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Ecliptical addresses contemporary psychological, ethical and philosophical issues including family secrets and tensions, private and public creativity, the enigma of time, surveillance, fake news, environmental damage and homelessness. Ecliptical includes prose poetry and short p...rose; texts that are synaesthetic, sonic or linguistic explorations, surreal excursions and 'bullet point' adventures in which each line unveils a new observation. Other pieces employ non-literary forms or include documentary or remixed elements. Ecliptical also flirts with the posthuman in some collaborative computer-assisted poems.
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Offers several perspectives on the contemporary position of North Korea. The text examines, in the context of the post-Cold War order, US, European Union and British foreign policy towards North Korea, and North Korean responses.
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These essays seek to show how a dialectic of power and resistance is at work in the contemporary global political economy, producing and contesting new realities, and creating conditions in which new forms of collective self determination become thinkable and materially possible.
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Demystifies the process of creative writing, showing that successful work does not arise from talent or inspiration alone. Smith breaks writing down into incremental stages, revealing processes that are often unconscious or unacknowledged, and shows how they can become part of a ...systematic writing strategy. Author from Uni of Canberra.
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This book offers several perspectives on the contemporary position of North Korea. It investigates the tensions that could develop in North Korean state and society as the country faces an increasingly market-oriented capitalist world and identifies the historical, political and ...ideological foundations of North Korean society and culture.
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This work presents a study of the relevance and applicability of international relations theory in explaining the global push for liberal democracy by major Western powers and international organizations, including the UN, the EU and the World Bank.
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