Alice Parker

When Do the Losers Win? & Other Fairy Tales

Drawn from the world's most beloved songs, the more than 70 examples in this book explore the history and crucial elements of melody, which is the very basis of song. This unique guide allows readers a new insight into the composition of songs and focuses solely on how simple musical lines combined with the right texts can make a catchy melodic phrase that lasts throughout the ages without consideration of harmony, counterpoint or other constructs.

Exploring the Single Line of Song

The Anatomy of Melody

Jen-Pin Weng

CSG: Control Path Synthesis in the ADAM System

Good Singing in Church

Melodious Accord

Examines the work of the contemporary Montreal-based lesbian writer, who has over thirty volumes of poetry, fiction-theory, postmodernist prose, and theory. Finds that she focuses on the liminal spaces around words and the enigma of lapses in the language. Some of the themes are a differential equation of lesbian love, holographic writing, and rituals of reading and writing. The quotations are offered in French and English translation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Liminal Visions of Nicole Brossard

Elizabeth A. Meese

The essays in this volume represent the most recent thinking collected on the problematics of feminism and critical theory, engaging the question of the relationship between these terms and the differences within each in terms of the other. As a whole, this piece of an extended conversation within feminism suggests both the illusory comfort of generic demarcations and the discomforting power of the play of difference. The articles are theoretically wide-ranging and provocative, offering discussion of works by such authors as Nella Larsen, Frances Harper, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.

Feminism and Critical Theory

The Difference Within

Linda Ekstrom

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