10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FOURSQUARENESS»
Discover the use of
foursquareness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
foursquareness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Nineteenth-century Music
Irregular groupings of measures which will no longer bend to the law of "
foursquareness" tend toward syntactic conjunction, or parataxis, where passages
of melody are loosely juxtaposed instead of being bracketed by the subordinating
...
Carl Dahlhaus, J. Bradford Robinson, 1989
2
Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse
Heaney writes,'What I have always loved [in Beowulf] was a kind of
foursquareness about the utterance, a feeling of living inside a constantly
indicative mood',55 but, as Tom Shippey points out, the subjunctive is also
central to the nuanced ...
3
The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
See also blockiness, foursquareness, quadrifaciality thambos. See amazement (
thambos) thauma. See wonder (thauma) thauma idesthai (“a wonder to behold
for itself and oneself”), 4, 58–68, 84, 94, 97, 102, 105, 113, 126, 128, 139, 192, ...
4
Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry
These features convey an impression of 'foursquareness' that Heaney associates
with the verse of Beowulf itself (though foursquareness is by no means the whole
story with the original, or with the translation).27 Heaney's language is ...
Peter Mackay, Edna Longley, Fran Brearton, 2011
And one need not recall the rich subtlety of the late Arthur Kennedy in the part in
order to deplore the Proctor of Randle Mell for its brutish foursquareness. The
ensemble of mischievous teenage girls is not only not talented, it is not even ...
Without purpose, Yet nothing remains unfurthered. Richard Wilhelm comments: "
Nature creates all beings without erring: this is its straightness. It is calm and still:
this is its foursquareness. It tolerates all creatures equally: this is its greatness.
7
Franz Liszt and His World
The composer marshals every means at his command to convey tenuousness;
the meter, for example, is not symmetrical duple meter, with its inherent “
foursquareness,” but triple meter. The same rhythmic pattern of two quarter notes,
...
Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley, 2010
8
Stuart Davis: American Painter
What Karen Wilkin has described as the composition's “frontality and
foursquareness”2 serves to emphasize its geometric, grid-like character, which
provides a curious contrast to the passion suggested by the thickly impastoed
surface. Davis ...
Lowery Stokes Sims, Stuart Davis, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1991
9
The Poetry of Translation: From Chaucer & Petrarch to Homer ...
He thinks he hears in Beowulf a 'familiar local voice, one that had belonged to
relatives of my father', in whose speech, he goes on, there was 'a kind of
foursquareness about the utterance, a feeling of living inside a constantly
indicative ...
10
The American Musical Landscape
They added up to an artful, elaborate, often gaudy setting of the tunes Whiteman
played, almost as if to disguise their foursquareness. Through variety of sound
and affect, Whiteman's performances expressed "freedom" from unvaried ...
