The insistent realism of Don DeLillo’s ‘Falling Man’ and Paul Auster’s ‘Man in the Dark’ by Ugo Panzani During the last decade‚ many theorists and writers have remarked the peculiar fictionalisation of the facts of 9/11. For instance‚ as Salman Rushdie explains‚ “we all crossed a frontier that day‚ an invisible boundary between the imaginable and the unimaginable‚ and it turned out to be the unimaginable that was real” (Rushdie 2002: 436-437). Martin Amis pointed out that September 11
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“My name is Paul Auster. That is not my real name”: The search for identity in Paul Auster’s City of Glass Jakob Pearson ENG K01 Literary Seminar Autumn 2008 English Studies The Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University Supervisor: C. Wadsö-Lecaros Table of Contents 1 Introduction 3 Quinn embarks on a quest for identity 5 Quinn enters into an arbitrary world 7 Quinn takes an incomplete look at himself 8 Quinn plays the role 10 Quinn submits
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Psychology of Music http://pom.sagepub.com/ From the functions of music to music preference Thomas Schäfer and Peter Sedlmeier Psychology of Music 2009 37: 279 originally published online 10 March 2009 DOI: 10.1177/0305735608097247 The online version of this article can be found at: http://pom.sagepub.com/content/37/3/279 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: Society for Education‚ Music and Psychology Research Additional services and information for Psychology
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Music and its Functions and Roles Music has always been an integral part of human civilization. It is what binds individuals to their culture‚ people to their country. From the majestic stories of India to the concert halls of Vienna to the radio station playing mariachi music here in LA‚ music pervades our lives. Since our beginnings‚ music has accompanied rituals and ceremonies‚ and as time passed‚ began to fill other roles in religion‚ society‚ education‚ and entertainment. Within these different
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The New York Triology: City of Glass By Paul Auster City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985‚ and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning‚ and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer‚ who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the
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and to Austers style of writing. The first thing that interested me in segment A was Paul Austers style of writing. Auster did not divide his novel into chapters but kept a continuous flow of ideas. In addition to that‚ Auster goes back and forth in time not keeping a constant writing tense. Another aspect of Auster writing that I found interesting was his use of footnotes to explain certain events that happened in the past. Last but not least what I found most interesting about Austers style was
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The focus of this article is how music/music therapy can lead to improved brain function in patients who are in a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state. According to the article‚ vegetative state is defined as “a state in which patients exhibit a lack of awareness of external stimuli‚ but with preservation of sleep–wake cycles and vital vegetative functions (such as cardiac action‚ respiration and maintenance of blood pressure) while remaining completely unaware of both self and environment”(Okumura
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Music in my Life While walking today as I normally do‚ I turned around and your face came into my view. I could only imagine what was wrong with her. But at the end I understood what was wrong with her‚ it was music. This is what music does to people and I love it for that. Music makes people feel good inside so much that it might even hurt. Throughout my life‚ music has always been a major influence. It has the power to change my mood when I ’m feeling down. Music is a cure for when I’m down and
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compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually begin playing a tune they all know and then they make up their own music. Chapter 2 Jazz musicians follow common practices while performing
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MUSIC Music seems to play an important role in the lives of many individuals. It is used for entertainment in listening and performing. It can bring about an array of emotions such as joy‚ sadness‚ passion and love to name a few. Music is used to soothe the grieving‚ set the mood for romance‚ reduce stress and lift the spirits of many. Overall‚ music serves an important purpose in the lives of many individuals and is used to set the mood in a variety of situations. Music is significant to the
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