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An operatic baggy monster.
Epic opera is a very rare breed in a large kennel, and its successes are even rarer in number. "Grand Opera; that nineteenth-century invention that updated (without even knowing it) the spectacle opera of the seventeenth century, is not epic opera, because for all its vocal and scenic extravagance it is still confined to the operatic stage. Epic opera, however, seeks to travel beyond, and it is not surprising that most operas of this limited genre are based on epic literary works. Even the overreaching failures, like August Bungert's operatic trilogy on the Homeric poems, are connected to literature, as are the most celebrated epics of Berlioz (Virgil) and Wagner.
- Sloppy, baggy monster nets giant haul, with a touch of genius.
- News wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence April 24, 2002 700+ words
Apr 24, 2002 (The Sydney Morning Herald ABIX via COMTEX) -- An Australian novel largely disparaged in its home country has won the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, worth $A27,000. "Gould's Book of Fish", by Richard Flanagan, was termed both surreal and strange by the competition's judges, and a
- A great, baggy monster: Rilke's "Duino Elegies".
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Simon, John January 1, 2000 700+ words
The long poem, if we rightly exclude the dramatic, comes in three varieties: narrative, including epic; philosophical, including existential; and metaphysical, including religious. And, of course, in any combination of the above. When we, here and now, think "long poem," we usually mean Homer,
- Papa's Loose, Baggy Monster Could Be Looser, Baggier.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) July 12, 1999 700+ words
Byline: James Hunter True at First Light, by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 320 pages, $26. "Honey, you are a little lion-wacky," the narrator tells his wife. She answers: "Who has more right to be? Of course I am. But I take lions seriously." This exchange of Tracy-and-Hepburn banter occurs roughly a
- Lost in Translations.(Books)(War and Peace)(Critical essay)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Jones, Malcolm October 15, 2007 700+ words
...still worth the climb. War and Peace" still looms large over the...Henry James derided "War and Peace" as a "loose, baggy monster." Even Stalin -- who never...Russians from reading "War and Peace." Over its lifetime, the...
- Half a literature.(The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Bandyopadhyay, Indrani November 1, 2003 700+ words
...the Western idealistic view: Maharishis, enlightenment, peace and love? In fact, Indian writers struggle to come to terms...designed to prove to the West that India is not a "huge, baggy monster", and thus he sets about finding a line of best fit to give...
- Fall Preview: Books.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek September 3, 2007 700+ words
...Three decades haven't been kind to her, either. 'War and Peace,' Leo Tolstoy, October: The coincidence of two new translations...and plotlines. Henry James called this novel a "loose, baggy monster." He didn't know the half of it. 'Musicophilia,' Oliver...
- Wild in the Heartland
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Diana Postlethwaite June 5, 1994 700+ words
...but who gives a shit about us, so long as she has found peace." But readers of the lighter-than-air Bridges of Madison...then there are those nasty nightmares. Lurking inside this baggy monster is a leaner, darker and far more interesting novel than the...
- Thackeray at his most Victorian.(Books)(The Lost Word)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Grenier, Cynthia February 13, 2000 700+ words
...James may have deemed the novel the quintessential "loose baggy monster" among 19th-century narratives, but then again that was how he considered Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace." The novel's subtitle, "Memoirs of a Most Respectable...
