Take seriously the idea that music and poetry are closely related, in the sense that they have common origin and elements; don't take that as an arbitrary or forced relationship at all. What consequences flow from this supposition?
Take the ineffability trope seriously, not as some bogus cop-out. Writing about music is genuinely difficult. Many books about music don't really address music at all, etc....
We voted for faculty union, 850 to 132. It is a convincing percentage, and nobody I know of is saying openly that they voted against. Now comes the bargaining. Wages is the big issue: he have lost ground to inflation and earning less than 10 years ago (on average). Benefits are ok, I suppose. The other thing would be job security. The Board of Regents can authorize the Chancellor to fire people due to financial reasons, and that has occurred at other Kansas Regents' institutions.
We have high attrition rates. I haven't left because I lack administrative experience to be hired as chair, while not being a big star or following trends in research.
There are multi-million dollar construction projects, like a total overhaul of football stadium. We have lots of newish buildings, and some old elegant ones, but it seems that buildings are not so important, if we can have school for a year from our couches at home, as we did.
They make noises about paying market rates for faculty and staff... Needless to say there are deans and vice-chancellors who are not suffering financially.
I was acting in a production of El público. I hadn't memorized my lines, and so had to read from a script; was trying to justify this to myself. (Maybe nobody will notice!). But I lost my place in the script and was also thinking that I was not a good actor in the first place. It seemed to be a dream about arrogance. Since I am a Lorca scholar I didn't bother memorizing, or even looking at the play, before hand.
Misunderstanding Lorca
1. Introduction: Lorca and Me
2. Toward an Intellectual Biography
3. The Death of the Subject
4. Is Bodas de sangre a Work of Fiction?
5. Lorca and Flamenco: The History of a Misunderstanding
6. Teaching Receptivity
It is not "ironic" that Salman Rushdie was attacked with a knife while defending free speech. It is the opposite of irony, whatever that is called. It is a "rhyme."
I have a book that will either be called Understanding Lorca or Misunderstanding Lorca.
The first title seems misleading; the second, too facetious.
"After 1930, Federico García Lorca moved almost entirely from poetry to theater so as to engage audiences directly... "
Labanyi, Jo; Delgado, Luisa Elena. Modern Literatures in Spain (p. 167). Polity Press. Kindle Edition.
I think the "almost" is doing a lot of work there. Since Lorca only lived until the middle of 1936, we have barely a half decade, with three major poetic works: Llanto por ISM, the sonnets, and the Diván. Then the six Galician poems (maybe a minor work), and some uncollected poems. It is true that the balance shifts from the 20s, when Lorca wrote Cante jondo, Canciones, Suites, Poeta en Nueva York.
Also, Lorca remained interested in his "impossible" theater to the end. It is not true that he simply wanted to "engage audiences."
