Agon

"Agon is a Greek word meaning, among other things, 'contest'," Burn told

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Perhaps the most intriguing feature (to me) of Agon is Bloom's attempt to align his own approach to criticism with that of American pragmatism.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

As Bloom writes elsewhere in Agon: No one 'fathers' or 'mothers' his or her own poems, because poems are not 'created,' but are interpreted into existence, and by necessity they are interpreted from other poems.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

One can only wonder what the history of modern ballet would have been like without Agon, which is referred to again and again in In Tandem as in so many other ballets.

Same Score, Different Ballets 2009

One can only wonder what the history of modern ballet would have been like without Agon, which is referred to again and again in In Tandem as in so many other ballets.

Same Score, Different Ballets 2009

Maybe the reason that having an institutional framework makes a game feel sport-like has something to do with the notion of Agon within Callois' categories of play.

Go Pats! 2007

"Orpheus" and "Agon" - remain essential viewing for anyone wishing to understand fully the composer's work.

The New Yorker 2010

You can see references to the heroic pose with which two men end a duet in "Agon" (1957); the partnering device whereby a woman is folded in half and revolved before opening out anew in Ashton's "Dream" (1964); and even one of the strangest images from "Symphony in Three Movements," in which the woman holds her hands (palms out) before her eyes, as if sightless.

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Balanchine's version also gave New York City Ballet the stability with which he was able to create his most avant-garde productions, notably "Agon" Stravinsky

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Stravinsky's "Agon" and Movements for Piano and Orchestra are partly or fully twelve-tone scores that would cause most orchestra subscribers to squirm-the New York Philharmonic has programmed "Agon" once, Movements never-but at N.Y.C.B. they are practically chestnuts.

The New Yorker 2010