Experimentalists are well represented on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, a madcap compilation with all the unity of theme of a proper album and, arguably, a more enjoyable one than their last, 2009's Embryonic.
Kitty Empire reviewed it a few weeks back and described it as "a madcap compilation with all the unity of theme of a proper album and, arguably, a more enjoyable one than their last, 2009's Embryonic".
In line with Schlegel, more than with any previous English-language critic (except Coleridge, who also followed Schlegel), Hazlitt found "unity" in Shakespeare's plays not in their observing the traditional classical unities of time, place, and action, but in their unity of theme.
For an additional level of theme and unity, include a geographic and cultural element.
It demands unity of theme.
They have lost their unity of theme.
Although its publishers describe the book as a memoir, it lacks the unity of theme of, say, Wole Soyinka's Aké: The Years of Childhood, or Man Died: Prison Notes, about his time in prison during the Nigerian civil war.
What was intriguing and unsettling about this unusual book were its apparent contradictions: the sensuality of its language and the insubstantiality of its temporal and spatial settings, its rhapsodic structure and style, and the coherence and unity of the theme of death that inspired it.
(Unity of time and place).
