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Universitatsverlag Winter (en-)Gendering a Popular Theatrical Genre: The
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Universitatsverlag Winter Grenzerfahrungen: Studien Zur Asthetik Goethes
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£49.40
Universitatsverlag Winter Verhandlungen Von Kindlichkeit: Die Englischen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Justus Friedrich Wilhelm Zacharia: Studien Zu
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Universitatsverlag Winter Julian Apostata Im 19. Jahrhundert: Literarische
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Universitatsverlag Winter Die Justiz Auf Der Buhne: Heinrich Von Kleists
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Lit Verlag The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Falsifying Beckett: Essays on Archives,
Book SynopsisThe dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualise and exemplify the recent "empirical turn" in Beckett studies. Characterised, above all, by recourse to manuscript materials in constructing revisionist interpretations, this approach has helped to transform the study of Samuel Beckett over the past generation. In addition to focusing upon Beckett's early immersion in philosophy and psychology, other chapters similarly analyse his later collaboration with the BBC through the lens of literary history. The book thus offers new readings of Beckett by returning to his archive of notebooks, letters, and drafts. In reassessing key aspects of his development as one of the 20th century's leading artists, this collection is of interest to all students of Beckett's writing as well as "historicist" scholars and critics of modernism more generally.Trade Review"Matthew Feldman has been one of the leading Beckett scholars of the past generation. These essays cumulatively testify to the standards he has set for empirical and archival research in this field. That we now speak of the 'grey canon' - the archive of notebooks and unpublished papers that have transformed our understanding of Beckett's debts and influences - is in no small part due to Feldman's ground-breaking interventions." -- Rónán McDonald, Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia"The common thread running through this richly furnished volume is the sheer diversity of ideas, echoes, and influences playing into the creative imagination of one of the twentieth centurys greatest writers. Matthew Feldmans nuanced analyses emerge from many years of sustained engagement with Becketts notebooks and drafts, and with the intellectual environment which surrounded their production. These insightful essays offer the reader an illuminating journey through Becketts writing and its cultural milieu. They will be indispensable for any serious scholar of Beckett." -- Mary Bryden, Professor of French Studies, University of Reading
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama – A
Book SynopsisNadia Anwar analyzes select post-independence Nigerian dramas through the conceptual framework of metatheater, a strategy that breaks dramatic illusion to foreground the process of play making. Anwar argues that distancing, as a function of metatheater, fosters a balanced theatrical environment by allowing the emotive and cognitive aspects of reception to dominate the theatergoing experience. She draws on Bertolt Brecht, Thomas J. Scheff, and other theoreticians to critique plays by Wole Soyinka, Ola Rotimi, Femi Osofisan, Esiaba Irobi, and Stella 'Dia Oyedepo.Trade ReviewI can attest, with unflinching confidence, that Anwar's work is the most thorough, imaginative, fresh and exhaustive new scholarly work on post-independence Nigerian drama in the present. What makes the book so powerful is its scholarly rigor. -- Victor Ukaegbu, principal lecturer in theatre, visiting professor in School of Arts, University of Northampton A hugely profound contribution to Nigerian, indeed African, theater scholarship. A clear strength of this book is the variety of Nigerian plays used as case studies, as well as Anwar's methodical examination of an area of study that is acutely underrepresented in African theatre scholarship. A significant and much valued contribution to African theater and performance scholarship, a must-read for anyone interested in Nigerian drama. -- Sam Kasule, professor of post-colonial theatre and performance, College of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Derby
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Staging the Ottoman Turk: British Drama,
Book SynopsisIn the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople (1453), the English dramatists joined most continental artists (literary and visual) in representing the Ottoman Turks in plays inspired by historical events. As the many subjective elements involved in the stereotyping of the Turks in these plays -- revolving around complex themes such as tyranny, captivity, war, and conquests -- arose from their perception of Islam, Ottoman milieu as a dramatic setting provided for the English audiences a common experience of fascination and fear of the Other. The Ottomans' failure in the second siege of Vienna (1683), however, became a factor in the reversal of trends in the representation of the Turks on stage. As the ascending strength of a web of European alliances began to check further the Ottoman expansion, what then began to dazzle the aesthetic imagination of the eighteenth century England was the sultan's seraglio with images of extravaganza and decadence. In this book, Esin Akalin draws upon a selective range of seventeenth and eighteenth century plays to reach an understanding, both from a non-European perspective and Western standpoint how one culture represents the other through discourse, historiography, and drama. The book explores a cluster of issues revolving around identity and difference in terms of history, ideology, and politics of representation. In contextualising political, cultural, and intellectual roots in the ideology of representing the Ottoman/Muslim as the Wests Other, the author, ultimately, tackles with the questions of how history serves literature and to what extent literature creates history.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Against Reason: Schopenhauer, Beckett and the
Book SynopsisAnthony Barron explores the relationship between the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the forms and themes of Becketts critical and creative writings. He shows that Becketts aesthetic preoccupations are consonant with some of Schopenhauers seminal arguments regarding the arational basis of artistic composition and appreciation and the impotence of reason in human affairs. While Becketts critical writings are, in places, formidably opaque, this work examines the ways in which such texts can be elucidated when their intertextual affinities with Schopenhauers arguments are revealed. Using Schopenhauers thought as a presiding interpretative framework, Barron demonstrates how the widespread presence of philosophical and theological ideas in Becketts creative texts signifies less about his personal convictions than it does about his authorial aims. He thereby highlights the ways in which discursive ideas were appropriated and manipulated by Beckett for purely literary ends. A central contention of this book is that to judge the place of ideas within Becketts art, we should ignore questions of their theoretical persuasiveness and consider their role as purely aesthetic devices, the value of which is revealed in terms of the existential impact they have upon his characters. In each of the chapters that deal with Becketts fiction, Barron underscores the artistically energizing tensions that exist between the concepts that Becketts characters invoke in their attempts to comprehend the import of their experiences and their conative and affective tribulations which invariably prove resistant to such analysis. Here the means by which such conceptual aporias engender semantic potentialities underpin an exploration of Becketts creative assimilation of rational discourse. While the focus of this publication is upon Becketts early and middle fiction, which was composed at a time when the relationship between the chaos of quotidian ordeals and the value of rational thought became most acutely relevant for him, numerous cross-references to his dramatic and poetical works are provided in order to highlight the overall significance of these issues within his oeuvre.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon A Theatre of Affect – The Corporeal Turn in
Book SynopsisCombining phenomenological analysis with dance and performance analysis and affect theory, A Theatre of Affect: The Corporeal Turn in Samuel Beckett's Drama takes stock of the various ways in which the body in Samuel Beckett's drama participates in the affective ecology of performance. Affect is here located in the materiality of the body and discussed in relation to the symbolic significance of, for instance, the effort, direction, speed, or duration of a posture, movement, or gesture. Although the meaning of the body in Beckett's stage-images cannot be mapped onto conventional discursive meanings, the significance of the body's formal modulations is affective in the sense that the import of such changes is immediately recognized and felt as significant by spectators. Beckett's theater of affect therefore is predicated on the infinitesimal stirrings of subliminal meaning-making that continuously shape and create the world in experience.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze
Book SynopsisForming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Becketts creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices -- eyes, mirrors, windows -- point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres -- manifestations without origin -- reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Becketts use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Becketts creation. The theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan -- in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts -- offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence.
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V&R Unipress Von Angst Bis Zerstorung: Deutschsprachige
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V&R unipress GmbH Darstellung und Funktion politischer Rhetorik in
Book SynopsisBernd Peltzer widmet sich in seiner Arbeit der politischen Rhetorik in englischen Renaissancedramen. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf drei Römerdramen (William Shakespeares Coriolanus, Ben Jonsons Sejanus His Fall, Philip Massingers The Roman Actor) und drei Historien (William Shakespeares King Richard II und King Henry V, John Fords Perkin Warbeck). Bei den untersuchten Textpassagen der Einzeltextanalysen handelt es sich um Schlüsselszenen der jeweiligen Dramen, in denen die Verwendung und Funktion der Rhetorik im Mittelpunkt stehen. Zudem zeigt der Autor exemplarisch die für die Literatur der englischen Renaissance charakteristische Auseinandersetzung mit der Antike. Bernd Peltzer deals with the topic of political rhetoric in English Renaissance dramas. The focus is put on six dramas three Roman plays and three History plays in individual text analyses. The three Roman plays are William Shakespeare's Coriolanus, Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall, and Philip Massinger's The Roman Actor. Amongst the histories William Shakespeare's King Richard II, King Henry V and John Ford's Perkin Warbeck are analysed. Furthermore, the characteristic reflexion of antiquity which is typical for English Renaissance literature is shown as an example. The text passages dealt with in this thesis are often pivotal scenes emphasizing the function of rhetoric.
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V&R unipress GmbH Politische Dramaturgien im geteilten Berlin:
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Fragmenta Comica: Einleitung und Testimonia
Book SynopsisDie Reihe Fragmenta Comica wird die vollständige Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie bieten.Ziel der Kommentare ist es, einerseits die in der Regel schwierig zu verstehenden Texte unter allen möglichen Gesichtspunkten zu erschlieÃ�en, andererseits, wo dies möglich ist, eine Rekonstruktion der StÃ"cke zu versuchen und eine literaturgeschichtliche Einordnung der Autoren vorzunehmen. Die Fragmente und Testimonien werden Ã"bersetzt.
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Entblossung Der Worter: As-Sidyaqs
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Ergon Verlag The Stage as Palimpsest: Conceptions of Time and
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Kinokuniya Shoten Shuppanbu Half a Century of Japanese Theater v. 7, Pt. 2;
Book SynopsisThe seventh volume in this series treats the major works of six award-winning counterculture playwrights of the 1960s. Miyamoto Ken's ""Meiji Coffin"" is a biographical play about the Christian socialist Tanaka Shozo and his involvement in the Ashio copper mine pollution problem of the early Meiji period. Fukuda Yoshiyuki's ""Oppekepe"" is a fictionalized treatment of Kawakami Otojiro's shinpa theater company that performed soshi plays, a New Wave theater form that arose in the early modernization period of Japan. Comedy Duo in ""Hibernation"" by Akihama Satoshi is a delightful absurdist piece about two family members stuck together in the snow. Akimoto Matsuyo's ""Our Lady of the Scabs"" depicts how a cult captures the hearts of its naive followers while ignoring or exploiting the truly devout. Shimizu Kunio's ""Such a Serious Frivolity"" uses the image of a queue to illustrate the docility of citizens and the defiance of youth. At ""Play with a Lion"" by Yamazaki Mazakazu treats the complex relations between the seventeenth-century ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the consummate tea artist Sen no Rikyu.
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Yayasan Lontar Fatimah: A Play in 8 Acts
Book SynopsisIn Arab circles in the Dutch East Indies in the 1930s, plays were staged not only to entertain but also to educate and to further the emancipation of the traditionally oriented Arab minority. Some plays were well received, others evoked protests. Fatimah was one of the plays which stirred up commotion, inciting riots throughout Java. The play and accompanying events make clear which kind of norms and values governed relations within the community and what kind of frustrations and aspirations members of the minority experienced. Original text of the play included.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Versification and Authorship Attribution
Book SynopsisA clever investigation into two unsolved mysteries of poetic authorship. The technique known as contemporary stylometry uses different methods, including machine learning, to discover a poem’s author based on features like the frequencies of words and character n-grams. However, there is one potential textual fingerprint stylometry tends to ignore: versification, or the very making of language into verse. Using poetic texts in three different languages (Czech, German, and Spanish), Petr Plecháč asks whether versification features like rhythm patterns and types of rhyme can help determine authorship. He then tests his findings on two unsolved literary mysteries. In the first, Plecháč distinguishes the parts of the Elizabethan verse play The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Shakespeare from those written by his coauthor, John Fletcher. In the second, he seeks to solve a case of suspected forgery: how authentic was a group of poems first published as the work of the nineteenth-century Russian author Gavriil Stepanovich Batenkov? This book of poetic investigation should appeal to literary sleuths the world over. Table of ContentsIntroductionPrevious PublicationsData and Code1. Quantitative Approaches to Authorship Attribution1.1 Origins of Stylometry1.2 Searching for the “Golden Feature”1.3 Multivariate Analyses1.4 Support-Vector Machines1.5 Versification-Based Attribution1.6 Summary2. Versification features2.1Rhythm2.2 Rhyme2.3 Euphony3. Experiments3.1 Data3.2 Versification-Based Attribution3.3 Comparison with Lexicon-Based Models3.4 Summary4. Application4.1 The Two Noble Kinsmen4.2 The Case of (Pseudo-)Batenkov: Towards a Formal Proof of Literary Forgery (co-authored by Artjoms Šela)5. Bibliography
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Prentice-Hall of India Pvt.Ltd Indian Drama in English
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and well researched text deals with the major Indian playright in English. It encompasses such work as Rabindranath Tagore's red orleanders, etc
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Othello, The Moor of Venice
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Measure for Measure
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Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: , The
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Foundation Books Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
Book SynopsisProfessor Bradbrook's book on Elizabethan poetic drama redefined modern performance art, exploring open stage conventions, stylized plots, and tragic characters. The second edition includes revisions and a new chapter on performance and characterization, comparing Shakespeare to Marston, Chapman, and Ford.
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Abhijeet Publications Splintered Self: Charater and Vision in Sam
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise – Volume in
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of articles written for Professor Marta Gibinska by her colleagues and friends, from universities both in Poland and abroad. The texts presented in this volume cover a wide spectrum of topics. Part I, devoted to Shakespeare, comprises wide-ranging work from renowned specialists in the field: studies on historical background, sources, theatrical, screen and literary reception, as well as translation. Part II contains articles which deal with multiple authors, genres and perspectives, but are uniformly passionate and insightful.The title Eyes to Wonder, Tongue to Praise, a poetic phrase borrowed from Shakespeare, conveys what seems to be a defining quality of both the contributors to this volume and its recipient: namely, the ability to translate keen appreciation of literature not into speechless awe but eloquent praise, combined with the generosity to share it with others.
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety – Celebrating
Book SynopsisThe essays included in this volume attempt to answer, directly or indirectly, the following questions connected with Shakespeare’s popularity worldwide. Can we appropriate Enobarbus’s fascination with Cleopatra, borrowed for the motto of this volume: “age cannot wither Shakespeare, or custom stale”? What makes it so that his works do not “cloy” their recipients’ appetite, but instead constantly whet it for more? Can we still talk about Shakespeare’s “infinite variety” and how are we to understand this epithet in the twenty-first century? Does this opinion hold in the context of the international reception of his works? Why does he still enjoy such an exciting career—with his works still in active circulation—even though he died in 1616? How is it possible for works written with a quill over four hundred years ago by a man in ruffs and tights to resonate with the hearts and minds of contemporary recipients all over the world?Trade ReviewIt might appear that everything has been already said about Shakespeare, and yet new theatrical productions show how well Shakespeare’s plays function in new contexts and surprising interpretations. The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range – that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings that new electronic media has made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can also begin one’s own intellectual journey through cultural history – any time, any place. Despite the once popular but now outdated claim, history has not ended. This volume testifies to the benefits of combining historical perspective in its fairly elementary version, which is a linear sequence of events, with an in-depth analysis of the transformations in understanding, exhibiting, and using (appropriating) Shakespeare’s works in our rapidly changing reality. -- Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk, professor emerita, Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
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Editorial Fundamentos La construcción de un personaje el Gracioso
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Miraguano William Shakespeare
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Nordica Libros, Hamlet
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European Press Academic Publishing Abe Kobo: An Exploration of His Prose, Drama and Theatre
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Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum Verantwoordelijk Leiderschap: Duurzaam Omgaan Met Organisaties En Jezelf
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Primus Books Understanding Drama: A Student Companion:: A
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The Chinese University Press A Dream of Glory (Fanhua meng): A Chuanqi Play by
Book SynopsisWang Yun (1749-1819) was a famous playwright in imperial China. Her play ""A Dream of Glory"" is a significant full length chaunqi written by a woman about a woman's dream and desire. This volume provides a complete English translation with detailed annotations, extensive introduction of traditional Chinese women's drama, as well as a foreword by Owen Aldridge.
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