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University of Minnesota Press A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal
Book SynopsisA field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know itA Guerrilla Guide to Refusal is an unexpected approach to philosophy from a guerrilla-logic point of view. Harnessing critical theory to creatively reimagine counterinsurgency, guerrilla warfare, and interventions beyond the political mainstream, it takes us on a journey through anarchist infowar, queer outlaws, and black insurgency—through a subterranean network of communiques, military documents, contemporary art, political slogans, adversarial blogs, and captive media. In doing so, it provides powerful new insight into contemporary political movements that pose no demands, refuse labels, and offer no solutions.Written to both inspire and provoke, A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal urges us to think through the refusal to participate in politics as usual. Author Andrew Culp demonstrates how evasion can combatively deny the existing order its power. Focusing on punk cinema, anarchist pamphlets, feminist art projects, hacker manifestos, and guerrilla manuals, he foregrounds invisibility as a novel force of disruption. He draws on concepts of criminality, fugitivity, and anonymity to bring a more nuanced understanding of how power makes things—and people—visible.The book’s unique format is that of a theoretical manual, comprising freestanding segments instead of blueprints. Poised to reach beyond the academy into activist circles, this potent theory-in-action intervention forces us to reconsider the terrain upon which our struggles against patriarchy, anti-Blackness, capitalism, and the state operate.Trade Review"In this moment of miasma, Andrew Culp opens an aperture on a politics of negation that lives and breathes only for itself. A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal taps the vein of revolt, recognizing that its lifeblood already flows through our societies. For Culp, the cry for liberation is an ever-present reverberation that echoes across the beautiful wilderness that is life." —Simon Springer, author of The Anarchist Roots of Geography: Toward Spatial EmancipationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Underground PhilosophyI. Anonymity1. The Guerrilla Force of Liberation2. Propaganda of the Deed3. The Voice of Bullets and Bombs4. Messages without a Sender5. The Sprawl6. The Politics of AsymmetryII. Criminality7. Society with Sexual Characteristics8. Excitement and Exposure9. A Heart That Burns and Burns10. We Are Bad, but We Could Be Worse11. We Don’t12. Making Illness into a WeaponIII. Fugitivity13. Uprising14. Self-Abolition15. Searing Flesh16 Captive Media17. Black Out18. Trapped between Withdrawal and HypervisibilityConclusion: Communism at the End of the WorldAcknowledgmentsNotes Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Theater of the Word
Book SynopsisIn Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated with medieval interiority, as its primary subjects.The morality play is allegorical drama, a theater of the word, that follows a penitential progression in which an everyman figure falls into sin and is eventually redeemed through penitential ritual. Written during an era of reform when the ritual life of the medieval Church was under scrutiny, the morality plays as a whole insist upon a self that is first and foremost performedconstructed, articulated, and known through ritual and other communal performances that were interwoven into the fabric of medieval life.This fascinating loTrade Review“An insightful and elegant approach to late medieval and early modern morality plays, ritual practice, and selfhood, this book offers a much needed study of the morality play. It is beautifully written and full of thoughtful, and sometimes brilliant, readings. It should find a ready and enthusiastic audience.”—Shannon Gayk, associate professor of English and director of the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University "According to Theater of the Word, English morality plays perform spectacles of penitence that fashion religious pedagogy out of a carefully crafted dramaturgy. Paulson innovatively approaches these dramas as both responses to late medieval religious debates and unlikely illustrations of Wittgenstein’s notion of the embodied, social nature of verbal meaning. Along the way, this book makes a coherent and compelling case for the construction of medieval penitential selves through the dynamic medium of theatrical performance." —Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland“In her remarkable new study, Julie Paulson turns our assumptions about the medieval morality play—as well as medieval selfhood—inside out. Taking her cue from the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, Paulson argues that these plays depict an embodied, ritual performance of penance that produces a recognition of the self as a being created by God: a self constituted communally, rather than individually; a self whose body reveals rather than conceals the soul within. Theater of the Word crucially revises both the history of English drama and the history of the self: it will be essential reading for anyone studying medieval and Renaissance theater, literature, or history.” —Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley"This is a careful study, rich in readings of theology, philosophy, and literature, illustrating how the medieval Christian subject emerges from the rites and relationships that structure penance rather than from the self-scrutiny of confession. Theatre of the Word is essential reading because of its compelling articulation of the centrality of performance to medieval understandings of the self but also because it is a trenchant articulation of the tenacity of Cartesian dualism, even in medieval studies, and a call to attend to the words and worlds of human interaction." —Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia“Looking at this oft-forgotten genre of theatre, readers will learn more about medieval drama and how religious rule affected human actions and performances.” —Playbill“Paulson views the English morality play and a selection of related Reformation dramas through the lens of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language as verbally and publicly performed constitutions of selfhood. . . . The analysis that follows illustrates this new approach to morality plays and related drama.” —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Castle of Perseverance and Penitential Platea 2. A Theater of the Soul’s Interior: Contemplative Literature and Penitential Education in Wisdom 3. Speaking for Mankind Everyman and Community 4. A New Theater of the Word: The Morality Play and the English Reformation Conclusion: Morality Drama Inside Out Works Cited
£31.50
MR - University of Notre Dame Press Theater of the Word Selfhood in the English
Book SynopsisTheater of the Word explores the genre of the morality play that emerged in the medieval period and gives new insight into medieval drama and culture.Trade Review“An insightful and elegant approach to late medieval and early modern morality plays, ritual practice, and selfhood, this book offers a much needed study of the morality play. It is beautifully written and full of thoughtful, and sometimes brilliant, readings. It should find a ready and enthusiastic audience.”—Shannon Gayk, associate professor of English and director of the Medieval Studies Institute, Indiana University "According to Theater of the Word, English morality plays perform spectacles of penitence that fashion religious pedagogy out of a carefully crafted dramaturgy. Paulson innovatively approaches these dramas as both responses to late medieval religious debates and unlikely illustrations of Wittgenstein’s notion of the embodied, social nature of verbal meaning. Along the way, this book makes a coherent and compelling case for the construction of medieval penitential selves through the dynamic medium of theatrical performance." —Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland“In her remarkable new study, Julie Paulson turns our assumptions about the medieval morality play—as well as medieval selfhood—inside out. Taking her cue from the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, Paulson argues that these plays depict an embodied, ritual performance of penance that produces a recognition of the self as a being created by God: a self constituted communally, rather than individually; a self whose body reveals rather than conceals the soul within. Theater of the Word crucially revises both the history of English drama and the history of the self: it will be essential reading for anyone studying medieval and Renaissance theater, literature, or history.” —Maura Nolan, University of California, Berkeley"This is a careful study, rich in readings of theology, philosophy, and literature, illustrating how the medieval Christian subject emerges from the rites and relationships that structure penance rather than from the self-scrutiny of confession. Theatre of the Word is essential reading because of its compelling articulation of the centrality of performance to medieval understandings of the self but also because it is a trenchant articulation of the tenacity of Cartesian dualism, even in medieval studies, and a call to attend to the words and worlds of human interaction." —Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia“Looking at this oft-forgotten genre of theatre, readers will learn more about medieval drama and how religious rule affected human actions and performances.” —Playbill“Paulson views the English morality play and a selection of related Reformation dramas through the lens of Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language as verbally and publicly performed constitutions of selfhood. . . . The analysis that follows illustrates this new approach to morality plays and related drama.” —ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Castle of Perseverance and Penitential Platea 2. A Theater of the Soul’s Interior: Contemplative Literature and Penitential Education in Wisdom 3. Speaking for Mankind Everyman and Community 4. A New Theater of the Word: The Morality Play and the English Reformation Conclusion: Morality Drama Inside Out Works Cited
£70.55
Verso Books The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who
Book SynopsisThe Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame slave masters, insisting that human bondage violated the fundamental principles of Christianity. He wrote a fiery, controversial book against bondage that Benjamin Franklin published in 1738. He lived in a cave, made his own clothes, refused to consume anything produced by slave labour, championed animal rights, and embraced vegetarianism. He acted on his ideals to create a new, practical, revolutionary way of life.Trade ReviewBenjamin Lay was a Quaker, a philosopher, a sailor, a commoner and a revolutionary abolitionist. Crossing the seas from Colchester to Philadelphia and beyond he spoke truth to power and, as a little person, waged a politics of the body in his everyday life. His antinomian radicalism has been wonderfully excavated by Marcus Rediker in this eloquent testament. -- Catherine Hall, author of Legacies of British Slave-Ownership and Civilising SubjectsAdmirers of Marcus Rediker’s splendid The Slave Ship will be delighted by this historian’s new book. Sailor, pioneer of guerrilla theater, and a man who would stop at nothing to make his fellow human beings share his passionate outrage against slavery, Benjamin Lay has long needed a modern biographer worthy of him, and now he has one. -- Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost
£14.24
The University of Chicago Press Theater of the Mind
Book SynopsisFor generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its historical context.Trade Review"Theater of the Mind does more to reanimate the study of radio forms and structures - indeed, of sound art in general - than any work published in recent memory. Neil Verma's exploration of audio narratives and sonic techniques during radio drama's heyday opens up a vast body of creative work that has been shut off from serious contemplation for decades. It is an important intervention in the growing field of sound studies, not to be missed." (Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
£90.00
The University of Michigan Press After Brecht
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfter Brecht represents the best and most detailed engagement with the contemporary British theater scene to date." —Stanton B. Garner, Jr."This fine study . . . confronts issues that are important to all students and practitioners of the theater. Sensitive to the uniqueness of each of the playwrights in her study, Reinelt demonstrates that Brechtian theory can be modified in many ways by those who share the belief that 'politics and aesthetics are inseparably linked.'" —Choice
£22.75
The University of Chicago Press Theaters of Madness
Book SynopsisIn the mid-1800s a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums - many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. This work prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
£33.41
University of California Press Refusal to Eat
Book SynopsisThe first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living under conditions of maximal constraint, as in the prisons of apartheid South Africa, Israeli prisons for Palestinian prisoners, and the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay. It is a weapon of the weak, potentially open to all. By choosing to hunger strike, a prisoner wields a last-resort personal power that communicates viscerally, in a way that is undeniableespecially when broadcast over prison barricades through media and to movements outside. Refusal to Eat is the first book to compile a global history of this vital form of modern protest, the hunger strike. In this enormously ambitious but concise book, Nayan Shah observes how hunger striking stretches and recasts to turn a personal agony into a collective social agony in conflicts aTrade Review"Shah recognises that the hunger strike is a nonviolent performance that reconnects the prisoner to her community and to the world of journalism and public debate. But it is also a weapon that can transform the vulnerable and disempowered body of the captive into a remarkably effective instrument in a war for legitimacy. . . . Reaching beyond the prison wall, the voice of the hunger striker implicates us all in its challenge to decide what world we seek to inhabit." * Irish Times *“The hunger strike’s significance lies in allowing captives and outsiders to disturb the carceral system’s control of space and time. These graphic, saddening stories are uncomfortable to read, but they are crucial to understanding that often complex dynamic.” * Times Literary Supplement *"The real originality of Refusal to Eat rests in its exploration of lesser-known hunger strikes. . . . There is much value in bringing all these hunger strikes together. Doing so renders visible many common threads in hunger strikers’ experience, and also their management by doctors’ governments across multiple geographical, historical and conflict contexts. Refusal to Eat speaks to a broad audience, having much to say to bioethicists as well as historians. . . . [and] both academic and non-scholarly audiences." * Journal of Social History *"Shah’s book amplifies important voices and expands the arsenal of evidence that can be used to interrogate and dismantle carceral systems." * Punishment and Society *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Hunger Striking in the Crisis of Imperial Democracy 1 • Suffragists and the Shaping of Hunger Striking 2 • The Medical Ethics of Forcible Feeding and a Brief History of Four Objects 3 • Irish Republicans Innovating Hunger Strikes for Anticolonial Rebellion 4 • Gandhi's Fasts, Prisoner Hunger Strikes, and Indian Independence Part Two: Hunger Striking and Democratic Upheavals 5 • Solidarity and Survival in the Tule Lake Stockade 6 • South African Anti-apartheid Hunger Strikes 7 • Controversies of Medical Intervention in Northern Ireland 8 • Biomedical Technologies, Medical Ethics, and the Management of Hunger Strikers 9 • Australian Refugee Detention, Trauma, and Mental Health Crisis 10 • Captives in U.S. Detention and Their Networks of Resistance and Solidarity Conclusion: Hunger-Striking Contingencies Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£22.50
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Deadly Refusals Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism
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The University of Alabama Press American Drama in the Age of Film
Book SynopsisExamines the strengths and weaknesses of the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well.Trade Review"In this elegant and long-overdue book, drama and film emerge not as competitors per se but as collaborators who variously borrow and profit from their intertwined histories. At the same time, Zander Brietzke delivers a passionate defense of the theater, a reminder that even and especially in an age of media, theater remains the most live and lively art." - Martin Puchner, author of Stage Fright: Modernism. Anti-Theatricality, and Drama"
£36.51
MP - University Of Minnesota Press TechnoNegative A Long History of Refusing the Machine
£81.00
The University of Chicago Press Absorption and Theatricality Painting and
Book SynopsisWith this widely acclaimed work, Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism were viewed and understood."A reinterpretation supported by immense learning and by a series of brilliantly perceptive readings of paintings and criticism alike. . . . An exhilarating book."--John Barrell, "London Review of Books"
£33.41
The University of Alabama Press Theatre History Studies 2014 Volume 33 Theatres
Book SynopsisWar and theatre is a subject of increasing popularity among scholars of theatre. The essays in this special edition of Theatre History Studies brings together a unique collection of work by thirteen innovative scholars whose work explores such topics as theatre performances during war times, theatre written and performed to resist war, and theatre that fosters and promotes war.
£26.96
The University of Michigan Press Alchemies of Theater
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of
Book SynopsisGreat halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside sheltersthese are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Shakespeare Dwelling Designs for the Theater of
Book SynopsisGreat halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside sheltersthese are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare's dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems. Focusing on five works (Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline, and The Winter's Tale), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelling by drawing on a variety of sources, including modern design theory, Renaissance treatises on husbandry and housekeeping, and the philosophies of Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The resulting synthesis not only offers a new entry point into the contemporary study of environments; it also shows how Shakespeare's works help us continue to make sense of our primal creaturely need for shelter.
£76.00
The University of Alabama Press Theatre and Violence Theatre Symposium 07
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The American University in Cairo Press Alif 39: Transnational Drama: Theater and
Book SynopsisThis issue of Alif explores drama in its many manifestations-—textual plays, performances, folk drama, choreographed story-telling, staged poetry recitals, and protest songs—as well as presenting modes of directing and production, comparative dramaturgy, specialized theater journals, experimental and independent troupes, testimonies and interviews. The issue covers dramatic works from eighteenth-century France to twenty-first century Britain and covers geographically Senegal to Lebanon, the US to China, while highlighting major dramatists from Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. The translations in this issue cover manifestos towards a new Arab Theater and an introduction to the recently published plays of Frantz Fanon.
£67.50
MP - University Of Minnesota Press Deadly Refusals Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism
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The University of Chicago Press The Theater of Devotion East Anglian Drama and
Book SynopsisIn this interdisciplinary study of drama, arts, and spirituality, Gail Gibson provides a reappraisal of 15th-century England through a detailed portrait of the flourishing cultures of Suffolk and Norfolk.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Fifteenth-Century Culture and the Incarnational Aesthetic Ch. 2: East Anglian Religious Culture in the Late Middle Age Ch. 3: St. Margery: The Book of Margery Kempe Ch. 4: In Search of East Anglian Devotional Theater: Three Lives Ch. 5: Monastic Theater Ch. 6: Mary's Dower: East Anglian Drama and the Cult of the Virgin Notes Select Bibliography Index
£26.00
Newcastle Libraries & Information Service REFUSING TO FIGHT THE GOOD WAR 2017 Conscientious
Book SynopsisThis book explores the difficulties experienced by objectors in the Armed Forces and those who worked on the land, and also considers women who objected to compulsion extended to them for the first time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pacifism and the North-East of England in Context Profiling Conscientious Objectors in the North-East of England Judge Richardson and the Newcastle Tribunal Treatment of Conscientious Objectors (Local Authorities) Treatment of Conscientious Objectors (Press, Public and Priests) Treatment of Conscientious Objectors (Prison, Land and Medical Experiments) Women Conscientious Objectors `You’re in the Army Now’` Summary Appendices Bibliography Index
£12.00
The University of Alabama Press Theatre Symposium Volume 27 Theatre and
Book SynopsisA substantive exploration of bodies and embodiment in theatre. Theatre is inescapably about bodies. The essays in Theatre Symposium, Volume 27 explore a broad range of issues related to embodiment.Table of Contents Introduction by Sarah McCarroll Theatre and Embodiment by Rhonda Blair Bodies of Theology: Racine's Esther and Athalie as Embodied Theology by Timothy Pyles Mike Kelly's Performance of Success and Failure on the Field and on the Stage by Travis Stern Miss Julie via Manda Björling, 1906-1912: Embodiment, Conceptual Blending, and Reception by Lawrence D. Smith Hidden Damage: When Uninformed Casting and Actor Training Disregard the Effect of Character Embodiment on Students of Color by Kaja Amado Dunn Ecologies of Experience: John Dewey, Distributed Cognition, and the Cultural-Cognitive Ecosystem of Theatre-Training Settings by Cohen Ambrose Embodying the Ever-Present Past: The Integration of Tuskegee High School by Tessa W. Carr From Tuxedo to Gown: Dietrich’s Haunted Dressing Room(s) by Bridget Sundin Contributors
£26.96
The University of Chicago Press Common Understandings Poetic Confusion Playhouses
Book SynopsisTrade Review"West’s learned, innovative study offers a cultural anthropology of the Elizabethan stage—of the language in play texts and contemporaneous discussions of theater. West does not provide extended readings of individual plays, though he comments briefly on many. Rather, he focuses on the intertwining of confusions and conclusions—a favorite rhyme of the playwrights—in a theater where 'performances' embodied 'provocations toward meaning rather than representations of a meaning.' . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"West shows that playing, players, and playgoers were likened to a great many things, and it is in detailing these surprising affinities that he constructs a richly revealing account of the commercial theater as a social and embodied practice through the last quarter of the sixteenth century . . . Ingenious in its methodology and invaluable in its contribution, Common Understandings is a provocation to scholars of the early modern English theater and beyond: the book invites us not only to reconsider what counts as evidence of playing, but to recast our familiar stories about it in new light." * Modern Philology *“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.” -- Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England“A dazzling account of how early modern playgoers experienced theater in the decades between 1575 and 1610, Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion links theatrical knowing and feeling to shared corporeal events and bodily sensations. Theoretically rich and brimming with telling examples, West’s book shows how the habitus of early modern playgoing was created by collective acts as simple as eating, drinking, and remembering within the bounded space of the theater.” -- Jean E. Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World’s a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another’s Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I’ll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index
£63.00
The University of Chicago Press Le Corbusier The City of Refuge Paris 192933
Book SynopsisThe City of Refuge complexcommissioned by the Salvation Army as part of its program to transform social outcasts into spiritually renewed workersrepresents a significant confluence of design principles, technological experiments, and attitudes on reform. It also provides rare insights into the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest architects, Le Corbusier. Brian Brace Taylor draws on extensive archival research to reconstruct each step of the architect's attraction to the commission, his design process and technological innovations, the social and philosophical compatibility of the Salvation Army with Le Corbusier's own ideas for urban planning, and finally, the many modifications required, first to eliminate defects and later to accommodate changes in the services the building provided. Throughout, Taylor focuses on Le Corbusier's environmental, technological, and social intentions as opposed to his strictly formal intentions. He shows that the City of Refuge became primaril
£62.00
The University of Chicago Press Five Tales for the Theatre
Book SynopsisFor Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical context, tracing his world view in both the content and the form of his tales. In the ten works he called fiable or fairy tales, Gozzi intermingled characters from the traditional and improvised commedia dell'arte with exotic figures of his own invention. During Gozzi's lifetime, Goethe and Schiller translated and produced some of his dramas at the Weimar Theatre. In our century, the dramas have reasserted
£89.30
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Art of Failure Conrads Fiction 20 Routledge Library Editions Joseph Conrad
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The University of Chicago Press How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Book SynopsisFrom the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek tragedy remains constantly in production. This title explains how Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles conceived their works in performance. It summarizes what we know about how their tragedies were actually staged.Trade Review"Simon Goldhill's new book is enthralling. A 'can't put down' and a 'forever reread.' His detailed analyses of so many past productions are rare and exciting. His unfolding of the Greek texts and the many different translations is both instructive and exhilarating. He reveals the contradictions within the specific structures of the characters, and also of the chorus, in a way that every actor will be grateful for. I never saw any of the productions he describes, explains, and analyzes, but I have an unforgettable secondhand memory of them, thanks to his own knowledge and keen joy in his subject." - Vanessa Redgrave"
£19.93
The University of Chicago Press Common Understandings Poetic Confusion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"West’s learned, innovative study offers a cultural anthropology of the Elizabethan stage—of the language in play texts and contemporaneous discussions of theater. West does not provide extended readings of individual plays, though he comments briefly on many. Rather, he focuses on the intertwining of confusions and conclusions—a favorite rhyme of the playwrights—in a theater where 'performances' embodied 'provocations toward meaning rather than representations of a meaning.' . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"West shows that playing, players, and playgoers were likened to a great many things, and it is in detailing these surprising affinities that he constructs a richly revealing account of the commercial theater as a social and embodied practice through the last quarter of the sixteenth century . . . Ingenious in its methodology and invaluable in its contribution, Common Understandings is a provocation to scholars of the early modern English theater and beyond: the book invites us not only to reconsider what counts as evidence of playing, but to recast our familiar stories about it in new light." * Modern Philology *“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.” -- Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England“A dazzling account of how early modern playgoers experienced theater in the decades between 1575 and 1610, Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion links theatrical knowing and feeling to shared corporeal events and bodily sensations. Theoretically rich and brimming with telling examples, West’s book shows how the habitus of early modern playgoing was created by collective acts as simple as eating, drinking, and remembering within the bounded space of the theater.” -- Jean E. Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World’s a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another’s Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I’ll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index
£25.65
The University of Chicago Press Objects as Actors Props and the Poetics of
Book SynopsisObjects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items in the form of theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy. As Mueller shows, props like weapons, textiles, and even letters were uniquely positioned to capitalize on both the verbal and the material and were fully integrated into a play's action. They could provoke surprising plot turns, elicit bold viewer reactions, and provide some of tragedy's most thrilling moments. Whether the sword of Sophocles's Ajax, the tapestry in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, or the tablet of Euripides's Hippolytus, props demanded attention as a means of uniting-or disrupting-time, space, and genre. Insightful and original, Objects as Actors offers a fresh perspective on the central tragic texts-and encourages us to rethink ancient theater as a whole.
£45.60
The University of Michigan Press Play Redux
Book SynopsisPresents a description and critical analysis of the aesthetic pleasures of video game play, drawing on early 20th-century formalist theory and models of literature. Employing a concept of biological naturalism grounded in cognitive theory, this title argues for a clear delineation between the aesthetics of play and the aesthetics of texts.Trade Review"Play Redux excels in tying together intellectual traditions that are rooted in literary studies, cognitive science, play studies and several other fields, thereby creating a logical whole. Through this, the book makes service to several academic communities by pointing out their points of contact. This is clearly an important contribution to a growing academic field, and will no doubt become important in many future discussions about digital games and play." - Franz Mayra, University of Tampere, Finland"
£21.80
University of Alabama Press Theaters of Translation
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The University of Michigan Press The Ghosts of the AvantGardes
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The University of Chicago Press Madness Language Literature
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lest these familiar Foucauldian themes leave readers feeling there is nothing new here, Judith Revel’s nuanced, judicious introduction highlights 'four differences' in apparent contrast to Foucault as he has been received." * Choice *“Reverberations from the forceful impact of Foucault’s thought were first felt by Anglophone readers in the mid-1960s almost entirely through his writings on madness and literature. This new volume gathers several previously unpublished or untranslated texts from this decade on these very themes. Readers will be delighted to revisit or perhaps even indulge for the very first time those ideas and analyses with which Foucault forever shook the future of philosophy." -- Colin Koopman, University of Oregon“The essays collected in this book are as urgent today as they were fifty years ago: provocative, generative, and timely. Each is a bridge connecting Foucault’s histories of the modern subject to different fields of inquiry, from literature to structuralism to the philosophy of J. L. Austin. Anyone interested in literary theory, early modern history, or continental philosophy and its relation to the analytic tradition will find these essays by turns revelatory and inspiring.” -- Richard Neer, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsA Note on the Text Introduction by Judith Revel Lectures and Writings on Madness, Language, and Literature 1. Madness and Civilization 2. Madness and Civilization (Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, April 1967) 3. Madness and Society 4. Literature and Madness (Madness in Baroque Theater and the Theater of Artaud) 5. Literature and Madness (Madness in the Work of Raymond Roussel) 6. Phenomenological Experience: Experience in Bataille 7. The New Methods of Literary Analysis 8. Literary Analysis 9. Structuralism and Literary Analysis (Presentation Given at the Club Tahar Haddad, Tunis, February 4, 1967) 10. [The Extralinguistic and Literature] 11. Literary Analysis and Structuralism 12. Bouvard and Pécuchet: The Two Temptations 13. The Search for the Absolute Notes Index
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The University of Michigan Press Ciceros Use of Judicial Theater
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The University of Chicago Press Contesting Tears The Hollywood Melodrama of the
Book SynopsisStanley Cavell explores a genre, which he calls "the melodrama of the unknown woman," through close readings of four melodramas he finds definitive of the genre: "Letter from an Unknown Woman", "Gaslight", "Now Voyager", and "Stella Dallas".
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Palgrave Macmillan Performance Politics and the War on Terror
Book SynopsisUsing a performance studies lens, this book is a study of performance in the post-9/11 context of the so-called war on terror. It analyzes conventional theatre, political protest, performance art and other sites of performance to unpack the ways in which meaning has been made in the contemporary global sociopolitical environment.Trade Review' Brady's wide-ranging discussions of anti-war performance, of virtual warfare and military training, and of the Bush and Obama administrations are excellent examples of the kind of politically engaged, comparative scholarship that performance studies can offer.' Eero Lane, University of New York, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Bushismo Protest: Visible and Invisible War the Video Game Torture: Simulated and Real Obamania Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Theatre and Medicine
Book SynopsisTheatre and Medicine offers a tour of this interdisciplinary terrain. Organized into four distinct topics, each represents crucial ways of understanding the theatre-medicine relationship. From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, and the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and role of patients on and off stage. Together, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre's medical performances in the early twenty-first century.Trade ReviewTheatre & Medicine is compelling in its tracing of Western critical discourses on the human body and how it performs. Its readable prose, effective case studies, and length make Theatre & Medicine an accessible and relevant introductory text for students in the medical humanities and theater studies. * Journal of Medical Humanities *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Bodies 3. Contagion 4. Practitioners and Patients 5. Institutions 6. Further reading Index
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The University of Michigan Press Sampling and Remixing Blackness in HipHop Theater
Book SynopsisIn a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Hodges Persley asks us to consider who has the right to claim Hip-hop's blackness when blackness itself is a complicated mixtape that offers both consent and resistance to transgressive and inspiring acts of performance.Trade Review“Hodges Persley’s passion for Hip Hip as a cultural aesthetic and methodology is second only to the fascinating case studies she analyzes. Like no other scholar before her, her multimodal engagement of Hip Hop pushes the field of theater studies and race to new heights.”– E. Patrick Johnson, Northwestern UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Licensed to Ill: Alternative White Masculinities in Danny Hoch's Jails, Hospitals and Hip-hop and Matt Sax's Clay Empire State of Mind: Remixes of the Hip-Hop American Dream in Nikki S. Lee's The Hip-Hop Project and Sarah Jones’s Bridge & Tunnel One Nation Under a Groove: (Re)Membering Hip-Hop Dance in Jonzi D's TAG and Rennie Harris's Rome & Jewels Musical Mash-Ups of Americanness: Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights and Matt Sax's Venice The Ghosting of American History: Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: An American Musical Conclusion: Arrested Developments: New Arrangements of Identity in Hip-Hop Performance Notes
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Pres Forschungen Im Bereich Des Theaters Von Aigeira
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The University of Chicago Press Theater of the Mind Imagination Aesthetics and
Book SynopsisFor generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its historical context.Trade Review"Theater of the Mind does more to reanimate the study of radio forms and structures - indeed, of sound art in general - than any work published in recent memory. Neil Verma's exploration of audio narratives and sonic techniques during radio drama's heyday opens up a vast body of creative work that has been shut off from serious contemplation for decades. It is an important intervention in the growing field of sound studies, not to be missed." (Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin - Madison)"
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The University of Alabama Press The Vital Lie
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University of Chicago Press The National Stage Theatre and Cultural Legitimation in England France and America Emersion Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Book SynopsisThe idea of staging a nation dates from the Enlightenment, but the full force of the idea emerges only with the rise of mass politics. Comparing English, French, and American attempts to establish national theatres at moments of political crisisfrom the challenge of socialism in late nineteenth-century Europe to the struggle to salvage democracy in Depression AmericaKruger poses a fundamental question: in the formation of nationhood, is the citizen-audience spectator or participant? The National Stage answers this question by tracing the relation between theatre institution and public sphere in the discourses of national identity in Britain, France, and the United States. Exploring the boundaries between history and theory, text and performance, this book speaks to theatre and social historians as well as those interested in the theoretical range of cultural studies.
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Seagull Books London Ltd Three Plays
Book SynopsisCollected here are three of his plays—Philoctetes, The Horatian, and Mauser—whose poetic texts evidence the influence of Shakespeare, classical Greek tragedy, and avant-garde political theater on his works.
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The University of Michigan Press The Taylor Mac Book Ritual Realness and Radical
Book SynopsisThe first book to dedicate critical attention to the work of influential theater-maker Taylor Mac. Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac’s theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, and the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques.Trade ReviewThe Taylor Mac Book is an overdue encomium to the work of an artist who defines the cutting edge in theater, performance, and the interpretation of American song. With maximalist exuberance and impish daring, Taylor Mac has revived the fortunes of queer aesthetics for our parlous times. How great that now we all get to hang out with judy and the crew in this deliriously welcome collection of essays." —Tavia Nyong’o, Yale University "This book is a joy to read, conveying the spirit, mischief, and intellect of Taylor Mac’s work and reflecting its genius and complexity. The mix of topics and styles is well suited to the multifaceted nature of Mac’s work and also makes for engaged reading." —Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway, University of LondonTable of Contents Preface: “It’s going to go on a lot longer than you want it to”: A Conversation about Taylor Mac, Covid and Collaboration. David Román and Sean F. Edgecomb Acknowledgments Introduction: The Early Performance of Taylor Mac Sean F. Edgecomb 1: Participation, Endurance, and the Pucker in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge Carrie J. Preston 2: Between Hir and There: Considering Taylor Mac’s Work as Bridging Genres Kelly I. Aliano 3: Queer Pussy Time: Taylor Mac’s Lesbian Decade Kim Marra 4: Too Slow: Taylor Mac and the Rubs of Time Lisa A. Freeman 5: Taylor Mac, Walt Whitman, and Adhesive America: Cruising Utopia with the Good Gay Poet Jennifer Buckley 6: Circles and Lines: Community and Legacy in Taylor Mac’s Gary: A Sequel to “Titus Andronicus” Erika T. Lin 7: Designturgy, Being Queer: Taylor Mac Wears Machine Dazzle in 24 Decades Sissi Liu 8: Sing the Revolution!: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Taylor Mac and the Great American Songbook David Román 9: The Walk Across America for Mother Earth Paul Zimet 10: An Interview with Taylor Mac Kevin Sessums 11: Reflections on CollaborationMatt RayMachine Dazzle Viva DeConciniNiegel SmithTigger! Ferguson Barbara Gustern Linda Brumbach Contributors Bibliography Index
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Penguin Putnam Inc Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized
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The University of Chicago Press Five Tales for the Theatre
Book SynopsisFor Count Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806), theater was a fabulous world apart, in which human beings, statues, and animals change places by magical transformations. Gozzi's stage becomes a multiscenic home for adventures, loves, enmities, and dazzling visual effects. This collection brings together for the first time modern English translations of five of Gozzi's most famous plays: The Raven, The King Stag, Turandot, The Serpent Woman, and The Green Bird, each annotated by the translators and preceded by the author's preface. Ted Emery's Introduction places Gozzi in his social and historical context, tracing his world view in both the content and the form of his tales. In the ten works he called fiable or fairy tales, Gozzi intermingled characters from the traditional and improvised commedia dell'arte with exotic figures of his own invention. During Gozzi's lifetime, Goethe and Schiller translated and produced some of his dramas at the Weimar Theatre. In our century, the dramas have reasserted
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The University of Chicago Press This Wide and Universal Theater Shakespeare in
Book SynopsisExplores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in As You Like It to the tavern in Henry IV, Part I.Trade Review"An eminent Shakespeare scholar and author, Bevington offers a concise, lucid, and unique overview of the history of Shakespeare in various modes of performance, from stage to film to television." - Choice "Bevington makes interesting, nuanced and original points about staging and interpretation that reveal the dynamism and complexity of Shakespeare's canon." - Financial Times "Even veteran Shakespeareans will profit from the varied reminders of how important performance and staging have always been to the interpretation of the plays." - Renaissance Quarterly"
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The University of Chicago Press No Place of Grace Antimodernism and the
Book SynopsisA new edition of a classic work of American history that eloquently examines the rise of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century.Trade Review"Auspicious radical history: cogently argued, crisply written, and alive with intellectual passion."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "This is a powerful and provocative reinterpretation. . . of the dominant Anglo-American culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is a book that all scholars in the field will have to take into account."-- "American Historical Review"Table of ContentsForeword by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Preface (1994) Preface Acknowledgments 1. Roots of Antimodernism: The Crisis of Cultural Authority during the Late Nineteenth Century A Pattern of Evasive Banality: Official Modern Culture in Industrial America A Social Crisis: The Republican Tradition and the Radical Specter Unreal City: Social Science, Secularization, and the Emergence of Weightlessness Psychic Crisis: Neurasthenia and the Emergence of a Therapeutic World View 2. The Figure of the Artisan: Arts and Crafts Ideology Origins of the American Craft Revival: Persons and Perceptions Revitalization and Transformation in Arts and Crafts Ideology: The Simple Life, Aestheticism, Educational Reform Reversing Antimodernism: The Factory, the Market, and the Process of Rationalization The Fate of the Craft Ideal 3. The Destructive Element: Modern Commercial Society and the Martial Ideal From Domestic Realism to “Real Life” Class, Race, and the Worship of Force The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: The Cult of Experience and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood The Psychological Uses of the Martial Ideal: Guiney, Norris, Adams 4. The Morning of Belief: Medieval Mentalities in a Modern World The Image of Childhood and the Childhood of the Race Medieval Sincerity: Genteel and Robust Medieval Vitality: The Erotic Union of Sacred and Profane The Medieval Unconscious: Therapy and Protest 5. The Religion of Beauty: Catholic Forms and American Consciousness The Rise of Catholic Taste: Cultural Authority and Personal Regeneration Art, Ritual, and Belief: The Protestant Dilemma American Anglo-Catholicism: Legitimation and Protest The Poles of Anglicanism: Cram and Scudder 6. From Patriarchy to Nirvana: Patterns of Ambivalence The Problem of Victorian Ambivalence: Sources and Solutions The Lotus and the Father: Bigelow, Lowell, Lodge William Sturgis Bigelow Percival Lowell George Cabot Lodge Aesthetic Catholicism and “Feminine” Values: Norton, Hall, Brooks Charles Eliot Norton G. Stanley Hall Van Wyck Brooks 7. From Filial Loyalty to Religious Protest: Henry Adams Early Manhood: The Meandering Track of the Family Go-Cart Husband, Historian, Novelist: Adams’s Crisis of Generativity The Antimodern Quest: From Niagara to the Virgin Between Father and Mother, I: The Virgin, the Dynamo, and the Angelic Doctor Between Father and Mother, II: The Antimodern Modernist Epilogue Biographical Appendix Notes Index
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