Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism
ISBN: 9783030815714 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism
ISBN: 9783030815745 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction providesan overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship...
Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction providesan overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-de...
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Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England
ISBN: 9783030008918 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916-2016
ISBN: 9783030840129 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016
ISBN: 9783030840150 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice,Memorialising Shakespearecovers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities—from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare’s...
This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis wi...
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Shakespeare, Tragedy and Menopause: The Anxious Womb
ISBN: 9783031272035 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores...
Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tr...
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Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage
ISBN: 9780190653675 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhood. Theatre-going was the primary source of entertainment for working people of the early Republic and the Jacksonian period, and plays implicitly and explicitly addressed the risks and rewards of citizenship. Ranging from representations of the heroes of the American Revolution to images of doomed Indians to plays about ancient Rome, Chinn unearths dozens of plays rarely read by critics. Spectacular Men places the theatre at the center...
In Spectacular Men, Sarah E. Chinn investigates how working class white men looked to the early American theatre for examples of ideal manhoo...
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427,09 zł |
Theatre and Governance in Britain, 1500-1900: Democracy, Disorder and the State
ISBN: 9781107182158 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage.
A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage.
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Panorámica del Teatro Español Y Latinoamericano del Siglo XX: Con La Colaboración Redaccional de Araceli Marín Presno = Panoramica del Teatro Espanol
ISBN: 9783631516355 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La Panoramica del teatro espanol y latinoamericano del siglo XX quiere facilitar varias visiones de hitos importantes de la produccion teatral en el transcurso de un siglo, en el que se analizaran las obras que de algun modo resultan innovadores para su epoca, ya sea de manera estructural o dramaturgica. Los fragmentos claves de textos ejemplares en la segunda parte del libro subrayan lo dicho en los diferentes capitulos de la primera parte. El teatro de America Latina de la segunda mitad del siglo XX se centra en la tematica de la busqueda de la identidad y la superacion de conflictos...
La Panoramica del teatro espanol y latinoamericano del siglo XX quiere facilitar varias visiones de hitos importantes de la produccion teatral ...
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World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Africa
ISBN: 9780415227469 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments in Africa since 1945. Entries on thirty-two African countries are featured in this volume, preceded by specialist introductory essays on Anglophone Africa, Francophone Africa, History and Culture, Cosmology, Music, Dance, Theatre for Young Audiences and Puppetry. There are also special introductory general essays on African theatre written by Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka and the outstanding Congolese playwright, Sony Labou Tansi, before his...
Now available in paperback for the first time this edition of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre series examines theatrical developments i...
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428,98 zł |
Drama/Theatre/Performance
ISBN: 9780415234931 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of thought and offers different possibilities to the student or practitioner. This book examines the history and use of the terms and investigates the different philosophies, politics, languages and institutions with which they are associated. Simon Shepherd and Mick Wallis:
What is implied when we refer to the study of performing arts as 'drama', 'theatre' or 'performance'? Each term identifies a different tradition of... |
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World of Theatre 2003 Edition : An Account of the World's Theatre Seasons 1999-2000, 2000-2001 and 2001-2002
ISBN: 9780415306218 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edited by Ian Herbert, President of the International Association of Theatre Critics, Secretary of the Drama Section of the Critics' Circle in London, and editor of Theatre Record, the chronicle of the British stage, and Nicole Leclercq, Archives et Musee de la Litterature, Brussels, the World of Theatre is a lavishly illustrated biennial publication providing on-the-spot and authoritative surveys of current theatrical activity from across the globe. The content of the book is as varied as the theatrical situations it describes, from magisterial round-ups by leading critics...
Edited by Ian Herbert, President of the International Association of Theatre Critics, Secretary of the Drama Section of the Critics' Circle in London,...
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Off Nevsky Prospekt: St Petersburg's Theatre Studios in the 1980s and 1990s
ISBN: 9789057021343 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flourished in St Petersburg during the 1980s and '90s.
Professor Markova charts the development of the theatre studios - from their beginnings as a reaction to the repressive atmosphere of the Soviet period and through the "theatre bacchanalia" of the Perestroika years. She then surveys today's vibrant scene, with analyses of key productions and interviews with many of the central figures, and describes how theatre studios have subverted the... Off Nevsky Prospekt is the first study to be published in English of the exceptionally rich and diverse theatre studio movement which has flo...
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The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre
ISBN: 9789057550560 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theatre has, since the time of the Jewish Enlightenment, served the secular community in its conflict with the religious. This book surveys the secular-religious rift and then describes the enhanced concern of the secular community in Israel for its own Jewishness and its expression in the theatre - especially following the 1967 War. It then moves on to a specific study of the play Bruira and finally reviews the phenomenon of the return to Orthodox Judaism by secular individuals.
Theatre has, since the time of the Jewish Enlightenment, served the secular community in its conflict with the religious. This book surveys the secula...
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African Theatre in Performance : A Festschrift in Honour of Martin Banham
ISBN: 9789057551086 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theatre - both traditional and contemporary
In this lively and varied tribute to Martin Banham, Layiwola has assembled critical commentaries and two plays which focus primarily on Nigerian theat...
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Nineteen Cent Theat Spain: Bib
ISBN: 9780415239912 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Beth Henley: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780815338789 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Woody Allen: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780815331247 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woody Allen, who first became famous as a stand up comedian and a writer of comedy routines, has also had a distinguished career as a playwright and screenwriter/director. Allen owes his celebrity status primarily to his critically acclaimed films, such as Manhattan, Hannah and her Sisters and Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Woody Allen, who first became famous as a stand up comedian and a writer of comedy routines, has also had a distinguished career as a playwright and s...
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Reformers on Stage: Popular Drama and Propaganda in the Low Countries of Charles V, 1515-1556
ISBN: 9780802044570 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of the chambers saw themselves not only as entertainers, but as religious and cultural leaders, and on the strength of this sense of mission became the most influential performers of vernacular drama in the Low Countries. Gary Waite examines the social and religious messages of the plays presented, showing how they promoted or opposed calls for reform, religious and otherwise. Presenting an overview of some eighty surviving scripts from across... During the time of Charles V, plays were written and performed by amateur literary and acting societies known as chambers of rhetoric. Members of t... |
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