Anti Elektra

Author : Elisabeth von Samsonow
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452960760

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Anti-Electra by Elisabeth von Samsonow Pdf

A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art. Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.

Author : Kenneth M. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190923433

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Desire in Chromatic Harmony by Kenneth M. Smith Pdf

How does musical harmony engage listeners in relations of desire? Where does this desire come from? Author Kenneth Smith seeks to answer these questions by analyzing works from the turn of the twentieth- century that are both harmonically enriched and psychologically complex. Desire in Chromatic Harmony yields a new theory of how chromatic chord progressions direct the listener on intricate journeys through harmonic space, mirroring the tensions of the psyche found in Schopenhauer, Freud, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. Smith extends this mode of enquiry into sophisticated music theory, while exploring philosophically engaged European and American composers such as Richard Strauss, Alexander Skryabin, Josef Suk, Charles Ives, and Aaron Copland. Focusing on harmony and chord progression, the book drills down into the diatonic undercurrent beneath densely chromatic and dissonant surfaces. From the obsession with death and mourning in Suk's asrael Symphony to an exploration of "perversion" in Strauss's elektra; from the Sufi mysticism of Szymanowski's Song of the Night to the failed fantasy of the American dream in Copland's The Tender Land, Desire in Chromatic Harmony cuts a path through the dense forests of chromatic complexity, revealing the psychological make-up of post-Wagnerian psychodynamic music.

Author : Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781118455128

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey,Arlene Allan Pdf

This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on ‘lost’ playwrights Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama’s relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play

Author : Peter Liebregts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350084162

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Translations of Greek Tragedy in the Work of Ezra Pound by Peter Liebregts Pdf

Turning the tables on the misconception that Ezra Pound knew little Greek, this volume looks at his work translating Greek tragedy and considers how influential this was for his later writing. Pound's work as a translator has had an enormous impact on the theory and practice of translation, and continues to be a source of heated debate. While scholars have assessed his translations from Chinese, Latin, and even Provençal, his work on Greek tragedy remains understudied. Pound's versions of Greek tragedy (of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and of Sophocles' Elektra and Women of Trachis) have received scant attention, as it has been commonly assumed that Pound knew little of the language. Liebregts shows that the poet's knowledge of Greek was much more comprehensive than is generally assumed, and that his renderings were based on a careful reading of the source texts. He identifies the works Pound used as the basis for his translations, and contextualises his versions with regard to his biography and output, particularly The Cantos. A wealth of understudied source material is analysed, such as Pound's personal annotations in his Loeb edition of Sophocles, his unpublished correspondence with classical scholars such as F. R. Earp and Rudd Fleming, as well as manuscript versions and other as-yet-unpublished drafts and texts which illuminate his working methodology.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781102009351

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Banier Orchidee van Sjanghai by Burton D. Fisher Pdf

Author : Anne Norris Michelini
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299107647

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Euripides and the Tragic Tradition by Anne Norris Michelini Pdf

Euripides and the Tragic Tradition asks all the right questions. It forces us to confront the many contradictions in Euripides' work, demonstrates the differences between the literary assumptions of Sophocles and Euripides, and challenges us to respond to Euripidean drama with sophistication and sensitivity. --Francis M. Dunn, Scholia.

Author : Sjoerd van Tuinen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474421072

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Speculative Art Histories by Sjoerd van Tuinen Pdf

First full-scale thematic analysis of Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, critically evaluating the impact of modernist theatre on her choreographic method

Author : Andrew Sutherland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781666906080

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Queer Opera by Andrew Sutherland Pdf

In Queer Opera, Andrew Sutherland argues that operas often reflect characteristics of the society and epistime in which they are written but that they also do much more than that; operas have agency. LGBTQ+ social, cultural, and political issues have become an increasingly defining feature of twenty-first century life, and as agency for change, composers have turned to opera to underscore the lived queer experience. Sutherland posits that operas written before the sexual revolution of the mid-twentieth century utilized a codified language both in the libretto and score, communicating with those observers open to a queer reading. He explores the growing trend of local, small-scale, independent opera companies seen around the world towards the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century and argues that this has emboldened queer artists to reclaim opera as a queer space. He further argues that for several centuries, opera houses have been safe havens for queer composers, librettists, performers, and designers, and yet it is only relatively recently that any serious attempt at queer representation in operatic works has begun to be realized. In this book, he examines narratives and music of selected operas to walk through queer history in Western societies and shines a light on how many of opera’s well-known characters, based on historical figures who represent pivotal moments in the queer story, are responsible in a variety of ways for the continued struggle for queer acceptance.

Author : James Moran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350145504

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Modernists and the Theatre by James Moran Pdf

Modernists and the Theatre examines how six key modernists, who are best known as poets and novelists, engaged with the realm of theatre and performance. Drawing on a wealth of unfamiliar archival material and fresh readings of neglected documents, James Moran demonstrates how these literary figures interacted with the playhouse, exploring W.B. Yeats's earliest playwriting, Ezra Pound's onstage acting, the links between James Joyce's and D.H. Lawrence's sense of drama, T.S. Eliot's thinking about theatrical popularity, and the feminist politics of Virginia Woolf's small-scale theatrical experimentation. While these modernists often made hostile comments about drama, this volume highlights how the writers were all repeatedly drawn to the form. While Yeats and Pound were fascinated by the controlling aspect of theatre, other authors felt inspired by theatre as a democratic forum in which dissenting voices could be heard. Some of these modernists used theatre to express and explore identities that had previously been sidelined in the public forum, including the working-class mining communities of Lawrence's plays, the sexually unconventional and non-binary gender expressions of Joyce's fiction, and the female experience that Woolf sought to represent and discuss in terms of theatrical performance. These writers may be known primarily for creating non-dramatic texts, but this book demonstrates the importance of the theatre to the activities of these authors, and shows how a sense of the theatrical repeatedly motivated the wider thinking and writing of six major figures in literary history.

Author : Sandra Eckard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781475828061

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Comic Connections by Sandra Eckard Pdf

This book is intended to be both an introduction to comics as well as a text for specific, ready-to-use activities that instructors can immediate use.

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405121613

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Greek Tragedy by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Pdf

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Author : Arthur J. Pomeroy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118741290

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A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen by Arthur J. Pomeroy Pdf

A comprehensive treatment of the Classical World in film and television, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen closely examines the films and TV shows centered on Greek and Roman cultures and explores the tension between pagan and Christian worlds. Written by a team of experts in their fields, this work considers productions that discuss social settings as reflections of their times and as indicative of the technical advances in production and the economics of film and television. Productions included are a mix of Hollywood and European spanning from the silent film era though modern day television series, and topics discussed include Hollywood politics in film, soundtrack and sound design, high art and low art, European art cinemas, and the ancient world as comedy. Written for students of film and television as well as those interested in studies of ancient Rome and Greece, A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen provides comprehensive, current thinking on how the depiction of Ancient Greece and Rome on screen has developed over the past century. It reviews how films of the ancient world mirrored shifting attitudes towards Christianity, the impact of changing techniques in film production, and fascinating explorations of science fiction and technical fantasy in the ancient world on popular TV shows like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, and Dr. Who.

Author : Brian Kulick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429817540

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The Secret Life of Theater by Brian Kulick Pdf

What is the secret DNA of theater? What makes it unique from its sister arts? Why was it invented? Why does it persist? And now, in such an advanced technological age, why do we still feel compelled to return to a mode of expression that was invented over two thousand years ago? These are some of the foundational questions that are asked in this study of theater from its inception to today. The Secret Life of Theater begins with a look at theater’s origins in Ancient Greece. Next, it moves on to examine the history and nature of theater, from Agamenon to Angels in America, through theater’s use of stage directions, revealing the many unspoken languages that are employed to communicate with its audiences. Finally, it looks at theater’s ever-shifting strategies of engendering fellow-feeling through the use of emotion, allowing the form to become a rare space where one can feel a thought and think a feeling. In an age when many studies are concerned with the "how" of theater, this work returns us to theatre’s essential "why." The Secret Life of Theater suggests that by reframing the question we can re-enchant this unique and ever-vital medium of expression.

Author : Stephen Zepke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780748642403

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Deleuze and Contemporary Art by Stephen Zepke Pdf

What is the importance of deconstruction, and the writing of Jacques Derrida in particular, for literary criticism today? Derek Attridge argues that the challenge of Derrida's work for our understanding of literature and its value has still not been fully met, and in this book, which traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades and reflects an interest in that work going back a further two decades, shows how that work can illuminate a variety of topics. Chapters include an overview of deconstruction as a critical practice today, discussions of the secret, postcolonialism, ethics, literary criticism, jargon, fiction, and photography, and responses to the theoretical writing of Emmanuel Levinas, Roland Barthes, and J. Hillis Miller. Also included is a discussion of the recent reading of Derrida's philosophy as 'radical atheism', and the book ends with a conversation on deconstruction and place with the theorist and critic Jean-Michel Rabate. Running throughout is a concern with the question of responsibility, as exemplified in Derrida's own readings of literary and philosophical texts: responsibility to the work being read, responsibility to the protocols of rational argument, and responsibility to the reader.

Author : Cheryl Robson
Publisher : Aurora Metro Books
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106019147880

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Balkan Plots by Cheryl Robson Pdf

Includes: The Body of a Woman by Matei Visniec, Cordon by Nebojsa Romcevic, When I Want to Whistle, I Whistle... by Andreea Valean, and Soap Opera by Gyorgy Spiro.