Dreamwork For Dramatic Writing

Author : David A. Crespy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004535961

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Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing by David A. Crespy Pdf

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen teaches you how to use your dreams, content, form, and structure, to write surprisingly unique new drama for film and stage. It is an exciting departure from traditional linear, dramatic technique, and addresses both playwriting and screenwriting, as the profession is increasingly populated by writers who work in both stage and screen. Developed through 25 years of teaching award-winning playwrights in the University of Missouri’s Writing for Performance Program, and based upon the phenomenological research of renowned performance theorist Bert O. States, this book offers a foundational, step-by-step organic guide to non-traditional, non-linear technique that will help writers beat clichéd, tired dramatic writing and provides stimulating new exercises to transform their work.

Author : Suzanne Burgoyne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319789286

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Creativity in Theatre by Suzanne Burgoyne Pdf

People who don’t know theatre may think the only creative artist in the field is the playwright--with actors, directors, and designers mere “interpreters” of the dramatist’s vision. Historically, however, creative mastery and power have passed through different hands. Sometimes, the playwright did the staging. In other periods, leading actors demanded plays be changed to fatten their roles. The late 19th and 20th centuries saw “the rise of the director,” in which director and playwright struggled for creative dominance. But no matter where the balance of power rested, good theatre artists of all kinds have created powerful experiences for their audience. The purpose of this volume is to bridge the interdisciplinary abyss between the study of creativity in theatre/drama and in other fields. Sharing theories, research findings, and pedagogical practices, the authors and I hope to stimulate discussion among creativity and theatre scholar/teachers, as well as multidisciplinary research. Theatre educators know from experience that performance classes enhance student creativity. This volume is the first to bring together perspectives from multiple disciplines on how drama pedagogy facilitates learning creativity. Drawing on current findings in cognitive science, as well as drama teachers’ lived experience, the contributors analyze how acting techniques train the imagination, allow students to explore alternate identities, and discover the confidence to take risks. The goal is to stimulate further multidisciplinary investigation of theatre education and creativity, with the intention of benefitting both fields.

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040001615

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The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature by Michael Y. Bennett Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.

Author : Gillie Bolton
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781846422270

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The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing by Gillie Bolton Pdf

Writing is a means of making sense of experience, and of arriving at a deeper understanding of the self. The use of creative writing therapeutically can complement verbal discussions, and offers a cost- and time-effective way of extending support to depressed or psychologically distressed patients. Suitable both for health-care professionals who wish to implement therapeutic writing with their patients, and for those wishing to start writing creatively in order to help themselves, The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing provides practical, well tried and tested suggestions for beginning to write and for developing writing further. It includes ideas for writing individually and for directing groups, and explores journal writing, poetry, fiction, autobiography and writing out trauma, with established writers and those who have taken up writing for private enjoyment.

Author : Lajos Egri
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1972-02-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781439123799

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The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri Pdf

Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does just that, with instruction that can be applied equally well to a short story, novel, or screenplay. Examining a play from the inside out, Egri starts with the heart of any drama: its characters. All good dramatic writing hinges on people and their relationships, which serve to move the story forward and give it life, as well as an understanding of human motives—why people act the way that they do. Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Egri shows how it is essential for the author to have a basic premise—a thesis, demonstrated in terms of human behavior—and to develop the dramatic conflict on the basis of that behavior. Using Egri's ABCs of premise, character, and conflict, The Art of Dramatic Writing is a direct, jargon-free approach to the problem of achieving truth in writing.

Author : Dominique Hecq
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783093243

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Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing by Dominique Hecq Pdf

This book offers an in-depth study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theoretical directions and creative interchanges. The book narrows the focus on psychoanalysis, particularly with regard to Lacan and creative practice, and demonstrates that creative writing is research in its own right. The poetics at stake neither denotes the study or the techniques of poetry, but rather the means by which writers formulate and discuss attitudes to their work.

Author : Janet Neipris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781317421139

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A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing by Janet Neipris Pdf

For decades writers have competed to enroll in the legendary Master classes led by Janet Neipris at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and across the globe. Several generations of playwrights, screenwriters, and television writers have been inspired and educated by her. Her newest book provides the next best thing to studying with her around the seminar table. It’s wise, engaging, focused. The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation. For professional writers, teachers, and students, as well as anyone who want to complete their first piece. What’s important is that you will finish. Janet will be guiding you to The End. An award winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU, Janet Neipris has written for Screen and Television. She has also taught dramatic writers at UCLA and in China, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, and in the UK at Oxford, CSSD, University of Birmingham, and the University of East Anglia. Previous publications include To Be A Playwright (Routledge 2006). Janet Neipris’s plays and letters are in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library.

Author : Johanne Hamel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000165869

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Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing by Johanne Hamel Pdf

Art Therapy, Dreams, and Healing: Beyond the Looking Glass synthesizes methods to work with one’s dreams through art therapy and introduces the reader to brief creative methods, Gestalt and Jungian experiential methods, and research on lucid dreaming and dream re-entry. The author provides a unique, clear and concise synthesis of 19 available dreamwork methods to find the message of your dreams, with examples from her own 35 years of psychotherapy practice. Along with a classification of types and functions of dreams, chapters include information such as how to keep a dream journal, how to remember one’s dreams, how to identify 25 different dream types and how to follow your own dreamwork process. This book provides a succinct blend of available dreamwork methods for readers to find the existential message of their dreams and grow from them.

Author : Lajos Egri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Drama
ISBN : OCLC:220007468

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The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri Pdf

Author : Bruce Wilshire
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438424170

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William James by Bruce Wilshire Pdf

The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of most burning current interest. William James: The Essential Writings is a series of philosophical arguments on some of the most "obscure and head-cracking problems" in contemporary philosophy; the relation of thought to its object; the interrelationships between meaning and truth; the levels and structures of experience; the degrees of reality; the nature of the embodied self; the relation of ethics, aesthetics, and religious experience to man's strenuously and "heroically" active nature; and, above all, the structurization of the experienced life-world as the validating ground and origin of all theory; Bruce Wilshire has provided an introduction to William James's thought on these and other related points which is at once both substantial and subtle.

Author : Anthony Shafton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0791426173

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Dream Reader by Anthony Shafton Pdf

A comprehensive survey of contemporary approaches to understanding dreams. If you can have only one book on dreams, this is the one to have.

Author : Johanne Hamel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781000432138

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Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy by Johanne Hamel Pdf

Dreams and Nightmares in Art Therapy draws on the author’s extensive art psychotherapy practice and teaching to provide a wide range of creative writing and visual art methods for dreamwork. Blending theories such as Gestalt therapy and Jungian psychology with clinical examples from Dr. Hamel’s own clients, this unique book offers an array of art therapy and other creative dreamwork methods, covering a large variety of media such as mask making, clay, collage, sandtray and painting. The author also presents seven different types of nightmares and introduces a simple and efficient five-steps art therapy method for reducing their intensity and their frequency. The book concludes with a unique synthesis of 11 dreamwork methods to draw wisdom from dream journals accumulated over a long period of time. This book is ideal for anyone interested in developing a personal or professional practice using dream art therapy. The methods presented here will captivate readers with their originality and provide inspiration for all kinds of psychological, artistic and spiritual development.

Author : Denyse Beaudet
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781571745934

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Dreamguider by Denyse Beaudet Pdf

"A guide for parents into the world of their children's dreams, which often reveal their thoughts, feelings, and imaginations. Parents learn how to help children understand and not fear their dreams"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lajos Egri
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0464874998

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The Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri Pdf

Egri's treatise The Art of Dramatic Writing was first published in 1946 and remains today one of the best creative writing how to books ever written

Author : Adrienne deWolfe
Publisher : ePublishing Works!
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781614174295

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Seduced by an Angel (Velvet Lies, Book 3) by Adrienne deWolfe Pdf

Kentucky belle Seraphina Jones craves a dashing stranger worth kissing. When she spies her handsome, half-naked hired hand at the riverbank, she thinks her dreams of romance have come true. But this Texican is wanted for murder. Jesse Quaid can't let Sera's sweet kisses distract him from rendezvousing with Cass, a childhood friend, to clear his name of a crime he didn't commit. But then a case of mistaken identity turns Cass into Jesse's deadliest rival for Sera's heart. Now, Sera must find a way to end the feud before the man she loves is lost forever. REVIEWS: "Adrienne deWolfe is a jewel of a find for your keeper shelf." Christina Dodd, NYT Best-Seller "Undoubtedly an author to watch." Jennifer Blake, NYT Best-Seller VELVET LIES in series order Scoundrel for Hire His Wicked Dream Seduced by an Angel WILD TEXAS NIGHTS in series order: Texas Outlaw Texas Lover Texas Wildcat