Faraway Settings

Author : Juan Pablo Gil-Osle,Frederick A. De Armas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCBK:C119942242

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Faraway Settings by Juan Pablo Gil-Osle,Frederick A. De Armas Pdf

A comparative study of Ming and Iberian theaters has never been attempted. Thus, this book aims to provide the reader with a series of different approaches. First, through a comparison of specific works by Spanish and Chinese playwrights during the Ming and Habsburg periods, we aim to show that at times certain commonalities are in reality spaces fraught with misunderstanding. A melancholic character in Spain would not be the same as a melancholic figure in Chinese theater. A particular plant or flower had completely different symbolic meanings. However, it is curious to note how certain character types in both theaters resemble each other; and how the interaction between actors and audience would show clear parallels. At the same time, this is a book that also finds the thrill of correspondences and affinities as they are recovered through modern staging, climate change, universality of emotions, representations of friendship, folk characters, metaphors and dreams.

Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307958938

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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch Pdf

A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.

Author : Alan L. Mintz
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815628994

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Translating Israel by Alan L. Mintz Pdf

Reflects the rise of literature in modern-day Israel and the problematic reception of literature in America and within the American Jewish community. Israeli literature provides a unique lens for viewing th~ inner dynamics of this small but critically important society. In addition, its leading writers such as S. Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, Amos Oz, and A. B. Yehoshua, among others, are recognized internationally as major world literary figures. Despite this international recognition, the rich literary tradition of Israeli literature has failed to reverberate and find significant readership or a following in America even among the American Jewish community. Alan L. Mintz traces the reception of Israeli literature in America from the 1970s to the present. He analyzes the influences that have shaped modern Israeli literature and reflects on the cultural differences that have impeded American and American Jewish appreciation of Israeli authors. Mintz then turns his attention to specific writers, examining their reception or lack thereof in America and places them within the emerging unfolding critical dialogue between the Israeli and American literary culture.

Author : Louis Fantasia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810885080

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Tragedy in the Age of Oprah by Louis Fantasia Pdf

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern audiences understand and interpret classic works of drama? In Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays, Louis Fantasia provides a provocative examination of the relationship between popular culture and classical tragedy. Making a persuasive argument for the lessons tragedy has to offer today's audiences, Fantasia examines five enduring works of theatre: Euripides' Medea, William Shakespeare's King Lear, Jean Racine's Ph dre, Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Fantasia discusses in detail each of these plays, framing them in a contemporary context that explores the suffering, responsibility, and identity that tragedy advocates. Each play is presented as an engaging, powerful encounter for the reader, recreating as closely as possible the impact of a great performance. A unique look at the role classical theatre can and should play in contemporary society, these essays reveal the lessons great plays have to teach us about ourselves. Directed toward theatre professionals and students, Tragedy in the Age of Oprah will also resonate with anyone interested in theatre, literature, and cultural studies.

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Małgorzata Sugiera,Torsten Jost,Holger Hartung,Omid Soltani
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000825923

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Entangled Performance Histories by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Małgorzata Sugiera,Torsten Jost,Holger Hartung,Omid Soltani Pdf

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.

Author : Jalal Uddin Khan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443875165

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Readings in Oriental Literature by Jalal Uddin Khan Pdf

Readings in Oriental Literature: Arabian, Indian, and Islamic is an up-to-date elucidation of some diverse and discrete, yet common and classic, subjects and authors, and the distinctive oriental elements present in them. The book, composed of fourteen essays, includes ancient Arabian poetry; the Arabian Nights; the Arabian desert; the Arabian influence on Melville; Shelley’s Orientalia; Coleridge’s Kubla Khan; the influence of English Romantics on the Bengali Tagore; Bangladesh’s national anthem, and her exiled daughter Taslima Nasreen; the Victorian reaction to British India; religious diversity and Islam in the West; the Muslim East in English literature; and reading literature from an Islamic point of view. Marked by an originality of approach and a freshness and simplicity, the book takes note of contemporary theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural discourse drawn from literature, history, politics and religion as necessary. However, it is far from being unnecessarily weighed down by the loaded clichés, oft-repeated jargon and overused euphemisms of modern literary or critical theory. The result is, regardless of its specialized treatment of otherwise commonplace or well-known texts or topics, that the overall discussion is as lucid, introductory and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making the book accessible and understandable to non-specialist readers, in addition to specialist researchers and academics.

Author : J. Dennis Thomas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781118239001

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Nikon D3300 Digital Field Guide by J. Dennis Thomas Pdf

Everything you need to know about your new N1 camera! Portable and full color, this guide is packed with everything you want and need to know in order to take amazing photos using your new Nikon Camera N1. Veteran author J. Dennis Thomas walks you through the essential controls, features, and functions of the N1 using step-by-step instructions and providing full-color images of each menu screen. You'll learn how to adjust white balance, autofocus, and exposure as well as choose lens and adjust settings. The handy trim size allows this guide to go where you go, allowing you easy access to information quickly so you can get the exact shot you want when you want it. Helps you make the most of your Camera N1 and get the shots you want Features valuable insight from a successful professional photographer for capturing unique and memorable portrait, candid, action, travel, sports, and other shots Provides step-by-step explanations on techniques and tips, all aimed at getting you comfortable and confident with your camera Go beyond the basic manual and the standard settings and see what your Camera N1 can do with Camera N1 Digital Field Guide!

Author : Judith Berlowitz
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781647423766

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Home So Far Away by Judith Berlowitz Pdf

A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara’s first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain’s major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930, she has landed a position with the medical school in Madrid. Though she feels compelled to hide her Jewish identity in her predominantly Christian new home, she finds that she feels less “different” in Spain than she did in Germany, especially as she learns new ways of expressing her opinions and desires. And when the Spanish Civil War erupts in 1936, Klara (now “Clara”) enlists in the Fifth Regiment, a step that transports her across the geography of the embattled peninsula and ultimately endangers a promising relationship and even Clara’s life itself. A blending of thoroughly researched history and engrossing fiction, Home So Far Away is an epic tale that will sweep readers away.

Author : Louis Shalako
Publisher : Long Cool One Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780986687105

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Heaven Is Too Far Away by Louis Shalako Pdf

Funnier than Kelly’s Heroes, darker in places than Catch-22, and more irreverent than M*A*S*H, this satirical WW I Royal Flying Corps memoir will leave the reader in stitches and historians shaking their heads. The most aggressive pilot wins. Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker racks up quite a score, and it's not just enemy aircraft either, for the tall and heavily decorated Will Tucker. He likes the ladies and they like him. The fact that he flies against the Red Baron and lives to write his memoirs is just a bonus.

Author : Juan Pablo Gil-Osle,Frederick A. De Armas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Chinese drama
ISBN : 3964568910

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Faraway Settings by Juan Pablo Gil-Osle,Frederick A. De Armas Pdf

Author : Ralph J. Fletcher,JoAnn Portalupi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Creative writing (Elementary education)
ISBN : UOM:39076002715956

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Craft Lessons by Ralph J. Fletcher,JoAnn Portalupi Pdf

Since its publication in 1998 Craft Lessons has become a staple in the writing classroom of both new and experienced teachers. Authors Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi recognized the need for a succinct resource and teamed together to write the second edition of Craft Lessons: Teaching Writing K-8 . Teachers pressed for time will appreciate the practical lessons and instructional language geared to three grade level groupings: K-2, 3-4, and 5-8. This edition includes: 17 brand new lessons; mini lessons designed from teachers' comments about what is observed students' writing Revisions to other craft lessons and the resource materials sections have been expanded New ways to approach teaching using elements of craft and the reading-writing connection A subject index to find specific craft lessons with ease The authors' thoughts about how craft lessons fit into their newest thinking about the qualities of writing: Ideas, Design, Language, and Presentation The 95 lessons in this book provide a wealth of information for teaching leads, character, endings, stronger verbs, and much more. This new edition reestablishes Craft Lessons as the crucial desert island book for harried writing teachers everywhere

Author : Ben Laurie,Peter Laurie
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780596002039

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Apache by Ben Laurie,Peter Laurie Pdf

Describes the history of the Web server platform and covers downloading and compiling, configuring and running the program on UNIX, writing specialized modules, and establishing security routines.

Author : Merritt Moseley
Publisher : Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000048631778

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British Novelists Since 1960 by Merritt Moseley Pdf

Contains biographical sketches of representative British novelists whose work began to appear roughly around 1960.

Author : Melanie Frappier,Derek Brown,Robert DiSalle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400725812

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Analysis and Interpretation in the Exact Sciences by Melanie Frappier,Derek Brown,Robert DiSalle Pdf

The essays in this volume concern the points of intersection between analytic philosophy and the philosophy of the exact sciences. More precisely, it concern connections between knowledge in mathematics and the exact sciences, on the one hand, and the conceptual foundations of knowledge in general. Its guiding idea is that, in contemporary philosophy of science, there are profound problems of theoretical interpretation-- problems that transcend both the methodological concerns of general philosophy of science, and the technical concerns of philosophers of particular sciences. A fruitful approach to these problems combines the study of scientific detail with the kind of conceptual analysis that is characteristic of the modern analytic tradition. Such an approach is shared by these contributors: some primarily known as analytic philosophers, some as philosophers of science, but all deeply aware that the problems of analysis and interpretation link these fields together.

Author : CIA Training Ltd
Publisher : CIA Training Ltd.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1860051707

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BCS Level 2 Certificate for It Users Unit E Using It Windows 2000 (Ecdl) by CIA Training Ltd Pdf

Self teach manual designed to steer the user around the different features need to pass the assessment for BCS Unit E.