Leavetaking And Vanishing Point

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Artists
ISBN : UCAL:B3634960

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Leavetaking [and] Vanishing Point by Peter Weiss Pdf

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0872498980

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Understanding Peter Weiss by Robert Cohen Pdf

Examines the life & work of the playwright & novelist whose literary stature places him among Boll, Grass, & Frisch as one of the leaders of postwar German literature.

Author : Martin W. Bauer,Rom Harré,Carl Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443869669

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Resistance and the Practice of Rationality by Martin W. Bauer,Rom Harré,Carl Jensen Pdf

Resistance used to mean irrational and reactionary behaviour, assuming that rationality resides on the side of progress and its parties. The end of the Cold War allows us to drop ideological and prejudicial analysis. Indeed, we recognise that resistance is a historical constant, and its relation to rationality or irrationality is not predetermined. This volume asks: to what extent are social scientific conceptions of ‘resistances’ sui generis, or borrowed from natural sciences by metaphor and analogy? To what extent do the social sciences continue to be a ‘social tribology’ lubricating a process of strategic changes? Fifteen authors explore these questions from the point of view of different disciplines including physics, biology, social psychology, history of science, history of medicine, legal theory, political science, history, police studies, psychotherapy research and art theory. The book offers a unique panorama of concepts of ‘resistance’ and examines the potential of a general ‘resistology’ across diverse practices of rationality.

Author : Michael Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438108360

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The Facts on File Companion to the World Novel by Michael Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings Pdf

Author : Ernestine Schlant,J. Thomas Rimer
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0943875323

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Legacies and Ambiguities by Ernestine Schlant,J. Thomas Rimer Pdf

The literary legacies of World War II have been mixed and varied, especially in West Germany and Japan, where the burden of defeat has been expressed by novelists and intellectuals in strikingly different ways. Reflecting the cultural differences between the two nations, and the experiences of occupation and democratization that occurred after the war, the postwar literatures of Germany and Japan intimately reveal the hopes and aspirations, the dreams and the nightmares, of two peoples confronting the harsh realities of war. Using a comparative approach, Ambiguous Legacies explores the conditions and values under which the postwar literatures of West Germany and Japan were created. Specifically, the book assesses the meaning of the German and Japanese literary responses to the World War II: the tendencies of denial or silence by German writers, the fatalism and passivity of Japanese novels, and the importance of the past in defining the recent "New subjectivism" among German writers and the outpourings of the "Introverted Generation" by Japanese novelists. Ernestine Schlant's introduction sets the context for the individual chapters and offers guideposts for further comparative scholarship. The book also includes a useful annotated bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The contributors are: Arnulf Baring, Carol Gluck, Walter Hinderer, Iremela Hijiya Kirschnereit, Peter Demetz, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Victor Koschmann, Judith Ryan, Van C. Gessel, Dagmar Barnouw, Kato Schuichi, Oda Makoto, and Peter Schneider.

Author : Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438140735

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Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present by Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings Pdf

Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."

Author : Joshua Sperling
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786637413

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A Writer of Our Time by Joshua Sperling Pdf

The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John Berger John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at art with Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants, and the oppressed around the world. “Far from dragging politics into art,” he wrote in 1953, “art has dragged me into politics.” He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017. Built around a series of watersheds, at once personal and historical, A Writer of Our Time traces Berger’s development from his roots as a postwar art student and polemicist in the Cold War battles of 1950s London, through the heady days of the 1960s—when the revolutions were not only political but sexual and artistic—to Berger’s reinvention as a rural storyteller and the long hangover that followed the rise and fall of the New Left. Drawing on first-hand, unpublished interviews and archival sources only recently made available, Joshua Sperling digs beneath the moments of controversy to reveal a figure of remarkable complexity and resilience. The portrait that emerges is of a cultural innovator as celebrated as he was often misunderstood, and a writer increasingly driven as much by what he loved as by what he opposed. A Writer of Our Time brings the many faces of John Berger together, repatriating one of our great minds to the intellectual dramas of his and our time.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410352071

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A Study Guide for Peter Weiss's "Marat / Sade" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Peter Weiss's "Marat / Sade," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Christine Olga Kiebuzinska
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638953

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Intertextual Loops in Modern Drama by Christine Olga Kiebuzinska Pdf

Kiebuzinska, who teaches modern drama, comparative literature, and film at Virginia Tech, considers intertextuality in modern drama. In nine essays, she examines the connections between the works of modern playwrights such as Kundera, Jelinek, and Hampton and the texts of earlier writers such as Did

Author : Alexander Feldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136155000

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Dramas of the Past on the Twentieth-Century Stage by Alexander Feldman Pdf

This book defines and exemplifies a major genre of modern dramatic writing, termed historiographic metatheatre, in which self-reflexive engagements with the traditions and forms of dramatic art illuminate historical themes and aid in the representation of historical events and, in doing so, formulates a genre. Historiographic metatheatre has been, and remains, a seminal mode of political engagement and ideological critique in the contemporary dramatic canon. Locating its key texts within the traditions of historical drama, self-reflexivity in European theatre, debates in the politics and aesthetics of postmodernism, and currents in contemporary historiography, this book provides a new critical idiom for discussing the major works of the genre and others that utilize its techniques. Feldman studies landmarks in the theatre history of postwar Britain by Weiss, Stoppard, Brenton, Wertenbaker and others, focusing on European revolutionary politics, the historiography of the World Wars and the effects of British colonialism. The playwrights under consideration all use the device of the play-within-the-play to explore constructions of nationhood and of Britishness, in particular. Those plays performed within the framing works are produced in places of exile where, Feldman argues, the marginalized negotiate the terms of national identity through performance.

Author : Mark Wollaeger,Matt Eatough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199324705

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms by Mark Wollaeger,Matt Eatough Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus on English and Irish literature to explore the contributions of artists from countries and regions like the US, Cuba, Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria.

Author : Stanton Garner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501735370

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Bodied Spaces by Stanton Garner Pdf

"At me too someone is looking... " —Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In a venturesome study of corporeality and perception in contemporary drama, Stanton B. Garner, Jr., turns this awareness of the spectator's gaze back upon itself. His book takes up two of drama's most essential and elusive elements: spatiality, through which plays establish fields of visual and environmental relationship; and the human body, through which these fields are articulated. Within the spatial terms of theater, this book puts the body and its perceptual worlds back into performance theory. Garner's approach is phenomenological, emphasizing perception and experience in the theatrical environment. His discussion of the work of playwrights after 1950-including Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Peter Weiss, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, David Mamet, Edward Bond, Maria Irene Fornes, Caryl Churchill, and Ntozake Shange—explores the body's modes of presence in contemporary drama. Drawing on work in areas as diverse as scenographic theory, medical phenomenology, contemporary linguistics, and feminist theories of the body, Garner addresses topics such as theatrical image, stage objects, dramatic language, the suffering body, and the staging of gender, all with a view toward developing a phenomenology of mise en scene.

Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134428649

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Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture by Glenda Abramson Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Modern Jewish Culture is an extensively updated revision of the very successful Companion to Jewish Culture published in 1989 and has now been updated throughout. Experts from all over the world contribute entries ranging from 200 to 1000 words broadly, covering the humanities, arts, social sciences, sport and popular culture, and 5000-word essays contextualize the shorter entries, and provide overviews to aspects of culture in the Jewish world. Ideal for student and general readers, the articles and biographies have been written by scholars and academics, musicians, artists and writers, and the book now contains up-to-date bibliographies, suggestions for further reading, comprehensive cross referencing, and a full index. This is a resource, no student of Jewish history will want to go without.

Author : Otto F. Best
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015004940899

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Peter Weiss by Otto F. Best Pdf

Author : Peter Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826409636

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Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman by Peter Weiss Pdf

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.