Phaedra Britannica

Author : Tony Harrison,DramaOnline
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:879713990

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Phaedra Britannica by Tony Harrison,DramaOnline Pdf

In his adaptation of Racine, Harrison ingeniously transposes the action of the old Greek tragedy of Phaedra to the steamy landscape of an India seen through the narrow eye slits of Victorian society. The story seen through this arresting perspective with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over from the Greek furies takes on a special vibrancy. 'Phaedra Britannica' was first performed by the National Theatre Company at the Old Vic in September 1975.

Author : Robert Brustein
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466805415

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Reimagining American Theatre by Robert Brustein Pdf

In his collection of essays and reviews, Robert Brustein makes the argument that the American Theatre is enjoying a renaissance that has not been unacknowledged.

Author : Roger Rees
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191570094

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Ted Hughes and the Classics by Roger Rees Pdf

This collection of sixteen articles, written by leading specialists in Classical and English literature, is an important contribution to the critical assessment of Ted Hughes, one of the most popular and controversial English poets of the late 20th century. The chapters are arranged broadly chronologically according to Hughes's publications, and deal with different aspects of his engagement with the culture and literature of ancient Greece and Rome, including translations, original works, classical thought, and ideologies in his drama and verse. Hughes is revealed as a leading figure in literary reception of the Classics in 20th century poetry, a sharply intelligent and sensitive reader of some of the world's foundational texts.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192605252

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Tony Harrison and the Classics by Sandie Byrne Pdf

Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of classical literature, his popularization of classical works, and his innovative treatment of classical drama in plays which have been performed globally. Harrison's work fosters debates about the role and perception of the classics and adaptations of classical literature in relation to education, 'high' and 'popular' culture, accessibility, and reception. A unifying theme of the collection is the way in which Harrison finds in classical literature fruitful matter for the articulation and dramatization of his longstanding preoccupations: language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Through his adaptations and translations, Harrison uses classical drama to stage interventions in modern politics, but neither idealizes nor romanticizes the ancient world, depicting inequality, bigotry, greed, and brutality.

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474299343

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Tony Harrison by Edith Hall Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by Edith Hall's longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, it also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical. Tony Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays, translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar School and University and having translated ancient poets from Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays, translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping our contemporary literary landscape.

Author : Roberto A. Valdeón
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000651492

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Topics and Concepts in Literary Translation by Roberto A. Valdeón Pdf

This book explores literary translation in a variety of contexts. The chapters showcase the research into literary translation in North America, Europe, and Asia. Written by a group of experienced researchers and young academics, the contributors study a variety of languages (including English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Dutch, German, and Swedish), use a wide range of approaches (including quantitative review of literary translations; transfictional approaches to translation; and a review of concepts such as paratexts, intralingual translation, intertextuality, and retranslation), and aim to expand on existing debates on translation and translation studies as a discipline. The chapters aim to provide a panorama of the variety of topics and interests of contemporary translation studies, as well as problematize some of the concepts and approaches that seem to have become the only accepted/acceptable model in some academic quarters. This book was originally published as a special issue of Perspectives Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.

Author : Edward D. James,Gillian Jondorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521393191

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Racine: Phèdre by Edward D. James,Gillian Jondorf Pdf

This introductory study presents Phèdre as an example of the culmination of French classical tragedy--taking into consideration the play's historical, literary and theatrical context, its relationship to other tragedies of Racine, and its influence on later European literature.

Author : John Sayer
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3039109251

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Jean Racine by John Sayer Pdf

This first biography of Racine in over half a century for an English-language readership also traces the impact of Racine over three centuries in England as well as France. The plays and their reception are reviewed, using contextual approaches as part of each phase of Racine's life-story, with excerpts and quotations translated. Racine's upbringing and work as poet and historiographer are related to the France of Louis XIV, to audiences and to advancement for this 'man from nowhere', with parallels in Britain and elsewhere. Changing attitudes to Racine are traced across the centuries, across literary movements and on stage, including recent productions. The book provides insights in the specialist field of Racine studies and seventeenth-century French literature and theatre, in comparative literary studies, particularly between France and Restoration England, and to the interaction of Racine and European cultural movements to the present day.

Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134397921

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Narrative Gravity by Rukmini Bhaya Nair Pdf

In this elegantly written and theoretically sophisticated work, Rukmini Bhaya Nair asks why human beings across the world are such compulsive and inventive storytellers. Extending current research in cognitive science and narratology, she argues that we seem to have a genetic drive to fabricate as a way of gaining the competitive advantages such fictions give us. She suggests that stories are a means of fusing causal and logical explanations of 'real' events with emotional recognition, so that the lessons taught to us as children, and then throughout our lives via stories, lay the cornerstones of our most crucial beliefs. Nair's conclusion is that our stories really do make us up, just as much as we make up our stories.

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571325047

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The Inky Digit of Defiance by Tony Harrison Pdf

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racine's Phèdre, to post-Communist Europe for the film Prometheus to a one-off performance of The Kaisers of Carnuntum at the Roman amphitheatre in Austria on the Danube, to the peace camp at Greenham Common, and from a Leeds street bonfire celebrating the defeat of Japan by the new atomic bomb to wines made from the vines on volcanoes.A collection of work filled with passion and humour that educates as it dazzles.'More than Yeats, Eliot or Auden, more than anyone writing in English this century, and perhaps the two before that as well, Harrison has demonstrated that verse drama remains a living artistic possibility.' Observer

Author : Gordon Rogoff
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300087772

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Vanishing Acts by Gordon Rogoff Pdf

In this collection of critical writings, Gordon Rogoff tells the story of live theatre in America over the last 40 years of the 20th century. He explores the topics of acting, directing, playwriting, Shakespeare productions, opera and theatre criticism.

Author : Jürgen Schlaeger
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 382334174X

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Metamorphosis - Structures of Cultural Transformations by Jürgen Schlaeger Pdf

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719052955

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H, V., & O by Sandie Byrne Pdf

'The dead travel fast and, in our contemporary globalised world, so too does the gothic.' Examining how gothic has been globalised and globalisation made gothic, this collection of essays explores an emerging globalgothic that is simultaneously a continuation of the western tradition and a wholesale transformation of that tradition which expands the horizons of the gothic in diverse new and exciting ways.Globalgothic contains essays from some of the leading scholars in gothic studies as well as offering insights from new scholars in the field. The contributors consider a wide range of different media, including literary texts, film, dance, music, cyberculture, computer games, and graphic novels. This book will be essential reading for all students and academics interested in the gothic, in international literature, cinema, and cyberspace.

Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199681242

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Moving Words: Forms of English Poetry by Derek Attridge Pdf

This book investigates the ways in which poets have exploited the resources of the language as a spoken medium - its characteristic rhythms, its phonetic qualities, its deployment of syntax - to write verse that continues to move and delight.

Author : Matthew Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780191020094

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Translation: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Reynolds Pdf

Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, from ancient Akkadian to World English, from St Jerome to Google Translate. He shows how translation determines meaning, how it matters in commerce, empire, conflict and resistance, and why it is fundamental to literature and the arts. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.