Reading Texts For Performance And Performances As Texts

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263893

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Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts by Pamela M. King Pdf

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts.

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Christian drama, English (Middle)
ISBN : 0367441187

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Reading Texts for Performance and Performance as Texts by Pamela M. King Pdf

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the 'living' traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts.

Author : Pamela M. King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000263992

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Reading Texts for Performance and Performances as Texts by Pamela M. King Pdf

This volume brings together nineteen important articles by Pamela M. King, one of the foremost British scholars working on Early English Drama. Unique to this collection are five articles on the ‘living’ traditions of performances in Spain, discussing their origins and the modes of production that are used. Several articles use modern literary theory on aspects of early drama, whilst others consider drama in the context of late medieval poetry. The volume also includes a rich collection of articles on English scriptural plays from surviving manuscripts.

Author : Michael Issacharoff,Robin F. Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512802870

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Performing Texts by Michael Issacharoff,Robin F. Jones Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Catherine Love
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000839784

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Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre by Catherine Love Pdf

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance. Drawing on analysis of contemporary practitioners who are working creatively with text, the book re-examines the relationship between text and performance within the specific context of British theatre. The chapters discuss a wide range of theatre-makers creating work in the UK from the 1990s onwards, from playwrights like Tim Crouch and Jasmine Lee-Jones to companies including Action Hero and RashDash. In doing so, the book addresses issues such as theatrical authorship, artistic intention, and the apparent incompleteness of plays as both written and performed phenomena. Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre also explores the implications of changing technologies of page and stage, analysing the impact of recent developments in theatre-making, editing, and publishing on the status of the theatre text. Written for scholars, students, and practitioners alike, Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre provides an original perspective on one of the most enduring problems to occupy theatre practice and scholarship.

Author : Francesca Orsini,Katherine Butler Schofield
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783741021

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Tellings and Texts by Francesca Orsini,Katherine Butler Schofield Pdf

Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling.

Author : Kelly R Iverson
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718843922

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From Text to Performance by Kelly R Iverson Pdf

For the last two centuries biblical interpretation has been guided by perspectives that have largely ignored the oral context in which the gospels took shape. Only recently have scholars begun to explore how ancient media inform the interpretive process and an understanding of the Bible. This collection of essays, by authors who recognize that the Jesus tradition was a story heard and performed, seeks to reevaluate the constituent elements of narrative, including characters, structure, narrator, time, and intertextuality. In dialogue with traditional literary approaches, these essays demonstrate that an appreciation of performance yields fresh insights distinguishable in many respects from results of literary or narrative readings of the gospels.

Author : Ben F. van Veen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666762976

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Oral Performance and the Veil of Text by Ben F. van Veen Pdf

It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex relation between this formally acknowledged functioning in its original oral delivery and the daily praxis of biblical scholarship in which these documents function as autonomous texts in an ever-expanding universe of texts. The argument in this book is that in addition to acknowledging the difference in media (oral performance there and then versus reading text here and now), it is crucial to differentiate and explicate the mindsets behind these media. A literate reader in the present structures thought, vis-a-vis text, differently from someone intensively formed by oral-aural communication, in the moment of exposure to a performing orator. The latter perspective was Paul's in the process of his letter composition. Therefore, this is a leading question in detextification: How can a contemporary biblical scholar relate to the text of Paul's letters in such a way as to understand how the apostle envisioned his original addressees structuring their thoughts during the event of a letter's oral-aural delivery? Two test cases are provided from the Letter to the Galatians (Gal 2-3).

Author : Mary Lewis Shaw
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271041582

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Performance in the Texts of MallarmŽ by Mary Lewis Shaw Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Jenkins,Julie Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137320117

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Editing, Performance, Texts by Jacqueline Jenkins,Julie Sanders Pdf

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showcase cutting-edge research practices and approaches in textual editing, and in manuscript and performance studies to produce new ways of reading and working for students and scholars.

Author : Laurie Postlewate,Wim N. M. Hüsken
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042021914

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Acts and Texts by Laurie Postlewate,Wim N. M. Hüsken Pdf

For the Middle Ages and Renaissance, meaning and power were created and propagated through public performance. Processions, coronations, speeches, trials, and executions are all types of public performance that were both acts and texts: acts that originated in the texts that gave them their ideological grounding; texts that bring to us today a trace of their actual performance. Literature, as well, was for the pre-modern public a type of performance: throughout the medieval and early modern periods we see a constant tension and negotiation between the oral/aural delivery of the literary work and the eventual silent/read reception of its written text. The current volume of essays examines the plurality of forms and meanings given to performance in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through discussion of the essential performance/text relationship. The authors of the essays represent a variety of scholarly disciplines and subject matter: from the "performed" life of the Dominican preacher, to coronation processions, to book presentations; from satirical music speeches, to the rendering of widow portraits, to the performance of romance and pious narrative. Diverse in their objects of study, the essays in this volume all examine the links between the actual events of public performance and the textual origins and subsequent representation of those performances.

Author : Graham Watts
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476618722

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Shakespeareäó»s Authentic Performance Texts by Graham Watts Pdf

When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing. We don’t. Present-day printings are an editor’s often subjective version of the script. Around 25 percent of any Shakespeare play will have been altered, and this creates an enormous amount of confusion. The only authentic edition of Shakespeare’s works is the First Folio, published by his friends and colleagues in 1623. This volume makes the case for printing and staging the plays as set in the First Folio, which preserved actor cues that helped players understand and perform their roles. The practices of modern editors are critiqued. Also included are sections on analyzing and acting the text, how a complex character can be created using the First Folio, and a director’s approach to rehearsing Shakespeare with various exercises for both professional and student actors. In conclusion, all of the findings are applied to Measure for Measure.

Author : Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830958

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Textual Performances by Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 081221546X

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Forms and Meanings by Roger Chartier Pdf

A collection of four studies (three of which were given as the 1994 U. of Pennsylvania Rosenbach Lectures), each addressing how the forms that transmit text to readers or hearers constrain the production of meaning. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Richard A. Horsley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625641588

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Text and Tradition in Performance and Writing by Richard A. Horsley Pdf

"Embedded in modern print culture, biblical scholars have been projecting the assumptions and concepts of print culture onto the texts they interpret. In the ancient world from which those texts originate, however, literacy was confined to only a small number of educated scribes. And, as recent research has shown, even the literate scribes learned texts by repeated recitation, while the nonliterate ordinary people had little if any direct contact with written scrolls. The texts that had taken distinctive form, moreover, were embedded in a broader and deeper cultural repertoire cultivated orally in village communities as well as in scribal circles. Only recently have some scholars struggled to appreciate texts that later became ""biblical"" in their own historical context of oral communication. Exploration of texts in oral performance--whether as scribal teachers' instruction to their protŽgŽs or as prophetic speeches of Jesus of Nazareth or as the performance of a whole Gospel story in a community of Jesus-loyalists--requires interpreters to relinquish their print-cultural assumptions. Widening exploration of texts in oral performance in other fields offers exciting new possibilities for allowing those texts to come alive again in their community contexts as they resonated with the cultural tradition in which they were embedded."