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Author : Tatiana Korneeva
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532093

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The Dramaturgy of the Spectator by Tatiana Korneeva Pdf

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author argues that while a focus on spectatorship in isolation has value, if we are to understand the broader stakes of the relationship between the power structures and the public sphere as it was then emerging, we must trace step-by-step how spectatorship as a practice was rooted in the social and cultural politics of Italy at the time. By delineating the evolution of the Italian theatre public, as well as the dramatic innovations and communicative techniques developed in an attempt to manipulate the relationship between spectator and performance, this book pioneers a shift in our understanding of audience as both theoretical concept and historical phenomenon.

Author : Wendy Bellion
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807838907

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Citizen Spectator by Wendy Bellion Pdf

In this richly illustrated study, the first book-length exploration of illusionistic art in the early United States, Wendy Bellion investigates Americans' experiences with material forms of visual deception and argues that encounters with illusory art shaped their understanding of knowledge, representation, and subjectivity between 1790 and 1825. Focusing on the work of the well-known Peale family and their Philadelphia Museum, as well as other Philadelphians, Bellion explores the range of illusions encountered in public spaces, from trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings at art exhibitions to ephemeral displays of phantasmagoria, "Invisible Ladies," and other spectacles of deception. Bellion reconstructs the elite and vernacular sites where such art and objects appeared and argues that early national exhibitions doubled as spaces of citizen formation. Within a post-Revolutionary culture troubled by the social and political consequences of deception, keen perception signified able citizenship. Setting illusions into dialogue with Enlightenment cultures of science, print, politics, and the senses, Citizen Spectator demonstrates that pictorial and optical illusions functioned to cultivate but also to confound discernment. Bellion reveals the equivocal nature of illusion during the early republic, mapping its changing forms and functions, and uncovers surprising links between early American art, culture, and citizenship.

Author : Wallace Stegner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141392332

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The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner Pdf

Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough. Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Author : Anna Keay
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780008282042

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The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown by Anna Keay Pdf

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king.

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472081608

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The Feminist Spectator as Critic by Jill Dolan Pdf

Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

Author : Hans Blumenberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 026202411X

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Shipwreck With Spectator by Hans Blumenberg Pdf

This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental Work on Myth, Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in human culture from ancient Greece to modern times. The sea is one of humanity's oldest metaphors for life, and a sea journey, Blumenberg observes, has often stood for our journey through life. We all know the role that shipwrecks can play in this journey, and at some level we have all played witness to others' wrecks, standing in safety and knowing that there is nothing we can do to help, yet fixed comfortably or uncomfortably in our ambiguous role as spectator. Through Blumenberg's seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of letters, from ancient texts through nineteenth-century reminiscences and modern speeches, we see layer upon layer revealed in the meanings humans have given to these metaphors; and in this way we begin to understand what metaphors can do that more straightforward modes of expression cannot. This edition of Shipwreck with Spectator also includes "Prospect for a Theory of Nonconceptuality", an essay that recounts the evolution of Blumenberg's ideas about metaphorology in the years following his early manifesto "Paradigms for a Metaphorology".

Author : Janneke Wesseling
Publisher : Valiz/Vis-A-VIS
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 908081850X

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The Perfect Spectator by Janneke Wesseling Pdf

What happens between a spectator and an art work? How do we experience 'meaning' in an art work? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, the author explores the field of reception aesthetics, with its central premise that the contemplation of art is a matter of interaction between the art work and the observer. The research is focused on unravelling and problematising the theoretical terminology of the interaction between art work and spectator, deriving from reception aesthetics as well as from hermeneutics and phenomenology, with the aim of building a new theoretical foundation for this terminology. Additionally, different concepts of spectatorship are extensively discussed. 'I believe it is more productive to research how the art work works or signifies than what it shows or might signify. This 'how' reveals itself mainly in the performative act of experiencing the work.' This book addresses scholars and students in the fields of art history, aesthetics and visual and cultural studies, as well as artists and art students, and all those art spectators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the experience of art.

Author : P. A. Skantze
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415286689

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Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth-century Theatre by P. A. Skantze Pdf

In the seventeenth century, emerging practices such as print, collecting and performance influenced early modern discussions of stillness and motion.

Author : Michelle Chiang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319915180

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Beckett's Intuitive Spectator by Michelle Chiang Pdf

Beckett’s Intuitive Spectator: Me to Play investigates how audience discomfort, instead of a side effect of a Beckett pedagogy, is a key spectatorial experience which arises from an everyman intuition of loss. With reference to selected works by Henri Bergson, Immanuel Kant and Gilles Deleuze, this book charts the processes of how an audience member’s habitual way of understanding could be frustrated by Beckett’s film, radio, stage and television plays. Michelle Chiang explores the ways in which Beckett exploited these mediums to reconstitute an audience response derived from intuition.

Author : Emily Allen-Hornblower
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110430042

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From Agent to Spectator by Emily Allen-Hornblower Pdf

This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer’s Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a specific subset of characters: those who are put in the position of spectator to (and, often, commentator on) their own deed(s). By their very nature, protagonists are confined to the role of witness to the suffering (or deaths) they have caused only for brief stretches of time — often a single scene or even just the length of a speech — but every instance is of central importance, not just to our understanding of the characters in question, but also to the articulation of fundamental themes within the poetic works under examination. As they shift from the status of agent to that of witness, these protagonists, qua spectators to the consequences of their actions, give voice to, dramatize, and enact the tragic motifs of human helplessness and mortal fallibility that lie at the core of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy and that define the human condition, in a manner that leads the audience looking on to ponder their own.

Author : Eric Gordon
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781584658030

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The Urban Spectator by Eric Gordon Pdf

How conceptions of the American city changed in response to new media technologies

Author : Colin McInnes
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 158826047X

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Spectator-sport War by Colin McInnes Pdf

At the end of a century dominated by global conflict - and despite the unchanging nature of the human suffering it causes - the nature of war itself, argues Colin McInnes, has been transformed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : English essays
ISBN : OSU:32435071315444

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The Spectator by Anonim Pdf

Author : D. D. Raphael
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191526640

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The Impartial Spectator by D. D. Raphael Pdf

D. D. Raphael provides a critical account of the moral philosophy of Adam Smith, presented in his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Whilst it does not have the same prominence in its field as his work on economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith's writing on ethics is of continuing importance and interest today, especially for its theory of conscience. Smith sees the origin of conscience in the sympathetic and antipathetic feelings of spectators. As spectators of the actions of other people, we can imagine how we would feel in their situation. If we would share their motives, we approve of their action. If not, we disapprove. When we ourselves take an action, we know from experience what spectators would feel, approval or disapproval. That knowledge forms conscience, an imagined impartial spectator who tells us whether an action is right or wrong. In describing the content of moral judgement, Smith is much influenced by Stoic ethics, with an emphasis on self-command, but he voices criticism as well as praise. His own position is a combination of Stoic and Christian values. There is a substantial difference between the first five editions of the Moral Sentiments and the sixth. Failure to take account of this has led some commentators to mistaken views about the supposed youthful idealism of the Moral Sentiments as contrasted with the mature realism of The Wealth of Nations. A further source of error has been the supposition that Smith treats sympathy as the motive of moral action, as contrasted with the supposedly universal motive of self-interest in The Wealth of Nations.

Author : Marcus Berkmann
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781408707449

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The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief by Marcus Berkmann Pdf

Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong. From Jeffrey Bernard's reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.