Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure, Paperback

What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political a...

The question of the materiality of the book has surprising consequences when applied to dramatic writing. In Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama,...

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The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines lit...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

Athenian comedy was written for performance in competitions at religious festivals. This book applies traditional philological techniques to five o...

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of female filmmakers have appropriated the aesthetics of horror for their films. In this book, P...

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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. BLACK...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

Reducere. Using lessons from the life of Joshua, Lutzer teaches what Christians can do every day to see the promises of God fulfilled in their lives. From le...

This... is a brilliant work." --Choice Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed fait...

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Patrick CampbellIllustration(s): 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of ...

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DescriptionContents- Shibboleth: For Paul Celan- "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text" Poetics and Politics of Witnessing- Language Does Not Belong: An In...

Reducere. DescriptionRhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry, making legible a range of ways poetry affects us that cannot be parsed...

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Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensiv...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Emily (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley) ZazuliaNumber...

Bernard continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. By attending to the multiple ways he d...

An entertaining, accessible guide to 70 classic business texts, covering every aspect of business and a broad span of time.

Offers a theory and methodology of performance analysis as an alternative to traditional play-analysis. This title deals with the poetic structure ...

Reducere. Projection Design for Theatre and Live Performance explores the design and creation process of projections from a non-technical perspective, examin...

Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. Queering...

Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreak...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Erika (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Fischer-LichteIllustration(s): 5 Illustrations, black and whit...

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other "Masters" of the Warring States ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Mecca Jamilah SullivanNumber of pages: 288Collection: New Black Studies SeriesPublication date: 2...