Poetics of History. Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis, Hardback - Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependen...

Reducere. The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trac...

Reducere. Spre deosebire de (...) "totalitarismul" de tip sovietic, national-socialismul ramine in foarte mare masura recalcitrant la mijloacele analizei pol...

Reducere. DescriptionFew creative movements have been more influential than the Bauhaus, under the leadership of Walter Gropius. The art of the theater comma...

Reducere. "Fully exploiting the Gogolesque conceit of a cephalophore whose body and head go their own separate ways, Cephalonegativity reads like Beckett's P...

Investigates the literary afterlives of Rome's first conflict with Carthage. The book combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in t...

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to ...

Legendary Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch (born 1938) is notorious for his large-scale "theaters" consisting of ecstatic performances, luminous, ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

DescriptionIn every psychic experience, even in the production of a work of art, there exists a nucleus that is impossible to transform. It resists...

Reducere. The musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim probes deeply into the most disturbing issues of contemporary life. By challenging his audience with intric...

Reducere. Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: 1, 3, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institut für Ang...

An analysis of three of Lorca's plays, providing a new view of Lorca as a dramatist and presenting new material to students of symbology.

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Philipp FelschTranslator: Tony CrawfordNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 36Cover ...

Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoAuthor(s): AristotleNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 5Cover type: Paperba...

Rousseau and Nietzsche presented two of the most influential critiques of modern life and much can still be learned from their respective analyses ...

In the ancient world, many units of measurement were based, approximately, on some parts of the human body: arm, cubit, span, inch, foot; or on the...

Reducere. Dennis Bouvard's Anthropomorphics is the inauguration of a meta-discipline: a strategy for entering and transforming the secular disciplines.Where ...

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

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In cele douazeci si doua de lectii de intelepciune, inspirate de viata pasarilor, aceasta carte ne propune sa le urmam invataturile pentru a trai o...

Originally published: 1993. With new preface.

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

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. From the American Battlefield Trust, the collection of their popular battle maps of the Western Theater of the American Civil War. "I just love tho...

DescriptionIn performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of...

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

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Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

In the thirteenth century, radical reformers - churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers - undertook Hherculean efforts aimed at th...

Offers a systematic study of the effects of the comprehensive reform of traditional Chinese theatre conducted in the 1950s and '60s, and is based o...

New paperback edition - Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.Publi...

Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century,...

The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its t...

Publisher: Editions FlammarionAuthor(s): Vincent DarreIllustration(s): 300 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dime...

Alone Together reinterprets the explosion of sentimental poetry and prose in fifteenth-century Iberia.Publisher: University of Toronto PressAuthor(...

Reducere. This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragm...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

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

Reducere. DescriptionEvery year, tens of millions of people flock to Florida for its sunny beaches and world-famous tourist attractions. Most never learn abo...

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...

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