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Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents

Author : Jon Dietrick
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443842842
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents written by Jon Dietrick and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study closely analyzes key works by five pivotal playwrights: Sidney Kingsley, Arthur Miller, David Mamet, August Wilson, and Suzan-Lori Parks, in a comparison of the treatment of money in a range of American plays from the Great Depression to the early twenty-first century. Money emerges as a site of anxieties regarding the relation of signs to the real: a “monstrous” substance that seems to breed itself from itself; a dangerous abstraction that claims for itself a “hard” reality, transforming lived reality into an abstraction. At the same time, money’s self-generating properties have made it a serviceable metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making”; money’s ability to exchange means for ends, abstract for concrete, representation for real, has made it an emblem of our postmodern condition. Money has been conceived as a malevolent force robbing us of our natural relation to the world and to ourselves, and as an empowering one with which we may remake this relation. This ambivalence about money constitutes an important animating tension of American drama. Furthermore, anxieties surrounding money resemble in important ways anxieties surrounding theatre, and the plays’ treatment of money reveals interesting tensions between a persistent American dramatic realism and naturalism, and a philosophical and aesthetic postmodernism.

Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1970s

Author : Michael Vanden Heuvel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350022608
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1970s written by Michael Vanden Heuvel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture, media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in response to the economic and political conditions of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major playwrights and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume include: * David Rabe: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel; Sticks and Bones; and Streamers; * Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class; Buried Child; and True West; * Ntozake Shange: For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf; Spell #7; and Boogie-Woogie Landscapes * Richard Foreman: Sophia = (Wisdom) Part 3; The Cliffs; Pandering to the Masses: A Misrepresentation; and Rhoda in Potatoland (Her Fall-Starts).

“Mouths on Fire with Songs”.

Author : Caroline De Wagter
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9401209545
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book “Mouths on Fire with Songs”. written by Caroline De Wagter and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first cross-cultural study of post-1970s anglophone Canadian and American multi-ethnic drama, invites assessment of the thematic and aesthetic contributions of this theater in today’s globalized culture. A growing number of playwrights of African, South and East Asian, and First Nations heritage have engaged with manifold socio-political and aesthetic issues in experimental works combining formal features of more classical European dramatic traditions with such elements of ethnic culture as ancestral music and dance, to interrogate the very concepts of theatricality and canonicity. Their “mouths on fire” (August Wilson), these playwrights contest stereotyped notions of authenticity. In¬spired by songs of anger, passion, experience, survival, and regeneration, the plays analyzed bespeak a burning desire to break the silence, to heal and empower. Foregrounding questions of hybridity, diaspora, cultural memory, and nation, this comparative study includes discussion of some twenty-five case studies of plays by such authors as M.J. Kang, August Wilson, Suzan–Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Chay Yew, Padma Viswanathan, Rana Bose, Diane Glancy, and Drew Hayden Taylor. Through its cross-cultural and cross-national prism, “Mouths on Fire with Songs” shows that multi-ethnic drama is one of the most diverse and dynamic sites of cultural production in North America today.

Living with Class

Author : R. Scapp
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137326794
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Living with Class written by R. Scapp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective. Following the current debates about wealth and class, the contributors address the social and cultural phenomena of class from a uniquely innovative philosophical approach and reconsider philosophical "givens" within the context of culture.

Bad Penny

Author : Stephen Heger
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 136525223X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book Bad Penny written by Stephen Heger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tormented Minds. Government Plots. Lovecraftian Horrors. Leather-clad post-op super-heroines. Knife-wielding maniacs. Perverted dentists. Religious Zealots. And a sheep named Shannon. This on has it all. Bad Penny is a collection of twenty-six short stories and one vovella that range from the frightening to the grotesque to the comedic absurd. Stories of the human, inhuman, and the inhumane.

Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders

Author : Brady Carlson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324394X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Dead Presidents: An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation’s Leaders written by Brady Carlson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Entertaining…Carlson shifts deftly among sombre, macabre, and playful stories and shows how the death-tourism industry reveals more than amusing trivia." —The New Yorker In Dead Presidents, public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson takes readers on an epic trip to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials from sea to shining sea. With an engaging mix of history and contemporary reporting, Carlson explores the death stories of our greatest leaders, and shows that the ways we memorialize our presidents reveal as much about us as they do about the men themselves.

MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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The Encyclopædia Britannica

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopædia Britannica written by Hugh Chisholm and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

BUSHIDO

Author : Lonnie L. Avant
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105770311
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book BUSHIDO written by Lonnie L. Avant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BUSHIDO, Japanese for The Way of the Warrior.... Four friends find out what friendship means with the test of time living in the hood.

New American Supplement to the New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ... Illustrated with Hundreds of Portraits and Other Engravings

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book New American Supplement to the New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica ... Illustrated with Hundreds of Portraits and Other Engravings written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The World-wide Encyclopedia and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The President's Book of Secrets

Author : David Priess
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610395964
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The President's Book of Secrets written by David Priess and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every president has had a unique and complicated relationship with the intelligence community. While some have been coolly distant, even adversarial, others have found their intelligence agencies to be among the most valuable instruments of policy and power. Since John F. Kennedy's presidency, this relationship has been distilled into a personalized daily report: a short summary of what the intelligence apparatus considers the most crucial information for the president to know that day about global threats and opportunities. This top-secret document is known as the President's Daily Brief, or, within national security circles, simply "the Book." Presidents have spent anywhere from a few moments (Richard Nixon) to a healthy part of their day (George W. Bush) consumed by its contents; some (Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush) consider it far and away the most important document they saw on a regular basis while commander in chief. The details of most PDBs are highly classified, and will remain so for many years. But the process by which the intelligence community develops and presents the Book is a fascinating look into the operation of power at the highest levels. David Priess, a former intelligence officer and daily briefer, has interviewed every living president and vice president as well as more than one hundred others intimately involved with the production and delivery of the president's book of secrets. He offers an unprecedented window into the decision making of every president from Kennedy to Obama, with many character-rich stories revealed here for the first time.

T.R.

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541618033
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book T.R. written by H. W. Brands and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author, an acclaimed biography of President Teddy Roosevelt Lauded as "a rip-roaring life" (Wall Street Journal), TR is a magisterial biography of Theodore Roosevelt by bestselling author H.W. Brands. In his time, there was no more popular national figure than Roosevelt. It was not just the energy he brought to every political office he held or his unshakable moral convictions that made him so popular, or even his status as a bonafide war hero. Most important, Theodore Roosevelt was loved by the people because this scion of a privileged New York family loved America and Americans. And yet, according to Brands, if we look at the private Roosevelt without blinders, we see a man whose great public strengths hid enormous personal deficiencies; he was uncompromising, self-involved, and a highly imperfect brother, husband, and father. Beautifully written, and powerfully moved by its subject, TR is the classic biography of one of America's greatest and most complex leaders.

City of Clowns

Author : Daniel Alarcón
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184805
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book City of Clowns written by Daniel Alarcón and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

THE CHRISTIAN'S PENNY MAGAZINE

Author : the christians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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TLA Video & DVD Guide 2005

Author : David Bleiler
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312316909
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book TLA Video & DVD Guide 2005 written by David Bleiler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 edition of the annual critical guide that focuses on independent and international films as well as the best in the mainstream contains reviews for more than 10,000 films, more than 300 photos, a comprehensive selection of cinema from more than 50 countries, and much more.