Paracomedy

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190090936
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Paracomedy by : Craig Jendza

Download or read book Paracomedy written by Craig Jendza and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.

Cathexis: Sorcerer's Ring

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Publisher : Philip Blood
ISBN 13 : 1465775366
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Cathexis: Sorcerer's Ring written by Philip Blood and published by Philip Blood. This book was released on 2011-07-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dance in Blood Velvet

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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1781167265
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Book Synopsis A Dance in Blood Velvet by : Freda Warrington

Download or read book A Dance in Blood Velvet written by Freda Warrington and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the love of her vampire suitor, Karl, Charlotte has forsaken her human life. Now her only contact with humans is when she hunts them down to feed. Her thirst for blood repulses her but its fulfilment brings ecstasy. The one light in the shadows is the passion that burns between her and Karl. A love that it seems will last for eternity - until Karl's former lover, the seductively beautiful Katerina, is rescued from the Crystal Ring. For nearly fifty years she has lain, as dead, in the icy depths of the Weisskalt. Now she wants to reclaim her life ... and Karl. In despair, Charlotte turns to the prima ballerina Violette Lenoir, an ice maiden who only thaws when she dances. Charlotte is fascinated as she has been by no other human, longing to bring joy to the dancer. But her obsession opens the flood-gates to a far darker threat than the vampires could ever have imagined. For Violette is more than human and if she succumbs to the vampire's kiss it could unleash a new terror ...

Where Shadows Dance

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101475943
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Where Shadows Dance by : C. S. Harris

Download or read book Where Shadows Dance written by C. S. Harris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “rich period detail [and] riveting action”* C. S. Harris delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a murderer to justice… Regency London: July 1812. How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That’s the challenge confronting C.S. Harris’s aristocratic soldier-turned-sleuth Sebastian St. Cyr when his friend, surgeon and “anatomist” Paul Gibson, illegally buys the cadaver of a young man from London’s infamous body snatchers. A rising star at the Foreign Office, Mr. Alexander Ross was reported to have died of a weak heart. But when Gibson discovers a stiletto wound at the base of Ross’s skull, he can turn only to Sebastian for help in catching the killer. Described by all who knew him as an amiable young man, Ross at first seems an unlikely candidate for murder. But as Sebastian’s search takes him from the Queen’s drawing rooms in St. James’s Palace to the embassies of Russia, the United States, and the Turkish Empire, he plunges into a dangerous shadow land of diplomatic maneuvering and international intrigue, where truth is an elusive commodity and nothing is as it seems. *The New Orleans Times-Picayune

Patterns of Culture

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Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547523920
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Patterns of Culture by : Ruth Benedict

Download or read book Patterns of Culture written by Ruth Benedict and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthropologist compares three diverse societies in this groundbreaking, “unique and important” cultural study (The New York Times). A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture made history in exploring the role of culture in shaping our lives. In it, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict offers an in-depth look at three societies—the Zuñi of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia—and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them. Benedict’s groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, who calls it “a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity,” this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human. “That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book.” —Margaret Mead

Dancing in Odessa

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Publisher : Tupelo Press
ISBN 13 : 1936797313
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing in Odessa by : Ilya Kaminsky

Download or read book Dancing in Odessa written by Ilya Kaminsky and published by Tupelo Press. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the prestigious Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, selected by poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Eleanor Wilner who says, "I'm so happy to have a manuscript that I believe in so powerfully, poetry with such a deep music. I love it." One might spend a lifetime reading books by emerging poets without finding the real thing, the writer who (to paraphrase Emily Dickinson) can take the top of your head off. Kaminsky is the real thing. Impossibly young, this Russian immigrant makes the English language sing with the sheer force of his music, a wondrous irony, as Ilya Kaminsky has been deaf since the age of four. In Odessa itself, "A city famous for its drunk tailors, huge gravestones of rabbis, horse owners and horse thieves, and most of all, for its stuffed and baked fish," Kaminksy dances with the strangest — and the most recognizable — of our bedfellows in a distinctive and utterly brilliant language, a language so particular and deft that it transcends all of our expectations, and is by turns luminous and universal.

Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374104557
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker by : Arlene Croce

Download or read book Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker written by Arlene Croce and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-21 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Croce, dance critic for "The New Yorker" from 1973 to 1996, shares her most significant and provocative reviews that revealed the logic and history of ballet, modern dance, and their postmodern variants to a generation of theatergoers.

Silver Screen Fiend

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451673221
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Silver Screen Fiend by : Patton Oswalt

Download or read book Silver Screen Fiend written by Patton Oswalt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Between 1995 and 1999, Patton Oswalt lived with an unshakable addiction. It wasn't drugs, alcohol or sex: it was film. After moving to L.A., Oswalt became a huge film buff (or as he calls it, a sprocket fiend), absorbing classics, cult hits, and new releases at the New Beverly Cinema. Silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notion of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. Set in the nascent days of L.A.'s alternative comedy scene, Oswalt's memoir chronicles his journey from fledgling stand-up comedian to self-assured sitcom actor, with the colorful New Beverly collective and a cast of now-notable young comedians supporting him all along the way"--

Patterns of Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Patterns of Culture by : Ruth Benedict

Download or read book Patterns of Culture written by Ruth Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians.

Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351899597
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Book Synopsis Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain by : Rishona Zimring

Download or read book Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain written by Rishona Zimring and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social dance was ubiquitous in interwar Britain. The social mingling and expression made possible through non-theatrical participatory dancing in couples and groups inspired heated commentary, both vociferous and subtle. By drawing attention to the ways social dance accrued meaning in interwar Britain, Rishona Zimring redefines and brings needed attention to a phenomenon that has been overshadowed by other developments in the history of dance. Social dance, Zimring argues, haunted the interwar imagination, as illustrated in trends such as folk revivalism and the rise of therapeutic dance education. She brings to light the powerful figurative importance of popular music and dance both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain’s entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analyzing paintings, films, memoirs, a ballet production, and archival documents, in addition to writings by Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Vivienne Eliot, and T.S. Eliot, to name just a few, Zimring provides crucial insights into the experience, observation, and representation of social dance during a time of cultural transition and recuperation. Social dance was pivotal in the construction of modern British society as well as the aesthetics of some of the period’s most prominent intellectuals.

Dancing with My Self

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Book Synopsis Dancing with My Self by : Alison Lee Bory

Download or read book Dancing with My Self written by Alison Lee Bory and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Choreomania

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190840412
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis Choreomania by : Kélina Gotman

Download or read book Choreomania written by Kélina Gotman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the 'disorder' being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, 'choreomania' emerged in the nineteenth century at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and colonial rule. In this book, author K lina Gotman examines these choreographies of unrest, rethinking the modern formation of the choreomania concept as it moved across scientific and social scientific disciplines. Reading archives describing dramatic misformations-of bodies and body politics-she shows how prejudices against expressivity unravel, in turn revealing widespread anxieties about demonstrative agitation. This history of the fitful body complements stories of nineteenth-century discipline and regimentation. As she notes, constraints on movement imply constraints on political power and agency. In each chapter, Gotman confronts the many ways choreomania works as an extension of discourses shaping colonialist orientalism, which alternately depict riotous bodies as dangerously infected others, and as curious bacchanalian remains. Through her research, Gotman also shows how beneath the radar of this colonial discourse, men and women gathered together to repossess on their terms the gestures of social revolt.

Standing Ground

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520936442
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Standing Ground by : Thomas Buckley

Download or read book Standing Ground written by Thomas Buckley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-23 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful, richly textured account of spiritual training and practice within an American Indian social network emphasizes narrative over analysis. Thomas Buckley's foregrounding of Yurok narratives creates one major level of dialogue in an innovative ethnography that features dialogue as its central theoretical trope. Buckley places himself in conversation with contemporary Yurok friends and elders, with written texts, and with twentieth-century anthropology as well. He describes Yurok Indian spirituality as "a significant field in which individual and society meet in dialogue—cooperating, resisting, negotiating, changing each other in manifold ways. 'Culture,' here, is not a thing but a process, an emergence through time."

Envisioning Dance on Film and Video

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415941716
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis Envisioning Dance on Film and Video by : Judith Mitoma

Download or read book Envisioning Dance on Film and Video written by Judith Mitoma and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 53 essays survey a broad range of film and video works from the perspective of their creators, dance and media professionals. Accompanying 115-min. DVD (NTSC 4:3) presents excerpts from 40 films and videos illustrating the essays.

The Secrets of Egypt ? Dance, Life and Beyond

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Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491887923
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Book Synopsis The Secrets of Egypt ? Dance, Life and Beyond by : Joana Saahirah

Download or read book The Secrets of Egypt ? Dance, Life and Beyond written by Joana Saahirah and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time I had a dream and I chased it. This Magical Book tells about my Adventure in Egypt, the Price we pay for our Dreams and the Wisdom we gather on the Journey up the Mountain. Almost killed, chased, shocked and amazed with an Egyptian (fascinating) underworld very few foreigners ever get to know. How did I end up living and performing in Egypt for almost a decade, succeeding in my career against all odds? How did I do it* when everyone yelled: YOU CANT?! The answer to these - and other - intriguing questions is above rational understanding; its Magic were talking about. In my heart, I knew I had to go to Egypt and rescue Oriental Dances Soul (my own Soul) so that the World could remember, once more, why WE ARE ALIVE*. This Book is a about my real life Adventure - my (OUR) Journey*. I can hear the deserts wind whispering: it was never only about the dance, darling. Oriental Dance is just a Door - covered in veils and luminous sequins - to a Temple where much about Lifes Adventure is to be learnt. Welcome to Egypt: welcome to the World (enjoy the Ride*)!"

Jaipong Dancer

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Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814358746
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Jaipong Dancer by : Patrick Sweeting

Download or read book Jaipong Dancer written by Patrick Sweeting and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1950s Sumatra, this is a story of lost innocence and complex moral dilemmas. It follows the journey of Yahyu, a young Javanese dancer, who runs away from a forced marriage and becomes unwittingly involved in the violent struggle for Sumatra’s independence from Jakarta. On her long passage from fame to degradation Yahyu experiences love, hate, sexual slavery and the horror of the rebels’ last bloody battle deep in the Barisan Mountains

Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14038 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition by : Wilhelm Hauff

Download or read book Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 14038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition is an ambitious anthology that transcends the contours of fear, exploring the depths of the human psyche through a mosaic of horror narratives. This collection celebrates the eclectic dimensions of horror literature, spanning Gothic tales, supernatural stories, and psychological thrillers. By weaving together a tapestry of styles ranging from the eerie subtleties of Henry James to the cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, this anthology underscores the diversity and richness of the genre. Significant works within the collection demonstrate the evolution of horror, charting a course from the foundational terror of Mary Shelley's influence to the nuanced dread of Algernon Blackwood. The anthology represents a comprehensive survey of horror's literary landscape, capturing the zeitgeist of multiple eras and offering a window into the myriad ways that fear manifests in literature. The authors and editors, hailing from diverse backgrounds and epochs, bring with them their unique historical, cultural, and literary perspectives. Collectively, they represent the multifaceted nature of horror writing, aligning with various movements from Romanticism to Modernism, and touching upon themes of imperialism, gender, and existentialism. Their stories offer a rich commentary on the societal fears and anxieties of their times, providing insight into the human condition. This collaborative effort illuminates the shared human experience of fear, binding the collection into a cohesive exploration of horror's thematic richness and depth. Horror Classics: 560+ Titles in One Edition is a seminal compilation that promises to enchant, educate, and provoke thought, appealing to both aficionados and newcomers of the horror genre. This anthology not only serves as a comprehensive guide through the eerie landscapes of terror and the macabre but also as a testament to the enduring power of storytelling in confronting the unknown. Readers are invited to delve into this extensive collection, to unravel the complex tapestry of horror literature, and to engage in a dialogue with some of the most influential voices in the genre. It is a must-read for those seeking to grasp the full spectrum of horrors literary heritage and its evolution across centuries.